U.S. President Donald Trump bought a little bit of a roasting through the BAFTA Movie Awards ceremony in London on Sunday, courtesy of host David Tennant.
The Scottish star (Physician Who, Inside Man) throughout his opening monologue talked about The Brutalist, lauding it as “as movie of unbelievable structure, the boldest structure in movie this yr” aside from the hairdo of Donald Trump, performed by Sebastian Stan, for The Apprentice.
“Donald Trump mentioned he hasn’t seen The Apprentice — as a result of it’s [British film rating is] 15. It’s not on Nickelodeon,” Tennant continued earlier than joking he had mentioned Trump’s title thrice, that means he might have “summoned him.”
He adopted up with: “Talking of villains…” which drew a lot laughter and applause from the group.
The Edward Berger-directed Vatican drama Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci and based mostly on the novel by Robert Harris, leads this yr’s BAFTA nominations with 12, forward of the Jacques Audiard-directed Emilia Pérez‘s 11 and the Brady Corbet-directed The Brutalist‘s 9.
Together with his Irish hip-hop biopic on Belfast-based rap trio Kneecap, Wealthy Peppiatt additionally made BAFTA historical past by tying the file for nominations for a debut filmmaker with six nods.
Tennant welcomed an excited crowd to the BAFTA Awards for the most important evening in British movie for the second yr in a row.
Notably lacking from Sunday’s BAFTA Awards attendees listing was Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón, who earned a number one actress nomination. Nevertheless, her awards marketing campaign imploded following the invention of controversial posts made on her X (beforehand Twitter) account. The star — the primary trans actor to be nominated for an Oscar — apologized, however tensions are mentioned to be excessive between Gascón and streamer Netflix for hindering the movie’s Oscar hopes. Because of this, she was phased out of its awards marketing campaign fully.