I didn't put the winner in the title because there might be British viewer that want to watch the ceremony on TV. But all the major wins HAVE been announced, with just a couple techs not announced.

EDIT: Oh screw the British I want people to come in here to discuss the awards!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/11022007/325/k ... bafta.html

Film: The Queen
British Film: The Last King of Scotland (Judging from the total three wins, according to the article)
Direction: Paul Greengrass (OMFG????)
Actor: Forest Whitaker
Actress: Helen Mirren
S. Actor: Alan Arkin (Only nominee also nommed at Oscar)
S. Actress: Jennifer Hudson
A Screenplay: The Last King of Scotland
O. Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine
Non-English Film: Pan's Labyrinth
Costumes: Pan's Labyrinth
Cinematography: Children of Men (According to Sasha Stone)
Sound: Casino Royale
Score: Babel
Editing: United 93
Production Design: Children of Men
Visual Effects: Pirates
Animated Feature: Happy Feet
Make-up: Pan's Labyrinth (Judging from the total three wins, according to the article)
Rising Star: Eva Green

Tally:

The Last King of Scotland - 3 (Britsh Film, Actor, A. Screenplay)
Pan's Labyrinth - 3 (Non-English Film, Costumes, Make-up)
Children of Men - 2 (Cinematography, Production Design)
Little Miss Sunshine - 2 (S. Actor, Screenplay)
The Queen - 2 (Film, Actress)
United 93 - 2 (Direction, Editing)
Babel - 1 (Score)
Casino Royale - 1 (Sound)
Dreamgirls - 1 (S. Actress)
Happy Feet - 1 (Animated Film)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - 1 (Visual Effects)

So, lowdown:

-Apparently The Departed was shut out, according to Sasha Stone. Not good at all.
-So far, Babel has only won Score. Not too good for that film, either.
-Greengrass is now the only other Director nominee to have won a major award, next to Eastwood (One of the major Critics awards) and Scorsese (Everything else). Both were also the only Directing nominees snubbed from DGA, so Scorese is now even stronger.
-Actor, Actress, and S. Actress continue to be further locked up, and S. Actor remains strong for Murphy simply because Dreamgirls wasn't that loved here.
-Children of Men for cinematography? Awesomeness.

Am I the only one that really cares about this?

Original Screenplay? Best British Film? No word on those yet?

WHAT THE FUCK!

Unacceptable, ridiculous, appalling, blashpemy

None yet. We're also waiting on Editing, Make-Up, Art Direction (One of those two probably went to Pan's) and Visual Effects. I think the British Breakthrough went to Red Road (Judging from a photo at Wire Image), but that's not confirmed.

Oh, and I'd like to note how disgusting it is that the British couldn't honor their own actor simply because they wanted to match as close as possible with Oscar. As if the Sheen snub by Oscar was bad enough.

Rest of the winners:

Editing - United 93 ( )
Production Design - Children of Men ( )
Original Screenplay - Little Miss Sunshine (This beating The Queen is certainly promising for the film)
Visual Effects - Pirates
Animated Feature - Happy Feet (Called it!)

So yeah, complete Departed shut-out. Not good at all.

And how did The Queen win Picture without even Screenplay?

Stranggggggge. Do they BAFTA's usually match up pretty close to the Oscars?

So The Queen wins Best Picture, Greengrass Director and Editing, but The Last King of Scotland beats them both for British film and LMS beats them both for Screenplay? Very very strange.

I guess Scorsese's American fame and prestige isn't as strong for the British.

I have NO idea what's going to happen at the Oscars in 2 weeks... Most fucked up race ever. WGAs tonight, woot.

He's already won for producing, directing and writing Goodfellas. And actually, this isn't the first time he lost to a lone director here (He lost two years ago to Mike Leigh for Vera Drake).

As for their significance, here's how they match up in the top 8 categories for the last 5 years:

2005: 5/8 - Missed Picture (BBM/Crash), S. Actor (Gyllenhaal/Clooney), S. Actress (Thandie Newton/Weisz)
2004: 4/8 - Missed Picture (Aviator/MDB, which didn't qualify) Director (Leigh/Eastwood) Actress (Stauton/Swank), S. Actor (Owen/Freeman)
2003: 3/8 - Missed Director (Weir/Jackson), Actor (Murray/Penn), Actress (Scarlett Johansson [LIT]/Theron, who didn't qualify), S. Actor (Bill Nighy/Robbins), O. Screenplay (The Station Agent/LIT)
2002: 4/8 - Missed Picture (Pianist/Chicago), Actor (Day Lewis/Brody), S. Actor (Walken/Cooper), A. Screenplay (Adaptation/Pianist) (However, they were the only major awards to award Polanski)
2001: 1.5/8 - Missed Picture (LOTR:FOTR/ABM), Director (Jackson/Howard), Actor (Crowe/Washington, not nommed), Actress (Dench/Berry, not qualified) S. Actor (Broadbent for Moulin Rouge/Broadbent for Iris, for which he was nommed in Lead), O. Screenplay (Ameile/Gosford Park), A. Screenplay (Shrek/ABM) (What a headache)

So, we don't have to put TOO much thought into their choices.

I don't see how this is a major blow for The Departed.

The British like to award themselves here, obviously, and the areas in which it was beaten were taken by British-directed films (Greengrass is British, as is the Last King guy).

And of course The Queen was going to take Picture anyway.

Yeah what Dkmuto said. The British will usually skew towards Brittish films - so no biggie.

Despite winning BP, I see this as a step back in momentum for The Queen for not getting at least one of director/screenplay/British film/supporting actor.

Alan Arkin over Michael Sheen?

I expected better, Brits. MUCH better.

Put me in the camp that doesn't see why this is bad news for The Departed.

Of course they're going to award The Queen.

I put it in the title mainly to attract people to the thread without actually spoiling much for UK members, but I've decided nobody in the UK actually watches BAFTA.

And it's less the Best Film loss (I predicted The Queen to win myself) and more the rather surprising losses in Directing, Screenplay AND Editing. It won't exactly kill the film, but the fact that the support for The Departed has been almost entirely for Scorsese and not the film itself makes me worried about predicting it still. The WGA will probably help restore my faith, unless they give Original to LMS or Babel. THEN I'm going to have a headache.

Crap. I forgot that the show's on BBC America, which I now don't have.

I really like the BAFTAs, too. Stephen Fry is hilarious.

Jonathan Ross is hosting this year (Apparently a really crappy one, too), so you're actually probably fine.

Little Miss Sunshine received more boost here, with wins in highly competitive categories. The Queen still dominated the headlines with its picture win, so it received the needed attention.

Ya poor old Ross's jokes met with deafening silence, same for Andy Sirkis when he tried to lighten the place up.

He was a fucking awful host... Seriously, Fry made the BAFTAs bareable.

Ross fell flat throughout, Serkis deserved to fall flat (the luvvie cunt). The only ones to - deservedly - get laughs were Gervais and Pegg. Mostly Pegg.

Disappointing, predictable and oddly small-feeling ceremony. Also Forrest Whittaker's the most boring man in history. Pray he doesn't win the Oscar.

K, good. I'm not missing anything.

Indeed his acceptance speech was sleep inducing. Still at least the BAFTA's aren't as bad as the pissy Irish equivalent. Presenters fawning over Lara Flynn Boyle like she was fucking A-list and a venue that must double as a cow barn in the daytime. So embarressing

As embarrassing as the British film academy awarding the most annoyingly awful British film ever Best Picture?

They might as well have given Best Picture to scones. Or tea. Or cricket.

BAFTA: And the Best Film award goes to... Britain!

*applause*

BAFTA: Britain couldn't be here tonight due to an unexpected bout of bad teeth and repression, but here to accept the award is Forrest Whittaker.

FOREST WHITTAKER: Britain... would... like... to thank... James McAvoy... The Bill... Countdown... My wife...

The double whammy of The Queen and United 93 was painful.

Still it had to be the Queen in the end, the BAFTA's have stereotypes to maintain you know.

Forest Whitaker is cool. I'm glad he is finally getting his due. Don't hate on him, or I'll blacklist you and plan kinky, dangerous things for your future.