BAFTAs red carpet

Thanks for joining us for live coverage from this year's ceremony.

So Avatar has had a disappointing evening, picking up just two awards, while bomb disposal drama The Hurt Locker has won six awards including Best Film and Best Director.

Scroll down to see how the evening unfolded:

9.20pm - And here's something of a surprise, with The Hurt Locker taking the Best Film prize. The Iraq war film may not have had the box office success of Avatar but it's had a triumphant night, picking up six awards in all.

9.15pm - Carey Mulligan adds a second British triumph by winning the Best Actress award for her role in An Education.

9.10pm - There's British success in one of the major awards as Colin Firth is named Best Actor for his performance in A Single Man.

9.05pm - The big awards are coming - and the first has been won by Kathryn Bigelow, beating her ex-husband to Best Director! A Prophet has taken the award for the Best Film Not In The English Language.

8.55pm - The Best Adapted Screenplay award has been won by George Clooney's Up In The Air, while the Pixar animation Up has taken the Best Animation prize -  they're two different films, are you keeping up at the back?

8.45pm - Twilight star Kristen Stewart has won the Orange Rising Star Award - the only award tonight voted for by the public.

8.30pm - It's turning into a great night for The Hurt Locker which has now won the award for Best Original Screenplay, bringing its tally to four. Avatar picks up its second award by winning Best Production Design.

8.25pm - Mo'Nique will prove a popular winner as she takes the Best Supporting Actress gong for her role in Precious. And the BAFTA for the Outstanding British Film goes to Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank.

8.10pm - Two of the evening's big favourites - A Single Man and An Education - have both missed out on the Costume Design award. That goes instead to The Young Victoria, which also bags the award for Make-Up and Hair.

8.05pm - The first of the acting awards has been announced - and the Best Supporting Actor award goes to Christoph Waltz for his role in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

8pm - Avatar has predictably won the Best Special Visual Effects BAFTA - it would have been remarkable if it hadn't clinched that one at least!

7.45pm - If tonight is shaping up to be a head-to-head battle between former married couple James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow then it's the latter who's had the better start - The Hurt Locker has won both Best Sound and Best Editing as well as Best Cinematography.

7.35pm - Avatar has lost out on the first of its nominations - with Up winning the BAFTA for Best Music. Composer Michael Giacchino's other credits include Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Cloverfield, Star Trek and the TV series Lost.

7.20pm - The first of this year's awards has been won by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones - he wins the award for the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for his movie Moon.

7.05pm - The first news from the ceremony is that Prince William has been announced as the new President of BAFTA.

6.40pm - We're at the tail-end of the arrivals now, with last year's winners Mickey Rourke and Kate Winslet among those bringing up the rear. And Robert Pattinson is one of the last up the red carpet despite reports that he'd sneaked in the back way.

Among the no-shows are Best Actor nominees George Clooney and Jeff Bridges - do they know something we don't?

6.35pm - Avatar director James Cameron is extremely gracious about his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who's up against him for her film The Hurt Locker. He tells Sky News: "Kathryn's film is so good and she's such a great film-maker."

6.25pm - Colin Firth is very much a man in demand, working the full length of the 60m-long red carpet. Other recent arrivals include Anne-Marie Duff and Prince William, who is due to present the Academy Fellowship to Vanessa Redgrave.

6.15pm - Orange Rising Star Award nominee Nicholas Hoult is among the latest batch of celebs on the scene. And Audrey Tautou, who's nominated for Coco before Chanel, says the fact a French film is up for a BAFTA proves that the "English have good taste".

6.10pm - They're really arriving in force now - A Single Man star Colin Firth is here, as well as Aaron Johnson and Sam Taylor-Wood, the team behind Nowhere Boy, not to mention Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll star Andy Serkis - still sporting something of an Ian Dury haircut.

6pm - Precious star Gabby Sidibe is among the latest nominees to arrive. Meanwhile, Carey Mulligan tells Sky News: "Once you're nominated it's a bit like being on a game show. Just being there is a so much fun."

5.45pm - Saoirse Ronan, star of The Lovely Bones, has arrived in an eye-catching Burberry frock. Talking to Sky News, she says of the film: "It was challenging but for me this movie ultimately was about hope and love so that's what I thought about, not all the bad stuff."

5.30pm - Duncan Jones, who's up for Outstanding British Debut for Moon, tells Sky News he's thrilled to be nominated for his debut movie. "To be at something like this is absolutely amazing," he says.

Meanwhile Matt Dillon tips Mo'Nique to win the Best Supporting Actress award which he is presenting.

5.25pm - Carey Mulligan and James Cameron have just arrived, following hot on the heels of Inglourious Basterds star Christoph Waltz.

5.20pm - Matt Dillon is a surprise arrival but Quentin Tarantino gets booed for initially not stopping as he walks along the red carpet - he does eventually pause to chat.

Tarantino says it's wonderful for Inglourious Basterds to have earned so many nominations as he worked so hard on the film.

5.05pm - Up In The Air star Anna Kendrick is the first nominee to be seen treading the red carpet - she's up for the Best Supporting Actress award along with co-star Vera Farmiga.

Anna gets huge cheers from Twilight fans but tells Sky News she's a "consolation prize" for fans waiting for other Twilight cast members.

4.50pm - It's been quiet so far for star-spotters but film critic Mark Kermode is among the early arrivals.

He says it's a very open field compared to the Oscars - and is tipping An Education to do well, with Carey Mulligan in the running for Best Actress and the Orange Rising Star Award.