His film I Swear was one of the standout winners at the Baftas on Sunday night – picking up three awards.
But for director Kirk Jones, perhaps the most exciting part of the ceremony was accepting the offer of a sofa from the lead actor’s furniture-maker father.
Jones said he agreed to have it when Robert Aramayo won best leading actor for his role in the film as Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson.
The director, from Bristol, said: “[Aramayo’s dad] came over, he grabbed me, we were jumping up and down and I said, ‘I’ll have the sofa, I’ll have the sofa’.”