The BAFTA Awards, along with the DGA Awards, will be held this Saturday, April 10. They are going to be mostly unpredictable, though I would imagine you will see a win for Nomadland and director Chloe Zhao. Wide open will be the acting categories, of course, and all of the non-jury-selected categories. Some of this could inform the Oscars, or not. This year, everything is up in the air.
But you can do your worse (or best):
Deadline.com has a fascinating story about the online campaigning for BAFTA. For instance, ”Pieces of a Woman” held a virtual reception with Vanessa Kirby and had dinner delivered to the attendees …
https://deadline.com/2021/04/michelin-star-meal-deliveries-cocktail-parties-at-home-influencers-bafta-campaigning-virtual-2021-1234729251/
Some experts at GoldDerby.com are predicting Bukky Bakray, the 19-year-old British star of ”Rocks,” to win Best Actress over Oscar nominees Frances McDormand and Vanessa Kirby. Bakray plays a teen living on the streets in ”Rocks,” which has 7 BAFTA nominations. She is also up for Rising Star.
In 2001, BAFTA’s Best Actor prize was a surprise. It went to Jamie Bell, the 14-year-old star of ”Billy Elliot,” and he won over Oscar nominees Russell Crowe and Tom Hanks, who both were in the audience, heartily applauding. Just another sign of the Academy’s bias against boys. Bell gave one of the great child performances, and ”Billy Elliot” got 3 Oscar nominations: for Supporting Actress (Julie Walters), Director (Stephen Daldry) and Original Screenplay (Lee Hall), but not for Bell, its seminal star..
So would it be her over the His House actress who actually won the British Independent award?
Riz Ahmed is British too and The Sound of Metal is having a late surge now, he might overtake Boseman and Hopkins (who had won BAFTA two or three times??)
I tink Kirby is taking Best Actress, she is well known and well liked by the BAFTA, recently winning a supporting BAFTA at the TV side for The Crown.
Kaluuya has this in his bag, & Supp Actress is btw Youn or Bakalova, & I give the former the edge seeing that Minari and her are peaking at the right time. She is also a respected veteran thespian
Call me crazy, but I predicted four black actors to win, 3 of them British, including Kaluuya. I am probably wrong. But I am not sensing a Vanessa Kirby win for that film, and I find it hard to imagine the BAFTA with their own internal biases will actually go for Youn or Maria over one of their own. I know there are often issues with the BAFTA awarding black actors, and these indie actresses are virtually newcomers. McDormand makes sense as the lead of the probable Best Film winner (and Oscar’s Best Picture), but I’m just not sensing that as a winning performance. Nobody wants to give Frances her third acting Oscar for Nomadland, especially knowing she’ll win as a producer anyway. Maybe there’s less opposition at BAFTA because she didn’t win for Fargo all those years ago, but I still sense a bit of ambivalence regarding anyone wanting to give her a default win.
Trust me, it’s one thing to name-check Viola for a SAG award, knowing she’s won a whole bunch there, but wanting to push her toward a historic Oscar win. It’s another to give Frances anything this late in the game when there’s no push to elevate her to Meryl status with 3 acting wins. Kirby fits the profile of a winner, but she’s her film’s sole nomination and it’s a Canadian-American indie.
But I’m probably wrong and it will be Frances and Youn or even Maria as the de facto winners at BAFTA. Or maybe I picked the wrong British lead (Musaku)! Frances and Youn are probably the “safest” predictions. I still think Carey and Olivia would have won here, if not necessarily anywhere else, had the jury not screwed them!
I am also really struggling on Best Documentary. I understand many people’s issues with Time when they actually see it and why it would be an unconventional winner. My Octopus Teacher, though similarly beautiful and affecting, just seems oddly small and slight for this category. And then Colectiv is the wild card that would make sense as the most political and most traditional documentary of the bunch, but it’s a bit too slow for your traditional winner and not very cinematic compared to its rivals. Not to mention that for a non-British foreign-language film to win the BAFTA would be unprecedented. I entered the Attenborough pic in the contest, lol. All I know is that if it would ever make sense for BAFTA to go their own way (like they used to), it would be this year.
Collective is way too long and in tedious sub titles ; it’s the most important , but they often don’t win … march of the Penguins/ The Cove / Octopus Teacher has continuity IMO
Time should never have even reached the final five ; a blatantly PC choice .. and the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for those two creeps ?
I loved Time though!
If My Octopus Teacher wins Doc in front of a doc about legendary David Attenborough, I don’t want to live in this Planet anymore. Like, really.
Time is a great doc. Not perfect, but really great. And necessary.
i liked the dig quite a bit and ralph fiennes was pretty worthy for it in a non flashy meat
they must not have thought much of ma arainey if v davis is off the list, maybe a hopkins upset could happen? also why is mulligan off in lead actress?
I am really rooting for Wunmi Musaku to win Lead Actress for His House. That film is a complete must-see.
I’ve tried, and failed, three times to get through it. Not a fan.
well, the last third of the film is what makes it elevate beyond the horror genre/clichés… it’s mesmerizing. Also, it directly talked to my personal experience in Africa.
Sounds like a fourth attempt has to be on-the-cards for me.
Remember folks, the BAFTA will be held on 2 consecutive nights: April 10th and 11th
Why are they being split over 2 nights? Which categories are on which nights? … The SAGs pretaped their film & TV winners over 2 nights, but edited it into a one-hour ceremony.
I think Nomadland, The Father and Promising Young Woman will get a lion’s share of the major awards (Picture, Director, British Film, Acting, Screenplays, Editing, Cinematography)
Neither of these films will win at any Acting nominations.
Don’t be so sure. I wouldn’t rule Anthony Hopkins out at all.
I was thinking that The Father could win Adapted Screenplay here, but then I realized that Nomadland will win Best Film at BAFTA with only 3 wins. The last time this happened was when Atonement randomly won Best Film over No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood.
I don’t think McDormand will win and Editing will probably go to Chicago 7 or PYW (flashier Editing).
“12 Years a Slave” had only two BAFTAs and one of them was for best picture so…
LOL I forgot.
And Nomadland is similar to 12 Years a Slave in the sense of not being loved, but being respected.
It will be a bit odd if she wins Bafta and not oscar
Randomly? It was British and had won the Globe over those two others as well. Nothing random about that.
british ppl like the father. they wont know how much more time anthony hopkins will be alive, hes old