BAFTA lacks diversity (in all sorts of ways) and goes all in on "Joker"
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 11:24AM by Nathaniel R
I've made it no secret over the years that I think BAFTA is the worst of the major awards organizations. They always appear to have watched an extremely limited pool of films (even less than Oscar's tunnel vision screener stack) and they regularly ignore British fare unless it's tipped to be hot at the Oscars (like 1917). This year is no different. They threw all their weight behind Joker (an astounding 11 nominations) and three of the films which feel like possibilities to win the Oscar for Best Picture: The Irishman, Once Upon a Time..., and 1917 (their one UK-produced love). Those four movies handily dominated the nomination count.
We also have to call bulls*** on BAFTA executives blaming the film industry for their lack of diverse nominations this year. Their acting nominees are all white this year and their directing nominees all male. They've responded saying:
"We'd have liked to have seen more diversity in the nominations, it does continue to be an industry-wide issue. I think more films need to be made, and entered, giving people a chance to see them. We'd absolutely like to see more diversity, but I also don't want to take away from those celebrating today."
As you all know, since I've been chastised for it before, I'm not always happy about where the complaints about diversity are focused. In some years the Oscar voters have been (I feel) wrongly targeted when there just weren't a lot of options for them. This year however there is no excuse as there are multiple lauded actors of color from films like Us, Dolemite is My Name, Waves, The Farewell, Luce, Harriet, Hustlers, and Parasite. And it's also been a great year for female directors given Little Women, Hustlers, Atlantics,A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and The Farewell.
The full list of nominations with commentary are after the jump...
Best Film
1917
The Irishman
Joker
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Parasite
In other words the five exact frontrunners for Oscar's Best Picture prize.
Leading Actress
Jessie Buckley, Wild Rose
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Renée Zellweger, Judy
Nice to see Jessie Buckley recognized here. They really ought to support their own more often rather than just predicting the Oscar list.
Leading Actor
Leonardo Dicaprio, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Taron Egerton, Rocketman
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
No Antonio Banderas is deeply distressing.
Supporting Actress
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Margot Robbie, Bombshell
Margot Robbie, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Was the double nomination for Robbie necessary? This points to how few movies they're watching we think.
Supporting Actor
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
It's almost shocking how uniform the precursors have been with supporting actor this year. Time to change the Oscar predictions to just this. And at least two of those are leads but what can you do. We've grown hoarse from complaining each year about category fraud.
Outstanding British Film
1917
Bait
For Sama
Rocketman
Sorry We Missed You
The Two Popes
It's nice that they are forced into recognizing their own industry in a few categories rather than just celebrating Hollywood. If they weren't forced into it with these special categories, they've already shown that they would rather not. Could you imagine if the Oscar ignored American movies but for an "Outstanding Hollywood Picture" category? Hee!
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
Bait, Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers)
For Sama, Waad Al-Kateab (Director/Producer), Edward Watts (Director)
Maiden, Alex Holmes (Director)
Only You, Harry Wootliff (Writer/Director)
Retablo, Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (Writer/Director)*
Interesting that two documentaries made this list.
Film Not In The English Language
The Farewell
For Sama
Pain And Glory
Parasite
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
Portrait of a Lady on Fire sure has cleaned up with precusors. It's unfortunate that France didn't select it for Oscar because we think that might have helped it toward Best Cinematography and Best Director, too.
Documentary
American Factory
Apollo 11
Diego Maradona
For Sama
The Great Hack
Apollo 11 sure feels unstoppable given the precursors.
Animated Film
Frozen 2
Klaus
A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Toy Story 4
We're still mystified as to why Farmageddon wasn't submitted for the Oscars in Best Animated Feature.
Director
1917, Sam Mendes
The Irishman, Martin Scorsese
Joker, Todd Phillips
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino
Parasite, Bong Joon Ho
Will this also be the DGA list today?
Original Screenplay
Booksmart, Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman
Knives Out, Rian Johnson
Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino
Parasite, Han Jin Won, Bong Joon-Ho
Whoa. Major get for Booksmart. We were not expecting it to show up here.
Adapted Screenplay
The Irishman, Steven Zaillian
Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi
Joker, Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
Little Women, Greta Gerwig
The Two Popes, Anthony Mccarten
Same list as the WGA but for The Two Popes where A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was.
Original Score
1917, Thomas Newman
Jojo Rabbit, Michael Giacchino
Joker, Hildur Guđnadóttir
Little Women, Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, John Williams
Voters are always on autopilot with John Williams. How many Star Wars nominations does he need? Is there really that much new music in each of the pictures? Disappointed that Pain and Glory isn't here.
Casting
Joker, Shayna Markowitz
Marriage Story, Douglas Aibel, Francine Maisler
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, Victoria Thomas
The Personal History Of David Copperfield, Sarah Crowe
The Two Popes, Nina Gold
A random nomination for the star-studded David Copperfield movie. Otherwise they just drew from their Oscar-focused lists. The Two Popes is a really weird inclusion though given that it's almost a two-hander.
Cinematography
1917, Roger Deakins
The Irishman, Rodrigo Prieto
Joker, Lawrence Sher
Ford V Ferrari, Phedon Papamichael
The Lighthouse, Jarin Blaschke
The same as the ASC except for The Lighthouse. And it's a bit of a shock that it was Robert Richardson that fell away for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood rather than say, Rodrigo Prieto or Lawrence Sher, or Phedon Papamichael.
Editing
The Irishman, Thelma Schoonmaker
Jojo Rabbit, Tom Eagles
Joker, Jeff Groth
Ford V Ferrari, Andrew Buckland, Michael Mccusker
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, Fred Raskin
If this is the Oscar list we're going to be so mad because how do you do Best Editing without Parasite this year? If you do, you're doing it wrong!
Production Design
1917, Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales
The Irishman, Bob Shaw, Regina Graves
Jojo Rabbit, Ra Vincent, Nora Sopková
Joker, Mark Friedberg, Kris Moran
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh
Frustratingly this is the same list as ADG's Best Period film nominations so they've ignored all fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and contemporary offerings. There is no way in the world that Parasite is not better designed than some of these nominees.
Costume Design
The Irishman, Christopher Peterson, Sandy Powell
Jojo Rabbit, Mayes C. Rubeo
Judy, Jany Temime
Little Women, Jacqueline Durran
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, Arianne Phillips
A respectable if uninspired list.
Make Up & Hair
1917, Naomi Donne
Bombshell, Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan
Joker, Kay Georgiou, Nicki Ledermann
Judy, Jeremy Woodhead
Rocketman, Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
All five of these made Oscar's finalist list but they'll have to fend off Dolemite is My Name, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Little Women, Maleficent 2, and Downton Abbey to score Oscar nominations.
Sound
1917, Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson
Joker, Tod Maitland, Alan Robert Murray, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic
Ford V Ferrari David Giammarco, Paul Massey, Steven A. Morrow, Donald Sylvester
Rocketman, Matthew Collinge, John Hayes, Mike Prestwood Smith, Danny Sheehan
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood
They went in a slightly different direction than the American guild CAS which nominated The Irishman and Once upon a Time in Hollywood instead of the Star Wars episode and 1917 which are included here.
Special Visual Effects
1917, Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy
Avengers: Endgame, Dan Deleeuw, Dan Sudick
The Irishman, Leandro Estebecorena, Stephane Grabli, Pablo Helman
The Lion King, Andrew R. Jones, Robert Legato, Elliot Newman, Adam Valdez
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Neal Scanlan, Dominic Tuohy
All five are Oscar finalists too. We still don't understand how anyone thinks The Irishman de-aging is successful but...
British Short Animation
Grandad Was A Romantic, Maryam Mohajer
In Her Boots, Kathrin Steinbacher
The Magic Boat, Naaman Azhari, Lilia Laurel
None of these are on the Oscar finalist list but they have different eligibility
British Short Film
Azaar, Myriam Raja, Nathanael Baring
Goldfish, Hector Dockrill, Harri Kamalanathan, Benedict Turnbull, Laura Dockrill
Kamali, Sasha Rainbow, Rosalind Croad
Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You’re A Girl), Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva
The Trap, Lena Headey, Anthony Fitzgerald
You guys. Lena Heady made a short film!!!
Rising Star Award
Awkwafina
Jack Lowden
Kaitlyn Dever
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Micheal Ward
Unlike the other nominations, this is a juried award each year and then the public votes on the outcome.
BAFTA, Joker, precursor awards
Reader Comments (57)
Don’t give up on Song Kang-ho yet!
The only thing that made me happy here was Saoirse and Florence getting in, I hope this gets them those Oscar nominations. Have a feeling Florence might win here.
Jessie Buckley's nomination is a miracle considering Bafta's lack of love for their own industry.
The supporting actress lineup is indefendible. An insult.
How can you nominate Rocketman for makeup and not for costumes?
The Oscar predicting echo-chamber is astounding in its scope! Frankly, I can't believe how many critics' group march in lock-step as well in terms of repeated names over and over. I saw Little Women and Tim Chalamet gives such a great, subtle performance in a TRUE supporting role, yet he's nowhere to be found.
I hope Awkwafina wins the Rising Star award.
I guess what surprised me most was that they ignored David Copperfield. After hearing so much praise for it here (USA where it hasn't played) I would have expected at least a few technical nominations if nothing else. I mean, not even Best British Film (with 6 nominees!)?
The PGA 10:
1917
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Knives Out
Little Women
Marriage Story
Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood
Parasite
The Foreign Langauge nominees are exceptional. If voters in general didn't default to movies in english they could end up with a Best Film list that looked like this and they could be proud.
A friend who is a BAFTA voter said the voting body barely had time to see 1917 before voting and thinks it likely would have been a strong contender to score further nominations (perhaps even an acting nod) if it had been made available a few weeks earlier. She expects (as do I) that 1917 is going to do very well as more industry people actually have a chance to see it.
Still think that Banderas will happen. Doesn't look good but he has worked with everyone from Meryl to Stallone. That's got to count for something.
The Irishman is WORST editing. That movie in no way needed to be nearly 4 hours long.
The problem is that now the entire body votes to nominate the actors while every other category (except Best Picture) are nominated by their relevant branch. They need to change this rule as I think the actors branch maybe more aware of performances that deserve recognition. Just a thought
Yeah I can see the argument for it being the worst awards group when they do solely rubber stamp the same Oscar front runners. They used to have their own identity so I guess we’ll have to cherish the pre 2000’s years of their original picks. Baz Luhrmann won Best Director in the 90’s! It’s insane to think that is the same awards body as today!
They should take a note from the Independent Spirit Awards which took a huge nosedive in the quality of their nominees and especially winners in the last decade, but in all fairness have really started to turn things back around to films with actual independent spirit starting with last year’s show.
Joker is the most overrated movie of the year! It’s just a ripoff of Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, IMO. Phoenix has been soooo much better in other roles (like The Master). I really hope he doesn’t win for this. Please let it be Driver or Banderas!
Us is borderline terrible. Lupita was great but the movie is too messy. It tries too hard to be clever and fun. I’m not surprised that the award giving bodies aren’t embracing it. Lupita deserved better then this badly written role! Potential down the drain.
I love Marielle Heller. And I’m so glad Hanks received his well deserved nomination. I feel that A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is just as under appreciated this year as the brilliant Can You Ever Forgive Me? was last year. Heller is such an exciting new voice and I can’t wait to see what she does next. Would have loved to have seen her nominated.
If memory serves - and Brady your BAFTA friend may know the answer to this - the nominations are voted by the entire membership with the awards voted by the branches. This may be a factor in a smaller pool of films coming up for the awards (as well as the diversity issue).
If you step back and look at the big picture, Greta Gerwig has a good shot at winning Best Adapted Screenplay this year—her first Oscar. That's pretty cool!
When you're a writer/director (of either gender, really) sometimes you're nominated/win 2/2, 1/2, 0/2, 1/1, 0/1. Even in Woody Allen's heyday (sorry, but he's the ultimate example of a writer/director) nothing was promised to him, film by film. Was Broadway Danny Rose a more impressively directed film than Manhattan? The Oscars said so.
For Lady Bird Greta was 0/2. This year she could very easily be 1/1. Of course a second directing nomination would be lovely for her but it doesn't mean the industry rebuffed her work, or don't care about encouraging her career.
Not to mention that PGA puts her movie on track to receive the second consecutive Best Picture nomination of her career. Again, pretty cool! The controversy seems overblown.
I have kind of doubted Banderas all year. AMPAS is so basic when it comes to nominating Best Actor, and there are so many big-name contenders this year. It's difficult to see him getting in ahead of DiCaprio (who I normally dislike but thought was truly great in OUATIH). And it feels as though Egerton's full-court press may have worked as well. Add Driver and Phoenix, and there's one spot remaining; can Banderas beat Bale, DeNiro and Pryce?
If they don't vote for you simple you don't get in,Do people really think that a voter looks at Lupita,Jennifer,Cynthia or Jamie Foxx and say "i am not voting for them they aren't white"
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I think Robbie twice in supporting is excessive whoever is 6th should be put in the Bombshell spot.
What a bland list. I'm a little surprised by all these bodies recognizing Booksmart's script. I don't think of that as a well-scripted film. Its best qualities are its direction and performances.
Yeah, said all year that they’d find room for Jessie Buckley, so I’ve been surprised she hasn’t been added to anyone’s list as a longshot based on the inevitable BAFTA nod. If I’m honest I’m faintly surprised they didn’t find room for Julie Walters in support for it.
A disappointing line-up, especially when we know what better work was right there for the taking, and WAS released earlier in the year (Us; Her Smell). I’d love for someone to just flat out go for something that was unique to them as a voting body too. “Gee, everyone is sleeping on Midsommar, but BOOM, here it is with 7 nominations!”
I’d like BAFTA to stop sucking up to Oscar in general. Even though Best Picture hasn’t lined up for a while, I seriously don’t think they would’ve handed The Revanant or Roma or La La Land, or possibly even Boyhood Best Picture if they didn’t think they were cementing their Oscar marches.
@Paranoid Android The art of editing is not in deciding what scenes to take out or include or even what scenes to "tighten up" or let flow leisurely. It's how. the. shots. fit. together.
@markgordonuk "i am not voting for them they aren't white." Racism is a hell of a lot more complicated than that.
God, I miss the BAFTAs of yore when Tea with Mussolini not only would get nominated in but straight-up win Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. Today's British Academy would never...
Why doesn't Margot Robbie who is quite vocal about diversity and representation ask for the 6th placed nominee to be put in the top 5 in place of the performance which got the least votes of hers,that would be really something,do a George C Scott.
The most baffling thing is "Rocketman" missing for Costumes. How on Earth does one explain that?
BAFTA have sold out for sure. So disappointing a once idiosyncratic awards body lost all of it verve. In slight defence of Robbie, I thought her performance in OUaTiH was delightful and nuanced. Her work in Bombshell less so.
Thrilled for Jessie Buckley and Booksmart, and for the help Little Women got but yeah, the BAFTAs are a joke. Add to their ridiculous nominations the fact that they air the show after it's already happened and we already know all the winners.
I saw Lena Headey's short film at the LFF and I loved it. It was weird and disturbing but really stayed with me. I hate to bring GoT into this but it felt like something Cersei Lannister might write and direct.
Bravo Baftas . Good choices . Phoenix and Robbie for the win .
Who is Cersei Lennister.
No Lupita, Lopez, Banderas and Gerwig (Director) means BAFTAs need a good smackin on the arse! I mean come on! Two nominations for Margot Robbie really?
Can Lupita win Best Actress because I so badly want her to!!!!!!!!
Really miss the pre-precursor years where more unusual, characterful choices were the norm in all categories, as opposed to just "the British ones". A result, I think, of both the nominations AND the winners for categories being selected by specialist chapters, i.e. only editors voting for Best Editing.
In fact, just re-looked it up, and their 2001 - 7 run of winners for Best Editing was quite something:
2001 - Mulholland Drive
2002 - City of God
2003 - Lost in Translation
2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005 - The Constant Gardener
2006 - United 93
2007 - The Bourne Ultimatum
Despite this, BAFTA has always had a shameful record when it comes to recognising people of colour. I'm pretty sure that Denzel Washington has never received a competitive BAFTA nomination, let alone win. Which goes beyond simply an oversight...
The BAFTA’s hate actresses of color so much they nominated Scarlett Johansson and Margot Robbie TWICE.
my thoughts now... Banderas is snubbed this year, will be nominated and win, soon, first chance there is a excuse for that. They are going to really, really regret going in another direction... we have seen this situation SO MANY times, performer gives an Oscar winning calibre performance, gets completely snubbed, then is nominated for an important film and sweeps all the way down to Oscar, for a lesser performance. I think the most clear case was Jennifer Connelly, exceptional in Requiem for a Dream and winning the following year for such a mediocrity as A Beautiful Mind.
"Apollo 11 sure feels unstoppable given the precursors."
Beware: Apollo 11 is exactly the kind of film I can envision the doc branch snubbing. Jane, Won't You Be My Neighbor, Life Itself, Senna... They HATE docs that are stitched together entirely from archival footage.
Not only did they give a middle finger to POC, they gave one to Black women in particular! Omitting Nyong’o, Woodard, Erivo, Spencer AND Randolph? No Taylor Russell in the Rising Star category??
Also, I don’t mind Robbie’s double nomination, but J. Lo couldn’t crack that field over ScarJo’s second-buzziest performance of the year? Absurd.
@Daniela I didn't mean my comment to sound belittling,I am all for more diverse casting,representation etc but for the internet to announce Bafta as racist or bigots is simply untrue.
Banderas wasn't nominated do they not like Spaniards either,Awkwafina not nominated do they hate the Chinese too.
Look at their nominees for rising star award this year,look who won last year and a few years before that,they have given their rising star to 5 people of colour this past 10 years,3 of their last 10 S/Actress winners were women of colour,3 of their Supporting Actor winners were men of colour,2 of their Best Actor winners of the last 10 years were non white males and that's not counting the nominees without a win of which their are over 10.
@Daniela I didn't mean my comment to sound belittling or naive,I am all for more diverse casting and representation in film.
For the internet to get worked up and imply that the voting membership of Bafta is bigoted or racist is simply not true and hurtful to those voting as simply a lover of cinema,why are they all tarred with 1 brush.
Look at their rising star lists of winners of which there have been 5 people of colour over the last 10 yrs.
3 Supporting Actress wins for people of colour
3 Supporting Actor wins for people of colour.
2 non white Best Actor winners
and over 10 additional nominations for non white Actors/Actresses.
It's the luck of the draw,why is it taken as a slight on race/gender if someone isn't nominated,I for one loved Lupita this year but she's not nominated at Bafta,I don't think it's to do with her skin colour the other 5 ladies got more votes that's it
It's not a conspiracy to slight people of ethnic background as the internet seems to imply.
I loved Greta Gerwig's new take on Little Women bit bummed she couldn't make it but I don't think it's cos she's female or non white,she didn't get the votes.
Let's have perspective,everything doesn't have to be seen through the let's take offence lens
I loved Hustlers esp the direction and Constance Wu but no nominations,it's not because they are female or non whites,they didn't get the votes,people can vote for who they prefer.
I still think Banderas has a chance, it depends on the love from the actors branch, remember Javier Bardem for Biutiful. He needs a lot of #1s to get in.
markgordon -- the different is that the rising star awards are juried. so a limited group of people are overviewing the field are discussing and selecting them. In the regular competition it's just thousands of people voting. .
On the plus side of all of this: within the film community, a visible public reaction against BAFTA’s exclusion of diversity on the last day of Oscar nominations being cast might at least give some Academy members pause? Maybe?
I understand that,why have there been 8 POC winners in the last 10 yrs if they aren't diverse,look at those people in the tech categories.
1. Holy jaw-dropping Christ, these nominations are boring.
2. Nathaniel, I don't think I knew you didn't like the BAFTAs. I will say, once they switched to being a precursor, they definitely got boring. As did EVERYTHING. I enjoyed the oscar race more when the Golden Globes were starry-eyed, the BAFTAs were more British (seriously, check out some of their late-90's awards if you don't believe me) and the SAGs were populist ('cause that's what an organization of 100K is going to be!).
3. I've gotta be honest, the argument 'that's what the way the cookie crumbles" is really derisive when it's always used in defense of line-up that lacks diversity. There's a difference between arguing an active conspiracy (which no one is doing) vs articulating a difficulty looking past people's blinders (which people are doing) vs articulating context and blaming that (which the BAFTAs are doing)
I'll just throw this fact out there, though, for people to ponder
Denzel Washington
Oscar nominations: 8
BAFTA nominations: 0 (missing out to people like Kevin Spacey for THE SHIPPING NEWS, Ben Affleck for ARGO and Jake Gyllenhaal for NOCTURNAL ANIMALS)
Morgan Freeman
Oscar nominations: 5
BAFTA nominations: 0
That's a very crumbly cookie
Here's something to think about: Erivo missed here. Nyong'o at least MIGHT be dismissible as regionalism less so than racism, but, remember: Erivo IS British. If even Brits can't muster the passion for her in Harriet...why does the Academy? Yeah, SAG might have been Erivo's last gasp in the season.
@markgordon, smh. It’s called unconscious biases which impacts what those voting think are worthy or work watching . They have a checkered history honoring POC with some being able to successfully breakthrough especially when they’re performances are undeniable .
Just sayin
markgordonuk - Racism / sexism can be explicit *and* implicit, no? Sins of omission are common. Voting bodies often show an inclination to ignore / procrastinate on films for and by people who don’t look or sound like them. You seem to be focusing on the deliberately exclusionary, “pitchforks and torches” type of racism at the expense of the more insidious “it’s just a preference” type.
RobUK - Love your glass half-full perspective on this! This sort of controversy can give some campaigns a boost (e.g. Regina King’s SAG snub last year).
Before we get to the negatives, let's celeb sum small Yays!!
1) Jessie Buckley finally get some recognition!! 😁 its strange Bafta does not have a Song categort, else Glasgow wld've gotten in.
2) Good show o luv for Little Women! I tink Pugh might win 😉
3) Scarjo's double noms looking like a strong possibility everyday!! 😁
Now, the glaring negatives:
1) How is The Two Popes a British production?? Isnt it made by Netflix? It's taking up a precious spot which cld've gone to lesser profile British fares like David Copperfield or The Souvenir!
2) Speaking o The Souvenir, how is Honor Swinston Byrne not considered in the Rising Star?? Its a breakout role + her lineage!!
3) If they r gonna add a Best Casting category, y not oso add a Best Song category so tt Rocketman n Wild Rose can be deservedly recognise thr??
4) Speaking o Rocketman, how cld it miss out on Costumes?! The Irishman?? Seriously?? I tink it got in bcos o Sandy Powell. Period.
5) u kno Bafta has a serious POC biasness when they din even consider their own talent. Harriet might not b up their alley, but Erivo at least deserves a mention fr them.
6) I tink the online tinktanks had spoiled all the funs n surprises Bafta used to hav. The Bafta voters probably juz googled Gold Derby n all the precursor sites n look at who r the top contenders. I dount they even watched any other films tt r not in the top ten list!! 😂
Last year, the BAFTAs gave awards to Rami Malek, Mahershala Ali, BlackkKlansman (screenplay), Black Panther (visual effects) and a bunch to Roma, but now they are racists???
It's funny how the same people who weren't racists in 2019 and now racists in 2020.
Thank you, Arkaan.
I’m so happy that “Retablo” is nominated for best debut. It’s a peruvian LGTB film that is also nominated for the Spirit Award and was the peruvian submission for the Oscar. It has won more than 30 awards in film festivals all around the world.