21 WTF Moments From The BAFTAs 2016

The Bag Lady of the BAFTAs?

By Jack Pooley /

That's it: we've passed the last major stop on the way to the Oscars. The BAFTAs rarely have a massive bearing on the Academy Awards, but it's nevertheless a welcome stop-gap after the glossy, drunken insanity of the Golden Globes, a more sober, serious ceremony that still knows how to have a little fun. The show itself didn't serve up a ton of surprises winners-wise, but it did paint an interesting picture of the Best Picture race moving forward, which is frankly anyone's to win or lose. Also, Stephen Fry's hosting job was broached perfectly between pure cringe and pure hilarity, and as usual, the winners had their own share of comic zingers to throw out at the podium. If you ever wanted to see Leonardo DiCaprio kiss an old legend of the British film industry, this is definitely the awards show for you. Here are 21 WTF moments from the BAFTAs 2016...

21. Stephen Fry Trolls Catholic Priests

As with just about any major movie awards show, the BAFTAs opened with host Stephen Fry delivering a jibe-filled monologue, and of course, he couldn't resist mentioning that the show fell on Valentine's Day this year. He added that love pervaded many of the year's movies, be it "the love between two women , the love between a young Irish girl and an Italian American , the love between Roman Catholic priests and...their lawyers". In the latter case, he was of course referring to Spotlight, just as the director cuts to Mark Ruffalo, whose wife seemed especially shocked by the joke.