Baftas 2017: Dev Patel and Emma Stone win awards

La La Land has dominated the Baftas, taking five trophies - together with best film and best actor for Emma Stone.

There were also awards for Lion, including best supporting actor for Dev Patel, and Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, which was named outstanding British film at the London ceremony.

Patel said the win was "overwhelming".

Casey Affleck was named best actor for Manchester by the Sea and Viola Davis won the simplest supporting actor prize for Fences.

She is also appointive for Associate in Nursing honour for her role in Fences, based on the August Wilson stage play of a similar name.

Manchester by the Sea conjointly won the simplest original script, for the text by its director Kenneth Lonergan.
You may otherwise be bored with hearing regarding La La Land, but its winning streak shows no signs of speed down.

The recognition by Bafta could be a good sign for the musical - conjointly stellar Ryan goose - coming back simply weeks before the Oscars. It had been nominated for eleven Baftas in all and is in competition for fourteen Academy Awards.
La La Land has already smashed the record for the most Golden Globes, winning seven prizes last month.

'Transcend borders'
Stone was among the winners to make Associate in Nursing oblique relation to international affairs, although the new North American nation President Donald Trump was not expressly mentioned throughout the acceptance speeches.

After thanking La La Land's director Damien Chazelle, who took home the best director figure, Stone told the audience: "This country - and the US, and the world - seems to be inquiring a little of a time, just a bit.

"In a time that's thus discordant, I think it is so special we tend to were able to close tonight due to Bafta, to celebrate the positive gift of creativity however|and the way} it will transcend borders and how it will facilitate folks to feel a trifle less alone."

She beat Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt and Natalie Portman, Associate in Nursingd is also within the running for an laurels.

Affleck, who plays a bereaved fixer in gritty drama Manchester by the ocean, seemed taken aback by his win, saying: "The room appearance terribly totally different from here. My heart is beating."

After the awards, he said he had spoken to Meryl Streep backstage regarding her recent Donald Trump speech.

Affleck said: "I told her how a lot of her speech at the Golden Globes meant to any or all folks and the way grateful i used to be that she did it and kicked within the door a trifle bit, and aforementioned it's OK to say this stuff and said it does not matter if we tend to square measure actors, we have been given a mike and that we will speak out.
"She said, 'I think there is hope round the corner'."

Arrival and Nocturnal Animals were nominated for 9 Baftas every, but simply won one award between them.

That went to sci-fi epic Arrival, starring Amy Adams, for best sound - leaving Tom Ford's latest show, in which the actor conjointly makes Associate in Nursing look, empty handed.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were guests of honour at the star-studded ceremony, held at London's Royal Prince Albert Hall.

The duke was there as president of Bafta to award the fellowship to veteran actor and comedian Mel Brooks.
'Out of body experience'
Patel, 26, was greeted with a round of commendation as he accepted the prize for best supporting actor for family drama Lion, about a man United Nations agency was adopted as a toddler and is attempting to seek out his family in Bharat. He is nominated within the same class at the Oscars.
The former Skins star initially appeared dumb, saying: "Wow, that just happened", before describing the win as "so overwhelming".
He stars with Nicole Kidman in Lion, which he said is "about a love that transcends borders, race, colour, anything".
Backstage, the Briton said his family was with him for the ceremony, adding: "I used to watch this with them, in Rayners Lane on the end of the Piccadilly Line. It's an out-of-body experience."
He promised to share the award with Sunny Pawar, the young boy who plays Patel's character Saroo Brierley as a child. Lion also won the best adapted screenplay.

Ken Loach, director of I, Daniel Blake - about the struggles of living in the UK benefits system - condemned the government as he accepted the award for outstanding British film - the first of the night to be handed out.
He apologised for making a political speech so early on, but said: "Thank you to the academy for endorsing the truths of what the film says, which hundreds and thousands of people in this country know.
"The most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful, a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help and that's a disgrace too."
'Stories deserve to be told'
Viola Davis paid tribute to her late father, who worked as a janitor and horse groomer, in her speech.
"When he took his last breath, one of the most devastating things that went through my mind is: Did his life matter?" she said.
"August [Wilson] answers that question so brilliantly, because what he did is he said that our lives mattered as African-Americans.

The horse groomer, the sanitation worker, the people who grew up under the heavy boot of Jim Crow, the people who did not make it into history books - but they have a story, and those stories deserve to be told, because they lived."
EE's Rising Star award - the only to be voted for by the public - was won by Spider-Man: Homecoming star Tom Holland.
The duke was there as president of Bafta to award the fellowship to veteran actor and comedian Mel Brooks.

'Out of body experience'

Patel, 26, was greeted with a round of applause as he accepted the prize for best supporting actor for family drama Lion, about a man who was adopted as a child and is trying to find his family in India. He is nominated in the same category at the Oscars.

The former Skins star initially appeared speechless, saying: "Wow, that just happened", before describing the win as "so overwhelming".
He stars with Nicole Kidman in Lion, which he said is "about a love that transcends borders, race, colour, anything".

Backstage, the Briton said his family was with him for the ceremony, adding: "I used to watch this with them, in Rayners Lane on the end of the Piccadilly Line. It's an out-of-body experience."
He promised to share the award with Sunny Pawar, the young boy who plays Patel's character Saroo Brierley as a child. Lion also won the best adapted screenplay.

Ken Loach, director of I, Daniel Blake - about the struggles of living in the UK benefits system - condemned the government as he accepted the award for outstanding British film - the first of the night to be handed out.
He apologised for making a political speech so early on, but said: "Thank you to the academy for endorsing the truths of what the film says, which hundreds and thousands of people in this country know.

"The most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful, a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help and that's a disgrace too."
'Stories deserve to be told'

Viola Davis paid tribute to her late father, who worked as a janitor and horse groomer, in her speech.
"When he took his last breath, one of the most devastating things that went through my mind is: Did his life matter?" she said.
"August [Wilson] answers that question so brilliantly, because what he did is he said that our lives mattered as African-Americans.

The horse groomer, the sanitation worker, the people who grew up under the heavy boot of Jim Crow, the people who did not make it into history books - but they have a story, and those stories deserve to be told, because they lived."
EE's Rising Star award - the only to be voted for by the public - was won by Spider-Man: Homecoming star Tom Holland.