It just wasn’t Barbie’s night. The film’s stars, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, and its director Greta Gerwig turned out in force.

But the biggest grossing movie of last year didn’t get any love, in the end, at the Baftas. They had five nominations and came away with none.

Time after time, we heard the word “Oppenheimer” as the envelopes were opened.

As almost everyone had predicted, Christopher Nolan’s story of the father of the atomic bomb triumphed - seven awards, including best film, best director and best actor for Cillian Murphy.

If anyone had ever doubted whether the US-based director, who has a dual passport, still holds true to his British roots, his description of it being “a homecoming” answered that.

Poor Things also did well. The fantastical Frankenstein-style apparently divided critics - was it a feminist masterpiece or a misogynist male fantasy (I say the former) - but its five awards show Bafta voters took the film to their hearts.

The other big winner was The Zone of Interest. Incredible to have a film win Outstanding British Film and Film Not in English.

The film's win for best sound feels very well deserved for a movie which does so much to create the horrors of Auschwitz without ever seeing inside the concentration camp. Hats off to Johnnie Burn and his team.

For the stars - winners and losers alike - it’s now time to party before they head off to LA for the Oscars in just a couple of weeks time.

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