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22:45
James As official legend Vanessa Redgrave gets an award for being an official legend, it's time for me to go. The top line of tonight's BAFTAs? The Hurt Locker is the big winner, the Brits took the big acting gongs and Jonathan Ross's gags bombed. Thankfully, there were surprises - always a good thing during this long awards season. I'd like to have seen Quentin Tarantino take home more but it was still fun to hear the posh voiceover lady swear everytime his film was mentioned.

22:39
James Award for Best Picture And the biggie goes to the intense, powerful and **film critic word alert** visceral The Hurt Locker. It's a knee-trembling movie. You really feel like you're slap bang in the middle of battle as these guys face death every day in the wartorn suburbs of Iraq. Jeremy Renner is also a real find. A worthy - and surprising - winner that puts The Hurt Locker on target for the Oscars in a couple of weeks.

22:35
James Award for Best Actress Carey Mulligan thoroughly deserves this gong. An Education is pretty good on its own but it's made excellent by her performance. She's a star.

22:33
James Mickey Rourke had trouble reading the autocue. Maybe he should get some lessons. At a School Of Rourke. SCHOOL OF ROURKE! HA HA HA!!!

22:29
James Award for Best Actor Colin Firth wins for his turn in St Trinian's 2: The Search For Fritton's Gold. Hang on... that might be wrong. Maybe it was for A Single Man?

22:24
James Award for Best Director Congrats to Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker. Am I allowed to say that she's significantly better looking than her ex James Cameron's current wife? Am I allowed to say that?

22:20
James My favourite fact about Precious is that the Mariah Carey role was originally meant for Dame Helen Mirren. 'What's that Helen? You can't do it anymore? Don't worry. We'll get the girl from Glitter to cover it'.

22:13
James Award for Best Animated Feature It goes to the brilliant Up. Films with talking dogs = always amazing.

22:10
James Patrick Swayze memorial bit. **Sniff**

22:01
James Award for Rising Star Well done Kristen Stewart. A smile wouldn't kill you though, love.

21:57
James Mickey Rourke has an actual ponytail. Amazing.

21:53
James Best Original Screeplay Awards Congrats to The Hurt Locker. Had a great script that's often overlooked because of the editing and direction. UNTIL TONIGHT FOLKS!

21:49
James Is Kathryn Bigelow related to Deuce?

21:47
James R Patz presents Best Original Screenplay. Hair FAIL.

21:39
James Award - Best Supporting Actress Mo'nique Amazing amazing amazing. She's awesome in Precious. Brilliant stuff.

21:36
James Best Supporting Actress. COME ON MO'NIQUE!

21:32
James I'm actually a bit bored now. It's the award for make-up & hair. Lovely.

21:25
Producer Chris - Bit of tech news, if you want to see all the posts as they come in on this blog just keep hitting refresh on your screen or F5 on your keyboard.

21:24
James Award - Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz wins for Inglourious People Born Out Of Wedlock. An amazingly chilling performance as Hans Landa. I love him. I want his beard.

21:21
James Second use of 'We're not in a Kansas anymore' clip from Avatar.

21.18
James Award - Visual FX Avatar wins for its CGI. GAG: What do you put in your car if you don't want to get lost on Pandora? Sat Nav'i. SAT NAV'I!!!!!!

21.14
James Award - Duncan Jones for Outstandin g Debut by a British Write, Director or Producer. Duncan Jones is crying, accepting his award for Moon. He's come on since being in boyband Blue, hasn't he?

21:08
James 'Killing In The Name Of' being used in the most establishment awards ceremony of the year. It's what Rage Against The Machine would want.

21:05
James Producer Andy thinks Carey Mulligan looks like William Hague.

21:02
James First gratuitous use of 'I Gotta Feeling' by Black Eyed Peas.

21:00
James And we're back at the BAFTAs after a little break watching some blokes skiiing on ´óÏó´«Ã½2. Jonathan Ross is presenting. Hasn't he left yet?

20:24
Producer Chris

At our hugely exciting BAFTAs party (which isn't actually exciting) we're now waiting for the main show. How are we passing time. We are printing out the nominations and highlighting who we think will win. We'll let you know who scores the highest at the end of the night.

19:59
James Well, that's the red carpet stuff done. I came back from a chat with Annie and Nick to see George Lamb flirting with Vera Farmiga, off of Up In The Air. Back for the awards at 9pm!

19:57
Producer Chris - Well that's almost enough of George Lamb for one night. The show starts at 9pm on ´óÏó´«Ã½ 1. Be sure to send us your comments either email james.king@bbc.co.uk, post a comment below or send a message to on twitter.

19:49
James I'm not sure whether Quentin Tarantino especially warmed to George Lamb
Producer Chris - James has just popped down to speak to Annie & Nick in the Switch studio. I very much like the fact George Lamb holds a microphone with two hands. James also spotted a lady who works in film PR behind QT. He knows all the important people.

19:45

Producer Chris Look it's James with Kate Winslet. GLAMOUR

19:42
James Carey Mulligan keeps cutting her hair. By the time of the Oscars she'll look like Patrick Stewart.

19:39
James It's the famously warm and friendly Kristen Scott-Thomas, apparently wearing a bear around her neck.

19:36
James First use of 'You're not in Kansas anymore!' clip from Avatar.

19.35
James There's Jonathan Ross. I want to be him when I grow up.

19:33
James Kate Winslet is on. 'Oooh, isn't she looking slim' etc etc

19:31
James Oh look, it's George Lamb.

19:30
James - Woo! The BAFTA red carpet stuff is about to start on ´óÏó´«Ã½3! This is good because a) I love to gawp at famous people and b) it means that Snog, Marry, Avoid has finished. Welcome along film fans.

19:15
James King has just arrived to join in the live blog. He's a member of BAFTA don't you know. He's just told me that he forgot to send in his final nominations. What an idiothole. If your favourite film doesn't win, it's probably his fault.

19:05
The coverage of the red carpet starts at 7.30pm on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three, we've just heard that Prince William has turned up, but was somewhat upstaged by Mickey Rouke (no doubt doing the Ram Jam.) Is William a big film fan? Do you think they have a secret private cinema at Windsor Castle. I do hope so.

18:45
It's happening tonight, you can watch the action on ´óÏó´«Ã½ 1 from 9pm, but don't just watch it. Keep your laptop open and keep up with all the awards as they happen with free here on the added bonus witty commentary here on the blog. If you want to remind youself of , or you can check out who James Kings thinks will win here.

We'll keep this post updated throughout the night as we collate what team movies are saying in our BAFTA party and what people are saying all over the internet. Aces.