And the BAFTA goes to Meryl Streep. I'll get there. Oh my God! Thank you so much. That couldn't be worse. That couldn't have gone worse. Oh gosh! Um somebody once said, I think
it was Margaret Atwood, actually I always say it was Margaret Atwood but
I don't even know if she said this. But somebody once said the fate of
the well-known is to be misunderstood. And the ambition of this film, The Iron Lady,
was to look at the life of the Iron Lady from the inside out and to locate something real maybe hidden but truthful in the life
of someone that we've all decided we all know everything about already. And I'm very proud of the
film and I owe so much to Phyllida Lloyd, Abi Morgan, Pathé, Damian Jones for sticking with
this, for asking and expecting so much of me. I want to thank the soulful Jim Broadbent, the
divinely gifted Olivia Coleman, my beloved "moths", all 300 beautiful actors and crew
that worked on this wonderful film and to say that half of me is Streep
but the other half is Wilkinson from Lincolnshire so I come by it honestly this
part. Thank you very very much. I'm so grateful. And the BAFTA is awarded to Brad Pitt for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. I hate to disappoint you all but unfortunately
Brad Pitt, I'm also very disappointed, is unable to be here tonight. So to pick up
the award on their behalf is Margot Robbie. Okay. Brad couldn't be here tonight due to family obligations, so he asked
me to read his response for him. Okay. He starts by saying: "Hey, Britain. Heard you just
became single. Welcome to the club. Wishing you the best with the divorce settlement." Blah blah blah. He then says: "Thank you to the Academy
for this extreme honour." He says he has always been a bit intimidated
over here, given the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and the titans that have
come before, so this is especially meaningful. He said he would like to thank producers
David Heyman and Shannon McIntosh, the wild and wonderful Zoe Bell, Rob
Alonzo and the rest of the stunt team. The lovely Arianne Phillips for his
oh-so-tight jeans -- I would also like to thank her for those. His old mate, Simon
Jones, and the one and only Quentin Tarantino. He goes on by thanking you again,
and blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah -- it's a bit much really -- oh,
and he says that he is going to name this Harry because he is really excited about bringing it
back to the States with him. His words, not mine. Thanks. Uh... you know. I'm so used to losing, it's
quite a strange feeling to win but it feels very nice. But no, children, if
you're watching, it's not about the winning. Still feels nice. I'm thrilled to be
considered in the same category as my fellow supporting actresses and I'm not
just sucking up. You're all brilliant. Um... my underskirt has got hitched
up and this is not a good moment. I think I should thank the Royal Family frankly
because they've done wonders for my career this year. I seem to be playing queens
with ever decreasing head sizes. Next year will be pinheaded queen. Um okay,
I know I got to be succinct. I need to thank... I'm gonna really really try and do this very
fast. First of all can I just say that I have fun and I love it and it's my privilege to keep
on working in this over-subscribed profession and there are so many talented talented
people out there who never get recognition so I'm incredibly lucky to get this and to
get recognized and to get parts and to go out and make a living by getting dressed up and
pretending to be somebody else for the day and then getting paid lots of money. And then I get
an award for it so it's as good as it gets. Thank you. I'll just say that I would love
at this stage just to walk off and say I did it all by myself just like my three-year-old but I
didn't. I've got a few people to thank. I've got to thank all the producers, it was all your fault,
you started it. And Tom Hooper, thank you for not cutting me, for giving me all my close-ups,
for making sure that the queen mother wasn't totally eclipsed between the brilliance,
the double brilliance of Geoffrey and Colin. King Colin, you deserve everything you're getting
and Geoffrey, you really should be the best supporting actress I know wherever you are because
you really... we did have only eyes for for you. And finally the people who look after me
Melodie Korenbrot, Adam Isaacs, Shelley Browning, I might never get this you know
again so I might as well just really stretch that. And then finally Tim Burton who is my genius
and thank you for the big headed queen and thank you for well helping me make the eighth and
ninth wonders of the world that are our children. And then finally finally okay
I'm really really getting there Finally, we get all the awards in this
profession. There are many groups that go unsung. I want to just dedicate this to all the best
supporting wives around in the world existing, Queen Mother herself and my mum. And there's
no doubt that were my father alive he would have given this to her. She was the most best supporting
wife he could have ever wished for. Thank you. Hello, thanks very much, BAFTA. This is very,
very cool for me, coming from the colonies. Yeah. We know it's been a hard week for you guys.
It's been very nice to take a bit of your gold back home where it belongs. This is a really incredible night
for me, especially to share it with the people who made the film with me, in
particular Chelsea Winstanley, who supported me right from the very beginning, when I started
writing this. Carthew Neal, who brought the whole film to fruition, and 28, 27, 26, 25 -- if you
put things in front of me, I'll just read them. That's really it. The other people I have to thank is Christine
Leunens, who wrote the book that I adapted, a fabulous book, and also to my mother, who
introduced me to the book, and made me read and taught me how to read and insisted that
I read. I love you for making me read, mum. Anyway, I share this with
everyone else, the cast and crew, and Searchlight for believing in the project. Thanks. Thank you so much. It's really big. I don't know -- I do know what to say. I have
actually written something down. I do know. To my fellow nominees, to be in the same
company as you is such an extraordinary honour. I think the work you all did was so beautiful. Very shaky. Sorry. I can't read it either. All the producers. Fox and Element and everyone
therein. And Nadia and Sandy and all of your teams. Hi. We're having an amazing night,
aren't we? We're going to get so pissed later! Yorgos Lanthimos -- I don't know, I can't think of the words
to thank you enough for letting me do this. My most favourite time ever. The thing I really want to do is, Emma and
Rachel -- must keep it together -- not just for your performances but for what you
did after the cameras stopped rolling. And we've never talked about this,
and I find it very emotional, but you were the best and classiest and coolest
honour guard any woman could ever have, and I love you. Ems isn't here, but we
love you too, Em, somewhere in America. Oh, God, what else am I meant to say? Done
that bit. I think I have done that bit ... Yes. So this is -- sorry. I swear
I'm going to go in a minute! This is for -- not for the lead, it's for a lead,
and as far as I'm concerned, all three of us are the same and should be the lead, and
it's weird that we can't do that. But this is for all three of us. It's got my name on
it, but we can scratch in some other names. Thank you so much.
