The 2024 British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) had been held on the Royal Festival Hall within the Southbank Centre, London, and noticed its share of the nice and the dangerous.
The finest was, in fact, Deepika Padukone’s presence on the awards ceremony, as she shimmered in a Sabyasachi sari.
The present noticed its share of controversy when late actor Matthew Perry was not included within the In Memoriam phase.
The Friends star, who died final October at age 54, didn’t seem throughout the tribute — set to a particular association of Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time carried out by Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham — and social media customers had been fast to criticize the choice.
BAFTA did, nonetheless, reply to the social media backlash, and a spokesperson for BAFTA tells PEOPLE journal, ‘I can affirm Matthew Perry can be remembered in our forthcoming BAFTA Television Awards.’
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Deepika Padukone was not the one Bollywood actor in attendance.
Amy Jackson made an look on the awards present with fiance Ed Westwick.
Interestingly, she can be seen on this week’s launch, Crakk: Jeetegaa… Toh Jiyegaa, reverse Vidyut Jammwal.
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Prince William, who has been the president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 2010, catches up with EE Rising Star Award winner Mia McKenna-Bruce, excessive proper, and nominees Phoebe Dynevor, Ayo Edebiri and Sophie Wilde.
Prince William’s spouse Kate Middleton was lacking from the ceremony as she had not too long ago returned dwelling after present process stomach surgical procedure.
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Emma Stone luggage the Best Actress award for her function in Poor Things, a black-comedy, sci-fi fantasy.
In her acceptance speech, Emma thanked her mom for giving her life and her Poor Things screenwriter Tony McNamara the road, ‘I have to go punch that child.’
‘I used to be enjoying a British individual on this film and (Neil Swain, dialogue coach) didn’t snigger at me when he taught me tips on how to say ‘wart-ter,’ though as an American I say ‘wahter,” Stone quipped. ‘So thanks England for accepting me.’
Giving a shout out to her mom, Emma added, ‘Because she’s the very best individual I do know in the entire world and she or he evokes me each single day. She’s all the time made me imagine this type of loopy concept that I may do one thing like this and I’m past grateful. Without her none of this exists — together with my life! So thanks for that too, mother!’
Stone additionally served as a producer on Poor Things, and she or he says on the post-awards press convention: ‘This was the primary movie that I’ve produced alongside of appearing, and so it appears like doubly significant as a result of they’ve simply each in entrance of me behind. It was unimaginable to be a part of it.’
In Poor Things, Stone essays the Frankenstein-like Bella, who’s created by a reclusive Victorian physician. She seems like an grownup lady however, in the beginning of the movie, has the psychological capability of a toddler and shortly embarks on a sex-filled quest to know the world round her.
This is Stone’s second BAFTA win, having beforehand taken dwelling the Golden Mask for main actress in 2017 for her function in La La Land, reverse Ryan Gosling.
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How many awards is an excessive amount of?
Oppenheimer Director Christopher Nolan, seen right here with spouse Emma Thomas, reveals off his award for Best Director, defeating All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh), Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet), The Holdovers (Alexander Payne), Maestro (Bradley Cooper) and The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer).
The movie additionally bagged awards in Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Original Score.
Oppenheimer was nominated in 13 classes, profitable seven.
Set throughout World War II, the biopic follows Oppenheimer, often known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb, throughout a interval in historical past when he understood that testing the atomic bomb would ignite the ambiance and destroy the world, but he pushed the button anyway.
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Cillian Murphy luggage the Best Actor award for Oppenheimer.
This is the actor’s first lead function in a Christopher Nolan movie, having beforehand collaborated in Inception, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Dunkirk.
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Robert Downey Jr, seen right here with spouse Susan, gained the Best Supporting Actor for Oppenheimer.
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Bradley Cooper walks the purple carpet with Carey Mulligan, the lead actor of his directorial enterprise, Maestro.
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David Beckham makes a trendy entry on the BAFTAs.
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Emma Stone and Emily Blunt share a second on the purple carpet.
Blunt, sadly, missed her Best Supporting Actor (for Oppenheimer) to…
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…Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers.
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While Barbie did not win any award, its lead actor Margot Robbie managed to steal consideration along with her purple carpet look.
Margot wore a satin pink and black robe, which made her seem like a life-size Barbie.
She was accompanied by her husband Tom Ackerley.
Margot was nominated for Best Actress for her function in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie however misplaced to Emma Stone.
Barbie notched 5 nominations, together with Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Ryan Gosling and Best Original Screenplay for Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach.
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Cate Blanchett makes a regal look.
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Oppenheimer actor Florence Pugh made heads flip in her daring Harris Reed corset robe.
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Hugh Grant escorts his spouse, Anna Elisabet Eberstein.
