Baftas

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIt was a record-breaking night at the 2023 Baftas on Sunday (19 February) for anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front, which became the most celebrated foreign language film in the organisation’s history with seven wins.The movie now has the highest number of Baftas for a foreign language film, a record previously held by Italian coming-of-age drama Cinema Paradiso, which claimed…

When it comes to fashion’s classic colour combinations, there’s not much better than black and white, which brings to mind references from Coco Chanel to Audrey Hepburn. And it is the tried-and-tested formula that stars at the Baftas wore at the award ceremony on Sunday night. The red carpet was a sea of monochrome.If this is the ultimate in “safe pair of hands” evening dressing, there were deviations. Some stars combined different pieces – in a way that felt a little more like “real life” dressing. The Princess of Wales…

Revisionist German war drama All Quiet on the Western Front has swept the board at the British Academy Film Awards in London, taking a remarkable seven awards, including best picture and best director for Edward Berger.The Netflix film, an adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel about an idealistic German soldier sent to the trenches, scored a record-equalling 14 nominations last month but few anticipated it would capitalise on so many of them.“It’s just incredible,” said producer Malte Grunert, picking up the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRichard E Grant was seen holding back tears as he introduced the In Memoriam segment at the 2023 Baftas on Sunday night (19 February).The actor and host of the ceremony is grieving his wife, the dialect coach Joan Washington, who died in September 2021.Grant had been married to Washington for 35 years and they were together for a total of 38. She died eight months after being diagnosed…

Brendan Gleeson, Martin McDonagh, Kerry Condon, Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan of The Banshees of Inisherin. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRichard E Grant wasted no time referencing “The Slap” in his opening speech at the Baftas on Sunday night (19 February).The Withnail and I actor, who is hosting this year’s ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall, told the star-studded crowd: “Nobody on my watch gets slapped tonight – except on the back.”Grant was referencing the notorious 2022 Oscars moment that saw Will Smith slap…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThere was confusion at the Baftas on Sunday night (19 February) as Carey Mulligan was incorrectly named winner of the Best Supporting Actress award.Last year’s Best Supporting Actor winner, CODA star Troy Kotsur, presented the award using sign language.While Kotsur was signing that Banshees of Inisherin actor Kerry Condon had won, the sign language interpreter mistakenly said the name…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIt’s Baftas week, meaning the starriest names in cinema are dusting off their gladrags and getting ready to hit the red carpet. This year’s awards ceremony will take place away from the Royal Albert Hall for the first time in seven years. The 2023 show will go ahead on Sunday 19 February at the Royal Festival Hall within London’s Southbank Centre. Following a two-year hiatus from the…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureJamie Lee Curtis makes a case for the red carpet blazer. We’re sold – especially when it’s worn with floor-length white satin, and a supermodel-worthy pose. Photograph: Joe Maher/Bafta/Getty Images for BaftaKitchen foil silver is a thing in fashion at the moment. Sheila Atim’s dress and matching gloves are glorious. Extra points for the metallic texture, and matching jewellery. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Bafta/Getty Images for BaftaHere’s Yvonne…

Even if Ke Huy Quan fails to win a Bafta, his joyful Instagram account and own personal Hollywood happy ending have already secured him the unofficial accolade of “2023 awards season breakout star”.Quan – up for a British Academy award for his role as affable laundromat owner Waymond Wang in Everything, Everywhere, All At Once – arrived in America as a refugee from Vietnam in 1979. Aged 10, he tagged along with his brother to an open audition for a film and ended up winning the role that turned him into one of the most…