Guilds and More Guilds / BAFTA Nominates / Golden Globe Analysis

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GUILDS AND MORE GUILDS

Since Monday's post a number of the guilds that make up workers in the film world have named their nominees for excellence in their areas of expertise.  Here's a note about each of those beginning with the Director's Guild of America (DGA).

The DGA nominees included these TFF #45 films:

On Monday the DGA named their documentary nominees which included Elizabeth Chai Vasarheyli and Jimmy Chin for Free Solo.

The Writers Guild nominees included from Telluride:

Roma for Original Screenplay and Can You Forgive Me? for Adapted Screenplay.

Others nominated for Original Screenplay included: Eighth Grade, Green Book, A Quiet Place and Vice.  Others nominated for Adapted Screenplay are: BlacKkKlansman, Black Panther, If Beale Street Could Talk and A Star Is Born.

Here is coverage from The Playlist.

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) named four TFF #45 films for their award for 2018:  Roma, Cold War, The Favourite and First Man.  The other nominee was A Star Is Born.

Additionally, Girl and TFF #44 film The Rider were named for the ASC Spotlight Award

Here is coverage from The Hollywood Reporter.

The Art Directors Guild (ADG) named a number of TFF films for consideration for their awards in  the Period Film Category TFF nominated films were: First Man, The Favourite and Roma. 

Complete nominees in all categories are here from Variety

Cinema Audio Society nominees included First Man and Free Solo.  The full list of CAS nominees is linked here from Awards Daily.


BAFTA NOMINATES

Early Wednesday morning the British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced their film nominees for 2018.  TFF #45 hit The Favourite led the field with 12 nominations.  Roma and First Man each had seven.  Other TFF #45 films also made the grade for nominations.  Here's the BAFTA/TFF #45 list:

The Favourite (12): Best Film, Best British Film, Direction, Original Screenplay, Actress, Supporting Actress (2), Cinematography, Film Editing, Production Design, Costume, Makeup/Hair.

Roma (7): Best Film, Best Film Not in the English Language, Direction, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Production Design.

First Man (7): Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actress, Cinematography, Film Editing, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects.

Cold War (4): Best Film Not in the English Language, Direction, Original Screenplay, Cinematography.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (3): Adapted Screenplay, Actress, Supporting Actress.

And four TFF #45 films that earned a single BAFTA nomination:

Dogman: Best Film Not in the English Language
Shoplifters: Best Film Not in the English Language
Free Solos: Best Documentary
The Field: Best British Short Film

TFF #45 films earned 37 BAFTA nominations in total.

Here's the complete coverage of the BAFTA announcement from Indiewire.

Last year TFF #44 films had 31 BAFTA nominations including 12 for eventual Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water.

GOLDEN GLOBE ANALYSIS

Here are a sampling of takes from the results if last Sunday's Golden Globe results:

Anne Thompson/Indiewire

Sasha Stone/Awards Daily

Kristopher Tapley and Michael Schnieder/Variety

Joyce Eng/Gold Derby

Alissa Wilkinson/Vox

Brendan Morrow/The Week


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