MUMBAI: The British period drama Atonement took home the prize for best film at the Bafta Awards. It beat out stiff competition from the likes of No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood.

British actor Daniel Day-Lewis took home the prize for best actor for the turn of the century drama There Will Be Blood. He plays oil prospector Daniel Plainview in that film. He is the favourite to win an Oscar as well.

French actress Marion Cotillard triumphed for her role in La Vie En Rose playing singer Edith Piaf. The Coen Brothers won for directing the most crically-acclaimed film of last year No Country for Old Men. Javier Bardem won for supporting actor for playing a serial killer in that film. British actress Tilda Swinton won for supporting actress playing an attorney in the morality drama Michael Clayton.

The original screenplay award was presented to Diablo Cody for the comedy Juno which looks at teen pregnancy. The adapted screenplay award went to Ronald Harwood for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.