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Anticipating Oscar: The BAFTA Awards

Published Apr 12, 2021 12:58 pm

‘After the SAG Awards of last Sunday, and yesterday’s BAFTA Awards, we’re now left waiting in anticipation for the big one that goes down on April 25th, the Oscars!’

In the predicting-Oscar business, the weathervanes we look to are the other Film Awards that serve as appetizers or precursors to the Big Night of the Academy Awards. Without a doubt, while the Golden Globes, Critics Circle Awards, SAG and BAFTA all serve their purpose in bestowing recognition and honor to the diverse members of the Film industry (and Television in the case of some of the Awards Shows); the Oscars statuette is the one with the highest bragging rights.

I’ve previously submitted my article highlighting my foot-in-mouth predictions for the Oscars, so let’s see if the SAG Awards and BAFTA Awards will afford me one last chance to revise any of my prognosticating.

Nomadland and Director Chloe Zhao were still the big winners of the BAFTA weekend for Best Film and Best Director, and Frances McDormand took home Leading Actress for Nomadland. For Cinematography, Joshua James Richards also won for Nomadland. I still see Nomadland taking Best Film, Director and Cinematography at the Oscars - but I’ll stick to my prediction of Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman as Best Actress.

What I really like is how the SAG and BAFTA may have swung veteran Korean actress Yuh-Jung Youn into favorite for Best Supporting Actress. I had predicted the ingenue of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, with Youn to steal; and now that Youn, who wonderfully portrayed the unconventional Lola in Minari, has two wins under her belt, I’ll be more than happy to place her as my favorite too.

Anthony Hopkins winning Leading Actor for his role as the mentally confused patriarch in The Father has to be seen as a fully deserved, but hometown, BAFTA decision. I loved him in the film, and it was a complex, nuanced portrayal, but I don’t see him overtaking Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey in the Oscars.

Daniel Kaluuya, who incidentally is British, is on target to hit the proverbial Grand Slam this season. His role as Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah has meant his picking up all the Best Supporting Actor Awards this year - and I don’t see that changing come virtual Oscars night.

For Animated Film, Soul took the BAFTA, competing with Onward and Wolfwalkers. In the Oscars, the nominees will also include Over the Moon and Shaun the Sheep: Farmaggedon. While I personally loved Wolfwalkers for its narrative and artwork, I can’t see Soul losing any ground with the Academy voters.

At the BAFTA, the other big winners were:
Outstanding British Film - Promising Young Woman
Original Screenplay - Promising Young Woman
Adapted Screenplay - The Father
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer - Remi Weekes (His House)
Film Not in English Language - Another Round
Documentary - My Octopus Teacher
Original Score - Soul
Casting - Lucy Pardee for Rocks
Editing - Sound of Metal
Production Design - Mank
Costume Design - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Make Up & Hair - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Sound - Sound of Metal
Special Visual Effects - Tenet
British Short Animation - The Owl and the Pussycat
British Short Film - The Present
EE Rising Star Award - Bukky Bakray

Those wins don’t affect my previous predictions and I’m happy to stand by my previous feature - and I’ll report on my success ratio after Oscars night.

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