THE BAFTAs....
Whew, one more down and one more big one to go. As years past has shown whoever wins the BAFTA and Golden Globes wins the Oscars so prepare for a Leo, Brie, Revenant, Inarritu, Winslet, Rylance (possibly) win.
BEST FILM
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Carol
Spotlight
The Revenant (WINNER)
BEST ACTOR
Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
Matt Damon - The Martian
Bryan Cranston - Trumbo
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant (WINNER)
*In his speech Leo thanked Tom Hardy citing his "fierce loyalty as a collaborator & a friend".
**Last week I went to see “The Danish Girl” again with a Q&A with Alicia Vikander and Eddie Redmayne. The Q&A was brief because they had a long day: the Oscar luncheon with group photo, press, then the Q&A and they dashed out to go to the Oscar nominees party. The moderator (Dave Karger of Fandango) mentioned it was their final Q&A for the awards season. Karger also mentioned that Redmayne is the reigning Oscar winner for Best Actor and Redmayne replied, “Not for long.” No illusions of a win over Leo with him.
BEST ACTRESS
Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn
Cate Blanchett - Carol
Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl
Maggie Smith - Lady in the Van
Brie Larson - Room (WINNER)
BEST DIRECTOR
The Big Short - Adam McKay
Bridge of Spies - Steven Spielberg
Carol - Todd Haynes
The Martian - Ridley Scott
The Revenant - Alejandro G. Inarritu (WINNER)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Benicio Del Toro - Sicario
Christian Bale - The Big Short
Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation
Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight
Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies (WINNER)
**Rylance is in New York doing the play “Nice Fish” so Steven Spielberg accepted on his behalf.
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
Rooney Mara - Carol
Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
Julie Walters - Brooklyn
Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs (WINNER)
**I don’t get it. I’ve seen every single one of these films and Winslet’s performance was the most uninspiring of them all. I can’t remember her doing anything of note besides saying nagging Jobs about seeing his daughter. I am just in shock.
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
**Wouldn’t it just be easier to call it Non-English Language Film?
Force Majeure - Ruben Ostlund
The Assassin - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Theeb - Naji Abu Nowar, Rupert Lloyd
Timbuktu - Abderrahmane Sissako
Wild Tales - Damian Szifron (WINNER)
Documentary
Cartel Land - Matthew Heineman, Tom Yellin
He Named Me Malala - Davis Guggenheim, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald
Listen to Me Marlon - Stevan Riley, John Battsek, George Chignell, R.J. Cutler
Sherpa - Jennifer Peedom, Bridget Ikin, John Smithson
Amy - Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees (WINNER)
Animated Film
Minions - Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda
Shaun the Sheep Movie - Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
Inside Out - Pete Docter - WINNER
Original Screenplay
Bridge of Spies - Matthew Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Ex Machina - Alex Garland
The Hateful Eight - Quentin Tarantino
Inside Out - Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve
Spotlight - Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer (WINNER)
Adapted Screenplay
Brooklyn - Nick Hornby
Carol - Phyllis Nagy
Room - Emma Donoghue
Steve Jobs - Aaron Sorkin
The Big Short - Adam McKay, Charles Randolph (WINNER)
Cinematography
Bridge of Spies - Janusz Kaminski
Carol - Ed Lachman
Mad Max: Fury Road - John Seale
Sicario - Roger Deakins
The Revenant - Emmanuel Lubezki (WINNER)
*While I Lubezki deserved this hands down (it was just so beautifully shot), I’m disappointed that Danny Cohen, the cinematographer for “The Danish Girl” wasn’t nominated. Five slots and these are all worthy nominations but I would gladly trade out Kaminski for Cohen. The only reason why I wouldn’t take out Deakins is for the night-vision sequence in “Sicario”.
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer in 2016
Alex Garland (Director) - Ex Machina
Debbie Tucker Green (Writer/Director) - Second Coming
Sean McAllister (Director/Producer), Elhum Shakerifar (Producer) - A Syrian Love Story
Stephen Fingleton (Writer/Director) - The Survivalist
Naji Abu Nowar (Writer/Director) Rupert Lloyd (Producer) - Theeb (WINNER)
**I think the only reason Garland didn’t snag this is because he was well rewarded at the British Independent Film Awards.
Costume Design
Brooklyn - Odile Dicks-Mireaux
Carol - Sandy Powell
Cinderella - Sandy Powell
The Danish Girl - Paco Delgado
Mad Max: Fury Road - Jenny Beavan - (WINNER)
**Now this is some BS! Delgado deserved this fully. I get that to create the look for MM:FM is more ambitious than just doing period costuming, but “The Danish Girl” and “Carol”s clothing was gorgeous.
Beavan flanked by Riz Ahmed and Olga Kurylenko who gave her the award
**Stephen Fry drew Twitter’s ire by saying that Beavan looked like a bag lady as she walked off-stage. He later tweeted that she is a long-time friend of his and she understands it was a joke.
Production Design
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Rick Carter, Darren Gilford, Lee Sandales
Bridge of Spies - Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo
Carol - Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler
The Martian - Arthur Max, Celia Bobak
Mad Max: Fury Road - Colin Gibson, Lisa Thompson (WINNER)
Special Visual Effects
Ant-Man - Jake Morrison, Greg Steele, Dan Sudick, Alex Wuttke
Ex Machina - Mark Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, Andrew Whitehurst
Mad Max: Fury Road - Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver, Tom Wood, Andy Williams
The Martian - Chris Lawrence, Tim Ledbury, Richard Stammers, Steven Warner
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Neal Scanlan (WINNER)
SOUND
Bridge of Spies - Drew Kunin, Richard Hymns, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom
Mad Max: Fury Road - Scott Hecker, Chris Jenkins, Mark Mangini, Ben Osmo, Gregg Rudloff, David White
The Martian - Paul Massey, Mac Ruth, Oliver Tarney, Mark Taylor
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Matthew Wood, Stuart Wilson
The Revenant - Lon Bender, Chris Duesterdiek, Martin Hernandez, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor, Randy Thom (WINNER)
Editing
The Big Short - Hank Corwin
Bridge of Spies - Michael Kahn
The Martian - Pietro Scalia
The Revenant - Stephen Mirrione
Mad Max: Fury Road - Margaret Sixel (WINNER)
Make-Up and Hair
Brooklyn - Morna Ferguson, Lorraine Glynn
Carol - Jerry DeCarlo, Patricia Regan
The Danish Girl - Jan Sewell
The Revenant - Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman, Robert Pandini
Mad Max: Fury Road - Lesley Vanderwalt, Damian Martin (WINNER)
Outstanding British Film in 2016
45 Years - Andrew Haigh, Tristan Goligher
Amy - Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees
The Danish Girl - Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Anne Harrison, Gail Mutrux, Lucinda Coxon
Ex Machina - Alex Garland, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich
The Lobster - Yorgos Lanthimos, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Efthimis Filippou
Brooklyn - John Crowley, Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Nick Hornby (WINNER)
**So thrilled for its recognition. A deeply moving film with wonderful performances.
EE RISING STAR
Bel Powley
Dakota Johnson
Brie Larson
Taron Egerton
John Boyega (WINNER)
**Very happy for Boyega, but really surprised because I didn’t think the UK was that enamored with “Star Wars” and voting could only be done in the UK. I thought Taron had it cinched because his “Billionaire Boys Clubs” costars Ansel Elgort and Suki Waterhouse urged their Twitter followers to vote for him and Egerton’s town in Wales plastered buildings with requests to vote for him.
Taron has slimmed down due to training in preparation for the shoot for “Kingsman: The Secret Service 2” which will commence in April.
Taron tweeted a picture of his “Kingsman” costars Edward Holcroft and Sofia Boutella with the caption “Reunited”
**Holcroft had already spilled the beans on his return but since Boutella’s character was killed in the first one either they’re just catching up or she is indeed in the sequel.
While Taron’s been burning it up on-screen
Will be next seen in “Eddie the Eagle”
**At the Sundance screening for the film.
Boutella’s been steady as well. She’s in the upcoming “Star Trek: Beyond” and in the “The Mummy” reboot starring Tom Cruise.
Congrats to the winners,
but to me the real winner of the night is Domhnall Gleeson who was in three of the films that won and he got the chance to present with Carrie Fisher.
**Some people ragged on how Alejandro G. Inarritu can’t pronounce Domhnall’s name but Domhnall gets it a lot.
A video posted by Caitlin McBride (@caitlin_mcb) on Feb 14, 2016 at 2:42pm PST
Domhnall tutorial
Click to viewBut Carrie had her own bit of fun.
~As the Academy Awards have been embroiled in their own diversity issue the creative community in the UK protested outside the BAFTAs to shine a light on their diversity issue.
These actors are taking a bit more of a hardline approach by suggesting hiring quotas. I understand their feeling because right now it’s an honor system: the assumption is the best performer gets the role, but that’s a truly naïve approach because actors are the mercy of casting directors and other TPTB who elevate whiteness above all else. Recently Idris Elba gave a speech highlighting the need for diversity in the UK but it’s Thandie Newton and Lenny Henry have been speaking out about the need for better representation in the UK for years.
David Harewood of “Supergirl” spoke briefly about it in a recent interview with The Vulture.
