Conclave named best film at Baftas, as The Brutalist also wins big

Steven McIntoshReporting from the Bafta Award Ceremony

In the winners' room backstage, best actor winner Adrien Brody is hungry.

"I haven't eaten anything yet, so I’m not sure how I’m feeling, but I feel a lot of love and I’m so happy to be here," he says.

He is asked about the surge his career has enjoyed thanks to The Brutalist, more than two decades after his last awards run for The Pianist.

"The beauty of being an actor is that any life experience, and there have been many since that wonderful film, anything you’ve experienced is so valuable in shaping a sense of understanding," he reflects.

"So the moments of triumph, loss, complexity along your path, they give you an ability to represent those more truthfully and authentically in your work.

"I’m just so grateful to have had this meaningful opportunity come my way, I’ve been yearning for this for a long time.

"I’ve been working very hard. It’s not for a lack of hard work, but there are so many magical things that have to happen for a film to achieve greatness and I’m so happy that all of those things conspired on The Brutalist."

And with that, he's off to have some supper.