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The red carpet is unrolled
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Stuart Heritage
Hello everyone, and welcome to The Guardianâs liveblog of the 2024 Bafta film awards. If youâre at all familiar with these things, you will know that the Baftas hold a special place within the annual awards season. Not only is this one of the final major awards shows to take place before the Academy Awards, giving us a clearer picture of who might win an Oscar next month, but it is also arguably the most frustrating.
Oh, sure, if youâre actually there the whole thing is wonderful. You get to sit in a big room, watch host David Tennant charm the pants off everyone and (most importantly) learn who wins what at the precise moment that they win. But if youâre watching the Baftas on TV then, in true time-honoured Baftas tradition, you donât get to see anything until the show has finished.
Which is to say that the actual Baftas start at 4:30pm, but the television broadcast doesnât start until 7pm. Does this mean that the best way to follow the Baftas is by refreshing Twitter every couple of minutes and then ignoring the TV show? No, because weâre liveblogging the TV show and weâd really like the clicks.
So hereâs the complicated schedule for the next few hours. Starting around now, stars will start turning up to the Southbank Centre, so weâll be posting red carpet photos as and when. Then at 4:30pm the awards will begin, but weâll pretend that they havenât, because at 7pm Iâll liveblog the TV broadcast. Weâll all know who won everything by then, but thatâs not really the point.
Anyway, this has the potential to be an excellent ceremony. All the awards â other than leading actress, obviously â are basically Oppenheimerâs to lose, although in truth the Baftas do have a tendency to go wildly off-piste (remember the year that 1917 basically won everything?), so who knows whatâll happen. At the very least, letâs all cross our fingers and pray that Ariana DeBose comes on and does another one of her weird raps. At the end of the day, thatâs all weâre really after.
Hereâs a little further reading on the awards in case youâd like something to sustain you for the next four or so hours:
Peter Bradshawâs Bafta predictions
The full list of nominations
David Tennant answers your questions
Why Oppenheimer is set to sweep the board, plus a recap of the all the snubs and surprises in the nominations
Why the speeches tonight matter for next monthâs Oscars
Got through those already? Hows about some interviewees with people from Bafta-nominated films? We can offer: