The BAFTAs

Biggest surprise was Robert Aramayo not only winning Rising Star, but sweeping Best Actor from under the noses of Leo, Timothee Chalamet, Ethan Hawke, Michael Jordan and Jesse Plemons.

Sinners won Best Original Screenplay over I Swear, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent and Sentimental Value. But PTA won for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director. He credited his AD Adam Somner who had been his assistant for 20 years and who died during the filming of One Battle After Another.

We were delighted that Jessie Buckley and Wunmi Mosaku won their acting categories.

Pushed into the 'awarded earlier' slot was now Best Cinematography - can you believe that? They'll cover Visual Effects but not Cinematography?? Michael Bauman won for One Battle. Editing went to Andy Jurgensen for the same film.

There was some controversy over the fact that in the audience was I Swear's real life protagonist John Davidson, who happened to unfortunately tick while Michael Jordan and Delroy Lino were presenting. If only this moment had been embraced by somebody - presenter Alan Cumming for example - it would have helped understanding of Tourette's instead of becoming yet another embarrassing moment for the BBC - 36 hours later, the ceremony has still been pulled from BBC iPlayer. (Cumming has in fact pre-warned the audience but that didn't make it to the edit - another unfortunate decision.)