Baftas 2025: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – live!

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This is your five-minute warning! The TV broadcast of the Baftas is imminent! Bring snacks!

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News from Catherine Shoard in the Baftas press room: the ceremony, in time-honoured tradition, is running significantly late. Thankfully this doesn’t affect the TV broadcast or else this live blog would be trundling on into Monday.

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In the office we’ve just twigged that it’s not even a new episode of Antiques Roadshow that we’re watching instead of the Baftas: it’s a repeat from 2017! I think it was the interview with a very much not still alive June Brown that tipped us off, keen-eyed journalists that we are.

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Great gowns, beautiful gowns … and a bloke in a balaclava mask. Here’s the best of the Baftas red carpet in pictures. (You won’t be shocked to hear that Colman Domingo is far and away the evening’s best dressed man.)

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Over at the actual Baftas ceremony that is happening right now, someone has said something newsworthy in their acceptance speech. Of course if I told you who and what, I’d spoil the TV broadcast for everyone, receive hate mail and have to go into hiding. So I won’t do that, but I will just say that if you want to know more you can click on this here news story.

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While Bridget Jones 4 was triumphing in the UK, Marvel’s latest Captain America green screen-fest, Brave New World, was bossing it at the global box office. This despite the film being dragged into another tedious culture war, as the Guardian’s Steve Rose explains.

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Still no Baftas on the telly, but there is a special edition of Antiques Roadshow from Elstree Studios, so that’s a consolation prize of sorts.

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Up for one award tonight is Brazilian drama I’m Still Here which, you might remember, was caught up in the Emilia Pérez hoo-ha after Karla Sofía Gascón slagged off its star Fernanda Torres on social media. I’m Still Here’s director Walter Salles addresses the controversy and a whole lot more in this interview with the Observer’s Guy Lodge.

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One film not in competition tonight is Bong Joon-ho’s new one, Mickey 17, which Warner Bros have shunted from pillar to post over the past year or so. It did finally get a premiere this weekend at the Berlin film festival, and here’s Peter Bradshaw’s positive-ish review.

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Wondering what the Beeb is showing instead of the Baftas? At the moment it’s actually a fairly fascinating Countryfile segment on hunt saboteurs. More breaking news as I have it.

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One Oscar race that seems all but settled is best supporting actor, where A Real Pain’s Kieran Culkin looks set to be romping home, and is fully expected to triumph in the same category at tonight’s Baftas. For the Observer, Andrew Anthony profiles an actor who has very much escaped the shadow of his once more famous brother.

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Angelina Jolie showed in 2014’s Maleficent that the evil fairy was actually well worthy of fashion attention. Zoe Saldaña gives another take on the dramatic neckline – but by combining it with a megawatt smile, she looks too nice to be evil.

Dramatic … Zoe Saldaña at the Baftas. Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

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The Baftas isn’t the only major award ceremony taking place this weekend. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) had its own ceremony last night, and Anora took home the best original screenplay prize. It’s another big win for Sean Baker’s film, following last weekend’s victories in both the producers and directors guild awards, very much suggesting that it is on a clear path to the Oscar best picture win. But could a Bafta victory for one of Anora’s rivals shake-up the race?

Elsewhere, the WGA gave best adapted screenplay to RaMell Ross’s drama Nickel Boys – nice to see some recognition for a terrific film that looked in danger of being overlooked this awards season. You can read the full list of WGA winners here.

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One film likely to pick up nominations at next year’s Baftas is Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. The fourth instalment of the Renée Zellweger starrer had a bumper weekend at the UK box office, enjoying the biggest ever opening for a romcom. Here’s Catherine Shoard’s new story on Bridge’s big win.

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Women have been wearing spaghetti-strapped dresses with tops underneath for a while now. So it’s heartening that the hack has come to the red carpet via Selena Gomez. The addition of sparkling beads and a sweetheart-neckline makes it a bit more dressed up.

Selena Gomez at the Baftas. Photograph: Kate Green/Getty Images

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Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard have all had a stab at predicting tonight’s results, so here’s my two penn’orth:

Best film Anora

Outstanding British film Conclave

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt (director, writer)

Best film not in the English language Kneecap

Best documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Best animated film Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Best children’s & family film Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Best director Sean Baker, Anora

Best original screenplay Anora