Praise rang out for silent film The Artist last night as it took home seven awards from the BAFTAs.
The French film, which tells the story of a silent movie star who faces becoming obsolete with the arrival of sound, was named best film and saw Michel Hazanavicius pick up the awards for best original screenplay and director. The film beat competition including film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - which was named outstanding British film, The Descendants and The Help.
The Artist star Jean Dujardin picked up the best actor award, while Meryl Streep was named best actress for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in biopic The Iron Lady. Streep said: "Somebody once said the fate of the well-known is to be misunderstood and the ambition of this film, The Iron Lady, was to look at the life of the Iron Lady from the inside out and to locate something real, maybe hidden, but truthful in the life of someone we've all decided we know everything about already."
Supporting acting awards went to Olivia Spencer, for her role as a maid in American drama The Help and veteran Christopher Plummer for his performance as an elderly gay dad in Beginners.
Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur picked up the outstanding debut award and Kidulthood star Adam Deacon was named the Orange Rising Star in the only award voted for by the public.
Best Film
Winner: The Artist - Thomas Langmann
The Descendants - Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Drive - Marc Platt, Adam Siegel
The Help - Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo
Outstanding British Film
My Week With Marilyn - Simon Curtis, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Adrian Hodges
Senna - Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Manish Pandey
Shame - Steve McQueen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Abi Morgan
Winner: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Tomas Alfredson, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo, Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay, Luc Roeg, Jennifer Fox, Robert Salerno, Rory Stewart Kinnear
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Attack The Block - Joe Cornish (Director/Writer)
Black Pond - Will Sharpe (Director/Writer), Tom Kingsley (Director), Sarah Brocklehurst (Producer)
Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes (Director)
Submarine - Richard Ayoade (Director/Writer)
Winner: Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer)
Director
Winner: The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
Hugo - Martin Scorsese
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Tomas Alfredson
We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay
Documentary
George Harrison: ving In The Material World - Martin Scorsese
Project Nim - James Marsh, Simon Chinn
Winner: Senna - Asif Kapadia
Original Screenplay
Winner: The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids - Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
The Guard - John Michael McDonagh
The Iron Lady - Abi Morgan
Midnight In Paris - Woody Allen
Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants - Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
The Help - Tate Taylor
The Ides Of March - George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Wilmon
Moneyball - Steven Zailan, Aaron Sorkin
Winner: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
Film Not In The Engsh Language
Incendies - Denis Villeneuve, Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Pina - Wim Wenders, Gian-Piero Ringel
Potiche - François Ozon, Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer
A Separation - Asghar Farhadi
Winner: The Skin I Live In - Pedro Almodóvar, Agustin Almodóvar
Animated Film
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn - Steven Spielberg
Arthur Christmas - Sarah Smith
Winner: Rango - Gore Verbinski
Leading Actor
Brad Pitt - Moneyball
Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Clooney - The Descendants
Winner: Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Michael Fassbender - Shame
Leading Actress
Berenice Bejo - The Artist
Winner: Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Michelle Wilams - My Week With Marilyn
Tilda Swinton - We Need To Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis - The Help
Supporting Actor
Winner: Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Jim Broadbent - The Iron Lady
Jonah Hill - Moneyball
Kenneth Branagh - My Week With Marilyn
Phip Seymour Hoffman - The Ides Of March
Supporting Actress
Carey Mgan - Drive
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Judi Dench - My Week With Marilyn
Messa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
Winner: Octavia Spencer - The Help
Rising Star
Winner: Adam Deacon
Chris Hemsworth
Tom Hiddleston
Chris O'Dowd
Eddie Redmayne
Original Music
Winner: The Artist - Ludovic Bource
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Hugo - Howard Shore
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Alberto Iglesias
War Horse - John Wilams
Cinematography
Winner: The Artist - Guillaume Schiffman
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Jeff Cronenweth
Hugo - Robert Richardson
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Hoyte van Hoytema
War Horse - Janusz Kaminski
Editing
The Artist - Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius
Drive - Mat Newman
Hugo - Thelma Schoonmaker
Winner: Senna - Gregers Sall, Chris King
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Dino Jonsater
Production Design
The Artist - Laurence Bennett, Robert God
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part Two - Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
Winner: Hugo - Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana MacDonald
War Horse - Rick Carter, Lee Sandales
Costume Design
Winner: The Artist - Mark Bridges
Hugo - Sandy Powell
Jane Eyre - Michael O'Connor
My Week With Marilyn - Jill Taylor
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Jacquene Durran
Sound
The Artist - Nadine Muse, Gérard Lamps, Michael Krikorian
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part Two - James Mather, Stuart Wilson, Stuart Hilker, Mike Dowson, Adam Scrivener
Winner: Hugo - Phip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman, John Midgley
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Casa, Howard Bargroff, Doug Cooper, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley
War Horse - Stuart Wilson, Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, Richard Hymns
Special Visual Effects
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn - Joe Letteri
Winner: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part Two - Tim Burke, John Richardson, Greg Butler, David Vickery
Hugo - Rob Legato, Ben Grossman, Joss Wilams
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White
War Horse - Ben Morris, Neil Corbod
Make-up and Hair
The Artist - Jue Hewett, Cydney Cornell
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part Two - Amanda Knight, sa Tombn
Hugo - Morag Ross, Jan Archibald
Winner: The Iron Lady - Marese Langan
My Week With Marilyn - Jenny Shircore
Short Animation Abuelas - Afarin Eghbal Bobby Yeah - Robert Morgan
Short Film
Winner: PITCH BLACK HEIST
Chalk
Mwansa The Great
Only Sound Remains
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