The actor Chiwetel Ejiofor has beaten the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Bruce Dern to take this year's best actor at the 2014 Baftas.
He drew huge cheers as he reached the podium to receive his award. "I'm so deeply honoured and privileged," he said, thanking director Steve McQueen. "Thank you for you work, your artisty and your passion in this project … to make it of such value, of such worth. This is yours by the way – I'm going to keep it, that's the kind of guy I am, but it's yours."
He thanked his fellow cast members, including Michael Fassbender, saying "you are a marvel" and called them all "an extraordinary group – everybody bringing an extraordinary passion to this project". He also thanked his family, telling his new niece and nephew, Hero and River, that: "we will endeavour to make a world you are proud of."
Ejiofor appears in almost every scene of the film playing Solomon Northup, a free man who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw described it as "a performance of incomparable heroism and presence".
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