Jesse Eisenberg collected the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor on the behalf of his A Real Pain co-star Kieran Culkin on Sunday.
Kieran, 42, was awarded the gong for his performance as Benji Kaplan in the film, which was written, directed and starred in by Jesse, 41.
He beat off competition from his Succession screen brother Jeremy Strong, as well as Edward Norton, Yura Borisov, Guy Pearce and Clarence Maclin.
However, the actor was not in attendance at the ceremony, leaving Jesse to accept the prize for him and reveal it was the fifth award he’d accepted on Kieran’s behalf.
Taking to the stage, he joked: ‘Hi, thanks again. This is also the fifth award I’ve accepted on Kieran’s behalf.
‘It confirms what I’ve thought which is that we share the same life but his is about 27% better than mine’.
Jesse Eisenberg collected the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor on the behalf of his A Real Pain co-star Kieran Culkin on Sunday
Kieran, 42, was awarded the gong for his performance as Benji Kaplan in the film, which was written, directed and starred in by Jesse, 41 (pictured together in the movie)
However, the actor was not in attendance at the ceremony, leaving Jesse to accept the prize for him and reveal it was the fifth award he’d accepted on Kieran’s behalf
Explaining Kieran’s absence from the awards, Jesse revealed he had been forced to remain in New York to care for an ill family member.
He said: ‘Kieran would love to be here, we spoke this morning. He is in New York with a family member who is quite sick.
‘He is so devoted as a dad that he tried to drop out of my movie two weeks before we started shooting because he didn’t want to leave his kids.
‘It’s real, it’s beautiful and it’s admirable his devotion to his family. He is one of these lovely people who is brilliantly talented, but who for some random luck of the cosmos, has his priorities in order.’
Jesse has previously collected Kieran’s gongs at the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards, National Society of Film Critics Award and National Board of Review Awards.
Later in the evening Jesse also collected Best Original Screenplay gong and shared an emotional speech on the stage.
Picking up the movie’s second prize, he admitted: ‘I didn’t write anything because I didn’t think I’d win. I want to share this with my wife, who didn’t come because she didn’t think I’d win.’
Meanwhile Conclave has picked up four gongs so far at the 2025 BAFTAs including the unbelievable Outstanding British Film Award.
Explaining Kieran’s absence from the awards, Jesse revealed he had been forced to remain in New York to care for an ill family member (Kieran pictured winning Golden Globe last month)
Later in the evening Jesse also collected Best Original Screenplay gong and shared an emotional speech on the stage
Jesse has previously collected Kieran’s gongs at the Golden Globes , Critics’ Choice Awards (pictured) National Society of Film Critics Award and National Board of Review Awards
Up against a huge list of 10 nominees, Conclave came up triumphs in the very unique category – adding to their previous three gongs for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Director.
Receiving the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film, director Edward Berger said: ‘It is a huge honour, outstanding British film, and I’m not even from here! I feel so welcome in your midst. We live in a time of crisis for democracy. Institutions that used to bring us together are used to pull us apart.
‘Sometimes it is hard to keep the faith in that situation, but that’s why we make movies and that’s why we made this movie.’
Tearful Zoe Saldana accepted Best Supporting Actress award with a expletive-laden speech for her Mexican movie Emilia Perez.
The award-winning actress, 46, was quickly pulled off camera for swearing as she shouted ‘f***, f***, f***’ when the countdown hurried her.
Zoe was in floods of tears as she accepted the award, admitting it is ‘so validating and a true honour’ to be honoured an award after being previously told by dialect coaches ‘that her British accent wasn’t going to work’.
Listing off her thank yous, Zoe said: ‘Oh my god I’m getting a countdown. F*** f*** f***!’
The Mexican movie, which has received mixed reviews despite its starring cast including Selena Gomez, is up for a staggering 11 nominations.
The biggest night in British film returned with actor David Tennant as host and an array of guest presenters on hand to deliver awards throughout the night.
