Ioan’s Bafta Upset

The results of last night's Welsh Bafta Awards are in... but the jury's still out, according to some insiders. The Oscar-nominated film Solomon and Gaenor, starring Ioan Gruffudd, swept the board winning four awards at the ceremony in Cardiff last night - despite being refused a nomination from the ceremony's original jury. How so? Well, the first jury was convened under one Catrin Lewis Defis who decided, after much deliberation, that none of the films in competition this year merited being awarded Best Film, despite S&G having received an Oscar nomination. Defis's opinions didn't go down well at Bafta's Welsh headquarters and both she and the original jury were sacked and replaced with a new one, which promptly put S&G top of its list. The official Welsh Bafta site wisely stays out of the fray, putting the winners' names up in isolation - with no news on how the ceremony went. Nobody here at Empire Online received an invitation to last night's bash - but anyone who did is welcome to email us here and tell us how it went.