Hugh Grant Channels ‘Wonka’ Oompa Loompa Character While Presenting Best Director BAFTA Award: ‘Most of These Films Were Frankly Too Long’

Sandra Huller is nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Anatomy of a Fall and she just picked up a Cesar Award for her work!

Justine Triet’s Anatomy of A Fall won Best Film and Director at the 49th edition of the French César awards on Friday.

Palme d’Ors don’t grow on trees, so it’s small wonder that the world has fallen for Justine Triet’sAnatomy of a Fall, and the outstanding lead performance of Sandra Hüller, since it won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize. Hüller’s turn dominates the ‘sort of’ courtroom drama of the film, in which her German novelist — also called Sandra — is accused of pushing her French husband Samuel (Samuel Theis), also a writer, from the top floor of their alpine home. Sandra maintains he fell, or jumped, and the film spends much of its runtime chewing over the truth, though never revealing it.

I share my colleague Pete Hammond’s fascination with Cord Jefferson’s BAFTA win for his screenplay adaptation, American Fiction. It is no small thing for a self-consciously American story to win a very British award against competition as formidable as Christopher Nolan, especially for a debut film.

BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday night during the final speech of the evening – and nobody noticed.After Oppenheimer was announced as the winner of the Best Film award, its director Christopher Nolan, producer Emma Thomas and lead actor Cillian Murphy all took to the stage to accept the prize. But as seen on the BBC broadcast of the show, there was another man there who had no connection to the film at all.It transpired that the man in question was the YouTuber Lizwani, who has previously gatecrashed other ceremonies, including the BRIT Awards, the FIFA Ballon D’Or and the British Fashion Awards.BAFTA responded to the incident in a statement: “A social media prankster was removed by security last night after joining the winners of the final award on stage – we are taking this very seriously, and don’t wish to grant him any publicity by commenting further.”The imposter stood silently behind Thomas as she gave her speech, and then left the stage with the group, at which point BAFTA say he was detained by security.

Michael J. Fox left no dry eyes in the room at the 2024 BAFTAs.

Prince William admitted to being a little behind on some of 2023′s biggest movies while attending the 2024 BAFTAs on Sunday (February 18).

Bafta said they are looking into a big security problem after someone who wasn't supposed to be there got onto the stage during the best film speech. A man, who might make videos on YouTube, went up with director Christopher Nolan and the team from the movie Oppenheimer when they were getting their big award at the Bafta ceremony on Sunday night in London.

EXCLUSIVE: Dominic Sessa, the 21-year-old rising star, didn’t win a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA award Sunday night – that went to Oppenheimer’s Robert Downey Jr. – but he did pick up his first post-The Holdovers role that will see him starring with Rose Byrne in director Stephanie Laing’s drama Tow.

Hugh Grant channelled his Wonka character Oompa Loompa at the BAFTAs last night (February 18) as he presented the award for Best Director.The star presented the category by cribbing from the film’s ‘Oompa Loompa’ song, altering the words to fit the London ceremony.Grant played an 18-inch tall Oompa Loompa in the recent Charlie And The Chocolate Factory prequel.“Oompa Loompa doompity-dee now the best director category,” he sang before he went on: “Oompa Loompa doompity-dong, most of these films were frankly too long / Oompa Loompa doompity-dah, but for some reason the nominees are.”Genial Hugh Grant al presentar el Bafta a Mejor Director. Hace una rima en plan Umpa Lumpa, con todo el charm y el ingenio británico #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/SpZ3lRONly— René Naranjo Sotomayor (@renenaranjo) February 19, 2024Christopher Nolan was presented with the Best Director award for Oppenheimer.

BAFTA has said it is taking “very seriously” a security breach in which a prankster gatecrashed the Oppenheimer best film speech.

BAFTA has responded strongly after a man crashed the final category at the film awards on Sunday night. The man, an alleged social media prankster who Variety has opted not to name, joined “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan, producers Emma Thomas and Charles Roven and star Cillian Murphy on stage after Michael J. Fox named the best film winner at the climax of the ceremony.

Michael J Fox brought viewers to tears at the BAFTAs last night (February 18) after making a surprise appearance.The Back To The Future star, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991, came onstage in a wheelchair but insisted on standing up at the podium as he handed out the prize for Best Film to Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer at London’s Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre.As he presented the prize to a standing ovation, he spoke about film bringing people together, “no matter who you are or where you’re from”.He added: “There’s a reason why they say movies are magic because movies can change your day. It can change your outlook.

David Tennant hosted the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards and, during his opening monologue, took a jab at Donald Trump as he makes a presidential run in the U.S.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor With just four days remaining until final Oscar voting officially opens, the race has taken a few unexpected turns at the BAFTA Awards. Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” a biographical drama about the father of the atomic bomb, has continued to surge ahead after seven wins, including best film and director. Its trajectory towards a triumphant night on the Dolby Theatre stage on March 10 seems assured.

The 2024 BAFTA Film Awards have come to a close, with all the gongs having been handed out during the star-studded ceremony. This year, Doctor Who star David Tennant was chosen to host the ceremony, taking over from last year's hosts Alison Hammond and Richard E.

After a few years in limbo, the BAFTAs finally found a host to replace the much-missed Stephen Fry in David Tennant. The Doctor Who actor proved an amiable and funny emcee, although much of his humor would have gone way over the non-Brits in the audience, starting with a lengthy filmed skit riffing on his BBC TV series Staged, co-starring Michael Sheen. It was a night of surprises, not especially pleasant ones for the teams behind Barbie and Killers of the Flower Moon, and there were no egregious upsets. Neither were there any of the usual technical nightmares that have plagued the event in the past. 

Given the number of high-wattage films garnering multiple nominations at the BAFTAs this year, the rationing of awards was always likely unpredictable on the night. And so it proved, meaning that The Zone of Interest and Poor Things had already nibbled away at Oppenheimer’s chances of a decent sweep before the Best Director award came round. With Poor Things director Yorgo Lanthimos inexplicably left out of the race, a category snub this year for Christopher Nolan would absolutely have sent a signal to the British-American director.

Christopher Nolan has won the BAFTA Award for best director for “Oppenheimer.” In his acceptance speech, he said that while his film ended on a “dramatically necessary note of despair,” he wanted to spotlight the “individuals and organizations who have fought long and hard to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world.” “In accepting this I do just want to acknowledge their efforts and point out they show the necessity and potential of efforts for peace,” he added. The British director also said that it was an “incredible honor to be back home, to get this from BAFTA, in the festival hall where my my mum and dad used to drag me to make me have some culture.

Cillian Murphy shouted out his “Oppenhomies” while accepting his leading actor BAFTA award. After thanking the film’s director Christopher Nolan, producer Emma Thomas and Universal Pictures chief Donna Langley, Murphy said: “I want to thank my fellow nominees and my Oppenhomies and, in fact, all of you in the room. I know it’s a cliché to say I’m in awe of you, but I genuinely am in awe.” Murphy played J.