One of the Awards season favourites, The Power of the Dog, has won the two top prizes at the British Academy – or BAFTA – Film Awards.

It was named the Best Picture – as stars returned to a full post-Covid ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London – and Jane Campion was named the Best Director.

But its star, Benedict Cumberbatch, was beaten to the best actor prize by Will Smith, who portrayed the father of the tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard, who’s turning out to be the clear favourite for the Oscars, in two weeks’ time.

The only British performer to take a top acting prize was Joanna Scanlon – until now best known for TV shows including The Thick of It and No Offence – who was named the best actress for her performance as a muslim convert in the low-key British film After Love. She beat the House of Gucci star Lady Gaga, who’d been nominated by BAFTA but overlooked for the upcoming Oscars; After Love didn’t register with the American Academy – in fact, none of the six nominated actresses received Oscar nominations too.

In the supporting categories, Ariana DeBose won for West Side Story and Coda star Troy Kotsur became the first deaf actor to win a BAFTA. Delivering his acceptance speech through an interpreter, he said it was great to have his work recognised “from all the way across the sea.”

CODA also won the Best Adapted Screenplay award, while the Best Original Screenplay prize went to Paul Thomas Anderson for Licorice Pizza, completing another American double.

And after weeks of topping the UK singles chart, Disney’s Encanto was named the best animated feature.

As the British academy, BAFTA likes to have awards to recognise specifically British talent, and Sir Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical tale Belfast was named the Outstanding British Film, while Jeymes Samuel, whose western The Harder The Fall, opened last year’s BFI London Film Festival, won the prize for the Outstanding British debut.

There was more British success in another category that recognises the talent of the future; James Bond’s replacement as 007 in No Time To Die, Lashana Lynch, won the Rising Star award, voted for by the public.  The Bond film also won the Best Editing BAFTA.

The most nominated film, going into awards night, was the sci-fi epic Dune, which went home with five awards, including best score for Hans Zimmer, as well as best cinematography, production design, sound and special effects.

After the traditional In Memoriam section of the ceremony, in which tributes were paid to industry figures who’ve died over the past years, the host of the night, the Australian comic Rebel Wilson, said, “Our thoughts are also at this time with the people afflicted by the conflict in Ukraine,” as many of the stars wore blue and yellow badges or ribbons, reflecting the Ukrainian flag.

Ahead of the ceremony, BAFTA’s chairman, Krishnendu Majumdar, told the audience, “We are hugely grateful to the journalists and film-makers covering Ukraine, many of whom are BAFTA members.”

And here is the full list of the night’s winners: