BAFTAs mixed up Best Supporting Actress winner Kerry Condon with Carey Mulligan

Ooops. Not again. The BAFTAs had a very close shave when it initially announced the wrong acting winner.

The BAFTAs originally read out the wrong winner. Picture: Britbox

The BAFTAs nearly had a repeat of the Oscar’s infamous La La Land/Moonlight mix-up during today’s ceremony.

The moment happened during the Best Supporting Actress category, when last year’s winner and deaf actor Troy Kotsur was presenting the award. After the clip package of the nominees was played, Carey Mulligan was announced as the winner before the interpreter quickly corrected the record to Kerry Condon.

According to Variety, it was unclear whether the original slip-up had been Kotsur’s or the interpreter’s.

Condon’s name was also displayed on the screen and her co-star Colin Farrell could be seen encouraging Condon to go up onstage, Variety reported.

The first-two thirds of the ceremony was not broadcast live and the mistake was edited out of the broadcast on the BBC. It has also been edited out of the on-demand stream on Britbox in Australia.

Kerry Condon accepting her award after an initial slip-up. Picture: Britbox

Condon won for her performance in Irish black comedy-drama The Banshees of Inisherin, where she played the no-nonsense sister to Farrell’s dimwitted character.

Mulligan was nominated for portraying a New York Times reporter in the true story adaptation She Said, a movie which charted how two journalists broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s multiple sexual assaults.

Condon’s acceptance speech won many fans when after the usual thanks to writer and director Martin McDonagh, her co-stars and her family, she gave a shout-out to her pets.

“I have to thank my horses and my dogs because they show me so much love and give me so much meaning in my life,” she said on stage to rapturous applause.

Condon and co-star Barry Keoghan both picked up supporting acting awards at the BAFTAs even though lead Colin Farrell missed out to American Austin Butler.

The Banshees of Inisherin won four gongs overall, including Best British Film. The Irish film was co-financed by UK’s Channel 4, which made it eligible for the category.

German anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front emerged the big winner, picking up seven awards overall including Best Picture and Best Director. It went into the competition with 14 nominations.

Elvis won four awards including Butler’s victory, as well as in three technical categories.

Cate Blanchett won Best Actress for her role in Tar as a narcissistic conductor. She is now frontrunner to win the Best Actress Oscar next month.

Cate Blanchett won her fourth BAFTA film award. Picture: Isabel Infantes/AFP

In accepting the BAFTA, Blanchett said the role was “very dangerous and career-ending, potentially”.

She also paid tribute to her fellow nominees – Michelle Yeoh, Viola Davis, Danielle Deadwyler, Ana de Armas and Emma Thompson – and their work.

“We know we’re just the tip of the iceberg every year. These idiosyncratic, remarkable performances just break down the myth that women’s experience is monolithic. So thank you to BAFTA for recognising all of us. We sit in dialogue with one another.”

In 2017, the Oscars ceremony famously mixed up the winner of the Best Picture category. Presenter Faye Dunaway read out La La Land had won and the cast and crew were onstage collecting the award and halfway through acceptance speeches when the penny dropped.

Producer Jordan Horowitz was handed an envelope by stagehand, which he held up to the cameras and declared, “There’s a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture, this is not a joke.”

It later emerged responsibility for the mishap laid with the accountancy firm which validated the results, Pricewaterhouse Coopers. A PwC representative backstage handed Dunaway and fellow presenter Warren Beatty the wrong envelope.

Originally published as BAFTAs mixed up Best Supporting Actress winner Kerry Condon with Carey Mulligan