Irish tragicomedy “The Banshees of Inisherin“ and madcap metaverse romp “All the pieces All over the place All at As soon as” have 10 nominations every, together with finest image.

“Banshees” received the separate award for finest British movie.

“Greatest what award?” joked writer-director Martin McDonagh of the movie, shot in Eire with a largely Irish forged and crew. It has British funding, and McDonagh was born in Britain to Irish dad and mom.

“Banshees” additionally received for McDonagh’s authentic screenplay, and awards for Kerry Condon as finest supporting actress and Barry Keoghan for finest supporting actor.

Baz Lurhmann’s flamboyant musical biopic “Elvis” received trophies for casting, costume design and hair and make-up

Actor Richard E. Grant hosted the ceremony, strolling onstage in an expensive white cape after a jokey introductory movie that noticed him taking recommendation from Steve Martin and pulling as much as the live performance corridor within the Batmobile.

Joking concerning the notorious altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock finally 12 months’s Oscars, Grant stated, “No one on my watch will get slapped tonight. Besides on the again.”

“West Facet Story” star Ariana DeBose opened the present by performing “Sisters are Doin’ it for Themselves,” with an added rap shoutout to among the nominated girls, together with Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis and Michelle Yeoh.

Company and presenters strolling the purple carpet on the south financial institution of the River Thames included Colin Farrell, Ana de Armas, Eddie Redmayne, Brian Cox, Florence Pugh, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cynthia Erivo, Julianne Moore and Lily James. Many wore blue ribbons in help of refugees and displaced individuals.

Inheritor to the throne Prince William, who’s president of Britain’s movie and tv academy, was within the viewers alongside his spouse Kate, Princess of Wales.

Helen Mirren paid tribute to William’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September. Mirren, who portrayed the late monarch onscreen in “The Queen” and onstage in “The Viewers,” known as Elizabeth “the nation’s main woman.”

The prizes — formally the EE BAFTA Movie Awards — are Britain’s equal of Hollywood’s Academy Awards and might be watched carefully for hints of who might win on the Oscars on March 12.

Final month’s BAFTA nominations announcement helped propel the somber, Netflix-backed “All Quiet” into an awards-season favourite. Its tally of nominations is a joint report for a movie not within the English language, equaling the 14 for “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” in 2001.

“All Quiet,” “Banshees” and “All the pieces All over the place” are all best-picture contenders on the Oscars, the place “All the pieces All over the place” has a number one 11 nominations.

Britain’s movie academy launched adjustments to extend the awards’ variety in 2020, when no girls had been nominated as finest director for the seventh 12 months operating and all 20 nominees within the lead and supporting performer classes had been white.

This 12 months there have been 11 feminine administrators up for awards throughout all classes, together with documentary and animated movies. However simply one of many important best-director nominees was feminine: Gina Prince-Bythewood for “The Girl King.”

Main actress contenders are Yeoh; Blanchett for “Tár”: Viola Davis for “The Girl King”; Danielle Deadwyler for “Until”; Ana de Armas for “Blonde” and Emma Thompson for “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.”

Blanchett stated it had been “a rare 12 months for feminine performers. To be counted amongst them is basically particular.”

The most effective-actor class pits Farrell in opposition to Austin Butler for “Elvis”; Brendan Fraser for “The Whale”; Daryl McCormack for “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Paul Mescal for “Aftersun” and Invoice Nighy for “Dwelling.”

It is a robust 12 months for Irish actors on the BAFTAs, with McCormack additionally up for the BAFTA Rising Star award, and Condon, Keoghan, Farrell and Brendan Gleeson all getting performing nominations for “Banshees.”

McCormack hailed the occasion as “the Irish BAFTAs.”

“It’s a small nation, however to see the expertise that comes out of it’s fairly wonderful,” he stated.

Three-time Oscar winner Sandy Powell turned the primary costume designer to be awarded the academy’s high honor, the BAFTA fellowship.

The cruel world outdoors showbiz intruded on the awards when Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev, who works for investigative web site Bellingcat, stated he had been “banned” from the awards due to a danger to public safety. Grozev is featuref in “Navalny,” a movie about jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny that received one of the best documentary BAFTA.

The Metropolitan Police stated it will not remark “on the protection of a person or the recommendation they could have been given.” However the pressure famous that “some journalists face the hostile intentions of overseas states while within the U.Okay.”

Jamie Lee Curtis, a supporting actress nominee for “All the pieces All over the place,” stated the possibility awards season gives to have fun cinema was extra essential than who wins.

“It’s a second of celebration within the midst of every little thing,” Curtis informed The Related Press on the purple carpet. “It’s arduous on the market. All over the place. All of sudden. On a regular basis.”

Related Press author Hilary Fox contributed to this report.