BAFTA Film Awards

Lots of success for UK writers at the BAFTAs last night, including:

• Martin McDonagh - Original screenplay (In Bruges)
• Simon Beaufoy - Adapted screenplay (Slumdog Millionaire)
• Steve Pegram, Nick Park, Bob Baker - Short animation (Wallace And Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death)
• Steve McQueen - The Carl Foreman Award for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer for their first feature film (director/writer of Hunger, co-written with Enda Walsh)
• Noel Clarke - Orange Rising Star Award (writer and star of Adulthood)

Slumdog Millionaire, based on the book by Vikas Swarup, also won Best Film and Best Director (for Danny Boyle)