Sam Mendes’s nerve-shredding war drama 1917 was the big winner at the 2020 Bafta film awards, on an evening when the movie industry’s diversity problem hovered ominously in the background.
In the end, Joker came away with three awards, including best original score and the first ever Bafta for casting.
Steve McQueen told the Guardian that the awards risked becoming “irrelevant, redundant and of no interest or importance” unless action were taken.
The awards by and large went to the people predicted by pundits and bookies.