Sean Penn Wins BAFTA, Mescal and Elordi Snubbed

Sean Penn Wins BAFTA, Mescal and Elordi Snubbed

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and both missed out on the Supporting Actor nod at this year's as scooped the award for his role in One Battle After Another in London on Sunday night. 

The Milk star was not present to accept the honour, leading presenter to joke: 'I'm going to take it.' 

Despite receiving high praise for his role in Hamnet, the Irish actor missed out on the honour. 

Meanwhile Jacob had also been nominated in the category for his role as the Monster in 's Frankenstein, but he was not present at the awards. 

Other nominations in the category included Benicio Del Toro for One Battle After Another, Petter Mullan for I Swear and Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value. 

Paul was also snubbed during the Oscar nominations, however his Hamnet co-star is nominated for Leading Actress at both the and the BAFTAs.

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Paul Mescal and Jacob Elordi missed out on Best Supporting Actor as Sean Penn secures the BAFTA for One Battle After Another

Sean Penn starred as Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw, a hardline military antagonist in the Paul Thomas Anderson film 

Elsewhere at the ceremony Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku was among the early winners for Best Supporting Actress. 

Mosaku, who is pregnant with her second child, thanked her husband, family and daughter from the stage, and said that her mother had 'beamed' her love at her 'to give me the freedom to make my choices.'

She said that playing priestess Annie in Sinners she had connected with a part of herself which she had 'dimmed as an immigrant trying to fit in.'

Ryan Coogler wrote the role of Hoodoo priestess Annie in Sinners especially for Mosaku, who was raised in Manchester and sang for 11 years in the Manchester Girls' Choir.

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A Rada graduate, she was catapulted into the spotlight in the 2010 film I Am Slave, in which she played a Sudanese girl sold into slavery.

She won a TV BAFTA as best supporting actress for her role as Damilola Taylor's mother Gloria in Damilola, Our Loved Boy, and has appeared in blockbusters Deadpool & Wolverine and Batman vs Superman.

She was born in Zaria, Nigeria to parents who are both professors. She now lives in Los Angeles and is expecting her second child.

'It's just been the best feeling ever because we really loved this film,' said Mosaku, who has previously won a Bafta TV Award for her role as Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy.