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

[Kad]

Posted: 1/9/13 at 10:47pm

"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.

[singtopher]

Posted: 1/10/13 at 7:25am

Regarding Speilberg's direction, While I didn't not think it was bad, per se, I did find the movie a little sentimental and schmaltzy. I thought I was going to see "Lincoln: The human" rather than "Lincoln: The greatest human ever." That coupled with Tony Kushner's script which in typical Kushner fashion, got lofty and preachy in certain places, made for something that left me feeling a bit unworthy of it's own greatness.

[OrdinaryJukebox]

Posted: 1/10/13 at 12:53pm

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

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 1/11/13 at 1:07pm

I realized why 'Wreck-it-Ralph' was not nominated for Best Animated Film. I looked at its international release dates and it has not yet been released in the U.K. yet.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 9:30pm

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/

[strummergirl]

Posted: 2/10/13 at 9:32pm

Not a surprise. The US-based awards did not give Riva the Oscar precursor nods. Everybody thought she had a good chance and a great chance at an Oscar.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:15am

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?

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 6:30am

The odd thing is that Argo, which is now the frontrunner, may win all of two Oscars total, even if they're biggies: Best Picture and Best Director.

It's not considered a frontrunner in any other category.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 9:01am

^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.

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 5:28pm

D'oh! That's what I get for posting before my morning coffee.

So it could actually just win Best Picture ... and nothing else, since it's not considered a frontrunner for either Editing or Screenplay.

That would be a first since "Grand Hotel" in 1932.

Winner of Best PIcture! And that's it!

[strummergirl]

Posted: 2/11/13 at 11:00pm

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.