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WINNER! Ryan Coogler, best original screenplay
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For Sinners. So far, it’s is looking like Sinners may run away with the evening. Coogler seems surprised and a little nervous. He’s talking about his first time in the UK, when his driver showed him where Marcus Garvey lived. He shouts out his fellow nominees, too. This is a very good speech, not least for how sincerely off the cuff it sounds.
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Kathryn Hahn and Bryan Cranston are here now, to present best original screenplay. They promise the audience that the characters they play in The Studio are not based on anyone in attendance. They’re taking more time than Paddington, which I think qualifies as treason in this country.
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Clearly nobody was expecting Boong win, because the winners were all hidden away at the back of the auditorium and they took about a thousand years to get to the stage. Hopefully this doesn’t cut into any of the montages.
WINNER! Boong, best children’s and family film
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An unexpected winner, especially against a juggernaut like Zootropolis 2. But Boong is a lovely Indian Manipuri-language coming-of-age drama. And also, what a great thing that Bafta has this category.
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Paddington is making a joke about getting marmalade on his award, which is nice because it distracts everyone from his cold, dead eyes.
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Here comes the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Paddington Bear is here, as a presenter and not to accompany members of the royal family to the afterlife like he does on Facebook.
WINNER! Sean Penn, best supporting actor
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For One Battle After Another. So not Skarsgård, then. Even more awkwardly, Skarsgård is there and Penn is not. Nobody is there to collect his award. Oh well.
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Next up is best supporting actor, presented by Gillian Anderson and Maggie Gyllenhaal. They’re mentioning Stellan Skarsgård an awful lot here. Could this be a portent?
WINNER! Wunmi Mosaku, best supporting actress
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For Sinners. What a lovely surprise, met by screams of approval from the assembled masses and a bit of a glare from Carey Mulligan. Wunmi is completely breathless, and hammers through a long list of thanks. Her character deepened her capacity to love, she says, and then thanks her agent.
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Best supporting actress now, presented by Patrick Dempsey, of nothing popular recently.
WINNER! Avatar: Fire and Ash, best visual effects
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Also most visual effects. The winners point out that 2,000 visual artists worked on the film.
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The first award is here already. Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan are here to present best visual effects. They’re also being thrown off by Davidson.
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I think I know what’s going on. John Davidson, the inspiration for I Swear, about a man with Tourette syndrome, is in the auditorium, and he’s audibly ticcing. Nobody seems to have informed Cumming of this, because he keeps looking startled every time it happens. Which is a charitable way to read a monologue not being very funny, but it would explain a lot.
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Cumming is trying to lead the crowd in a big primal scream. Everyone is far too reserved to join him. This is all profoundly awkward. He’s bigging up the upcoming musical adaptation of his 1990s sitcom The High Life now.
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“It’s been a great year for daddy issues,” Cumming says in what might qualify as his first joke. His second joke is about how miserable all the films are this year.
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The good news is that the monologue, scientifically speaking, has to be better than that whatever that was.
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And now Alan Cumming is doing a little sketch, where he does a Zoom to try to “Marty Supreme” the Baftas, alongside Warwick Davis, Ken Jeong and Brian Cox. It’s very long, and Brian Cox has a cat filter. And the kid from Hamnet pretends not to know what television is, and Hannah Waddingham sort of says nothing. And then there’s Paddington, who doesn’t really say anything either.
