On Thursday, the Queen spent the day at Buckingham Palace where she presented honours to a number of Britain's 2012 Olympic winners.
Bafta chair Tim Corrie described him as "one of the finest exponents of his craft" and said the special award - presented in honour of Dennis Potter - was "very well deserved".
"I've never been to the Oscars, I've been to few pre Oscar parties," Stephen Fry tells me at the Oscar Wilde awards in Santa Monica, where he is presenting an honour to Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher.
When I was attending university open days back in 2012, my university presented joint honours degrees as solely positive and beneficial.
This prompted an understandably bemused response from her brother Patrick, also the Guardian's political editor, when he went up on stage to present the award in honour of their father, the Charles Wintour award for most promising playwright.
First presented in 1969, the MacRobert Award honours engineering innovation.
Depp, who sneaked into the awards ceremony to surprise his friend, said it was his "great honour" to present the award to "a very great man", saying he had been "fascinated and inspired" by him.
However, his illegal status meant he couldn't travel to Barcelona to receive the award from the football legend, so Cruyff flew to Amsterdam to present the honour.
The Prince of Wales presented the honour; Moore was in his wheelchair.
The participants were spun a yarn about how doing these quizzes would allow them to judge the comfort and quality of the glasses.Crucially, the quizzes were presented as "honour tests" that participants would mark themselves, reporting their own scores to the study's organisers.
