Awards ceremony is like a circus: Final preparations are under way ahead of the 2018 Bafta awards

Artists from Cirque Du Soleil’s OVO lay the seating plan at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the last stage of preparations for the British Academy Film Awards, set to take over the iconic venue this Sunday. Joanna Lumley will bring an end to Stephen Fry’s decadelong dominance as host of the evening a year after being made a fellow. Nominations have been dominated by the Guillermo Del Toro fanta- sy blockbuster The Shape Of Water, set to make off with most of the gongs. Attention will also be focused on a repeat of the “Time’s Up” protest which took over the Golden Globes earlier this year,