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Baftas 2017: La La Land wins best film, plus Dev Patel triumphs in the Best Supporting Actor category

10:45, Monday, 13 February, 2017
Baftas 2017: La La Land wins best film, plus Dev Patel triumphs in the Best Supporting Actor category

La La Land was the big winner at this year's Baftas, which were attended by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Triumphing in five of the 11 categories it was nominated in, Damien Chazelle's giddy, LA-set musical continues to hop and pirouette towards Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards, which are in a fortnight's time.

Emma Stone, who stars opposite Ryan Gosling in La La Land, took home Leading Actress, while Casey Affleck won Leading Actor for his work in the emotionally gruelling drama Manchester By the Sea.

Elsewhere, there was a surprise victory for Dev Patel, who, despite being the star of Lion, was only nominated for Best Supporting Actor, while Kevin Loach won Outstanding British Film, for I, Daniel Blake. Accepting his award, the veteran director 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."

The only conspicuous shut-out on the night was for Moonlight, about a black, gay child growing up in Miami. In his five-star review of the film, Tim Robey called it "a nuclear-fission-strength heartbreaker". It was nominated for four awards, including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay.

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