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Bafta Film Awards: Wicked and Wallace and Gromit win awards

The UK's biggest film awards - the British Academy Film Awards - or Baftas for short, took place last celebrate the best movies, actors and production teams, from the UK and around the award ceremony took place at the star-studded ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 16 was one of the films that received the most nominations, but who won what? Take a look below to find out! Wallace and Gromit: Vengence Most Foul Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was nominated in three categories, and took home two stop-motion movie won the Best Animated Film and Children's and Family Film film's producer Richard Beek and directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham brought clay models of Wallace and Gromit along with them to the about how well the film has done in the US as well as the UK, Merlin Crossingham said: "It is remarkable that our very Britishness is embraced in America, "There are some jokes, like Anton Deck, which are very British. In the American screenings, there was complete silence apart from one Brit guffawing in the corner." he said. Wicked Wicked, the film adaptation of the hit musical, was nominated for a whopping seven awards at the Baftas, and came home with two won the award for Costume Design, and Production the movie's stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande missed out on winning leading actress and supporting is the first time either actress had been nominated for a Bafta film award. Warwick Davis Actor Warwick Davis, who you might know better as Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies, received this year's Bafta Fellowship, the British Academy's highest honour, and lifetime achievement award. "It's very overwhelming, this whole thing," he said. "You win the award and then you have to talk to loads of people, feeling very shiny."Asked about the moment he heard he was this year's winner, Davis said: "I was on the toilet when I found out!"I got an email from Bafta saying I'd won the fellowship, and I got all excited, and then it suddenly dawned on me, is this a fake email? Some sort of scam?"So I clicked on the email address, and it really was Bafta. Then I finished up at the loo, you probably didn't need that detail, and then went and celebrated with the kids." he said.