Baftas 2024: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – follow it live!

Early arrivals … Daisy Edgar Jones attends the Baftas 2024 at The Royal Festival Hall.

LIVE – Updated at 14:46

The 77th British academy film awards are taking place in London. Follow along with us to see who’s wearing what, who’s winning what and who proves victorious in the epic battle of Barbie v the bomb.

14:46

The red carpet is unrolled

14:40Stuart Heritage

Hello everyone, and welcome to The Guardian’s liveblog of the 2024 Bafta film awards. If you’re at all familiar with these things, you will know that the Baftas hold a special place within the annual awards season. Not only is this one of the final major awards shows to take place before the Academy Awards, giving us a clearer picture of who might win an Oscar next month, but it is also arguably the most frustrating.

Oh, sure, if you’re actually there the whole thing is wonderful. You get to sit in a big room, watch host David Tennant charm the pants off everyone and (most importantly) learn who wins what at the precise moment that they win. But if you’re watching the Baftas on TV then, in true time-honoured Baftas tradition, you don’t get to see anything until the show has finished.

Which is to say that the actual Baftas start at 4:30pm, but the television broadcast doesn’t start until 7pm. Does this mean that the best way to follow the Baftas is by refreshing Twitter every couple of minutes and then ignoring the TV show? No, because we’re liveblogging the TV show and we’d really like the clicks.

So here’s the complicated schedule for the next few hours. Starting around now, stars will start turning up to the Southbank Centre, so we’ll be posting red carpet photos as and when. Then at 4:30pm the awards will begin, but we’ll pretend that they haven’t, because at 7pm I’ll liveblog the TV broadcast. We’ll all know who won everything by then, but that’s not really the point.

Anyway, this has the potential to be an excellent ceremony. All the awards – other than leading actress, obviously – are basically Oppenheimer’s to lose, although in truth the Baftas do have a tendency to go wildly off-piste (remember the year that 1917 basically won everything?), so who knows what’ll happen. At the very least, let’s all cross our fingers and pray that Ariana DeBose comes on and does another one of her weird raps. At the end of the day, that’s all we’re really after.

Here’s a little further reading on the awards in case you’d like something to sustain you for the next four or so hours:

• Peter Bradshaw’s Bafta predictions

• The full list of nominations

• David Tennant answers your questions

• Why Oppenheimer is set to sweep the board, plus a recap of the all the snubs and surprises in the nominations

• Why the speeches tonight matter for next month’s Oscars

Got through those already? Hows about some interviewees with people from Bafta-nominated films? We can offer:

• Messi the dog from Anatomy of a Fall

• Michael J Fox

• Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt

• The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer and stars Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel

• Poor Things’ Ramy Youssef and Yorgos Lanthimos

• The Color Purple’s Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks• Barbie costume designer Jacqueline Durran and the men behind its music, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt

• All of Us Strangers’ director Andrew Haigh

• How to Have Sex star Mia McKenna-Bruce

• For Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese, Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio, and Chief Standing Bear

• The Holdovers director Alexander Payne, plus stars Dominic Sessa and Da’Vine Joy Randolph

• Past Lives’ director Celine Song and star Greta Lee

• Rustin’s Colman Domingo

• June Givanni, recipient of this year’s outstanding contribution to British cinema award

• American Fiction’s Jeffrey Wright

• Nyad’s Jodie Foster and Annette Bening

• Saltburn’s Paul Rhys and Rosamund Pike