BAFTA 2022 Film Awards ‘I’m here for ALL the witches!’ Harry Potter star Emma Watson ‘slams’ JK Rowling amid transgender row at returning show
Emma Watson appeared to slam Harry Potter author JK Rowling as she took to the stage at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday.
The actress, 31 – best known for her role as Hermione Grainger in the film adaptations of Rowling’s books – took to the stage to present the award of Best Outstanding British Film, when she was introduced by host Rebel Wilson.
Rebel said: ‘Here to present the next award is Emma Watson. She calls herself a feminist, but we all know she’s a witch.’
Throwing shade: Emma Watson appeared to make a subtle dig against author JK Rowling during this year’s BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday
Emma then emphasised: ‘I’m here for ALL the witches!’
Viewers at home saw the comment as a jibe at the Harry Potter creator, and took to Twitter to praise the actress.
One wrote: ‘”I’m here for all the women”. Sly ‘lil dig at JK Rowling there, Emma Watson?’
Star: The actress, 31, took to the stage to present the award of Best Outstanding British Film, when she was introduced by host Rebel Wilson
Another echoed: ‘Live for Emma Watson throwing subtle shade at JK Rowling at the #BAFTAs #LGBWithTheT #JKDoesntSpeakForMe’.
A third chimed in to add: ‘was that a jibe by emma watson at jk rowling? what a QUEEEEENNN’.
Rebel took aim at JK earlier in the night, as she joked about her recent weight loss.
Jibe: Viewers at home saw the comment as a dig at the Harry Potter creator, and took to Twitter to praise the actress
Referring to a picture of her at the 2020 ceremony that appeared on screen, she quipped: ‘That was me two years ago and since then I’ve done quite a transformation – I hope JK Rowling still approves.’
The jabs come after JK’s statements on transgender issues were branded transphobic by some fans.
The controversy surrounding her began after she tweeted about biological sex leading to backlash and a subsequent ‘cancellation’ from the trans community.
In June 2020, she took to Twitter to criticize an opinion piece that used the term ‘people who menstruate’ instead of women. She then continued with a thread discussing biological sex.
She later clarified that she respects ‘every trans person’s rights to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them,’ and went on to say she would march ‘if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans.
‘At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female,’ she said, the Associated Press reported at the time. ‘I do not believe it’s hateful to say so.’
Then, in September 2020, she faced renewed calls of transphobia after it was revealed the the villain in her latest book, Troubled Blood – written under Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith – is a male serial killer who dresses as a woman to slay his victims.
In the wake of these remarks, Harry Potter actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma and Eddie Redmayne, who stars in her Fantastic Beasts films, criticised the author.
Controversy: The jabs come after JK’s statements on transgender issues were branded transphobic by some fans (pictured at the BAFTAs in 2017)
BAFTAs 2022: THE WINNERS
Best Film
The Power of the Dog- WINNER
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
Outstanding British Film
Belfast- WINNER
After Love
Ali & Ava
Boiling Point
Cyrano
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
Last Night in Soho
No Time To Die
Passing
Leading Actress
Joanna Scanlan, After Love – WINNER
Lady Gaga, House of Gucci
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones, CODA
Renata Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
Tessa Thompson, Passing
Leading Actor
Will Smith, King Richard- WINNER
Adeel Akhtar, Ali & Ava
Mahershala Ali, Swansong
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Leonardo DiCaprio, Don’t Look Up
Stephen Graham, Boiling Point
Supporting Actress
Victory: Ariana DeBose was awarded the gong for Best Supporting Actress
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story – WINNER
Caitríona Balfe, Belfast
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ruth Negga, Passing
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Ann Dowd, Mass
Supporting Actor
Congrats: Troy Kotsur got Supporting Actor for his role in Coda
Troy Kotsur, CODA- WINNER
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Director
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog- WINNER
Aleem Khan, After Love
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Audrey Diwan, Happening
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Julia Ducournau, Titane
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
The Harder They Fall- WINNER
After Love
Boiling Point
Keyboard Fantasies
Passing
Adapted Screenplay
CODA- WINNER
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog
Original Screenplay
Licorice Pizza- WINNER
Being the Ricardos
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
EE Rising Star Award
EE Rising Star Award: Bond star Lashana Lynch won
Lashana Lynch -WINNER
Harris Dickinson
Millicent Simmonds
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Ariana DeBose
Cinematography
Dune- WINNER
Nightmare Alley
No Time To Die
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Animated Film
Encanto- WINNER
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs The Machines
Documentary
Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)- WINNER
Becoming Cousteau
Cow
Flee
The Rescue
Film Not in the English Language
Drive My Car- WINNER
The Hand of God
Parallel Mothers
Petite Maman
The Worst Person in the World
Costume Design
Costume Design: Cruella won the gong
Cruella- WINNER
Cyrano
Dune
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley
Make Up & Hair
The Eyes of Tammy Faye- WINNER
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
House of Gucci
Original Score
Dune – WINNER
Being The Ricardos
Don’t Look Up
The French Dispatch
The Power of the Dog
Editing
No Time To Die- WINNER
Belfast
Dune
Licorice Pizza
Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Production Design
Dune – WINNER
Cyrano
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Sound
Dune – WINNER
Last Night in Soho
No Time to Die
A Quiet Place Part II
West Side Story
Special Visual Effects
Dune- WINNER
British Short Animation
Casting
Boiling Point
The Hand of God
King Richard
West Side Story
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