And the BAFTA is presented to James McAvoy.
Eva Green. Kristen Stewart. Tom Hardy. Adam Deacon. Juno Temple. Will Poulter. Jack O'Connell.
John Boyega. Tom Holland. Daniel Kaluuya. Letitia Wright. Michael Ward. Bukky Bakray.
Absolutely very surprised. This award's very special because it's got something to
do with Mary Selway, somebody who it seems, even though I never met her but from everything I can
hear and everything I can tell, cared about nurturing talent not just about finding the next
hot thing for the next five minutes. It's doubly special because the audience voted for it and
it's nice that the audience are getting to have a say in Britain's biggest award-giving ceremony.
And I know I'm going to keep this really short, I want to thank my agent Ruth Young even though it's
unfashionable because without her I wouldn't have such a nice career. And I need to thank
my mom, my granny and grandad because without them wouldn't be here either.
And I need to thank my beautiful fiance Anne-Marie because she taught me to respect
life and my career on a whole new level. So thank you very much and have a good night.
Thank you very much. It's a real honor because I'm french and it's an English award.
I've just moved here and it's the most amazing welcome. So thank you very much.
I'd like to thank Barbara Broccoli, Michael Wilson, Daniel Craig.
Um... my god, I'm gonna forget some people.
My Marton, he's been my best friend through all this. Pippa Beng, Charles Collier, Martin Campbell
and two special people who were there from the very beginning. Bernardo Bertolucci who gave me
my first role and [...] who's been a very good friend and very loyal. So thank you very much.
Wow. Thank you. I guess first I have to thank all the fans of Twilight for proving again
and again to be the most devoted and attentive fans ever.
Considering it's voted credit is due to them so thank you and
to the other actors nominated, I am so blown away by you, I can't even...
I can't even describe it to you. To be considered amongst you is
overwhelming and I can't describe it. So there you go. Thank you very much.
I just like to say hi to my family. Thank you.
Tom is not here unfortunately but I'm sure he'll be very very honored to get the award. Bravo.
Wow. Um...
This is mad, this is... this is crazy/ Ican't believe I'm in the same place as
people like Brad Pitt. This is so surreal. Thank you, thank you to everyone out there.
My agent, everyone at Troika, my management, Danny and Billy. My co-writer Michael Vu.
that's in the audience. I couldn't have done Anuvahood without him. All the cast and crew.
Thank you to BAFTA for this because for me it means acceptance and it's not just a win for me
it's a win for the underdog and it's a win for for any young person out there that's trying
to you know, just got a dream to better themselves. And so this means a lot. Thank
you so much. And thank you to the general public, thank you so much man. Mad love.
Wow. Um... Thank you to BAFTA for this huge, huge honour
and for including me on this list of such wonderful, wonderful actors.
And thank you to all of the voters, especially my little brother Felix, who I think got his
entire school to vote for me. I couldn't do any of this without Michael Darfur, Billy
Lazarus, who are truly the most amazing agents you could ever ask for, and I have to
thank Tara Jones, Jamie Feldman and Jessica Colstan for somehow keeping me in check.
To all my wonderful family and friends and -- who just make this all make sense to me,
and to this incredible room of inspirational people,
and my father who truly, truly made me want to do this, thank you so much.
Wow. Start with a cliché, this is a bit of a surprise. Thank you so much.
I almost cried watching other people go up for their awards. I’m famous in my family for crying
watching Finding Nemo with my dad. It’s about a fish who can’t find his dad, so I shouldn’t
have watched it with my dad. It’s my fault. Genuinely, this is such a huge honour and I’m so
grateful to BAFTA and EE, especially an honour given that it’s in part voted for by the public.
To everyone that voted I am so, so grateful. And what makes it really truly special, and I know
this is said a lot but this category and being considered among you, Lupita, George, Lea...I’m
forgetting names now this is awful. Lupita, George, Lea, please sorry-…Dane. Dane! Who I
love. Sorry, I’m very nervous, Dane. I’m sorry man. I’m genuine fans of all your work, you’re
amazing. And then some personal thanks to the most over
qualified team in the world [inaudible list of names], Alexander Cook, all the girls at Premier,
and finally my family, the best friends ever Thank you very much.
Thank you, very much.
Public vote, so I guess the people have spoken, in that sense. Now it is my turn.
Good luck. Listen, I remember I was part
of a TV workshop in Nottingham, that is where I cut my teeth, as it were, taught by a wonderful
man, a very committed man, Ian Smith. And we won a BAFTA
at some stage, I am not sure what the category was but we had our own BAFTA.
The one we had there was a bit heavier but that is all right. I
remember being that age looking at this thing feeling very inspired by it and now all of
a sudden I find myself with me very own version. Speaking of which, are
all these spare BAFTAs tonight? Has anybody claimed them?
I should have brought a bag, Mickey. Anyway, thank you very much ladies and gentlemen,
have a pleasant evening and see you again.
Thank you so much. First and formorest, I want to thank God
for this moment and a big thank you to BAFTA for this amazing opportunity,
and obviously to the members of the public who voted. Thank you so much.
Guys, I haven't been doing this for a long time, it's a fluke, So I have some
very, very special people in my life who have been such a blessing: my
parents, my family and friends, and my agent, my manager, my best friend,
my brother. Femi Oguns, who has repped me since I was 16. Thank you man.
I'm going to share this award with all the young dreamers, who are
determined, who are hard working and who are quite frankly amazing.
This is also for you. Blessings to your path and God bless. Thank you.
Wow! Um... It's amazing to be up here.
Two thank yous right off the bat. BAFTA thank you for nominating me and obviously thank you to
the British public for voting and showing your support. It's tough
voting online, believe me I know.
I obviously have a large list of people I need to thank but don't worry I won't do
that here on your time. But please just give me a moment to thank two people. Sorry mom and dad,
it's not you. It's not an actor, a director, a producer or an agent because you know we guys we
get thanked all the time and we get paid pretty well too. But I want to thank two acting coaches
because I think that this is a profession that is not praised enough because we actors don't
like to admit that we need help sometimes. So to Nick Evans and to Ben Perkins. Nick,
you helped me become the best Billy Elliot that I could be and Ben, you coached me to
be Lucas in The Impossible. Now without these two roles I wouldn't be standing here holding this so
Ben and Nick, thank you so much. And everyone else, check your phones I'll shoot you a text.
And Nick, unlucky on the rugby mate. Thank you.
Evening London City, hello.
I've gone blank. Um... thank you Tessa, Tim,
Josh and Florence. Let's thank the people for voting for us all and texting and calling
and going on the internet, appreciate that. And I'm happy to-- I feel so privileged
to be in you guys' company. Facts. I am a product of arts funding within the United Kingdom and
I like to thank people that financially support that.
I mean obviously in the mainstream arts but also grassroots levels.
So I'd like to thank Anna Scher, Anna Scher theatre.
I would like to thank Evelyn Dewar and Marcus Rogers for teaching me how to act.
Michael Palmer, Weekend Arts College, WAC.
I would like to thank Heat and Light Theatre Company, especially Holly Hughes.
I would like to thank... who else? I have been about.
Also I would like to thank Conor McCaughan and Sam Fox at TROIKA. All you guys. Thank you for letting
me think different, telling me I could think differently, and allowing me the space to do that.
There's a countdown. I wasn't supposed to say that, but I have said that now.
We broke all the rules. No, levels. I would like to thank Sam for giving me an American agent. I
would like to thank Carter Cohen. I would like to thank Andrew Curnan. I would like to thank my
friends. I thank you for supporting me and I hope I support you as much as I feel supported by you.
I would like to thank my sister, I would like to thank Critch, and I would like to thank my mum.
Mum, mum, you are the reason why I started. You are the reason why I'm here and you're the reason
why I keep going. Do you understand? Thank you for everything, and I would like to thank this
award... and this is yours. Yours. Love. Peace, let's get it.
Thank you. I identify myself as a child of God,
and I can't get up here without thanking God. A few years ago, I saw myself in
a deep state of depression and I literally wanted to quit acting. The
only thing that pretty much pulled me out of that was God, my belief, my faith,
my family, and an email from BAFTA saying that they wanted me to be a part of
the BAFTA breakthrough Brits, and I was like: let me try again.
So this wasn't an overnight thing. This wasn't a click of a finger success, and it
is still a work in progress. I'm still a work in progress. But I want to just thank
God. I want to thank my family. I want to thank my team at IAG, Femi,
Ikki. Everybody at WME. I want to thank everybody that said
yes to me. I want to say thank you to everybody that gave me a chance
and just saw my talent, saw what God placed in me, and said yes.
I want to encourage young people. As a matter of fact, you don't even
have to be young; you can be any age. But I just want to encourage you,
anybody that's going through a hard time or something in their soul or that
they've lost their light. I want to encourage you that God made you and
you're important. There might be some of you
here that's going through depression, that's going through a bad time and you are putting
on a smile on your face and nobody can see that,
but you know it and God knows it, I just want to encourage you, and I just want to say that God
loves you, and just let your light shine.
God bless you all. Thank you so much. And the category that I'm in,
to be a part of this category means so much to me. I'm so honoured. You all inspire me. Lakeith,
Barry, Jessie, Cynthia -- all of you, you have inspired me so much,
so God bless you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, thank you.
Wow. Wow, guys, thank you for that reception.
I had something planned, but it's all gone to what -- oh my days.
I just want to say thank you, first of all,
to God for making everything possible. Thank you to my dad, because I know you are watching
down on me and guiding me and protecting me on this journey. I want to say thank you to my mum
for believing in me and sacrificing everything for all of us to be here, and I can't come up here and
not say thank you to my team at Olivia Bell, Xania, Ellie for introducing me to the team,
Gavin for putting in work and work daily to just find me more and more opportunities, man.
And I want to say thank you to Top Boy for changing my life forever. Blue Story,
you know, like, I wouldn't be here without the movie. Oh, man. Boy, the list can go on.
But what I want to say is, like, to people that are watching at home, like, looking at me,
like, honestly…you have to see the opportunities and just see a vision,
and, yeah, man. Thank you, guys. Thank you.
Nah wait, nah nah nah.
Thank you God. Thank you God. Thank you to my parents, my mom that's here.
Thank you for doing everything for me. Thanks to my brothers, we're the black Sopranos.
Thank you for setting the bar for me. Thank you to the Rocks family for showing me
what it means to live a life. You women... I've never met women like you in my life. To my team, some of
you are here, some of you are at home, I'm speaking directly to you. I have so much love for you. Sope,
my brother Kingsley, my brother, Morfydd, sister, Conrad, my brother. Thank you for taking up space
with me. It has been a pleasure an joy in my life. I also want to say sleep well to Richard to DMX
to Mister Dimitro from the from Rocks family and Mister Mohammed from the Rocks family and also my
sister nanette's father, sleep well. And sleep well to everyone else who died last year and this year,
who went to bed infinitely. Itruly believe it is the love and the light that you have left on this
universe which is holding us all today. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you guys, I appreciate
you deep BAFTA. To the nominees again, I have to show my love, I love you guys deep. Thank you.