Do BAFTA Wins For Actors And ‘1917’ Portend The Same Scenario At The Oscars? Bet On It – Hammond Analysis
which took Best Film and Director and five other wins from the British for their homegrown hit war epic, is a cautious frontrunner to repeat in the Best Picture winners circle a week from tonight.
in the Directing category. This is his first directing BAFTA and he took a major haul today also sharing in Best Film and Best British Film . Klaus , which won for Animated Film at BAFTA , as a surprise. It is certainly a huge win for Netflix as it reps its first in-house effort in animation. Its win against three sequels however means BAFTA went for originality in this case, with the rest of those nominees splitting the difference. Only one of them , returns to compete again next week on the Oscar stage.
, another key Oscar player this year, almost was zapped save for Pitt’s sure thing Supporting Actor trophy, and another hilarious speech even though it was read by Margot Robbie for the absent Pitt who is either hiring comedy writers for the season or is just a natural wit.
despite no previous writing wins this season, to prevail at the Oscars in its category. It is easily the most original of the adapted scripts and these two back-to-back wins make that more likely, even with lots of publicity for Greta Gerwig’sand the feeling in some quarters it could be a consolation prize in part for not being included in the Best Director lineup. I will stick with Taika Waititi going into the final act.
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