The 2017 BAFTAs

Last Sunday the British Academy Film and Television Arts held the 70th British Academy Film Awards. They held it on the same night as the Grammy’s.  I had an obligation to review them, I watched these instead of the Grammys. Oh, and in case you didn’t know, the BAFTAs are broadcast on BBC America. Now last year I said I didn’t watch the BAFTA because I didn’t get the channel, now either a person really high up in my cable company is a real big fan of my blog or my attempt to blackmail one of them worked, either way I get BBC America now. I watched the ceremony and it was pretty good. Stephen Fry was the host and he’s apparently really famous in the UK, not so much in the US. But he hosted and he was a really good host. There’s not a lot to mention about the ceremony, but one thing to mention is since the ceremony is done in the UK, the US broadcast is delayed a couple of hours, mainly so BBC America can add in commercials. Adding commercials does not bother me that much (I would rather them not), but where they added them was bizarre. They cut to a commercial right in the middle of Stephen Fry’s monologue. Couldn’t they have just waited 3 minutes to do a commercial break? Ok let’s get to the winners.

Best Picture:

La La Land

It is totally a lock for the Oscars.

Best Actor:

Casey Affleck - Manchester By the Sea

And now it’s a two-way race for the Oscar between Affleck and Denzel Washington

Best Actress:

Emma Stone - La La Land

This race is over - she is going to win the Oscar

Best Supporting Actor:

Dev Patel - Lion

Meaning that there is a possibility that Ali might not win the Oscar.

Best Supporting Actress:

Viola Davis - Fences

She’s officially a lock for the Oscar

Best Director:

Damien Chezzele - La La Land

Now a shoe-in to take home Oscar gold

Best Animated Feature:

You know how I said that Zootopia was a lock for the Oscar?  Well, the Brits decided to mess us up by awarding this to Kubo and the two Strings...So, now it is once again a two-way race, but Zootopia does hove better odds at winning.  

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Lion

I have been predicting Arrival for awhile for the Oscar.  This is a race that won’t get decided until Oscar night considering Lion isn’t nominated for The Writers Guild.  

Original Screenplay

Manchester by the Sea

It is looking like it will win the Oscar, but it’s the Writers Guild that will be the deciding factor.  

Thanks for joining me.  You still have time to submit a movie for my end-of-the-year poll.  Goodnight, and Bee happy!

Mr.Bee 
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