Baftas 2022 as it happened: Benedict Cumberbatch says he hopes to take in Ukrainian refugees

• Baftas 2022 winners: The Power of the Dog wins Best Film

• Will Smith beats Benedict Cumberbatch to the Leading Actor Award

• Kenneth Branagh's Belfast wins Outstanding British Film

• Two surprise wins for CODA - and deaf actor Troy Kotsur makes history

• The Power of the Dog's Bafta win is a triumph for Netflix - but not cinema, says the Telegraph's chief film critic Robbie Collin

• The Power of the Dog, review: a blistering, career-best performance from Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch has said he wants to take in Ukrainian refugees, as celebrities at the Baftas condemned the Russian invasion. Stars have urged the UK government to take in refugees, with celebrity chef Delia Smith, Stephen Fry and talk show host Graham Norton demanding the welcoming of those fleeing war-torn Ukraine.

Cumberbatch, who lost out on a best actor award for his leading role in The Power of the Dog, has said he will host refugees from Ukraine as he urged the government to do more. The star, sporting a flag of Ukraine on his tuxedo as he walked the red carpet, said: “We all need, as we know, to do more than wear a badge.

“We need to donate, we need to pressure our politicians to create some kind of ... a safety, and a haven here for people that are suffering. Everyone needs to do as much as they can. There has been a record number of people volunteering to take people into their homes, and I hope to be part of that myself.”

His comments came after Michael Gove called for the mansions of oligarchies based in the UK to be opened up to refugees from Ukraine, as a Homes for Ukraine scheme was announced. This scheme would allow British people to offer rent-free accommodation to those fleeing Ukraine, for a monthly fee of ￡350 from the government. The recently divorced Mr Gove said he was seeking to see “what I can do” with regard to the crisis.

The Baftas were politicised by protests prior to the awards ceremony, when environmental activists demanded that the UK “Stop Oil Now” rushed the London road reserved for the limousines of celebrity guests. Flares in the colour of the Ukrainian flag were hurled close to the Royal Albert Hall, as protestors were tackled by police outside the Bafta venue.

While Cumberbatch was expected to win the best actor award at the annual ceremony, actor and former music star Will Smith claimed the gong for his role in King Richard - a biographical study of the tennis-playing Williams sisters and their father.

Cumberbatch's film The Power of the Dog did win the best film award, and its director Jane Campion claimed the prize for best director.

Elsewhere, history was made as actor Troy Kotsur become the first deaf star to win in a major category at the Baftas for his role in CODA, which centres on the deaf community in Massachusetts.

The evening mainly passed without controversy despite the stated intent of host, comedian Rebel Wilson, who had vowed to take no prisoners with off-colour royal jokes at the ceremony usually attended by representatives of the Royal Family.

It was feared that the Australian comedian would follow the pattern of British MC Ricky Gervais in making abrasive jibes about the celebrities in attendance. But Wilson made a only brief reference to Prince Andrew, embroiled in claims of having sexual contact with Virginia Roberts, as she talked about “Pizza Express”.

Wilson also spoke of the horror genre in the film industry, quipping: “Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah had it all. But unfortunately it wasn’t nominated in this category.” However, there were no royals at the Albert Hall to become offended. The Duke of Cambridge instead offered a pre-recorded video message congratulating those nominated.

The topical jokes were not limited to the royal family, with Wilson also referencing Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who has become a prominent voice in sharing concerns about transgender issues. Wilson jested that she had lost weight, and hoped that this "transformation" would be acceptable to the writer, who has been criticised for condemning legislation which would allow people to self-identify as whichever gender they wished.

Here are the awards as they happened.

09:04 PM

Thank you and goodnight

That's all from the 2022 Baftas!

Did you agree with this year's winners? Let us know in the comments below...

08:57 PM

The Power of the Dog wins Best Film

"Netflix will have had their hearts in their mouths until this was read out – it didn’t feel like the night was necessarily heading in this direction at all!" saysTim Robey. "But it’s the right result.

"Bafta seems to have responded to Campion’s film less as an actors’ vehicle – they all lost – or even as an exemplum of classical, below-the-line craft (it lost in all those categories too), but more as an auteur achievement, which is in many ways exactly as it should be.

"Having seen off the homegrown competition from Belfast, The Power of the Dog now looks all the stronger as a potential Oscar champ across the pond – it’s looking increasingly unwise to bet against it."

Among the heartfelt words from the acceptance speeches are a tribute paid to Campion for championing female talent, a big thanks to BBC Film, and a moving quote from Thomas Savage, whose novel forms the basis of the film: "Everyone has the right to be seen. Everyone has the right to feel safe. Everyone has the right to love."

08:48 PM

Joanna Scanlan triumphs in the wild-card Best Actress category

"Best Actress has been the Bafta category with the most buzz around it this season, because of the fascinatingly unpredictable list they came up with, and the fact that not one of these six nominees is up for an Oscar – a rogue mismatch that’s almost unheard of," reports Tim Robey. "Until her Oscar snub, Lady Gaga would have looked like the easy favourite to win this, but now I can imagine it going almost anywhere.

"The race was blown wide open the second they didn’t nominate Olivia Colman for The Lost Daughter (a film Bafta voters have otherwise admired quite a bit). Tim’s tip, on which he has a fiver riding, is that a long under-rewarded homegrown contender, Joanna Scanlan for the British indie debut After Love, might swipe this off Gaga (the popular favourite), but we shall see!"

Tim Robey is jubilant. "And we saw! And Tim made ￡20."

08:45 PM

Jane Campion wins Best Director - and Cumberbatch accepts

It's a well-deserved gong for Campion. She's not here in person to accept (continuing a pattern tonight - Paul Thomas Anderson and Will Smith were no-shows too). But we're all happy to make do with The Power of the Dog star Benedict Cumberbatch, accepting on her behalf.

Campion becomes only the third woman in Baftas history to win this award, after Kathryn Bigelow and Chloe Zhao.

Tim Robey is relieved. "Phew! This, at least, felt like an absolute necessity. Jane Campion has been waiting nearly 30 years for the acclaim due her as a film artist, after The Piano was an unlucky bridesmaid to Schindler’s List back in 1994.

"Evidently, no one else on the list posed enough of a viable alternative – not even Kenneth Branagh, who won this same prize for his Henry V in 1990. The question still to be answered is whether Bafta voters have truly embraced her film as much as they’ve embraced her.

"Also, Benedict Cumberbatch pretending to read out his own (unused) acceptance speech before Campion’s was very smooth, and rather ingenious."

08:36 PM

Will Smith beats Benedict Cumberbatch to Leading Actor

"And here, without question, is serious shock number two," says Robbie Collin. "If Benedict Cumberbatch can’t win at home for his career-capping performance in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, where can he?

"But Will Smith’s portrayal of Richard Williams, stalwart tennis-coach father of Venus and Serena, is a smart and pleasurable reupholstering of the 53-year-old actor’s movie-star persona, and it’s easily the strongest aspect of a film that otherwise feels a little too officially sanctioned for its own good."

Tim adds: "The night continues, in quite a big way, not to belong to The Power of the Dog. At least, not yet…"

08:31 PM

Best Documentary goes to Summer of Soul

Robbie Collin has mixed feelings. "This tremendous concert film was an early favourite, but its victory here makes me wonder just how many voters made time for Flee, whose poignancy and timeliness couldn’t be more pronounced with the current mass displacement of Ukrainian citizens following the Russian invasion."

Still, you've got to love director Questlove's Worldle celebration...

08:27 PM

Licorice Pizza's Paul Thomas Anderson wins Best Original Screenplay

And Robbie Collin is very relieved. "That’s more like it! Definitely the right winner here – but a surprising one nevertheless, given Belfast’s artfully dog-eared presence on the ballot.

"Paul Thomas Anderson’s Los Angeles-set 1970s teenage picaresque is a miraculous piece of screenwriting, with its tender and complex central relationship that darts playfully between a menagerie of broad, even edging-on-wacky supporting turns."

Tim Robey: "Agreed! Very satisfying to see Anderson recognised here over the maudlin, bitty script Branagh contributed to Belfast. The real showdown awaits between Branagh’s film and The Power of the Dog – thus far empty-handed – in the top two categories."

Paul Thomas Anderson isn't there to collect, meaning that Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood – who composed for the film – and star Alana Haim give an endearingly awkward tag-team speech on his behalf. It is, in fact, quintessentially PTA.

08:17 PM

It's a surprise Adapted Screenplay win for CODA

"Well, yikes," says Robbie Collin of Sian Heder's win. "Not Drive My Car, nor Dune, nor The Lost Daughter, nor The Power of the Dog. Bafta delivers a collective failure of taste for the ages. Thank goodness CODA isn’t up for Best Film, is all I can say."

Tim Robey agrees. "I think absolutely no one was calling this for CODA – it was all Maggie Gyllenhaal vs Jane Campion. This is maybe even more of a shock than Supporting Actor! Clearly Bafta voters saw something in CODA that… we did not."

08:11 PM

Belfast wins Outstanding British Film

"For a film that might as well have been built in a lab to appeal to Bafta’s tastes and values, Kenneth Branagh’s monochrome memoir was always a shoo-in here," observes Robbie Collin.

"Its unexpectedly robust showing at the box office (￡14.5 million as of last weekend) probably gave it the edge over No Time To Die, the official saviour of cinema: Bond was always going to do well, but an elegiac middlebrow period piece, a hit post-Covid? The British film industry have got to consider that worth celebrating."

"All hail the streaming revolution - but all hail the big screen too," asserts Branagh. "It's alive!"

Do you think Bond deserved to nab this one? Let us know in the comments below...

08:05 PM

Deaf actor Troy Kotsur makes history

"And boom: behold the evening’s first serious shock," proclaims Robbie Collin. "Troy Kotsur’s triumph in Best Supporting Actor makes him the first deaf performer to have prevailed in one of the Baftas’ major categories in its entire 75-year history – which, unquestionably, is something to be pleased about.

"But I’m still astonished that CODA, the film in which his performance appears, is proving such a force this season: a wildly embarrassing and contrived coming-of-age tale about a teenage girl trying to reconcile her love of music with having deaf parents, it’s like something that would have cropped up on the Disney Channel ten years ago. Cynics might suggest its awards traction is largely down to Apple having shelled out a record $25 million for the global rights at last year’s Sundance, and marketing it as if it’s Sound of Metal.

"(As an aside, Ciarán Hinds’ lack of victory here suggests Belfast might lack the broad support it’ll need to break through at the very top.) "

Tim Robey adds: "Sadly, I agree, in every way! And said as much here. There’s now a worry that Emilia Jones could pull off a similar shock in Best Actress, which would be… pretty unfortunate."

Nevertheless, Kotsur's acceptance speech is a charming one. Among other things, he talks articulately about access, puts himself forward as a deaf James Bond, and enthuses about setting up a fish and chip shop with his castmates.

07:58 PM

Drive My Car wins for Film Not in the English Language

Robbie Collin approves. "There was a strong case to be made for all of this year’s foreign-language runners-up: ravishing big-name auteur entries from Italy and Spain, a delicate mid-lockdown miniature from France, a whip smart and whimper-inducingly sexy Norwegian rom-com.

"But in the end, the prize went to…a three-hour adaptation of a Haruki Murakami short story about a troubled production of Uncle Vanya? Darn right it did.

"Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car has been the rightful frontrunner more or less since it premiered at Cannes last July: it’s a film that expertly slows your breath and heart to its own meditative speed, then offers up one quietly revelatory moment after the next. The only question over its chances here was whether voters would make the time to see it."

07:56 PM

Never underestimate Cruella

Tim Robey says of Jenny Bevan's rather surprising Best Costume win for Cruella: "Awards for costumes are an opportunity to go a bit rogue – so why *not* award a film that’s literally *about* costume design, in the competing couture salons of Swinging Sixties London? Jenny Beavan previously won Baftas for A Room with a View and Gosford Park – and an Oscar for Mad Max: Fury Road."

07:51 PM

Ariana DeBose wins Best Supporting Actress

"I am truly honoured by this recognition." And it's so deserved, @ArianaDeBose ?? #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/vIfgZrh1Lq

— BAFTA (@BAFTA) March 13, 2022

Continuing her awards sweep - likely all the way to the Oscars - is the phenomenal Ariana DeBose, who wins Best Supporting Actress for playing Anita in Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story.

She will almost certainly follow in the fancy footsteps of Rita Moreno, who picked up an Oscar for her turn as Anita back in 1962.

Tim Robey says: "This is what you might call a 'stacked' category this year – and one where Bafta made decidedly more interesting choices than the Oscar voters, who threw Judi Dench a needless bone for Belfast and instead ignored two of the best performances of the year, from Ruth Negga (on career-best form) in Rebecca Hall’s Passing, and the riveting Ann Dowd in the four-hander chamber piece Mass.

"I was hoping one of them might triumph here – and both Aujanue Ellis (King Richard) and Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter) are also terrific assets to their respective films. But sometimes a favourite is a favourite. If we’re being hyper-critical, Ariana DeBose can’t actually eclipse the interpretation of Rita Moreno, who acted up an unimprovable storm as Anita in 1961, but her singing and dancing speak for themselves – and this is one category where voters do love a bit of song and dance."

West Side Story also picks up the award for Casting. "The Bafta membership at large are West Side Story sceptics, if its curious absence in the Best Film and Best Director categories is anything to go by," observes Robbie Collin. "But even they couldn’t have messed this one up: Steven Spielberg’s spectacular musical remake feels very much like a film to which multiple glittering screen careers will be traced back – not least those of Ariana DeBose and Mike Faist, two acting nominees both glowingly received on this year’s red carpet. And that’s the clear advantage it had over its category rivals."

07:42 PM

Rebel Wilson gives Vladimir Putin the finger

Introducing a beautiful performance of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now from Emilia Jones, nominated for the movie Coda and accompanied by sign language interpreters, Wilson quips that this is the sign for Putin - and raises her middle finger.

What do you think of Wilson's performance so far? Let us know in the comments!

07:37 PM

Lashana Lynch of No Time to Die wins the Rising Star Award

"Now I get to celebrate a yes that I never expected." Not a dry eye in the house as Lashana Lynch is crowned this year's @EE Rising Star #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/8Qi837zj4C

— BAFTA (@BAFTA) March 13, 2022

The only Bafta voted for by the public, and it goes to the brilliant Lashana Lynch - a sparky presence in the most recent James Bond film. She's also part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and is set to play Miss Honey in the film adaptation of Matilda the Musical. Expect great things.

The Bond film also had a surprise win in the Best Editing category. Robbie Collin comments: "Action often has an advantage in the editing category, which made this a two-horse race between Dune and Bond. I’d assumed the former would triumph, given the sheer range of its pacing and flourishes like Paul’s premonitions, but in the end Tom Cross and Elliot Graham’s snappy, stylish cutting in No Time to Die impressed more voters.

"And justifiably so: against the modern blockbuster grain, the two were prepared to let certain moments and reactions linger, even during the film’s paciest sequences. The Matera-set prologue is a great example, where we watch bullets pound against an Aston Martin windscreen for what feels like a terrifying stretch of time, and Bond’s disorientation is expressed through Daniel Craig’s performance and electrifying camera movements rather than a frantic barrage of shots."

07:29 PM

Rebel Wilson makes a Prince Andrew joke

"I was going to do a musical number as host; it was about Prince Andrew," teases Rebel Wilson as she returns to introduce the Outstanding British Film category.

"It was on roller skates. It was called Pizza Express - but don’t worry, I’m not going to do it, I’m not going to sing.

"I’m saving my voice for the sequel to Cats."

Wilson follows that up with another royal quip. "From drama, to horror, to fantasy, Harry and Meghan's interview with Oprah had it all. Unfortunately that's not nominated in this category."

07:24 PM

Dune bags the first two awards

Yes, it's a great start for the sci-fi epic. Dune wins the awards for Best Special Effects (Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Gerd Nefzer) and Cinematography (Greig Fraser).

Of the latter, Tim Robey says: "A really bold, completely deserved cinematography choice here – Dune’s colour palette is so radically bleached it feels halfway to black-and-white.

"Greig Fraser, funnily enough, got one of his first breaks shooting Jane Campion’s Bright Star, but has now become, via the likes of Zero Dark Thirty and The Batman, one of the most accomplished camera artists of our day, a wizard at murk and shadowplay. Those gifts were out in full force in Dune, a blockbuster which eschewed colour and embraced fifty shades of greyish ochre, plunging us into a world like no other."

And Dune's hot streak continues with a third win, for Hans Zimmer's score.

"Many probably expected Jonny Greenwood to take this year’s score award, for his typically astringent, insinuating work on The Power of the Dog," explains Robbie Collin. "But no. Industry titan Hans Zimmer, who has never taken a Bafta home before, just beat him to the punch for his immense aural assaults on the Dune soundtrack, including the bagpipe bits that confounded everyone.

"For my money, this surging wall of sound is one of Zimmer’s best ever scores – up there with The Lion King, The Thin Red Line and Crimson Tide, and leagues ahead of Dunkirk, which he was last nominated for. It’s one of those scores that blends into the overall sound design to the point where you could hardly say where one achievement stops and the other begins. Zimmer’s vision on Dune is overwhelming, often savage, and with the greatest respect to Greenwood, whose body of work as a film composer hasn’t hit a single duff note as yet, I think he’s the right winner here."

07:17 PM

Is Dune about to score big?

Robbie Collin says: "The ceremony’s opening with lots of technical categories, which is where many Bafta-watchers (including me) are expecting Dune to shine.

"Denis Villeneuve’s stately adaptation of the first 200 or so pages of Frank Herbert’s seminal science-fiction novel was this year’s most nominated film, but science fiction tends to struggle in the more glamorous races: its chances in Best Film, for example, aren’t too hot, considering in 75 years, Bafta has yet to plump for sci-fi.

"So we shouldn’t read too much into its early head of steam (should it materialise)."

Tim Robey adds: "You could compare this likely Dune sweep of the technicals to Mad Max: Fury Road back in 2016 – it won four Baftas out of its seven nominations, but was pipped to Best Film and Best Director by The Revenant. They like to 'go genre' in the design categories, but tend to spurn it for the biggies."

07:15 PM

Rebel Wilson takes a potshot at JK Rowling - and reveals the next James Bond

The Australian Baftas host promised some controversy, and, with an assured and mischievous opening monologue, she delivered.

Speaking about her weight loss, the actress said: "I might look a bit different from the last time you saw me here. That was me two years ago and since then I've done quite a transformation – I hope JK Rowling still approves."

She also called Kenneth Branagh "the only director brave enough to give Armie Hammer a role."

And Wilson joked that she was succeeding Daniel Craig as James Bond. "I don’t want people going crazy because there will be a female James Bond, it’s not going to change things that much. Here’s my pitch for the new Bond film – Bond goes to Australia and it can be called Die And G’day.

"And because of the gender pay gap I actually won’t be 007, I’ll be 004.5."

07:10 PM

Shirley is forever

Our film critic Tim Robey adds: "Let’s be real: curtain-raisers don’t come much better than Shirley Bassey belting out Diamonds Are Forever before your awards show, in a glistening silky spider web of a dress. Wow! How can anything else live up to that?!"

07:10 PM

Shirley Bassey serenades James Bond

An unforgettable way to open the show as we celebrate 60 years of Bond! Thank you Dame @ShirleyBassey ?? #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/bteRQYNWi8

— BAFTA (@BAFTA) March 13, 2022

007 is turning 60, and he’s celebrating in style. The super-spy franchise’s 60th anniversary is marked by a glittery-caped Dame Shirley Bassey belting out Bond theme Diamonds Are Forever.

What do you think is the best ever Bond theme? Share your pick in the comments below!

07:02 PM

And we're off!

Follow all the live action from the Baftas on BBC One and iPlayer.

06:55 PM

Back to Hogwarts?

November 2021 saw the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. It seems highly likely we’ll see a nod to the wizarding franchise - an extraordinary boon to the British film industry - on Baftas night, particularly with Emma Watson on the presenter list.

I vote for Robbie Coltrane roaring into the Albert Hall on a flying motorbike...

06:48 PM

Who will win this year - and who should win?

Our chief film critic Robbie Collin fears that the Baftas' complicated new voting system tends to result in predictable winners. Check out his forecast for the 2022 race - and tell us in the comments who you think will bag the big prizes tonight!

06:43 PM

Baftas vs Oscars

The Baftas come at a crucial time in the awards season calendar, just two weeks before the Oscars - which take place on March 27. But with the Baftas diverging markedly in their nominees list this year, will tonight’s results make much of a difference in terms of what to expect on Hollywood’s biggest night?

Well, wins for The Power of the Dog and Jane Campion would cement their frontrunner status, and if star Benedict Cumberbatch picks up Best Actor, that might help him in a tight race. Kenneth Branagh, snubbed for Best Director by the Baftas, might yet get some love for his black-and-white film in categories like Best Original Screenplay.

But a triumph for Lady Gaga in Best Actress would have no bearing, since she’s not on the Oscar nominee list. Conversely, British hopeful Olivia Colman is - puzzlingly - Oscar but not Bafta nominated; likewise British actor Andrew Garfield.

We're a couple of winners short this year, too. There will be no outstanding contribution or fellowship Bafta in 2022, following last year’s scandal over the verbal abuse, bullying and sexual misconduct allegations made about outstanding contribution recipient Noel Clarke - and the awards body’s failure to take them seriously. For now, the Baftas are licking their wounds aka introducing new vetting processes.

06:33 PM

The hostess with the mostest

Australian actress and comedian Rebel Wilson is at the helm this year. It’s a bold choice: presenting the Best Director award, she was the bawdy highlight of the otherwise dull 2020 ceremony hosted by Graham Norton. And, to be frank, no one was crying out for the return of Joanna Lumley after she bombed as the host in 2018 and 2019.

The 42-year-old Wilson has promised to push the limits with her cheeky monologue - although that will have to be balanced with the show’s 7pm BBC broadcast slot...

Handing out the awards this year are Hollywood stars like Tom Hiddleston, Salma Hayek, Florence Pugh, Andy Serkis, Daisy Ridley, Daniel Kaluuya, Lea Seydoux, Sophie Turner, Sebastian Stan, Emma Watson, Sienna Miller, Sophie Okonedo, and Patrick Stewart, plus Bridgerton dreamboats Regé Jean-Page and Jonathan Bailey, and the iconic RuPaul.

Lady Gaga, nominated for Best Actress for House of Gucci, will present the Rising Star award - the latter decided by public vote.

And the Duke of Cambridge has supplied a pre-filmed message for Bafta viewers.

06:27 PM

What do you think should win Best Film?

Your choice is between:

• Belfast

• Don’t Look Up

• Dune

• Licorice Pizza

• The Power of the Dog

Let us know in the comments below!

06:24 PM

Who will triumph at the 2022 Baftas?

It’s a fascinating Best Film race this year, ranging from Denis Villeneuve’s moody sci-fi epic Dune (which leads the pack with 11 nominations overall) to Kenneth Branagh’s tender autobiographical work Belfast (6 nominations), Adam McKay’s divisive apocalypse satire Don’t Look Up (4 nominations), and Paul Thomas Anderson’s screwball coming-of-age tale Licorice Pizza (5 nominations).

But the one to beat is surely Jane Campion’s psychological Western The Power of the Dog (8 nominations), starring Benedict Cumberbatch on career-best form as a menacing cattle ranger with a secret life.

The Baftas also gave 4 nods to King Richard, with Will Smith playing the influential father of tennis champs Venus and Serena Williams, 5 to Steven Spielberg’s vibrant remake of the classic musical West Side Story, and 4 to Rebecca Hall’s impressive directorial debut Passing.

And will the films that scored big at the box office get some recognition, too? James Bond film No Time to Die is certainly in the mix, with 4 nominations, but there’s no love for superhero juggernaut Spider-Man: No Way Home.