The BBC for some reason decided to have about an hour delay on the broadcast for the BAFTA’s tonight, which created mucho confusion on twitter. Winners were being announced by the official BAFTA twitter, which we were retweeting to our followers - a couple of whom were annoyed at the "spoilers." WHY WERE YOU ON TWITTER THEN!? Anyhow the show…

It was probably the most predictable awards broadcast in recent memory (list of the main winners can be seen here), with The King’s Speech picking up pretty much all the major awards it had gotten the nod for. The only minor surprise was David Fincher picking up Best Director ahead of ‘Speech’s’ Tom Hooper - with the blow softened by the double win in the Best British Film and Best Film categories. Having sat through the IFTA’s in its entirety the night before, the only real noticeable difference was a longer red carpet and more mainstream, worldwide names. With Jonathon Ross hosting as well, there was always going to be a few more impromptu, risky gags; and while he didn’t go all Ricky Gervais, he did have a few zingers - say what you will about the man his wit is as sharp as ever. I do think a precedent has been set now for acerbic, offensive abuse to now be handed out at the countless awards shows. I know last night I kept willing Simon Delaney to start ripping into folk, but it never really happened - until Tommy Tiernan came out that is. Gervais may not have been the first host to cause such controversy (David Letterman and Chris Rock have attracted similar press after Oscar gigs) but it was the fact that he did it by brazening not giving a f**k about who was in the room. Talk show hosts regularly poke fun at the celebrity elite one night, and then have them on the following evening - but switching firmly to asskissing mode. Ross has been guilty of that on his previous Friday night talk show, but has also been known to push the boundaries when applicable - and sometimes when not. He was funny tonight, and there’s a reason people keep going back to him for these things - he's also very good at it.  

Aside from a few cringe-worthy moments (Dominic Cooper and Rosamund Pike.. the former letting the latter stew embarrassingly after a mistake that probably wasn’t her fault), it was as you were for an increasingly boring awards season. The Oscars are only two weeks away now, thank Christ. I still think The Social Network is in for Best Picture and Director…