Gosford Park has won the Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the year. This award was accepted by Robert Altman. The film also won for Best Costume Design.

You can get full details at the BAFTA website: www.bafta.org or at the BBC website which has been updated: www.bbc.co.uk. Just go to the “film” subsection to find it.

For Australian fans The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAS) are going to be shown on the ABC Saturday night, March 2nd at 9.30pm, and for American fans they will be shown on the E! Entertainment channel on Saturday March 2 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. The show will be two hours.

According to reports there was a glimpse of Richard arriving with Joan, as well as a couple of close-up shots of him during the programme (He’s apparently sitting in the row behind Nicole Kidman.) Richard didn’t present any of the awards this time around.

It was raining as stars arrived and the red carpet not only got very wet, but whatever they had last cleaned it with hadn’t been properly removed! Soap suds started to emerge on its surface, ruining designer shoes and the hems of long designer dresses!!

Prompted to wonder who foots the bill for these things?