Sir Sam Mendes wins Best Director at Baftas as 1917 wins best film

Sir Sam Mendes has won big at this year's BAFTA film awards, taking home the Best Director award for directingh 1917, which also won best film.

The First World War epic also won Best British Film, taking Sir Sam's awards on the night to three.

"There's the personal delight in seeing a story very close to me and my family be developed and enlarged but the massive thing has been audiences going in large numbers," he told the BBC backstage.

In his acceptance speech, he said: "It's a war film but it's a film about home and family. So it's moving to me to get this in my hometown for the first time."