Slumdog steals BAFTA show ...

Slumdog Millionaire, Kate Winslet and Mickey Rourke became firm Oscar favorites with big wins at the British Academy Film Awards.

Rags-to-riches tale Slumdog continued its fairy-tale journey with seven prizes on Sunday, including best picture. Winslet and Rourke took acting honors - Winslet for her role as a former Nazi concentration camp guard in The Reader, Rourke for his career-reviving performance as a washed-up athlete in The Wrestler. Heath Ledger won a posthumous supporting actor award for The Dark Knight.

"It's such a pleasure to be back here, out of the darkness," Rourke said.