MUMBAI: Iran hostage drama Argo won three awards including best-picture, at yesterday's British Academy Film Awards.

Ben Affleck was named best director for the film based on a real story of a long shot plan to rescue a group of American diplomats from Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the film also took the editing trophy.

Quipped George Clooney, one of the producers of Argo,"I don't know what you're going to do for a third act."

Daniel Day-Lewis won the best-actor trophy for Lincoln - the only prize out of 10 nominations for Steven Spielberg's historical biopic. Emmanuelle Riva, the 85-year-old French film legend, was named best actress for Michael Haneke's poignant old-age portrait Amour. It also was named best foreign-language film.

On the other hand, Les Miserables won four awards including best supporting actress for Anne Hathaway. James Bond adventure Skyfall won trophies for best music and best British film.

Meanwhile, Suraj Sharma, who was nominated in the EE Rising Star Award for his role on Life Of Pi, lost the trophy to actress Juno Temple. Juno, the actress of The Atonement was clearly more popular than Sharma as the rising star trophy is the only award at BAFTA that is decided by public vote.