55th British Academy Film Awards

Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman, was voted Outstanding British Film of 2001.

[2] Stephen Fry hosted the ceremony for the first time solo, after co-hosting with Mariella Frostrup the previous year.

After winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Russell Crowe gave a speech in which he quoted a poem by Patrick Kavanagh.

It was reported that the confrontation got physical and there was speculation that it would cost him the Academy Award for Best Actor; Crowe later apologized and ultimately lost the Oscar to Denzel Washington for Training Day.

[3][4][5][6][7][8] The following poem that was cut is four lines: "To be a poet and not know the trade, To be a lover and repel all women; Twin ironies by which great saints are made, The agonising pincer-jaws of heaven."