AFTA THE BAFTA
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented the Brit equivalent of the Oscar and Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was the big winner taking Best Picture, Best British Film, Best Actress (Frances McDormand), Best Supporting Actor (Sam Rockwell) and Best Original Screenplay.
Guillermo Del Toro won Best Director for The Shape of Water. Shape also won Best Production Design and Best Original Score.
Gary Oldman won as Best Actor for Darkest Hour. That film also won Best Makeup and Hair. Those two films were the TFF #44 haul for the BAFTAs for 2018 as Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird and Paul McGuigan's Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool both got shut out.
The BAFTAS are the last stop on the pre-Oscar road and as such, is the last chance for films to get a little boost. It's also our last peek at something that could point to what will happen on Oscar night.
Oscar voting opens tomorrow and closes on Feb. 27th. The Oscar ceremony is set for Mar. 4th.
Last year TFF #43 films won eight BAFTAS. La La Land won five including Best Picture, Manchester by the Sea won two and Arrival won one.
Linked coverage of the BAFTAs is here from:
Variety
The Hollywood Reporter
Indiewire
The BAFTA results have Oscar predictors all over the map on Best Picture. It seems like a Three Billboards vs. Shape of Water race but their are still voices whispering Get Out and Dunkirk.
My Lady Bird theory looks weak now. The notion that it could win on a preferential ballot was intriguing but you also have to figure that it needed one big guild win or a BAFTA mention or two for that theory to make the grade.
And, of course, if Shape of Water, Lady Bird or Darkest Hour don't win Best Picture, that would break the Telluride string of having every Best Picture play the fest since 2010. At this point, I think it's about 2 to 1 that the string ends on March 4.
Finally, the acting awards all look locked up: McDormand, Oldman, Janney (who won the Supporting Actress BAFTA for I, Tonya) and Rockwell have swept the precursors and all look like your Oscar winners in a couple of weeks. I'll have a new set of Oscar predictions on Thursday.
TRAILER FOR THE RIDER
Critical favorite from Cannes and then Telluride, Chloe Zhao's The Rider had a trailer release this week. The film is nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards including Best Feature and is set for U.S. release on April 13th.
The Rider finished tied for #2 in the TFF #44 MTFB Professionals ratings and #6 in the Composite ratings.
Here's Alex Billington/FirstShowing.net's article that accompanied the release of the trailer from earlier this week.
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