BAFTA Awards 2017
Okay, we're winding down. With the BAFTA's out of the way that leaves the Academy Awards. With the wins today it's almost a sure thing that we will have a "La La Land" Oscar sweep. DAMMIT.
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
I, DANIEL BLAKE
Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty
**Accepting his speech Mr. Loach condemned the Tory government, Thank you to the academy for endorsing the truths of what the film says, which hundreds and thousands of people in this country know, the most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the Government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful, a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help and that's a disgrace too.
"Films can do many things, they can entertain, terrify, they can make us laugh and tell us something about the real world we live in - sorry it's early for a political speech - and in that real world it's getting darker and in the struggle that is coming between rich and poor and the wealthy and the privileged and the big corporations and politicians who speak for them.
"The rest of us on the other side - film makers know which side they are on and despite the glitz and glamour of occasions like this, we are with the people."
BEST FILM
LA LA LAND, Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt
LEADING ACTRESS
EMMA STONE . La La Land
DIRECTOR
Damien Chazelle. LA LA LAND
LEADING ACTOR
CASEY AFFLECK, Manchester by the Sea
*Casey’s PR people have been giving him tips on how to make him seem not like a sleazeball. His Golden Globes speech was humble and invoked family and his BAFTA speech presented his foray into acting, ““The reason I act is because when I was a young kid, my mother would take me to Al-Anon meetings for the children of alcoholics and the kids there would try to reenact the people they were affected by. It was therapy but it was acting, and that’s why I got into it. If you were wondering, that’s why I act.”
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
VIOLA DAVIS, Fences
SUPPORTING ACTOR
DEV PATEL, Lion
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
LION, Luke Davies
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Linus Sandgren, LA LA LAND
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Kenneth Lonergan, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Under the Shadow, BABAK ANVARI (Writer/Director), EMILY LEO, OLIVER ROSKILL, LUCAN TOH (Producers)
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE JUNGLE BOOK, Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez
ANIMATED FILM
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS, Travis Knight
**Justice for Kubo finally! “Zootopia” has been winning at various guild awards and to me, artistically, “Kubo”is vastly superior.
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SON OF SAUL, László Nemes, Gábor Sipos
DOCUMENTARY
13TH, Ava DuVernay
**Finally got around to watching it. Fantastic, comprehensive look on the laws were put in place to disenfranchise the lower economic class which led to disparate jail sentencing and how the prison industrial complex makes money off of their free labor.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock
EDITING
HACKSAW RIDGE. John Gilbert
BRITISH SHORT FILM
HOME, Shpat Deda, Afolabi Kuti, Daniel Mulloy, Scott O’Donnell
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
A LOVE STORY, Khaled Gad, Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara, Elena Ruscombe-King
SOUND
ARRIVAL, Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Sylvain Bellemare
COSTUME DESIGN
*Love this look, even the mushroom growing off the side.
JACKIE, Madeline Fontaine
ORIGINAL MUSIC
LA LA LAND, Justin Hurwitz
MAKE UP & HAIR
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS, J. Roy Helland, Daniel Phillips
Special Recognition Award
Mel Brooks, still kicking!
THE EE RISING STAR AWARD
(voted for by public)
TOM HOLLAND
**Since the BAFTAs asked for brevity Tom said that he would be sending texts to everyone but wanted to thank his acting coaches for their guidance led him to “Billy Elliott” and “The Impossible”, two projects he said helped him get to where he is now. I thought that was very gracious of him. Backstage he said that he voted for Ruth Negga.
On the red carpet he said he hoped to meet Andrew Garfield and that he would ask him for advice on playing SpiderMan which is odd because Tom has now played SpiderMan more times than Garfield as he has suited up for the third time (Capt. America: Civil War, SpiderMan:Homecoming and The Avengers: Infinity Wars”).
But he got his chance to chat with his predecessor.
BAFTA Fashions
LOVED
Anna Taylor Joy
*She lost out to Tom Holland for Rising Star but she wins Best Dressed to me
It’s like the dress Dakota Johnson wore to the Madrid premiere of “Fifty Shades Darker”. I loved that one, too.
Emily Blunt
*She rarely goes wrong.
Thandie Newton
J.K Rowling
*Lovely color and structure.
Julia Stiles
Naomie Harris
Noomie Rapace
*A wealthy widow who killed her husband? A jewel thief? Mrs. White from “Clue”? She can be anything!
Eddie Redmayne’s wife Hannah
HATED
*Party of one. Caitrona Balfe in this monstrosity.
I mean, this woman’s outfit isn’t the best but I can appreciate dressing like Two-Face meets Left Eye from TLC.
OTHER
Amy Adams being bland
I must say she looks like a Golden Age of Hollywood queen in this Vanity Fair pic
Amy’s sister in blandness Bryce Dallas Howard
Kelly MacDonald, Trainspotting
David Chazelle and wife
*I love her dress.
Hugh Grant and Partner
*I like her cut-out dress.
Sophie Turner
Carmen Ejogo aka Mrs. Jeffrey Wright
*late for Christmas or very early for it.
Isabelle Huppert
*Was on hand to present as “Elle” has not been released in the UK yet.
Michelle Williams
*If only it didn’t have that print of a weirwood tree? The Wizard of Oz? Whatever, on the front of it.
Nicole Kidman
Riz Ahmed
*Love the grey.
Penelope Cruz
*Channeling Marilyn McCoo on “Solid Gold” I see.
Tom Ford
Jamie Dornan and wife
Darling Rafe Spall and wife
Aaron and Sam Taylor-Johnson
Prince William and Kate Middleton
Ruth Negga
*Haven’t seen any pics of her at the ceremony but she did do the tea yesterday or on Friday. Here’s her Oscars luncheon outfit.
Holiday Grainger
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
I, DANIEL BLAKE
Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty
**Accepting his speech Mr. Loach condemned the Tory government, Thank you to the academy for endorsing the truths of what the film says, which hundreds and thousands of people in this country know, the most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the Government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful, a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help and that's a disgrace too.
"Films can do many things, they can entertain, terrify, they can make us laugh and tell us something about the real world we live in - sorry it's early for a political speech - and in that real world it's getting darker and in the struggle that is coming between rich and poor and the wealthy and the privileged and the big corporations and politicians who speak for them.
"The rest of us on the other side - film makers know which side they are on and despite the glitz and glamour of occasions like this, we are with the people."
BEST FILM
LA LA LAND, Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt
LEADING ACTRESS
EMMA STONE . La La Land
DIRECTOR
Damien Chazelle. LA LA LAND
LEADING ACTOR
CASEY AFFLECK, Manchester by the Sea
*Casey’s PR people have been giving him tips on how to make him seem not like a sleazeball. His Golden Globes speech was humble and invoked family and his BAFTA speech presented his foray into acting, ““The reason I act is because when I was a young kid, my mother would take me to Al-Anon meetings for the children of alcoholics and the kids there would try to reenact the people they were affected by. It was therapy but it was acting, and that’s why I got into it. If you were wondering, that’s why I act.”
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
VIOLA DAVIS, Fences
SUPPORTING ACTOR
DEV PATEL, Lion
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
LION, Luke Davies
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Linus Sandgren, LA LA LAND
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Kenneth Lonergan, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Under the Shadow, BABAK ANVARI (Writer/Director), EMILY LEO, OLIVER ROSKILL, LUCAN TOH (Producers)
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE JUNGLE BOOK, Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez
ANIMATED FILM
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS, Travis Knight
**Justice for Kubo finally! “Zootopia” has been winning at various guild awards and to me, artistically, “Kubo”is vastly superior.
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SON OF SAUL, László Nemes, Gábor Sipos
DOCUMENTARY
13TH, Ava DuVernay
**Finally got around to watching it. Fantastic, comprehensive look on the laws were put in place to disenfranchise the lower economic class which led to disparate jail sentencing and how the prison industrial complex makes money off of their free labor.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock
EDITING
HACKSAW RIDGE. John Gilbert
BRITISH SHORT FILM
HOME, Shpat Deda, Afolabi Kuti, Daniel Mulloy, Scott O’Donnell
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
A LOVE STORY, Khaled Gad, Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara, Elena Ruscombe-King
SOUND
ARRIVAL, Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Sylvain Bellemare
COSTUME DESIGN
*Love this look, even the mushroom growing off the side.
JACKIE, Madeline Fontaine
ORIGINAL MUSIC
LA LA LAND, Justin Hurwitz
MAKE UP & HAIR
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS, J. Roy Helland, Daniel Phillips
Special Recognition Award
Mel Brooks, still kicking!
THE EE RISING STAR AWARD
(voted for by public)
TOM HOLLAND
**Since the BAFTAs asked for brevity Tom said that he would be sending texts to everyone but wanted to thank his acting coaches for their guidance led him to “Billy Elliott” and “The Impossible”, two projects he said helped him get to where he is now. I thought that was very gracious of him. Backstage he said that he voted for Ruth Negga.
On the red carpet he said he hoped to meet Andrew Garfield and that he would ask him for advice on playing SpiderMan which is odd because Tom has now played SpiderMan more times than Garfield as he has suited up for the third time (Capt. America: Civil War, SpiderMan:Homecoming and The Avengers: Infinity Wars”).
But he got his chance to chat with his predecessor.
BAFTA Fashions
LOVED
Anna Taylor Joy
*She lost out to Tom Holland for Rising Star but she wins Best Dressed to me
It’s like the dress Dakota Johnson wore to the Madrid premiere of “Fifty Shades Darker”. I loved that one, too.
Emily Blunt
*She rarely goes wrong.
Thandie Newton
J.K Rowling
*Lovely color and structure.
Julia Stiles
Naomie Harris
Noomie Rapace
*A wealthy widow who killed her husband? A jewel thief? Mrs. White from “Clue”? She can be anything!
Eddie Redmayne’s wife Hannah
HATED
*Party of one. Caitrona Balfe in this monstrosity.
I mean, this woman’s outfit isn’t the best but I can appreciate dressing like Two-Face meets Left Eye from TLC.
OTHER
Amy Adams being bland
I must say she looks like a Golden Age of Hollywood queen in this Vanity Fair pic
Amy’s sister in blandness Bryce Dallas Howard
Kelly MacDonald, Trainspotting
David Chazelle and wife
*I love her dress.
Hugh Grant and Partner
*I like her cut-out dress.
Sophie Turner
Carmen Ejogo aka Mrs. Jeffrey Wright
*late for Christmas or very early for it.
Isabelle Huppert
*Was on hand to present as “Elle” has not been released in the UK yet.
Michelle Williams
*If only it didn’t have that print of a weirwood tree? The Wizard of Oz? Whatever, on the front of it.
Nicole Kidman
Riz Ahmed
*Love the grey.
Penelope Cruz
*Channeling Marilyn McCoo on “Solid Gold” I see.
Tom Ford
Jamie Dornan and wife
Darling Rafe Spall and wife
Aaron and Sam Taylor-Johnson
Prince William and Kate Middleton
Ruth Negga
*Haven’t seen any pics of her at the ceremony but she did do the tea yesterday or on Friday. Here’s her Oscars luncheon outfit.
Holiday Grainger
