Ailsa Travers Writes:The 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards took place last night, sparking the buzz that will burn through to the Oscars later this month. A couple of hours of mildly entertaining red-carpet action kept me hyped up for the ceremony, something that, unlike the Anual Academy Awards, I was not particularly looking forward too.
BAFTA LA has set Matt Damon as the recipient of its Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film.
La La Land continued the march toward its increasingly-inevitable big night at the Academy Awards by winning big at the BAFTAs over the weekend.
Deadline: John Boyega, Room’s Brie Larson and Kingsman: The Secret Service‘s Taron Egerton are among the nominees for this year’s BAFTA Rising Star Award. Also in the mix are Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades Of Grey) and Bel Powley (The Diary Of A Teenage Girl). The award, which has previously been won by the likes of Tom Hardy, James MacAvoy and Kristen Stewart, is voted on by the public. Jack O’Connell took it last year following his memorable performance in Yann Demange’s stunning feature directorial debut, ’71.
I agree with the basic premise that The King's Speech wasn't really deserving of all those awards. I mean come on, Best Supporting Actor, really? Bale should be an absolute lock for that award through all awards shows. I don't even agree with the Best Supporting Actress. I'm still astonished how Leo or Weaver didn't get a nominee. Also I'd probably fairly easily give Hershey or Adams the win over Carter.
Original screenplay? No thanks. While I enjoyed The King's Speech well enough, I do think it was a bit overhyped. The acting was very good (I don't mind Firth winning Best Actor though I'd prefer Franco), but the movie itself was kind of boring at times and a bit dull. No way in the world was it nearly as creative and well written as Black Swan or Inception.
Original Music: I would've preferred to see Inception win too out of those nominees. Honestly, not sure how Tron didn't get a nomination though. I would've also been fine with 127 Hours getting the win here as well.
Cinematography: The King's Speech didn't win here but I don't agree with the author about 127 Hours should have got it. Cinematography was nice, but I think hands-down that category should go to Black Swan or Inception.
All in all, yes I think BAFTA did show their bias here. The King's Speech just isn't deserving of a sweep like that in my opinion.