A film about an Irish woman forced to give up her child for adoption in the 1950s has tonight won a Bafta.

The film scooped the award for best adapted screenplay.

The movie, 'Philomena' was filmed in Killyleagh, Co Down, stars Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and was widely tipped to win a number of awards.

The Bafta for production design went to the adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel The Great Gatsby.

Gravity won its second award of the night when it picked up the Bafta for sound, while the award for editing went to Rush.

The Act of Killing - about Indonesian death squads who murdered thousands in the 1960s - was named best documentary.

Awards for make-up and hair and costume design went to American Hustle and The Great Gatsby respectively.