Slumdog Millionaire Wins All The BAFTAs. All Of Them. If you believe that the BAFTAs act as a bellweather for the Oscars, then Slumdog Millionaire will win all the Oscars. Also, the Oscars are going to be really bloody drizzly. Because that happened at the BAFTAs too. But anyway, Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner at last night's BAFTA awards, scooping Best Film, Best Director, Best Music, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay. Why? Because it's principally British? No. Well, yes. A bit. But Slumdog Millionaire wasn't the only thing to leave the BAFTAs with anything. We left with the onset of trenchfoot. Eat that, Dev Patel.

BAFTA 2009 Red Carpet: The ‘Hecklerspray Fails Miserably’ Video As we may have mentioned already, last night hecklerspray got to report from the red carpet at the 2009 BAFTAs. And, it's fair to say, we were rubbish. Thanks to a mixture of horrible weather, a position on the BAFTAs red carpet directly opposite all the real journalists and our own genuinely ...

You! Vote For The Orange Rising Star BAFTA Award Immediately! We love the BAFTAS. They're just like the Oscars, except they're British and nobody famous ever turns up. Amazing. However, one thing annoys us about the BAFTAs, and that's the suspicion that they're only voted for by elderly men who live alone, only wear smoking jackets and call everybody 'darling' all the time. But not ...

Atonement Gets A Jillion BAFTA Nominations

With the Golden Globes cancelled and the Oscars and Grammys looking likely to go the same way, what are the biggest awards around?

That's right, the BAFTAs. And because the BAFTAs are British, it's only right that it should focus on British films. And because the only British film made in the last year was Atonement, it stands to reason that Atonement should get so many BAFTA nominations that we actually feel a little bit embarrassed for it.

Even though it's sodding Atonement, for sod's sake.