A delighted Olivia Coleman won best actress for her portrayal of Queen Anne in The Favourite. Photo: ReutersCostume romp The Favourite was the biggest winner at the BAFTAs, taking seven awards, but Netflix black and white film Roma picked up the Best Film prize, as well as Director, at Britain's top movie honours. "To see a film about an indigenous domestic worker embraced this way in an age when fear and anger propose to divide us means the world to me," Cuaron said as he accepted the Best Film prize. Rachel Weisz won best supporting actress for The Favourite. Mahershala Ali took the Supporting Actor prize for his role in Green Book, set in the segregated US South in the early 1960s.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 11, 2019 00:00 UTC