The BAFTAs: it's the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday 8th February 2015

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Are the BAFTAs a must-see event on your calendar? Do you love the glitz and glamour and possible tripping up of a sleb or two? Got strong feelings about who should win Best Actor? Then you've come to the right place to talk all things BAFTA.

BBC1 is screening the ceremony live on Sunday night at 9pm and Red Carpet shenanigans start at 8.30pm on BBC3 .

TEN YEARS?! McAvoy won it ten years ago??? No. Five minutes. That's all.

James McAvoy though......xx

I'm enjoying this, although I feel its a bit luvvies voting for stuff that sounded like it was really hard to do, like Boyhood. Feel a bit sorry for the Imitation Game. It's not going to win anything against Theory of Everything, I don't think.

Sadly no gossip here and no parties, but I do get an AAA pass and sometimes can get hold of a programme or two!
Highlight of my nigh was holding a door open for Stephen hawking!

Brilliant, Lil

Well done Boyhood! What did everyone think of this year's Best Film winner?

I love Mike Leigh. I have to say though, that watching Route Irish made a very convincing case for the importance of script writers... I'm looking at you, Mark Womack, you dipstick

It is definitively no more than five minutes since James McAvoy won that BAFTA.

Lil.

Luff Mike Leigh. Have encountered him IRL. Lovely man. So humble.

The Imitation Game was good because it's a great story - I don't think the acting or film making bits were exceptional.

All this polite guffawing is probably the most challenging acting this lot have done all year.

yeah maybe. I don't get out to many grown up films, all I remember is coming out thinking how good it was!

Boyhood did well, and quite rightly so.

I thought Patricia Arquette gave an odd speech. I just looked her up and now I understand. Patricia sent love to her Sister and Brothers then said and my sister Alexis. I thought that was a really odd thing to say, then I see Alexis was born Robert.

Night all.

The newcomer boy...didn't thank his mum and dad, did he?!

Ooh, there'll be hell to pay for that!

And Eddie forgot his new wife in his speech?

Seemed like people were really unimpressed when Stephen Fry first walked out. He missed a truck to introduce Tom Cruise as 'somebody with even less popular religious views than me'

truck? That would be trick

Eddie didn't forget his wife. He thanked his family quite clearly. They're family, yes?

Was talking to dp about who we'd thank, if anyone.

Dp favours the no thanking speech.

I mean 'thanks for birthing me' is a crap speech isn't it?

I missed the Fred. But would like to share this pic that dd spotted during the Boy's rambling speech.

I love the bbc website's "in pictures" report with this gem of a cumberbatch caption:

"Amy Adams (left) and Rosamund Pike (right) shrugged off the cold British weather and braved the red carpet ahead of Sunday's ceremony. Benedict Cumberbatch was joined by his fiancee Sophie Hunter. All of them went home empty-handed (except Sophie)."

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