Keira & James' BAFTA Hopes

Keira Knightley and James McAvoy are hoping the British Academy Film Awards - or BAFTAs to you ad me - will win big on Sunday night.

The wartime epic about lovers torn apart by a family betrayal is hot favourite to land the Best Film prize - but its two stars could be in for yet another disappointment after being passed over in the recent Oscar nominations.

Atonement, a homegrown favourite with BAFTA's 6,500 voting members, is up for Best Film against Ridley Scott's American Gangster, the Coen Brothers' acclaimed No Country for Old Men as well as The Lives of Others and There Will be Blood.

Meanwhile, Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie are expected to take the top acting awards for their films There Will Be Blood ad Away From Her.

Organisers say the red carpet BAFTA show at the Royal Opera House I London has attracted an impressive array of American TV networks, eager to generate some much needed show business hype in the run-up to the Oscars.