‘Revenant’ tops BAFTAs

The UK film industry showered Valentine’s Day love on ‘‘The Revenant’’ Sunday, awarding the endurance epic five prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards, known as BAFTAs. Leonardo DiCaprio cemented his Oscar-favorite status by taking the best-actor trophy for playing a bear-battling fur trapper in a brutally wild American West. ‘‘The Revenant’’ filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu was named best director for what he called a ‘‘human and tender story.’’ The best-actress trophy went to Brie Larson as a mother trying to shield her son from a terrible reality in ‘‘Room.’’ Supporting performer prizes went to Mark Rylance, a soft-spoken Soviet agent ‘‘Bridge of Spies,’’ and Kate Winslet, an Apple executive in ‘‘Steve Jobs.’’ Irish emigrant saga ‘‘Brooklyn’’ was named best British film, a distinct category, while the documentary prize went to ‘‘Amy,’’ a powerful portrait of the rise and fall of singer Amy Winehouse. (AP)

Writers Guild awards

Oscar contenders ‘‘Spotlight’’ and ‘‘The Big Short’’ won the top awards for screenwriting from the Writers Guild of America at a ceremony Saturday that was held in Los Angeles and New York. ‘‘Spotlight,’’ about the Boston Globe’s effort to uncover a priest sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, won for best original screenplay. The writers are Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy. ‘‘The Big Short,’’ about the 2008 financial crisis, won for best adapted screenplay. In the television categories, the now-concluded AMC series ‘‘Mad Men,’’ starring Jon Hamm, won for drama. The HBO series ‘‘Veep,’’ starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, won for comedy. (AP)