OT: Weir is BAFTA's Best Director
...though Bettany didn't win. Here is the very partisan Australian coverage..

'Ring's Return Named Top Film by Bafta
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Correspondent, PA News

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won best film at this year’s BAFTAs on another night of disappointment for Cold Mountain.

Cold Mountain had led the field with 13 nominations but picked up only two – best supporting actress for Renee Zellweger and an award for best score.

Instead it was The Lord of the Rings and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, which were the big winners, with four BAFTA awards each, and The Lord of the Rings also won the Orange Film of the Year, presented tonight but which is voted by the general public.

Peter Weir won Best Director for Master and Commander, a swashbuckling epic set on the high seas during the Napoleonic wars.

Bill Murray won Best Actor and Scarlett Johansson won Best Actress, both for Lost in Translation.

Nineteen-year-old newcomer Johannson had also been nominated for Girl With a Pearl Earring, a rare double in BAFTA history.

Bill Nighy won Best Supporting Actor for his role in British hit Love Actually.

No one film emerged to sweep the board this year.

Cold Mountain had been expected to do well but, as with the Golden Globes, BAFTA voters were unimpressed by the American Civil War drama.

Touching the Void, a documentary about a true life mountaineering drama, won outstanding British Film of the Year.

Best non-English film was In This World, a film by 24 Hour Party People director Michael Winterbottom. The film tells the story of two young Afghan refugees and their perilous journey to Britain as asylum seekers.