Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the bleak, bitter, blistering comedy about injustice in small-town America, took the major honours at the 2018 Bafta film awards on Sunday night.
She won best actress and, wearing a dress not totally black, she admitted having a “little trouble with compliance.”
The Bafta record – nine wins for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – remained safe for another year.
It was a starry, glamorous ceremony, at which the sexual-harassment shame of the film industry and the the subsequent Time’s Up movement were ever present.