BAFTAs 2018: 7 Ups & 6 Downs

3. Frances McDormand's Awesome Acceptance Speech

BAFTAs 2018 Frances McDormand
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Frances McDormand won an expected and much-deserved Best Actress BAFTA for her marvelous work in Three Billboards, and gave one of the night's most charming and affecting speeches.

After thanking BAFTA as "British...film people", she went on to comment about her own "trouble with compliance" by not wearing black in support of the #MeToo movement, but professed her support for it and the current moment of social activism shaking up the entertainment industry.

She then spoke of her youth, where she was told she was "not naturally gifted" as an actress, before asking the audience, "Who would've thought that Marge Gunderson would grow up to be Mildred Hayes?"

One thing's for sure: she's going to give one hell of an acceptance speech at the Oscars in a few weeks.

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