welcome to the royal albert hall in london. this is where the bafta film awards have been taking place, this is what everyone has been hoping to ta ke is what everyone has been hoping to take home but not quite so big. here with me to talk to the result is that film criticjason solomons. you we re that film criticjason solomons. you were keeping a tally, tell us what the numbers were. 7-4 was the score, 74 the the numbers were. 7-4 was the score, 7a the favourite, 44 roma, the favourite won the outstanding british film along with other awards including four olivia colman but roma took out the big prizes including best director and best picture, the first film in a foreign language to win best picture here at the baftas sincejean de florette.

the favourite, a british film, seven awards, talk us through them. as olivia colman said when she was accepting her award for best actress, she said the cast would all go and get drunk later but they deserve it, it was a great night for a film which has won hearts, the biggest cheer went to olivia colman, it was always on the cards as outstanding british film, it's written by deborah davis, who won for her original screenplay. it has taken 20 years for the fulham to get to this point so it was our crowning night for queen anne. through many iterations and we can hear from that director. thank you so much, thank you, bafta. it's a great honour. i'm

just... just started until you came. this film took 20 years to make, i contributed to the last ten. i want to thank the producers for trusting me, my wonderful crew, for bringing it to the world. and of course the three leading ladies that i couldn't be more proud of, thank you very much. yorgos lanthimos, greek director who lives in london but gives their british period drama a bizarre surreal twist, i think because he's an outsider he doesn't abide by convention and that is why he gets a great script from deborah davis and gets great performances,

unusual actors like rachel weisz, who won an award for best supporting actress, the first time she has won at the baftas, she was nominative for the constant gardener but gave this performance as lady sarah churchill who is the existing favourite of the queen. let's hear from rachel weisz, who paid tribute to olivia colman and emma stone. thank you to bafta for this huge honour. i had the greatest luck in that i played opposite two of the most glorious women. olivia colman. applause. and emma stone. applause. yes. i salute you. didn't we have an

extraordinary time? hats off, ladies. i want to thank yorgos lanthimos, our director, your creativity is breathtaking. i want to thank the army of people that got this film made, including all the producers, everyone who stood by these three women and their story and got this fillip made, so thank you very much. rachel weisz winning best supporting actress for her role in the favourite. if we missed any of that start and get on the way in, week in its spot them now, they are coming back down the stairs so we have company here in the lobby. somebody has just dropped something so we somebody has just dropped something so we will move on. best actor went to rami malek for bohemian rhapsody. a surprise, many people thought christian bale was the favourite for

vice but don't forget freddie mercury, who rami malek embodies brilliantly, so after voters are brits and rami malek said in his speech we are very adamant about our heroes so to embody him was an honour and a challenge for an american egyptian actor so he was rewarded for doing that well. and it's been a popularfilm in britain with all ages, people who weren't even born when queen stopped playing together. it's the highest grossing bio pic of all time so it's a popularfilm and bio pic of all time so it's a popular film and a choice for popularity. i was at that concert in 1985 and sought freddie mercury do it first time around and it gave me chills to see rami malek do it again. and brian may, we heard him

talking about how thrilled he was to see this film come to fruition. it's a testa m e nt see this film come to fruition. it's a testament to queen as a band, it's not the freddie mercury biopic some people wanted, it doesn't get under his skin but it is about his creativity and it's a fun ride through the music and it will keep that, so it's a great performance from rami malek who dresses up like an action man figure, a very sweet performance. and someone travelled all the way from germany to london for her birthday, she said she had been waiting 1500 days to see rami malek so i'm sure someone in the crowd will be delighted. itjust shows the fact that he won and a lot of people had money on christian bale, how hotly contended these categories are. they were very close, i couldn't really name them

and we have the oscars in a couple of weeks, this doesn't discount christian bale from that, it may be put rami malek a skip and jump ahead but it doesn't discount other supporting actors and actresses. i'm interested in supporting actor, i said before the show that i thought the biggest cheer of the evening would be reserved for richard e grant, who i thought would supporting actor. he had a huge cheer when he walked past on the red carpet, we want richard! but they didn't get him on stage, they got mahershala ali for best supporting actor, the man is at very magnificent, charismatic to watch, he has won that prize here at bafta for moonlight and is back winning it for moonlight and is back winning it for green book, in which he plays

opposite viggo mortensen as a jazz pianist called don shirley and looking at the clips, it reminded me of how good he is in that role, wounded by racism thrown his way. you said earlier you thought that was a more traditional take on the issues of racial tension compared with blackkkla nsman, issues of racial tension compared with blackkklansman, which was set a few decades ago but felt contemporary. i loved blackkklansman, contemporary. i loved blackkkla nsman, we contemporary. i loved blackkklansman, we had adam driver nominated and spike lee nominated for director and i'm pleased that he w011 for director and i'm pleased that he won for his adapted screenplay from the real story of ron stallworth, anyone who saw blackkklansman may not believe this is our real tale of a black detective who infiltrated the ku klux klan. spike lee was on stage reminding us of the pitch that

jordan peele, the director of get out gave him, he had a black cop infiltrating the ku klux klan and from that pitch came this great film which is funny and dangerous and political. it makes you sit on the edge of your seat, and the dangers they faced. and the dangers they still face, the ku klux klan is on the rise again and making it look buffoonish in blackkklansman is part of that weapon arising film to dismantle this dangerous organisation. there was criticism of several of the film awards in the last few years that they weren't diverse enough so the fact that spike lee gets this recognition for oui’ spike lee gets this recognition for our fulham —like blackkklansman goes some way to try and change the tone. it's not a perfect world yet, we are seeing more black american voices at

the oscars but i was delighted for black panther, which did win the best visual effects award and also w011 best visual effects award and also won one of the sweetest awards of the night, letitia wright, the rising star award, she plays in black panther and spike lee was thrilled for her, everyone was thrilled for her, everyone was thrilled for her win and i think she is one of our brightest rising stars. we can hear from her now. a few years ago i saw myself in a deep state of depression and i wanted to quit acting. the only thing that pulled me out of that was god, i believe my faith and my family and an e—mailfrom believe my faith and my family and an e—mail from bafta saying they wanted me to be a part of the bafta breakthrough brits and i was like,

let me try again. so this... applause. so this wasn't an overnight thing, this wasn't a click of a finger success this wasn't a click of a finger success and it still a work in progress, it still is. letitia wright winning the rising star award. eight sombre reflective in memoriam and albert finney died a few days ago. they had to edit the section to put him in, a big bafta winner who won the bafta fellowship and won twice as an actor, known as the angry young man of british cinema, films like errant rocker wretch and saturday night sunday morning, , wretch and saturday night sunday morning,, a film like the dresser,

an audible sigh went around the auditorium and a pang of regret that we won't see him again, you remember what talent we lost in the year, including nicholas rogue, bernardo bertolucci, william goldman, and burt reynolds, all receiving more, people going, in a sense it is a rather sweet tribute to have at the ceremony and an important segment. the baftas felt like a renewal come so the baftas felt like a renewal come so to be reminded of bold talents like albert finney and nick roeg, keeping your feet like albert finney and nick roeg, keeping yourfeet in like albert finney and nick roeg, keeping your feet in the past is important but we had younis, roma from netflix, a film that is about memory and the future. as a film critic i'm sure you like films that

other people doubt what, why? i watched roma and i did think it was beautiful but it was quite long. it's two and a half hours, i would watch it at the cinema, i think it's a masterpiece, a film unlike any other we have seen for many years. it's a black—and—white movie set in mexico city in the 70s and it is a recreation of alfonso cuaron‘s childhood when he was brought up by his mum and a maid and the film is a recreation of his childhood, the house looks like his house, the maid looks like he's made, the dog looks like his dog and no dog does as much excrement as top dog but he told me his dog did it every day and someone had to clear it up. two fantastic

lead female role is to get their teeth into. she wasn't nominated here but is at the oscars. she has never acted before let alone been at the baftas, she was living in a small town in the north of mexico and she reminded him of his actual made when he was growing up. the film is about mexico and about colour, someone said what if you set a film colour, someone said what if you set afilm in colour, someone said what if you set a film in mexico, it's of colour, andi a film in mexico, it's of colour, and i think it's because we can all relate to it. it looks like mild childhood. i grew up in london but there are elements i can foist my childhood onto. you can see family and siblings and growing up and it becomes universal through being so specific. it also won best film not in english and the other

black—and—white film we must talk about is cold war. which i thought would come away with a few more awards than it did, pawel pawlikowski's film set in poland, it came away empty—handed which i was surprised about but it was up against roma, i thought they might share the foreign language film but roma took that one. i cannot deny roma's power and i'm pleased that ba ftas still respect roma's power and i'm pleased that baftas still respect those big masterpieces because people might say it is long, i haven't got time, but don't come cinema is made to immerse yourself in. you have to give yourself permission to sit still. say i'm not doing anything else tonight, i'm watching roma and being transported. best original music for a star is born. it was a

big favourite when it came out, people said lady gaga would win best actress, it has fallen away a bit over the course of the awards race, two more weeks until the oscars. lady gaga will be performing there. she is at the grammys tonight in la but he did win for original music, bradley cooper got up and it was beautifully received by the audience. let's hear from him. thank you, bafta. igot audience. let's hear from him. thank you, bafta. i got to fulfil a dream i never thought would happen, to compose and arrange music with the greatest musicians in the world, lady gaga and lucas nelson who i share this with tonight. we had so much help from people all over the country, the whole sound team, it

wouldn't have sounded like that without you. village studios in sa nta without you. village studios in santa monica, the engineers, most of all i have to thank arena for putting up with me for all the music i was trying to make in our basement. thank you. bradley cooper picking up the bafta for best original music for a star is born, where he starred alongside lady gaga. i didn't know he could play the guitar, let alone sing. what about those who are just starting out in the film industry? what was notable about them ? out in the film industry? what was notable about them? bafta always awards british talent in the shape of the outstanding british debut, which can put these talents on the world stage in front of producers and this year i think they were the film won the outstanding british

debut, it was based by the director michael pearce and it starsjessie buckley and he has been cast as the young david bowie —— beast. i don't think the film has been set in jersey since the bergerac christmas special in 1986. that is how long it has been since jersey was on the map and this is a beautiful thrilling dark british mystery about murder, is hea dark british mystery about murder, is he a murderer, should she fall in love with him, directed by michael pearce and called beast and i thought that was a stylish debut in a strong category that also featured a strong category that also featured a film called apostasy and the documentary mcqueen about the designer. and we sought the duchess

of cambridge chose to wear an alexander mcqueen gown in winter white, which we were talking about with the fashion designer. and joanna lumley, the host wearing white. it's difficult to get the town right as a host because you wa nted town right as a host because you wanted to be entertaining, not eventful in the wrong way and we we re eventful in the wrong way and we were saying with the oscars how hard they found it to get the right host. joanna lumley held it together. she hosted last year and did a good job, taking over from stephen hosted last year and did a good job, taking overfrom stephen fry who made it his own over 12 years with his little barbed asides and his vocabulary, people loved him and he was from the fulham background so he was from the fulham background so he was a film insider. even doubt joanna lumley has been in some movies, she brings our timeless elegance to it. it wasn't the

funniest houston, her opening monologue was a bit tumbleweed, she was making jokes and people were not sure if they were landing, people are not used to see her delivering that, she should havejust are not used to see her delivering that, she should have just come out as patsy with a bottle of champagne and afag. as patsy with a bottle of champagne and a fag. eventually she would topple over. she is a national trainer because she has been around for so long in tv series —— national treasure. an intelligent and literate, when she says something it is from the heart, she kept things moving along and we get things done here, it's not four and a half hours like the oscars, in time for tea. and also get the gas handing over the awards to do more than one at a time, which means there is not too much to and throw. you had some

great delivery from those, andy serkis tried a brighter trip, eddie marsan tried a brexitjoke, no one did anything to political, when daniel blake won a few years ago, ken loach gave a political speech but no one really did doubt this year, i don't know if people thought we'd get enough politics in our normal lives. there was a lot of escapism on the red carpet, some beautiful outfits that we saw women and the men choosing to break with tradition of the black tie and taxi now and it made a nice change. we had spike lee in flowers, rami malek winning ina had spike lee in flowers, rami malek winning in a white tuxedo, brian may, i don't know what that was. this is beginning to feel a bit boring. i think you need to change

it up boring. i think you need to change itupa boring. i think you need to change it up a bit, another actor who chose to beat slightly different was mahershala ali who took the award for best supporting actor in we can hear from for best supporting actor in we can hearfrom him. for best supporting actor in we can hear from him. thank you for this, fellow nominees, thank you for your work. the work itself has always been that reward for me and so it's a little surreal to get this kind of thing for something you feel so passionate about and grateful for, so passionate about and grateful for, so octavia spencer, thank you, chris bowers, my double, thank you, my wife and family. peace. mahershala ali taking best supporting actor for his role alongside viggo mortensen in green book. the overall atmosphere compared with last year, what was the difference? people were more comfortable this year, you saw

people expressing themselves, their own outfits, people were happy to break with convention, last year the mood was sombre, reverberating from the harvey weinstein, time is up, people are still dealing with that and it's a rebirth and i think a film like the favourite which is female and powered characters at the centre of power is typical but it's also rambunctious and rude and loud. it uses language i had never heard in that combination. it's cheeky and it knows it so it's breaking with tradition yet respecting it and roma has its feet in the past but looks to the future and sees it emerging so to the future and sees it emerging soi to the future and sees it emerging so i feel this year is about renaissance and emergence and that

hopeful outcome, a bit more female empowerment, it will not happen overnight. people are watching to make sure it does. and they are careful to commentate and keep the conversation is going so i think cinema is repositioning itself, eve ryo ne cinema is repositioning itself, everyone is talking about netflix, amazon prime, seasons on tv, and... amazon prime, seasons on tv, and... a lot for you to keep up with. cinema needs to work hard to come back to being the centre of attention and awards like this do much for that. do you think it's driving up the quality of films you watch? i think we are in a good space for cinema, the films are better than last year and a film like roma is for the ages, it might be difficult but stick with that and tonight is about the favourite and

roma, in the way they have shared equally, and as olivia colman said they are having a good night. jason solomons, always good to work with you and i will see you again after the oscars, the final big awards are the oscars, the final big awards are the oscars, the final big awards are the oscars in los angeles on the 24th of february and we will bring you the results. from us all here at the royal albert hall in london, thank you forjoining us. the weather is starting to calm down across the uk, to date was a bit of across the uk, to date was a bit of a mixed bag but tomorrow starting a little bit like this. sunny skies right from

the morning onwards. but a touch of frost around across most of the uk, particularly in northern areas. this is what's happening right now. we still have a weather front moving across the uk. it's in place across wales, central parts of england, that means thicker cloud and some showers still moving through. it is quite chilly at the moment because the winds are blowing out of the north and north—west but the mild air you can see down towards the south—west, that'll be reaching us over the next 24—36 hours. so, the forecast for tonight, then, a weather front moving across scotland, bringing a little bit of wintryness across the hills. the showers by the early hours of monday should fade away to the south, too, and the skies will clear across the country, and a frost is expected. maybe in city centres, just above freezing but, outside of town, certainly below freezing. on monday a beautiful start of the day. lots of sunshine in the afternoon. a little hazy across some of these western areas. high pressure is building here. the weather front is trying to push in. it's stopping somewhere around western britain, and they go no further. so belfast, perhaps hazy skies a little bit later on in the day.

that high pressure continues to build through tuesday and into wednesday. starting to extend into parts of central europe as well. the weather fronts here are being diverted to the north, but just about affecting the very far north—west of scotland, maybe northern ireland, so perhaps some spits and spots of rain and a fresher feel for the majority of the uk. on tuesday we anticipate a lot of bright weather, dry weather at least, with temperatures rising. 12 in london, double figures as far north as aberdeen. 10 celsius, maybe lower, at around 8 degrees. —— in lerwick. and then on wednesday i promised you that milder air from the south—west. here it is. it is starting to arrive, engulfing much of the british isles. moving into southern parts of scandinavia as well. then we start to see a southerly developing and those temperatures will rise. we could see highs of 13, 1a degrees at some point during the week. not a drop of rain in sight for many parts of the uk. that's it from me. bye— bye.

this is bbc news. i'm rebecca jones. the headlines at 10pm: living up to its name, "the favourite" wins several awards at the baftas this evening — including the best actress gong for olivia coleman, best british film — and best supporting actress for rachel weisz. earlier she told us what it meant to be nominated. very exciting to be part of this story, to work with the goddesses that are olivia colman and emma stone. there was a kind of true ensemble, each one of us lied on the other two saubers lovely that all three of us are being recognised tonight. we'll bring you up to date with all of tonight's bafta winners — including who won best actor and best director. company bosses could face up to seven years in jail for mismanaging staff pension schemes under government plans. theresa may will ask mps for more time to rework her brexit plan — and offer parliament another vote ——