Baftas 2024 - as it happened: Oppenheimer wins big at star-studded movie awards ceremony

Find out everything you need to know about tonight’s ceremony, here:

The only Baftas category voted for by the public is the Rising Star award, nominees for which include Saltburn actor Jacob Elordi as well as The Bear star Ayo Edebiri, whose film credits include Theatre Camp and Bottoms.

Previous winners include Emma Mackey, Letitia Wright, Tom Holland and Daniel Kaluuya.

The Doctor Who actor is following in the footsteps of Richard E Grant and Alison Hammond by taking the reins at the Bafta Film Awards today.

Here is why the smart and eccentric star, who is nicely indifferent about awards shows, might be the answer to the prayers of a scrambling ceremony.

This is a post to remind that you that the Baftas are not televised live at 7pm GMT on BBC One. The broadcast is edited down, with the actual ceremony kicking off at 4pm GMT at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

The Independent will be present at the event, and will be recapping events – as they take place – so this blog will be revealing the winners hours before they’re revealed on TV.

For details on how to watch, click here.

Over the past year, The Independent has interviewed several Hollywood stars who went on to receive Bafta nominations.

Our most recent was Danielle Brooks, who has been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for The Colour Purple.

Read the full interview here:

Oppenheimer is expected to be the big winner at this year’s baftas – and Ocsars – ceremony.

In July, The Independent sat down with both Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy to discuss the film, which went on to become one of the former’s most bankable hits.

If (when) he wins today, that will – somehow – mark Nolan’s first ever Bafta win.

Perhaps the best film nominated at the Baftas this year is Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, a haunting, if formally marvellous, drama about a family living on the outskirts of Auschwitz.

The Independent spoke about the film with Sandra Hüller, who has been Bafta nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in the film – and also Best Actress for her performance in courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall – alongside her co-star Christian Friedel.

As well as racking up five Bafta nominations (at least four too many in this writer’s humble opinion), Saltburn fever will take over this year’s Baftas ceremony thanks to a performance from Sophie Ellis Bextor.

The singer will be performing her 2001 hit “Murder on the Dancefloor”, which has experienced one hell of a second wind thanks to a climactic scene in Emerald Fennell’s film.

Fennell and the film’s stars Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike and Maestro nominee Carey Mulligan will all be dancing along – we’re assuming fully clothed – in the audience.

Alongside all the nominees, Cate Blanchett, David Beckham, Dua Lipa, Idris Elba, Hugh Grant and Gillian Anderson are among the most recent Bafta presenters confirmed.

Also presenting will be Andrew Scott – despite the fact he was criminally snubbed for All of Us Strangers – Bryce Dallas Howard, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Daryl McCormack, Keegan-Michael Key, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lily Collins, Marisa Abela, Rebecca Ferguson, Sheila Atim and Taylor Russell.