The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards are over for another year and it was full of memorable moments.
The 72nd BAFTA Awards were held at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday (10 February) night.
Host Joanna Lumley opened up the show with a hilarious montage of her trying on outfits for her BAFTA outfit, including dressing up as Freddie Mercury and Queen Anne.
Then the jokes started rolling in her opening monologue.
‘Thank goodness BAFTA actually has a host,’ she said, referencing the Oscars host drama. ‘But that’s probably only because I don’t have Twitter.’
BAFTA 2019 winners
Among the LGBTI-related nominations were The Favourite, picking up 12 and winning seven. It won Outstanding British Film, Original Screenplay, Production Design, Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hair
Rachel Weisz won the award for Best Supporting Actress and Olivia Colman won the award for Leading Actress, for their roles in the eighteenth century period film.
‘Thank you to BAFTA for this huge honor,’ Weisz said in her speech.
‘We’re having an amazing night, aren’t we?’ Colman said in a hilarious speech. ‘We’re going to get so pissed later!’
She then addressed her co-stars Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz: ‘We’ve never talked about this and I find it really emotional but you were the best, classiest and coolest honor guard I could ever have. I love you.
Colman continued: ‘This is for not the lead, it’s for a lead. As far as I’m concerned, all three of us are the same and should be the lead and it’s weird that we can’t do that, but this is for all three of us.
‘It’s got my name on it but we can scratch some names on it,’ she joked.
Watch the full hilarious speech:
The most perfect speech: Olivia Colman winning Best Actress. #BAFTA
There is just no better human on earth. pic.twitter.com/SaBW9htpwO
— dani⛧ (@TowerwhiteDani) February 10, 2019
Gay actor Luke Evans presented the EE Rising Star award to Black Panther’s Letitia Wright.
Both Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star is Born picked up seven nominations each. The Queen biopic picked up the award for Best Sound and Rami Malek won for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury.
Rami Malek said on the red carpet: ‘Freddie Mercury is the gift that keeps on giving.’
A Star is Born only wins one BAFTA
A Star is Born – which features bisexual actress Lady Gaga, as well as Drag Race queens Willam and Shangela – won the award for Original Music.
Gaga took to Twitter tonight (10 February) to thank her fans.
‘I can’t believe we just won Best Original Music,’ she tweeted. ‘I wish so much I was there but am at the Grammy’s to show them our love as well. We made a film about music. This means the world to me.
‘Thank you to all our fans – we love you so much [and] we wouldn’t be here without you,’ she wrote.
I can’t believe we just won Best Original Music @BAFTA ‘s . I wish so much I was there but am at the Grammy’s to show them our love as well. We made a film about music. This means the world to me. Thank u to all our fans we love u so much, we wouldn’t be here without u #BAFTAs pic.twitter.com/nD8QZgwySB
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) February 10, 2019
The award for Supporting Actor went to Green Book’s Mahershala Ali.
The story is based on the 1962 true story of classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and his bodyguard Tony ‘Lip’ Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen). It features a scene where Tony catches Don in bed with a man.
Roma picked up the awards for Cinematography, Best Film, Best Foreign Film and Best Director.
Melissa McCarthy lost out on an award for her portrayal of lesbian author Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
McQueen, the British documentary about openly gay fashion designer Alexander McQueen, missed out on Best Documentary and Outstanding British Film.
See the full list of winners and nominations (winners in bold)
Best Film
BlacKkKlansman
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star Is Born
Best Director
Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
Paweł Pawlikowski – Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
Alfonso Cuaron – Roma
Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale – Vice
Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
Steve Coogan – Stan and Ollie
Viggo Mortensen – Green Book
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Viola Davis – Widows
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Glenn Close – The Wife
Lady Gaga – A Star is Born
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
Mahershala Ali – Green Book – WINNER
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell – Vice
Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams – Vice
Claire Foy – First Man
Emma Stone – The Favourite
Margot Robbie – Mary, Queen of Scots
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite
Best Original Screenplay
Cold War
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
Vice
Best Adapted Screenplay
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born
Best Animated Film
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Outstanding British Film
Beast
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
McQueen
Stan & Ollie
You Were Never Really Here
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Apostasy
Beast
A Cambodian Spring
Pili
Ray & Liz
Film Not in the English Language
Capernaum
Cold War
Dogman
Roma
Shoplifters
Best Documentary
Free Solo
McQueen
RBG
They Shall Not Grow Old
Three Identical Strangers
Best Original Music
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns
A Star Is Born
Best Cinematography
Bohemian Rhapsody
Cold War
The Favourite
First Man
Roma
Best Sound
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
A Quiet Place
A Star Is Born
Best Make Up and Hair
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Mary Queen of Scots
Stan & Ollie
Vice
Best Costume Design
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots
Best Production Design
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma
Best Editing
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
First Man
Roma
Vice
Best British Short Film
73 Cows
Bachelor, 38
The Blue Door
The Field
Wale
Best British Short Animation
I’m OK
Marfa
Roughhouse
Best Special Visual Effects
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
First Man
Ready Player One
EE Rising Star award (voted for by the public)
Barry Keoghan
Cynthia Erivo
Jessie Buckley
Lakeith Stanfield
Letitia Wright
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen
See also:
British palaces to give tours revealing the royals’ secret queer history
15 top-grossing LGBTI movies of the last 15 years (no. 1 might shock you)
This year’s Oscars are not as inclusive as you think – least of all Bohemian Rhapsody
