Christina Hendricks Wins The BAFTA's 2012

Awards shows usually get a bad rep due to everyones focus on the clothes that the stars are wearing rather than the actual awards, but when the show in question is as predictable as the BAFTA's I'm sure you can forgive me for my attention straying a little.

Because even though it cleaned house with a whopping 7 (SEVEN) wins, Christina Hendricks' corset still spoke to me more than The Artist did. Perhaps this was in some way due to The Artist being a silent film, but either way, Christina Hendricks – WOW.

Described in the newspapers as a 'Vivienne Westwood corseted black column dress', I could describe it more accurately by saying "AWOOGA! Homana-homana!" and then running through a wall and leaving a perfect outline of my body in the brickwork.

Christina was there in support of Drive, which really should've won Best Picture but was beaten by The Artist which took home 7 (SEVEN!) awards, equalling the totals of Slumdog Millionaire and last years The King's Speech.

Other winners included Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Actress in The Help, Christopher Plummer for Best Supporting Actor in The Beginners and Brad Pitt, who didn't actually win any awards but upon landing in the UK became an impromptu God of sorts, making his way into 2 acceptance speeches with Michel Hazanavicius "proud" because he "pronounced his name correctly" and Adam Deacon, winner of the Orange Wednesdays Rising Star award thanks to his performance in Anuvahood, saying that he couldn't believe he was "even in the same place as Brad Pitt". Rumours that BAFTA organisers were forced to sacrifice three sheep in order to get Pitt to appear at the show are still yet to be confirmed.

The most talked about win of the night aside from The Artist was Meryl Streep's Best Actress win for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. The headlines today shall no doubt read "Streep Takes Home BAFTA For Performance In Biopic Shocker!", because we all know that actors getting awards for portraying other famous people, particularly politicians, is almost unheard of.

The only thing more English than that heavy dollop of sarcasm is this moment that occured during Streep's acceptance speech;