It's BAFTA Time 
Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 3:38PM
NATHANIEL R in Amy Adams, BAFTA, Claire Foy, Cynthia Erivo, Glenn Close, Jason Isaacs, Olivia Colman, Richard E Grant, Roma, The Favourite, precursor awards

As per usual the BAFTAs aren't broadcasting live but tape delayed but we'll be watching the arrivals and sharing the winners as we hear about them after the jump...

 

Right now we're watching clips from the nominee party yesterday and we learned that Melissa McCarthy is a huge fan of The Favourite, saying:

The Favourite broke my brain in the best possible way.

Ours too, Melissa, ours too...

Regina King is a fan of both A Star is Born and Can You Ever Forgive Me? Everyone in the clips appears to be rooting for Roma and Olivia Colman. But of course we're only getting editors curated soundbites from a handful of celebrities. You could probably make any film or performance sound like the favourite to take it this way. 

Barry Jenkins says he feels like a proud father to have Nicholas Britell nominated for Best Score. Cute. He's also thrilled that James Baldwin is having a renaissance at the moment.

Amy Adams takes selfies with fans - lucky guy here - and tells the reporter, quite convincingly, that BAFTA is her absolutely favourite awards show (who knew?). She shares that her 8 year old daughter loves Bohemian Rhapsody.

Jason Isaacs is candid when asked which films he liked.

It's not about what I like it's about I want my friends to win. Richard E Grant and Viggo and I don't care about the rest"

Well, now. He goes on to say it's going to be magnificent when Richard E Grant wins this AND WHEN HE WINS THE OSCAR. He actually says this albeit not in all caps and we hope he's right with this bold prediction. 

Everyone being interviewed seems to be obsessed with Richard E Grant but somehow, we hear, he already lost the BAFTA. Disappointing. We'll never understand the Mahershala Ali steamroll, so soon after his Oscar win and for a lesser performance (it'd be another thing entirely if he had outdone Moonlight). Richard E Grant is interviewed and seems (typically) ectastic. Also says he thinks both "Roma and The Favourite are masterpieces"

Cynthia Erivo, nominated for Rising Star, says she still gets starstruck all the time. She is particularly giddy about what she's wearing because she's presenting Costume Design and Sandy Powell is a personal hero of hers so the look (we know the feeling, girl) has to be right. 

Glenn Close is a huge fan of Capernaum, saying it's her favourite of the season. "Moved me to my core." And she gets indignant that Jonathan Pryce wasn't nominated along with her so she brought him to BAFTA as her date because 'he's my partner in this'. She's such a glass act.

Jonathan breaks my heart in this film. It's a complicit relationship that they slip into. The whole sequence at the Nobel prize what [he] did was profound and heartbreaking.

She's such a class act.

We always lose interest in the BAFTAs about a single hour into coverage. This is largely because they haven't caught up to the 21st century and refuse to stream anything live -- even the "live" arrivals are tape delayed and edited. So you already know everthing before you see it and then you're not even seeing it in full. It's so dispiriting and weirdly archaic. 

One last treat. Claire Foy, in very high spirits (perhaps that's what happens when you know it's the last awards show you have to go to and you're not going to win) admits she's starving and the red carpet reporters give her a "wine gum". Living for her face journey when she tastes it (pictured left). We give her the BAFTA for Most Relatable Moment on the Red Carpet. 

 

THE BAFTA WINNERS ARE NOW FULLY ANNOUNCED


Best film

Oscar, here it comes. Even though no foreign film has ever won the Oscar there's a first time for everything. It's tough to imagine it losing now on a preferential ballot since everyone at least respects it and a lot of people just love it. 

Outstanding British film

The Favourite won the most prizes overall, gaining strength as we approach Oscar night or merely the UK favourite?

Leading actor

Sigh. 

Leading actress

Glenn Close has not historically been a BAFTA favourite so we wouldn't read too much into this. This is only her second nomination in BAFTA history. But Olivia Colman is definitely the closest we have to a potential darkhorse should Oscar not be ready to coronate Glenn.

Supporting actor

Though we'd been hoping that Grant was on the upswing his loss here on his hometurf, where he's more famous and more beloved than Mahershala Ali who was able to win for a film that won nothing else, convinces us that Ali is a mortal lock and not just the frontrunner. Sigh. 

Supporting actress

As suspected it goes to Rachel Weisz. It's been a volatile season for Supporting Actress. We have a two way race for the Oscar between Rachel Weisz and Regina King with Amy Adams as a distant dark horse.

Director

Still locked for his second Oscar. 

EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

Beast didn't make much of a splash in the US but it sure was popular in the UK. This isn't its first prize there. 

Film not in the English language

Just how many Oscars is Roma going to win?

Documentary

Hmmm. Perhaps RBG isn't a lock for the Oscar. We shall see. Though she's more of an icon to Americans of course. 

Animated film

Another Oscar lock at this point.

Original screenplay

Adapted screenplay

Happy for Spike Lee!

Original music

Since they don't have a song category, this was probably to be expected.

Cinematography

After losing the ASC to Cold War (perhaps cinematographers didn't want to hand that prize to a director rather than a DP) Cuarón rebounds with a win at BAFTA. 

Costume design

Can Sandy win her fourth Oscar or is Black Panther the frontrunner at the Oscars? Seems like a tossup from where we sit. If this Oscar category is not broadcast on air we will go ballistic. 

Editing

ick.

Production design

Again. Can Black Panther prove competitive or will The Favourite dominate the eye candy prizes?

Make-up and hair

Here's a place The Favourite can't win at Oscar since it's not nominated. Look to Vice to probably prevail with Oscar voters.

Sound

We love Queen's music, too, voters. But you know this prize doesn't go to that discography, right?

Special visual effects

This is why we're glad Black Panther wasn't nominated in this category at the Oscars. If it's nominated it always wins (see also the Critics Choice awards) because of enthusiasm for the film but categories are supposed to be based on themselves, not the overall films.

British short film

British short animation

Outstanding contribution to British cinema

 And that's it for BAFTA this year. We'll watch clips of The Favourite wins later, mkay? The rest is already old hat since it's happened everywhere else and also tape delayed therefore dull.

 

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