‘The Revenant’ and DiCaprio are winners at BAFTA film awards

DiCaprio is heavily favoured to win the best actor Academy Award on February 28, which would be his first in five Oscar acting nominations.

Inarritu described the win as “a true honour” and paid tribute to the film’s cast, including DiCaprio, hailing his work, talent and commitment.

“We put our coronary heart and soul into this film … I can’t say we didn’t put everything on the table creatively as an entire team in making this movie, so you know, it’s up to the world now, and voters to decide”. Sadly, lesbian love story Carol – for which Blanchett was shortlisted in the best actress category – walked away with no Baftas, despite going into the awards with nine nominations.

Brie Larson won the best actress prize for “Room”.

Winslet devoted the prize to “all these younger ladies who doubt themselves”, recalling that she as soon as had been informed to go for “the fats-woman elements”.

“So I found a picture of Joanna Hoffman and decided to make myself look as much like her as I could”.

Rylance, who stars in Bridge Of Spies, was victorious over fellow Britons Idris Elba (Beasts Of No Nation) and Christian Bale (The Big Short) and also Benicio del Toro (Sicario) and Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight).

“Mad Max: Fury Road” won four BAFTAs: Margaret Sixel for editing, Jenny Beavan for costume design, Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson for production design, and Lesley Vanderwalt and Damian Martin for make-up and hair.

Cate Blanchett attending the EE British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Opera House, Bow Street, London.

Later, the ceremony, hosted by Stephen Fry, will see British star Redmayne, 34, do battle with American Leonardo DiCaprio, 41, for the leading actor gong.

The black comedy anthology “Wild Tales“, written and directed by Argentine Damian Szifron, won for non-English language film.

Veteran composer Ennio Morricone won Best Score for “The Hateful Eight” but had to accept via a pre-recorded message as he was conducting a concert in Dublin.

Both films had won these races at Saturday’s WGA Awards, which moved those prizes to the start of the evening so that these BAFTA nominees could jet off to London.

Meanwhile, a group called Creatives of Colour Network were not anxious about the cold, organising a protest beside the red carpet against a lack of racial diversity in show business. Demonstrators rallied under the hashtag #baftablackout, and distributed leaflets declaring the awards “male, pale and stale”.