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The Baftas took place at London’s Royal Albert Hall, with Graham Norton providing an opening speech that touched on the lack of diversity in this year's nominations.
Sam Mendes' First World War drama 1917 almost swept the board, with other winners including Parasite , Laura Dern and British film Bait .
One of the evening's most powerful moments came when Joaquin Phoenix, who won Best Actor for his role in Joker, delivered a speech that saw him express his "shame" at being among the all-white acting nominees.
Elsewhere, Brad Pitt, via Margot Robbie, cracked a Brexit and Prince Harry Joke – in front of Prince William – and Hugh Grant made a hilarious Bridget Jones reference after his former co-star Renée Zellweger won Best Actress for Judy .
Below is a list of all of the evening’s winners.
Baftas 2020: The red carpetShow all 38 1 /38Baftas 2020: The red carpet Baftas 2020: The red carpet Joaquin Phoenix
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Scarlett Johansson
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Saoirse Ronan
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Florence Pugh
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Al Pacino
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Renee Zellweger
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Olivia Colman
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Charlize Theron
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Daisy Ridley
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Taron Egerton
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Daniel Kaluuya
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Margot Robbie
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Emilia Clarke
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Rooney Mara
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Robert De Niro
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet John Boyega
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Rebel Wilson
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Adam Driver and Joanne Tucker
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Greta Gerwig
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Alice Eve
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Ella Balinska
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Naomi Ackie
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Anna Elisabet Eberstein and Hugh Grant
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Song Kang Ho and Bong Joon-ho
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Zoe Kravitz
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Lily-Rose Depp
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Gillian Anderson
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Jessie Buckley
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Naomie Harris
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Alex Wolff
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Laura Dern
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Graham Norton
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Micheal Ward
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Oliver Cheshire and Pixie Lott
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Baftas 2020: The red carpet Taika Waititi
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BEST FILM
1917 – Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren – WINNER
THE IRISHMAN – Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
JOKER – Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD – David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE – Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae
LEADING ACTRESS
JESSIE BUCKLEY – Wild Rose
SCARLETT JOHANSSON – Marriage Story
SAOIRSE RONAN – Little Women
CHARLIZE THERON – Bombshell
RENÉE ZELLWEGER – Judy – WINNER
LEADING ACTOR
LEONARDO DICAPRIO – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
ADAM DRIVER – Marriage Story
TARON EGERTON – Rocketman
JOAQUIN PHOENIX – Joker – WINNER
JONATHAN PRYCE – The Two Popes
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
LAURA DERN – Marriage Story – WINNER
SCARLETT JOHANSSON – Jojo Rabbit
FLORENCE PUGH – Little Women
MARGOT ROBBIE – Bombshell
MARGOT ROBBIE – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
SUPPORTING ACTOR
TOM HANKS – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
ANTHONY HOPKINS – The Two Popes
AL PACINO – The Irishman
JOE PESCI – The Irishman
BRAD PITT – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – WINNER
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
1917 – Sam Mendes , Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Krysty Wilson-Cairns – WINNER
BAIT – Mark Jenkin, Kate Byers, Linn Waite – WINNER
FOR SAMA – Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
ROCKETMAN – Dexter Fletcher, Adam Bohling, David Furnish, David Reid, Matthew Vaughn, Lee Hall
SORRY WE MISSED YOU – Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty
THE TWO POPES – Fernando Meirelles, Jonathan Eirich, Dan Lin, Tracey Seaward, Anthony McCarten
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
BAIT – Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers)
FOR SAMA – Waad al-Kateab (Director/Producer), Edward Watts (Director)
MAIDEN – Alex Holmes (Director)
ONLY YOU – Harry Wootliff (Writer/Director)
RETABLO – Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (Writer/Director)*
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE FAREWELL – Lulu Wang, Daniele Melia
FOR SAMA – Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
PAIN AND GLORY – Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
PARASITE – Bong Joon-ho – WINNER
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE – Céline Sciamma, Bénédicte Couvreur
DOCUMENTARY
AMERICAN FACTORY – Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
APOLLO 11 – Todd Douglas Miller
DIEGO MARADONA – Asif Kapadia
FOR SAMA – Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts – WINNER
THE GREAT HACK – Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaime
ANIMATED FILM
FROZEN 2 – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho
KLAUS – Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh – WINNER
A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON – Will Becher, Richard Phelan, Paul Kewley
TOY STORY 4 – Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen
DIRECTOR
1917 – Sam Mendes – WINNER
THE IRISHMAN – Martin Scorsese
JOKER – Todd Phillips
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD – Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE – Bong Joon-ho
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BOOKSMART – Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman
KNIVES OUT – Rian Johnson
MARRIAGE STORY – Noah Baumbach
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD – Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE – Han Jin Won, Bong Joon-ho – WINNER
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
THE IRISHMAN – Steven Zaillian
JOJO RABBIT – Taika Waititi – WINNER
JOKER – Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
LITTLE WOMEN – Greta Gerwig
THE TWO POPES – Anthony McCarten
ORIGINAL SCORE
1917 – Thomas Newman
JOJO RABBIT – Michael Giacchino
JOKER – Hildur Guđnadóttir – WINNER
LITTLE WOMEN – Alexandre Desplat
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER – John Williams
19 films that should never have won OscarsShow all 19 1 /1919 films that should never have won Oscars 19 films that should never have won Oscars A Beautiful Mind (2001) A Beautiful Mind is one of the mustier Best Pictures winners of the century so far. While its win was a coup for DreamWorks – the film was the studio's third victor in a row– it was far from a deserving recipient, especially considering Ron Howard won Best Director over Robert Altman and David Lynch for Gosford Park and Mulholland Drive, respectively.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars Chariots of Fire (1981) While Chariots of Fire is precisely the type of film the Academy usually takes under its wing, the fact it won was a big surprise, considering everybody present had expected Reds to win the top prize. The Warren Beatty film would have been a far worthier winner, too.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars Cold Mountain (2003) Cold Mountain lucked out by being nominated in what was a particularly weak year for Best Supporting Actress. Renée Zellweger recovered from failing to win for Chicago the previous year and, in doing so, earnt the unremarkable drama its "Oscar-winning" tag.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars Crash (2004) Viewers of the Oscars have grown used to unexpected victories, but none was more ill-judged than when Paul Haggis' drama Crash beat Brokeback Mountain to Best Picture.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars Dances with Wolves (1990) It's quite soul-destroying to think that Dances with Wolves scooped a total of seven Oscars in the same year that Goodfellas was nominated.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars The Danish Girl (2015) Alicia Vikander's performance in The Danish Girl is by no means weak, but it was nothing on Rooney Mara's affecting turn in Todd Haynes' film Carol. Had Tom Hooper not won five years before for The King's Speech, it seems unlikely that the drama would have picked up any nominations.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars The English Patient (1996) Put simply, The English Patient isn't a very good film. Of the nine (nine!) Oscars it won, Juliette Binoche's trophy for Best Supporting Actress was perhaps the most surprising. The French star herself could barely contain her shock.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars Gladiator (2000) This will most likely be this list's most controversial placement, but let's be honest: Gladiator is not the fantastic film it's regularly hailed as. Ridley Scott's overlong historical drama boasts plenty of swords-and-sandal bravado, but not much else.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars Going My Way (1944) The musical Going My Way may have been the biggest cinematic hit of its year, but it certainly wasn't better that classic noir Double Indemnity, which it beat to win Best Picture. In fact, it's nowhere near director Leo McCarey's greatest film (he won six years previous for the Awful Truth and would be nominated again for The Bells of St Mary's two years later).
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19 films that should never have won Oscars Grand Hotel (1932) There's a reason why Grand Hotel is the only film to ever win Best Picture without receiving a nomination in any other category. An entertaining film, sure, but nothing more.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) It's ironic that a film with the word "greatest" in its title has gone down as one of the worst winners in Oscars history. A prime example of when the Academy voted for spectacle over quality.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars Green Book (2018) To those who don't care about awards ceremonies, Green Book is a crowdpleaser that boasts decent performances from Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. To everyone else, it's the damp squib that somehow came out of nowhere to snatch Best Picture from under Roma's nose.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars The Imitation Game (2014) The Imitation Game won Best Adapted Screenplay, which begs the question: what the hell was this distinctly average film doing having any nominations at all?
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19 films that should never have won Oscars The Iron Lady (2011) Meryl Streep has won enough Oscars for the world to know she's evidently one of the finest actors who'll ever live. Her win for The Iron Lady, though, was one Oscar too many.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars Life is Beautiful (1998) The year of 1999 marked one of the most remarkable Oscar ceremonies in history for the sole reason that the majority of its winners were terrible choices. Right up there was Roberto Benigni, who beat Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan) and Edward Norton (American History X) to win Best Actor for, of all things, Life is Beautiful.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars The Pianist (2002) It might finally be accepted that disgraced film director Roman Polanski shouldn't be handed accolades, but back in 2003, this was still what the Oscars were doing. He won Best Director for The Pianist, an award the French-Polish filmmaker could have done without.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars A Place in the Sun A Place in the Sun is a fine little film, but fine little films shouldn't be winning Oscars – especially when they see off competition from more deserving opposition. In this case, director George Stevens beat John Huston (The African Queen), William Wyler (Detective Story) and Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire) to the Director prize.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars Shakespeare in Love You have to hand it to Shakespeare in Love, it played the Oscars campaign trail perfectly, overtaking war favourites Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line to win the evening's biggest prize. This doesn't mean its success has gone down as anything more than evidence of poor judgement from the Academy.
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19 films that should never have won Oscars Slumdog Millionaire It's often good to hold your hands up and admit that a film is nowhere near as good as you recall. Sadly, Slumdog Millionaire is one of those. While its win no doubt put smiles on the faces of commuters reading the morning papers the next day, the shine has worn off its success in recent years. The rightful winner – The Dark Knight – wasn't even nominated for Best Picture.
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CASTING
JOKER – Shayna Markowitz – WINNER
MARRIAGE STORY – Douglas Aibel, Francine Maisler
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD – Victoria Thomas
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD – Sarah Crowe
THE TWO POPES – Nina Gold
CINEMATOGRAPHY
1917 – Roger Deakins – WINNER
THE IRISHMAN – Rodrigo Prieto
JOKER – Lawrence Sher
LE MANS ’66 – Phedon Papamichael
THE LIGHTHOUSE – Jarin Blaschke
EDITING
THE IRISHMAN – Thelma Schoonmaker
JOJO RABBIT – Tom Eagles
JOKER – Jeff Groth
LE MANS ’66 – Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker – WINNER
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD – Fred Raskin
PRODUCTION DESIGN
1917 – Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales
THE IRISHMAN – Bob Shaw, Regina Graves
JOJO RABBIT – Ra Vincent, Nora Sopková
JOKER – Mark Friedberg, Kris Moran
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD – Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh
COSTUME DESIGN
THE IRISHMAN – Christopher Peterson, Sandy Powell
JOJO RABBIT – Mayes C. Rubeo
JUDY – Jany Temime
LITTLE WOMEN – Jacqueline Durran – WINNER
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD – Arianne Phillips
MAKE UP & HAIR
1917 – Naomi Donne
BOMBSHELL – Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan – WINNER
JOKER – Kay Georgiou, Nicki Ledermann
JUDY – Jeremy Woodhead
ROCKETMAN – Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
SOUND
1917 – Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson – WINNER
JOKER – Tod Maitland, Alan Robert Murray, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic
LE MANS ’66 – David Giammarco, Paul Massey, Steven A. Morrow, Donald Sylvester
ROCKETMAN – Matthew Collinge, John Hayes, Mike Prestwood Smith, Danny Sheehan
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER – David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
1917 – Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy – WINNER
AVENGERS: ENDGAME – Dan Deleeuw, Dan Sudick
THE IRISHMAN – Leandro Estebecorena, Stephane Grabli, Pablo Helman
THE LION KING – Andrew R. Jones, Robert Legato, Elliot Newman, Adam Valdez
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER – Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Neal Scanlan, Dominic Tuohy
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker - Final Trailer BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
GRANDAD WAS A ROMANTIC. – Maryam Mohajer – WINNER
IN HER BOOTS – Kathrin Steinbacher
THE MAGIC BOAT – Naaman Azhari, Lilia Laurel
BRITISH SHORT FILM
AZAAR – Myriam Raja, Nathanael Baring
GOLDFISH – Hector Dockrill, Harri Kamalanathan, Benedict Turnbull, Laura Dockrill
KAMALI – Sasha Rainbow, Rosalind Croad
LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL) – Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva – WINNER
THE TRAP – Lena Headey, Anthony Fitzgerald
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
AWKWAFINA
JACK LOWDEN
KAITLYN DEVER
KELVIN HARRISON JR.
MICHEAL WARD – WINNER
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