And the BAFTA goes to…
As promised, I’m back with a full list of the winners (‘cos who needs to write their dissertation presentation?)
I’m always going to miss Stephen Fry as host, but Jonathon Ross did a decent job, and kept Stephen’s game of getting a random word into the show via a twitter vote. Unfortunately I missed that bit when I was travelling but I’ll try and find it later. Just goes to show that twitter really is taking over the world…
The BAFTAs are a pretty good indicator of who’ll be taking home the Oscars, and I think some of my earlier predictions are a bit off now that I think about it. Here’s last night’s results:
Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
No surprises there, it’ll get the Oscar too. (Somebody take me to the cinema so I can back this claim up having actually seen it!)
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke
As I said last night, this one shocked me, but I’m hearing nothing but good things about The Wrestler. He is nominated for the Oscar but I still don’t quite see him winning it. Something’s telling me Brad Pitt will get it, but Rourke’s in with a chance…
Best Actress: Kate Winslet
Well this one was obvious wasn’t it? You can’t not win when you’re nominated twice. Incidentally, she got it for The Reader rather than Revolutionary Road which I have on good authority is the most boring film ever.
Best Director: Danny Boyle
Continuing Slumdog’s sweep. He’s a dead cert for the Oscar I reckon
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger
Of course.
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz
Vicky Cristina Barcelona has only just come to my attention but I’m intrigued.
Best Music: AR Rahman-Slumdog Millionaire
In the little clips we got from the Noms, this was the only one that caught my attention. Might change my mind on my Oscar prediction based on that.
Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle-Slumdog Millionaire
That sweep just keeps going…
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy-Slumdog Millionaire
And going…
Best Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh-In Bruges
I really wanted to see this despite bad reviews, now I want to see it more!
Best Animated Feature: Wall-E
Had to be didn’t it?
Visual Effects: Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Nathan McGuinness, Edson Williams-Benjamin Button
Again, it’s hard ot argue with that one. I completely take back my stupid prediction for the Oscars (I really wasn’t paying attention) Button is way ahead of the pack.
Academy Fellowship: Terry Gilliam
I wasn’t expecting this, but as soon as you watch that reel of all his movies you know he deserves it.
That’s not quite all of them, but it’s the biggies. Slumdog finished with 7 masks, and we can expect a repeat performance at the Oscars. I don’t think there’ll be much difference in the winner’s either, but I may well be eating those words in a couple of weeks. In the interests of fairness, I wont go and change my predictions from a couple of weeks ago, but the BAFTAs have changed my mind on a couple of them.
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