2019 BAFTA Winners

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So I haven't written about the BAFTAs on my Blog since 2017. I never get to watch the ceremony so I always forget to post about them. I didn't watch this year either but since I'm sitting around on yet another snowy, freezing day. Why not continue on with the fuckery that is this award season? The winners are in green.

 Best Actor
Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
Christian Bale – Vice
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
Steve Coogan – Stan & Ollie
Viggo Mortensen – Green Book
Excuse me, Brits. HOW did you not give Christian Bale this award? You had one job!

 Best Actress
Glenn Close – The Wife
Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Viola Davis – Widows
Thank God they at least did this right. Close should not be winning every award in site for such a boring performance. Colman is the rightful winner here. 

 Best Film
BlacKkKlansman
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma

A Star Is Born
ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Roma is clearly the front runner for Best Picture now and that means another unenthusiastic win from me.
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams – Vice
Claire Foy – First Man
Emma Stone – The Favourite
Margot Robbie – Mary Queen of Scots
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite
Without Regina King here this was wide open and Weisz came in for the win. I'm not mad. 

 EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
Barry Keoghan
Cynthia Erivo
Jessie Buckley
Lakeith Stanfield

Letitia Wright
Letitia forever!

 Best Supporting Actor
Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
Mahershala Ali – Green Book
Richard E Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell – Vice
Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy
Ali is winning a second Oscar. I'm fine with that, but I still high key wish Driver was winning this.

 Best Cnematography
Bohemian Rhapsody
Cold War 
The Favourite 
First Man 
Roma
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 Outstanding Debut by a British writer, director or producer
Apostasy – Daniel Kokotajlo 
Beast – Michael Pearce, Lauren Dark 
A Cambodian Spring – Chris Kelly 
Pili – Leanne Welham, Sophie Harman 

Ray & Liz – Richard Billingham , Jacqui Davies 

 Best Special Visual Effects
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther 
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
First Man
Ready Player One
I love Black Panther, I wish it would win Best Picture at the Oscars because it's so much more deserving than Roma...but nothing should be winning Visual Effects over Avengers Infinity War. 

 Best Film not in the English language
Capernaum
Cold War 
Dogman 
Roma 
Shoplifters
Make it stop.

 Best Costume Design
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots

 Best Director
BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee
Cold War – Paweł Pawlikowski
The Favourite – Yorgos Lanthimos
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper
Spike Lee IS RIGHT THERE!

 Best Adapted Screenplay
BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott
Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty
First Man – Josh Singer
If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins
A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, Eric Roth
It's about damn time Spike Lee wins something.

 Best Original Music
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk 
Isle of Dogs 
Mary Poppins Returns 
A Star Is Born

 Best Original Screenplay
Cold War – Janusz Głowacki, Paweł Pawlikowski
The Favourite – Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
Green Book – Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

Vice – Adam McKay
Thank you for not giving this to Roma or Green Book.

 Outstanding British Film
Beast
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
McQueen
Stan & Ollie
You Were Never Really Here
Thank you for not giving this to Bohemian Rhapsody

 Best Animated Film
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Thank you for having eyes. 

 Best Production Design
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
The Favourite
First Man 
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma

 Best British Short Animation
I’m OK
Marfa
Roughhouse

 Best British Short Film
73 Cows
Bachelor, 38
The Blue Door
The Field 
Wale

 Best Sound
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Mission: Impossible – Fallout 
A Quiet Place 

A Star Is Born
Y'all saw First Man, right? How is this not winning here?

 Best Editing
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
First Man
Roma 
Vice
Vice got some love! Nice. 

 Best Documentary
Free Solo
McQueen 
RBG
They Shall Not Grow Old 
Three Identical Strangers

 Best Makeup & Hair
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Mary Queen of Scots 
Stan & Ollie

Vice

Comments

  1. thevoid99February 10, 2019 at 4:50 PM

    Yay for Olivia Colman. I want her to win the Oscar. Not Glenn Close.

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  2. Carson Maitland - SmithFebruary 11, 2019 at 4:40 AM

    I'll like Stan & Ollie

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    1. Brittani BurnhamFebruary 11, 2019 at 10:15 AM

      It comes out on DVD here next month so I'll see it then!

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  3. Drew @ Man About WordsFebruary 11, 2019 at 8:37 AM

    I know you hated it, but I'm ALL IN for Roma winning Best Picture. Cuaron is a genius, and this will be the first Foreign Language Best Picture winner EVER at the Oscars (The Artist doesn't count) and that will be historic, and who better that a genius to make history. I also loved the film (although I see why some feel as you do) so I'm Team Roma all the way.

    And Black Panther is bottom tier Disney at best...like, it wasn't even the best Marvel movie released this year. That being said, I wouldn't hate it winning because, even though it is far from deserving, it would also be rather historic and say a lot for the change in the industry regarding minorities and the power of their stories. I just wish that it would happen for, you know, a good movie.

    The Oscars should reward the best...not the popular.

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    1. Drew @ Man About WordsFebruary 11, 2019 at 8:38 AM

      LOL, bottom tier...Marvel (although it's I guess Disney...)

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    2. Brittani BurnhamFebruary 11, 2019 at 10:14 AM

      I understand why Roma is loved but Black Panther is nowhere near bottom tier Marvel.

      Cuaron told a very specific story where he cared more about showing how beautiful his memories were then he did about the main character and her feelings. Black Panther told a story that not only cared about its characters but looked beautiful on top of it and yes, became a cultural phenomenon.

      We're asking the Academy to name the Best Picture/ Just because Black Panther is popular with everyone vs only being popular with critics like Roma. doesn't make it less deserving. It IS a good film. The acting is good, the costumes and art direction are spectacular and it has a coherent story that never once gets pretentious. Coogler cared about every part of his film where as I don't think Cuaron cared about his.

      So in this case for me personally when it comes to these two, Black Panther is the better film. By quite a long shot, in fact.

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    3. Drew @ Man About WordsFebruary 11, 2019 at 11:00 AM

      I may have to give it another watch, but I have to say, I was far less than impressed. That being said, I totally agree with you from a technical achievement because the sets, costumes, and complete creation of a whole new world was rather fantastic.

      But best of the year? Hmmmm…

      But I do disagree on Roma. I think he truly cared a great deal about his story as a whole, and cared a lot about unfolding that story in an organic way. There isn't an ounce of bravado or melodrama there. It is just life as he saw and experienced it.

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    4. Brittani BurnhamFebruary 11, 2019 at 11:30 AM

      I agree its life how he saw it, but as awful as this sounds - that doesn't always make for an interesting film. lol

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    5. Drew @ Man About WordsFebruary 11, 2019 at 12:12 PM

      LOL, touché!

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    6. Brittani BurnhamFebruary 12, 2019 at 6:49 AM

      Same issues I had with Stories We Tell lol

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  4. s.February 11, 2019 at 11:25 AM

    It is starting to hurt me physically how they are all robbing Cooper blind

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    1. Brittani BurnhamFebruary 11, 2019 at 11:30 AM

      I swear all the hyperbole around ASIB when it first came out is what is hurting it. They were declared winners too quickly.

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    2. s.February 11, 2019 at 1:51 PM

      I'm starting to think Malek has kinky pictures of 80% of AMPAS. There is no other explanation

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    3. Brittani BurnhamFebruary 12, 2019 at 6:49 AM

      It's so weird considering how the Emmys treated him after he won by never nominating him again and mostly ignoring his show.

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  5. BirgitFebruary 11, 2019 at 12:54 PM

    I finally saw Black Panther and I think I am hit by all the huge praise that I was expecting something mind blowing. It is an excellent movie with a great script because it brings up many issues including the villain whom you do feel bad for even if it is the typical, "I was wronged as a kid so now i will seek revenge" story. To be honest, I prefer the Avengers film because so much was in that film that could have easily lost its way. It's sad that Bohemian Rhapsody is getting the praise..I still have to see it but I don't think I will have my mind changed all that much. Rumi played a talented guy who died from AIDS who has horrible teeth...Not Freddie Mercury but poor Rumi with those bad teeth. I can't take my eyes off of them whenever he is on the trailers.

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    1. Brittani BurnhamFebruary 12, 2019 at 6:49 AM

      Rami was fighting those teeth for a good portion of that movie lol. I also prefer the Avengers films but they have most history behind them. I still love Black Panther on its own.

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  6. Victor TanzigFebruary 11, 2019 at 4:14 PM

    I'm glad Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won.

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  7. Often Off TopicFebruary 12, 2019 at 3:54 AM

    The two shockers on the night for me was BoRhap not getting Best British Film (I didn't want it to win but I never thought it could lose) and Roma winning Best Picture...UGH. I mean, I haven't watched Roma yet so maybe I shouldn't judge but I can't say anything about it makes me want to see it...

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  8. SaraFebruary 12, 2019 at 8:42 AM

    "thank you for having eyes" LOL. I love that.

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