BAFTA nominations: 'Lincoln' leads with 10, but no Director — Page 2

"Honestly, Joe Wright is more than capable of bringing life to his technically-driven direction be it high-brow Atonement or cheekily low-brow Hanna."

I agree. And I loved the first twenty minutes of Anna Karenina, which felt like Moulin Rouge by way of Peter and the Star Catcher.

Too bad the conceit was all but dropped when the plot got going.

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Compared to the debacle that are the Oscar nominations, the BAFTA's got it right comparatively speaking.

Here are the winners. Neither Jessica Chastain nor Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress which was a surprise.

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/02/10/bafta-winners-announced-3/

How is it that the British Academy nominated Les Miserables for best picture of the year, but not Skyfall, yet voted Skyfall best British film of the year?

Don't the Brits study the transitive property of mathematics?

^Best 12, Argo can't win best picture and best director. It's not nominated for best director.

It could possibly win best editing, but that could well go to Zero Dark Thirty.

It could win adapted screenplay, but so could Lincoln or Silver Linings Playbook.

I think it gets thrown a bone with Editing (even if Goldenberg, nominated for that and ZD30, had tougher work in ZD30) and maybe Screenplay (which won the USC Scripter recently). I think there is too much self-awareness to the bizarreness of a stand-alone Best Picture winner and sometimes BP winners get additional Oscars that do not necessarily deserve over their competitors. But it would be pretty funny if it did and it would certainly make for an interesting show of constant live-shots of Clooney, Affleck, and Heslov holding their guard until the last category is called.