#BAFTA Award for Best Editing

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Nightcrawler (2014, Dan Gilroy)

27/02/2025

[melles1276]

Wonderful collection showing his outstanding talent

I guess this is what they mean by the american dream.

Golden Globe winner, BAFTA and Academy Award nominee Sebastian Stan

[jackoshadows]

BBC edits out calls for Gaza ceasefire at Scottish Bafta awards

THE BBC has edited out multiple calls for a ceasefire in Gaza from the Scottish Bafta Awards ceremony – including the presentation of an entire award.

Winners and presenters used their appearances on stage to voice solidarity with Palestinians during the event in Glasgow on Sunday evening and noticed edits on the BBC iPlayer's coverage.

One award presentation and speech by winners referencing calls for a ceasefire has been completely removed from the ceremony coverage, while no other award was cut.

Director Eilidh Munro, who won the award for best Short Film and Animation, told guests to “put pressure on institutions and our government” and to “use your voice as filmmakers and artists” while her colleague Finlay Pretsell held up one of the posters which said: “I refuse to be silent. Ceasefire now.”

The speech was seen by viewers on the livestream produced by Bafta Scotland on Sunday and shared widely online but the entire award-giving has been removed from the BBC iPlayer’s edit.

Munro told The National: "It is deeply concerning that the BBC decided to cut the entire segment of our award acceptance speech from their coverage of the Bafta Scotland Awards.

"October was the deadliest month for Palestinian journalists and filmmakers in the last 30 years and the scale of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the region is horrific.

"Awards ceremonies have always been a platform to express solidarity and humanity, and we wanted to use this opportunity as filmmakers to call for peace. For the BBC to cut this, as well as actor Amir El-Masry’s appeal to a ceasefire, is simply shocking.

"It is also somewhat surreal that an event which celebrates artists and filmmakers for using their voices and creating work to speak out against injustice can also be censored.

"In my opinion, the BBC’s editorial decision to omit these peaceful signs of solidarity is neither neutral nor impartial.

[skarsjoy]

NEW PROJECT announced for Alexander Skarsgård to star and executive produce "Pillion"

via Variety (5.8.24):

Alexander Skarsgard (“The Northman,” “Succession”) and Harry Melling (“The Pale Blue Eye,” “The Queen’s Gambit”) are set to lead the cast of “Pillion,” described as a “fun and filthy romance with heart” and being produced by multi-Oscar-winning powerhouse Element Pictures.

The film — to be launched in Cannes by Cornerstone, which is handling worldwide sales — marks the feature debut of Harry Lighton, whose short “Wren Boys” was nominated for best British short at the 2018 BAFTAs, was nominated for a BIFA and had its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

“Pillion” follows Colin (Melling), a weedy wallflower letting life pass him by. That is until Ray (Skarsgård), the impossibly handsome leader of a motorbike club, takes him on as his submissive. Ray uproots Colin from his dreary suburban life, introducing him to a community of kinky, queer bikers and taking all sorts of virginities along the way. But as Colin steps deeper into Ray’s world of rules and mysteries, he begins to question whether the life of a 24/7 submissive is for him. Has he found his calling, or simply swapped one form of suffocation for another? 

The film — set to shoot in the U.K. this summer — is an Element Pictures production financed by BBC Film, Picturehouse Entertainment and September Films, who will handle distribution in the U.K. and Benelux respectively. The BFI is also supporting the film. The screenplay was developed with BBC Film and is based on Adam Mars-Jones’ “Box Hill” which was the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize winner. Element Pictures’ Emma Norton, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe will produce together with Lee Groombridge. BBC Film’s Eva Yates, Claire Binns for Picturehouse, September Films’ Pim Hermeling and Skarsgård are executive producers. Louise Ortega is the BFI’s executive for the project. Heads of department include cinematographer Nick Morris (“Wren Boys”), production designer Francesca Massariol (“The Strays”), BIFA Award winning costume designer Grace Snell (“The Souvenir”), BIFA Award nominated composer Oliver Coates (“Aftersun”) and casting director Kahleen Crawford (“Lost Daughter”).

“Everyone at Element is so excited to help Harry Lighton bring ‘Pillion’ to life,” said Norton. “Harry is a filmmaker who is drawn to risk and fascinated by the  potential to find surprising complexity in everyday life. We love this about him and believe that ‘Pillion’ is the perfect expression of his talent, bravery and ambition.”

Added Cornerstone’s Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder; “Harry’s script is equally compelling and shocking as it is funny and entertaining – and one of the best we’ve read in years. The casting is inspired and we are thrilled to unleash this brilliant project in the Cannes market.”

[cinelestial]

CONCLAVE wins Best Editing at the 2025 BAFTA AWARDS.

The 2nd BAFTA win of the night.

[justforbooks]

Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve, is a French actress. She is considered one of the greatest European actresses on film. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

Deneuve made her screen debut in 1957 at age 13, in a film shot the previous year when she was only 12. A major figure of the New Wave, she became, like Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon, one of the best-known French artists in the world. In a career spanning nearly 70 years, she has played more than a hundred roles and is recognized in France and internationally for being one of the key faces of the musical film genre with appearances in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Donkey Skin, 8 Women and The Beloved. Early in her career, she gained acclaim for her portrayals of aloof and mysterious beauties while working for well-known directors such as Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Roman Polanski, and Agnès Varda. She played in films attracting a total of nearly 99 million spectators in theaters, making her the working actress with the most admissions in France. In 1985, she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne, France's national symbol of liberty.

She has received numerous accolades over her career including two César Awards and the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actress as well as nominations for an Academy Award and BAFTA Award. She has received honorary awards, including the Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear in 1998, the Cannes Film Festival's Honorary Palme d'Or in 2005, and the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion in 2022.

In 1986, Deneuve introduced her own perfume, Deneuve. She is also a designer of glasses, shoes, jewelry and greeting cards. In 2005, she launched a limited-edition makeup collection for MAC Cosmetics. For the Catherine Deneuve eyewear line, she has had licensing agreements with Viva International (from 1989) and Marcolin (2014–2019) for the design, production and distribution of sunglasses and optical frames.

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[brian-in-finance]

Question.

Considering that Cait is pretty much gone from SM, do you think it works in her favor acting wise or not?

She's probably busy now with The Amateur resuming filming but in general how do you see it?

Thanks for the questions, Anon. 😃

Do I think Caitríona’s limited social media use works in her favour, acting wise?

Gifer

I think her limited use of social media is incidental, acting wise.

While she’s still a relatively small fish in a big pond, the quality of her performances, accolades from directors, colleagues, and critics, and her 19 award wins and 51 nominations (IMBd) make enough noise. Her name is listed among the nominees and winners of four of the five top acting awards.* She’s been nominated for a BAFTA, won one Scottish BAFTA and been nominated for another. She’s been nominated for five Golden Globe, three Critics Choice, and two Screen Actors Guild awards. (And has won an IFTA award and been nominated for eight others.)

Despite her not being nominated for an Academy Award, she, with Tony, represented Le Mans ’66 (Ford v. Ferrari) and Belfast at the 2020 and 2022 ceremonies, where the films won three Oscars in total.

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You mentioned she’s currently busy filming (The) Amateur. Its star and executive producer, Rami Malek, is the 12th Oscar winner who’s shared film credits with Caitríona. The others are:

Sir Michael Caine (2)

Morgan Freeman

Jodie Foster (2)

Julia Roberts

George Clooney (2)

Matt Damon

Christian Bale

Andrew Buckland & Michael McCusker**

Donald Sylvester***

Dame Judi Dench

Sir Kenneth Branagh

She is and has been in good company.

Your second question, Anon, is how do I see it in general, Caitríona’s limited social media use?

I appreciate her limited use of social media. I imagine she fulfills contractual obligations and posts beyond that when the spirit moves her, but I get why she’s pulled back. Many actors who have the luxury of choosing not to use social media stay away from it. Some who choose to use it post only project-related, non-personal information. Her being cast in Outlander, and the show’s success, are gifts she cherishes, but they’ve come at a cost. We’ve seen where fans ignore reality and comment on her social media “direct from” Fantasy Island. Who needs that?

Remember… if you're gonna ask people to pay money to come see you in a movie, they don't need to know your every thought all the time. I think there has to be some element of mystery. — George Clooney in Esquire

*Alphabetically, Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics Choice Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award

**Best Achievement in Film Editing, Le Mans ’66/Ford v. Ferrari

***Best Achievement in Sound Editing, Le Mans ’66/Ford v. Ferrari

[maraschinocheri]

It was 20 years ago today :: The Return of the King hits the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) Awards on 15 February, 2004. Representing ROTK were Barrie Osborne, Peter Jackson, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Andrew Lesnie, and Andy Serkis (with Lorraine Ashbourne). ROTK won Best Film for Producers Barrie Osborne, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson; Best Cinematography for Andrew Lesnie; Best Adapted Screenplay for Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson; Best Special Visual Effects for Joe Letteri, Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke; and the Audience Award. The film was also nominated for Best Direction (Peter Jackson), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ian McKellen), Best Costume Design (Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor), Best Editing (Jamie Selkirk), Best Production Design (Grant Major), Best Original Music (Howard Shore), Best Makeup and Hair (Richard Taylor, Peter King, and Peter Owen), and Best Sound (Ethan Van der Ryn, Mike Hopkins, David Farmer, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, and Hammond Peek). The previous night Andy, Lorraine, and Billy also attended Variety magazine's London Party, benefitting the Elton John Aids Foundation.

[ The Wellington premiere of ROTK | Air Frodo from NZ to LA | Los Angeles | Berlin | London | New York (1) | New York (2) | Empire's LOTR Celebration booklet photography | Empire's outtakes | Critics Choice and People's Choice Awards | National Board of Review Awards | Producers Guild Awards | Tokyo (1) | Tokyo (2) | Golden Globes | Empire Awards ]

[oscarupsets]

High quality upset material this year!!

The first installment of The Godfather series may be considered one of the greatest of all time, but it had strong competition in the 1972 awards season.

An adaptation of Mario Puzo's 1969 novel, The Godfather boasts a recognizable ensemble cast and spans almost 3 hours. But the length isn't even an issue. The 400+ page novel necessitates the need for Vito's backstory to extend into a second film (which we will get to shortly), so these first 3 hours are FULL. I was very impressed by Coppola and Puzo's adaptation. Only smaller backstories and nonessential characters were removed, leaving space for the most important scenes.

I don't have a ton to say about the production as a whole. I love the music and you can tell the whole thing is produced with great quality. No faults. Critics weren't too fond of Brando's acting in this one. It's not his strongest role, but as a Brando fan, I don't mind.

And speaking of actors that I didn't realize were gay icons until I read their Wiki pages, I also have a soft spot for anything Liza Minnelli. Cabaret was a TREAT to watch, and I was not surprised to learn it's the film with the greatest number of Oscar wins to NOT win Best Picture.

Now I CAN say a lot about the production of this one. There's something so beautiful about it that I can't quite explain. The fact that it's rated PG but is one of the most sensual and sexual films I've seen so far? The fact that the Kit Kat Klub is used as a way to describe the plot through song and shot as if the viewer were an audience member? The editing?? A bi icon main character?? It was all just sheer perfection.

Both Marlon Brando and Al Pacino were absent from the 45th Academy Awards ceremony. Brando was protesting the treatment of Native Americans (both in Hollywood and nationwide), while Al Pacino was protesting his inclusion in the Supporting Actor category, given the fact that he had almost a half hour of screen time over Brando. Marlon Brando also become the 3rd and most recent winner to decline an Oscar.

It's also fun to note that The Godfather originally began with 11 nominations, an additional one for original score. After noting that Nino Rota used the main Godfather theme first in the 1958 Italian film Fortunella (albeit in a completely different style), the Academy voted on the shortlist again. The Godfather did not make the cut a second time.

Cabaret dominated the below-the-line categories, losing only Picture and Adapted Screenplay (both went to The Godfather). Both also were heavily decorated prior to the Oscars, with Cabaret also winning cinematography, sound, and promising newcomer for Grey at the BAFTAs.

A rare 100 from Metacritic for The Godfather, with strong reception across the board. Cabaret remains high, but slightly below average for an upset.

Unofficial Review: This one is very tough. Both are incredibly well done, rewatchable, and widely acclaimed. I think The Godfather wins for overall story and picture, but Cabaret dominates for actual production.

[weclassybouquetfun]

Awards season is inching to a close with the last gasp of screenings coming up the week of January 8th. My favourite movie of the year is SALTBURN and Amazon-MGM is holding three screenings of it on the same day to end its FYC run. The same night Disney finally remembers THE CREATOR exists and is having a screening/Q&A with its director Gareth Edwards.

Notable award season dates:

Jan. 6th-7th: The Creative Arts Emmys. This is the portion of the Emmys that awards the winners of the Outstanding Guest Star category. TED LASSO has four in this category: Three who have all been previously nominated for their roles on the show: Harriet Walter, Sarah Niles and Sam Richardson; and newbie Becky Ann Baker as Dottie Lasso.

If James Lance wasn't promoted to regular, surely he would have received and likely won a S3 nomination in this category.

James and his hair situation with his fellow voice-over artists for the BBC Radio 4 show "We Forced a Bot to Write This Show".

Jan. 7th: The Golden Globes

Prayer circles for Barry Keoghan and Rosamund Pike for their work in SALTBURN and TED LASSO, Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham.

Wed. Jan. 10: The SAG-AFTRA awards nominations

Sun. Jan 14th: The Critics Choice Awards . Hate that there was no love for TED LASSO and that SALTBURN actors and the script was ignored (but at least the artisans were recognized).

They were robbed!

Really pulling for Da'Vine Joy Randolph of THE HOLDOVERS, Charles Melton of MAY DECEMBER and for Young Actor/Actress, Milo Machada Graner for ANATOMY OF THE FALL.

If Milo wasn't this category, I would be rooting for THE HOLDOVERS' Dominic Sessa who is in the same category. Though, Sessa will very likely win.

Mon. Jan 15th: The Primetime Emmys. We have nods for Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster, nods for outstanding writing, directing, editing,production design, VFX, hairstyling, original music & lyrics and series. I am just hoping for some wins.

Thurs. Jan. 18th: The BAFTA Film Awards nominations.

Tues. Jan 23rd: The Academy Awards nominations

During this time Sundance Film Festival will be live (Jan 18th-28th) ,there we will likely get a couple of presumptive nominees for 2024-2025 film awards season.

Tues. Jan. 23: Academy Awards nominations. I'm a broken record. I'm all in on SALTBURN, especially hoping for nominations for Barry Keoghan and Rosamund Pike.; and one for Best Film. But as I was all in on BABYLON last year and it got goose eggs, no film should want me as a fan.

I'm hoping for JA Bayona's SOCIETY OF THE SNOW gets a nom and win for Best International.

And as France didn't submit ANATOMY OF A FALL (I assume there's too much English spoken for it to qualify), I hope it gets the same love last year's ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT received and it's put up for Best Picture.

Sun. Feb. 18: BAFTA Awards.

Sat. Feb. 24: Screen Actors Guild Awards

Sun. Feb. 25: Spirit AwardsSun. Mar. 10: Academy Awards

Then we pause until late April and Emmy season kicks right up again and we continue the dance.

[joudama]

The Veilguard enjoyers are using this as validation, but this just tells me exactly how weak 2024 was for narrative games - very. I hope Metaphor wins.

EDIT:

It says a lot that Veilguard is not up for Best Game, or any other award for that matter - I just checked the BAFTA site. Everything else on the list was up for multiple awards. Veilguard only got the one.

[correctmovietakes]

Anora Swept the Oscars: What Does That Mean?

It's Tuesday, March 4th, and the dust has settled around Hollywood after the 97th Academy awards. Sure, most of the decorations in my house are still up from my party, but if I don't take them down, I can feel like it's still Awards Season.

Some costumes from the party (left to right): The Van Buren Institute, Elisabeth Sparkle,Patrick Zweig, a Wild Robot, two Cardinals, Johnny Cash, and a Slutty Vatican Nun

The biggest story of the night is that Anora, a tiny movie about a sex worker in Brooklyn directed by the King of Tiny Sex Worker Movies, not only won Best Picture, but swept nearly all of its nominations. After a chaotic season in which, not too long ago, it seemed like there were six movies reasonably vying for the top prize, The Academy settled on the movie that was first declared the frontrunner in May.

It was a triumphant night for Anora, and especially its glorious leader Sean Baker, who made history by winning four Oscars in one night for the same movie. (Walt Disney won four awards in one night, but for different movies; and Bong Joon-ho won three awards and accepted International Feature, which technically went to South Korea.) Sean won. for producing, directing, writing, and editing Anora, and as Sean Fennessy of The Big Picture points out, he likely would have also won Casting if that was a category this year (it will be starting next year's ceremony).

These are all, of course, makeup wins for The Florida Project

Anora's other win came from Mikey Madison, who managed a slightly-surprising win over Demi Moore, in a move not unreminiscent of the plot of The Substance. Demi had won 3/4 of the "major precursor" awards (Golden Globes, Critic's Choice, SAG), while Mikey "only" won BAFTA (she also won more critics awards than Demi).

Going into the night, I assumed that Demi had the award on lock because the Academy has had a recent trend of awarding longtime beloved actors "finally making a prestigious movie", like Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, or Robert Downey, Jr. With Mikey's win, though, I think it's become clear that the actual most important factor is that the Academy is in a Sweeping Spirit now.

Looking back over the last few ceremonies, it's becoming more and more apparent that the Academy is not in the mood for spreading the wealth. The winningest movies of the last 6 ceremonies have been Anora, Oppenheimer, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Dune, Nomadland, and Parasite. Of those, Dune is the only non-Best Picture winner, but it's important to remember that CODA (the actual winner) was nearly unknown before nominations and had a massive surge in Phase 2 of the campaign, eventually winning all three of its nominations (it was also the second-winningest movie of the year).

But let's be honest, the entirety of the 2021 Awards Season should probably be thrown out as an outlier

All this is to say, the Best Picture frontrunner is likely to dominate bigger than you expect for the time being. I could hypothesize that this is because Oscar voters simply aren't actually watching these movies, and instead settle on one or two big names that they check off whenever they see them. And with an increasingly deeper and richer pool of movies getting exposed to the average person, along with the influence of an increasingly International academy, the act of watching "all the movies" is harder than ever before. But I won't do that because I have faith in our infallible Academy Voters.

But it is clear that Sweeps are what matter now, especially in the event of a close race. This year, Demi and Mikey were neck-and-neck, and Mikey pulled out the W because she was on the Anora wave. Last year, Emma Stone and Lily Gladstone were similarly close, and Emma became a two-time winner because Poor Things had a slightly smaller wave right behind the Oppenheimer one. (It helps to have a Best Picture sweeper with only one Lead, and it's notable that The Brutalist and The Whale were the winningest movies competing in Best Actor the year the Best Picture winner was female-led.)

So as we (slowly, please!) head into the 2025 Oscar Season, keep in mind to Follow the Sweep. As much as the Academy is still in its Make-Up Era, it's no match for Big Broom. Even if Meg Ryan and Richard Gere have incredible "comeback" performances in lauded dramatic roles, but the Best Picture frontrunner stars Sydney Sweeney and Jeremy Allen White, assume that Euphoria and The Bear will become Oscar winners.

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Some Other Takeaways:

Timotheo DiChalametio: Yes, Timmy has unfortunately made himself into the next Leo, and the Academy will castigate him as such by refusing to let him catch the golden carrot until he's older and has broken himself for them. That said, I really don't think it will take as long as Leo. Timmy has two LEAD nominations now and he still isn't 30.

I Don't Wanna Miss 17 Things: I really thought this might have been the year that Diane Warren finally got her competitive win, but the Academy will continue to make the Boring Choice, especially with Original Song. As she said, she's the Terminator, she'll be back. But maybe if she went back to her 90s style of making good songs for movies that actually exist, she could get that Oscar.

Names, Names, Names: never doubt the power of an established name, especially in a smaller category. Anora's sweep was powerful, but it didn't hurt that Sean Baker was one of the most notable existing directors nominated, and certainly the only name in the Editing category.

Denis' Return of the King?: Once again, Denis Villeneuve and Dune were disrespected by the Academy because, apparently, Denis is in an extended Curb Your Enthusiasm plotline with the Directors Branch. While many people are rightly unsure that the wildly odd Dune: Messiah could be a Best Picture winner, I trust that Denis could make it work. He obviously cares deeply about this project, and the changes he made for Dune: Part Two tell me that he will be able to successfully thread the needle to get his triumphant win for the Oscars as he concludes the trilogy. I think Timmy even has a chance of getting a rare scifi acting nom. At this point, its biggest hurdle will be if it comes out in the same year as Spielberg's UFO movie, Nolan's Odyssey, Gerwig's Chronicles of Narnia, and Peele's fourth mystery film.

Animation is for Snobs: Okay I'm being ungenerous with this title, but the Animated Feature race is no longer a place for Whatever Big Disney or Dreamworks Movie to win! This is now the second year in a row that the race came down to a big, flashy (and critically acclaimed) studio movie vs. a small(er), more artistically-minded, less-populist film, with David beating Goliath. Pair that with Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, which was always the frontrunner but still beat Turning Red, and you can see that Animated Feature is getting more high-minded.

Does Supporting Actor Suck Now?: For the 9th year in a row, Best Supporting Actor has been chalk. From Mahershala to Kieran, every winner has been the far-and-away frontrunner the entire season. There is certainly some variation (Troy Kotsur lost the Globe, Mahershala missed the Globes & BAFTA in 2016), but this still-pretty-fun category hasn't had any real excitement since Mark Rylance.

Will Wicked: For Good Actually Be Good?: Looking forward into 2025, the only known entity on the docket is the sequel to Wicked. It remains to be seen how Jon M. Chu will adapt the second act of the musical for the silver screen, but we do know that both Ariana and Cynthia will have original songs for the film. Assuming they land the plane (and remember, a year ago nobody thought Wicked would get 10 nominations including Best Picture, Actress, and Supporting Actress), you can count on at least one song nom, as well as some repeat noms from this year. Will Ariana move up to Lead? Will Jonathan Bailey and Jeff Goldblum appear in acting categories? Is the rumor that Alisha Weir (Abigail herself) is playing Dorothy true? Will Jon M. Chu get a director nom? Will they fix the goddamn lighting? I guess we'll have to wait and see!

[heywoodsays]

Animated Feature: Some ‘wild’ competition

The nominees are:

Flow

Inside Out 2

Memoir of a Snail

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

Many Oscar-observers think this looks very much like last year’s race, where a beloved and unique foreign favorite comes up against a popular American feature. Last year, the battle went to Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, besting Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

Those who read into that outcome are using it as a basis for picking this year’s winner.

But there are two key reasons this year is different.

1. Despite winning the Annie award, Spider-Verse had two things going against it for the Oscar. First, it was a sequel. Second, it wasn’t a complete story. Though these shouldn’t figure into Oscar voters’ decision-making, they inevitably do. They either think “I’ve award this franchise already” or “I’ll have a chance to award the conclusion of this story in a few years.”

2. Miyazaki. The Boy and the Heron was hailed as Miyazaki’s magnus opus. While I didn’t think it quite measured up to his Spirited Away, it was still viewed by Academy member as the right time to reward him for a lifetime of exceptional work.

The two main contenders this year are Flow, the dialogue-less flick from Latvia, and The Wild Robot from DreamWorks. Flow won the Golden Globe and has an Oscar nomination in Best International Feature. The Wild Robot won Critics Choice and the Annie. BAFTA was no help because they went with the British favorite, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.

The other contenders don’t really have a chance here, even Inside Out 2 which has earned nominations at all the major awards. Memoir of a Snail is one of the most creative and unique entries in this category, but its nomination here is the win for it.

As charming as Flow is, I don’t think it has a Miyazaki-like boost to help propel it past The Wild Robot. This will be DreamWorks first win in this category since it won the inaugural prize for Shrek in 2001.

Who will win: The Wild Robot

But look out for: Flow

Who I’d vote for: Flow

If I could add one more: That Christmas

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[scotianostra]

Happy 98th birthday Scottish comedy great Stanley Baxter born in Glasgow May 24th 1926.

Stanley was a child actor who started his career in radio on the Scottish edition of BBC Children’s Hour.

After gaining a degree at the University of Glasgow, he joined the entertainment services during national service where he met comedy actor Kenneth Williams and film director John Schlesinger. Their influence persuaded him to become a performer rather than a teacher.

He returned to Glasgow and spent the next three years at the Citizens Theatre, where he was highly successful, and later appeared in panto with Jimmy Logan. He left Scotland in 1959 to work in television.

He won a Bafta for light entertainment in 1959, for co-hosting the satirical sketch show On the Bright Side. He won two years running, in 1973 and 1974, for The Stanley Baxter Picture Show, and again in 1981 for The Stanley Baxter Series.

Some of his best-loved comedy sketches include Parliamo Glasgow, in which the Glaswegian dialect was presented as a foreign language. It included phrases such as “Izat a marra on yer barra, Clara?” and the uniquely Glaswegian word “Sanoffy”, as in “Sanoffy cold day”.

He remained a favourite of the Scottish panto circuit, often playing the gloriously costumed dame alongside Angus Lennie, Jimmy Logan or Ronnie Corbett, until he retired in 1992.

In 1994 he returned to radio, appearing in plays and sitcoms. In 1997, he was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards. The Stanley Baxter Playhouse ran on Radio 4 from 2006 until 2014.

Even though he retired from TV comedy some 30 years ago, Stanley Baxter continues to hold a special place in the viewing nation’s heart.

He eats well, likes a glass of wine and enjoys a quiet domesticated life. Well into his 80s he was still cycling and swimming. Even when he was in the public eye, he shunned personal publicity, rarely doing interviews or appearing on chat shows.

In his retirement he has written an autobiography but refuses to allow it to be published until after his death, not apparently because it contains any hugely scandalous stories of his celebrity friends, but because he didn’t fancy schlepping round the country doing promotional appearances, press interviews and book signings, let’s hope it is a good few years before it is released then!

A widower since 1997, he says he doesn’t find it difficult to fill his days. “You wonder how you ever had time to work,” he says.

“I miss talking to actors. I can relate to actors better than real people. I have so few friends left. "I suppose I’m a bit of a loner. I’m not the kind of person to drop in on the neighbours.”

In 2020 Stanley in an authorised biography, The Real Stanley Baxter told for the first time of his struggles to come to terms with his sexuality, his efforts to keep the fact that he is gay secret and the effect his troubled marriage had on his life.

The book charts the career of Baxter, who was born in Glasgow in 1926, from his early days as an entertainer in the Army, where he met Kenneth Williams. The Real Stanley Baxter explores the complex relationship with his wife Moira, his early sexual encounters as a teenager, and the strenuous efforts he made to maintain his privacy in later life, including taking legal action over the publication of the diaries of actor Kenneth Williams, a long-time friend, after he had passed away.

Baxter described his discomfort with his homosexuality in the book, writing: "Anybody would be insane to choose to live such a very difficult life. There are many gay people these days who are fairly comfortable with their sexuality, fairly happy with who they are. I’m not. I never wanted to be gay. I still don’t."

If you want to know more about Stanley I recommend watching the feature length documentary, Stanley Baxter's Best Bits - and More, it’s on 5 and you don’t have to sign in to watch the show, it’s just over an hour long so settle down with a cuppa before viewing. https://www.channel5.com/show/stanley-baxter-s-best-bits-and-more

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The Besties Are Going to Dublin Comic-Con!

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dublincomiccon How about a guest announcement you can sink your teeth into!

We are delighted to announce Kayvan Novak and Harvey Guillen will be joining us for Spring Edition this March 15/16th!

Kayvan Novak is an English actor and comedian. He co-created and starred in the comedy series Fonejacker (2006-2008) and Facejacker (2010-2012), winning the BAFTA Television Award for Best Comedy (Programme or Series) in 2008. He also portrayed Waj in the comedy film Four Lions (2010), the vampire Nandor the Relentless in the mockumentary series What We Do in the Shadows (2019-present) and Fabian Kingsworth in the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth seasons of Archer (2021-2023).

Harvey Guillén is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the human familiar Guillermo de la Cruz in the 2019 television series What We Do in the Shadows. Guillén has appeared in recurring roles on a number of television series, such as Alistair Delgado on Huge (2010), Cousin Blobbin on The Thundermans (2013-2018), George Reyes in Eye Candy (2015), and Benedict Fenwick on The Magicians (2017-2018). He also appeared in the 2013 film The Internship.

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[kristenswig]

Best Picture

The Holdovers

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Barbie

Poor Things

American Fiction

Maestro

Past Lives

Anatomy of a Fall

The Zone of Interest I think it might actually be this easy but just in case! - The Color Purple, Saltburn, Origin, Air, Napoleon

Director

Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer

Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon

Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things (most likely to get Denis Villeneuved, however)

Alexander Payne - The Holdovers

Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest Alt for Payne - Greta Gerwig - Barbie (I never thought she was getting nominated but now that more people seem to agree I'm suspicious!) Alt for Glazer or Lanthimos - Justine Triet - Anatomy of a Fall JUST IN CASE - J.A. Bayona - Society of the Snow

Actress (optimism!)

Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon

Emma Stone - Poor Things

Carey Mulligan - Maestro

Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall

Greta Lee - Past Lives they'll reward her for producing the biggest hit of the year but take the performance for granted - Margot Robbie - Barbie I simply do not buy it! - Annette Bening - Nyad Well, - Fantasia Barrino - The Color Purple

Actor

Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer

Bradley Cooper - Maestro

Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction (is he the secret snub?)

Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon (I was expecting him to get The Irishman-ed but I think Lily switching to lead will make them a pair) Will look the best on the red carpet - Colman Domingo - Rustin No<3 - Barry Keoghan - Saltburn On the off chance they're interested in nominating a single good performance in this category - Andrew Scott - All of Us Strangers

Supporting Actress

Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers

Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer -----BAR OF CERTAINTY-----

Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple -----BAR OF SEMI-CERTAINTY------

Penelope Cruz - Ferrari (she's been nominated with less support?)

Rosamund Pike - Saltburn no legitimate awards body has nominated her without Annette Bening and I'm not predicting her either! - Jodie Foster - Nyad it's definitely not a rage stroke - Julianne Moore - May December do they care about the acting in this? - Sandra Huller - The Zone of Interest nice try! - America Ferrera - Barbie DJR is sucking up so many number 1 votes something wild is bound to happen - Rachel McAdams - Are You There God? It's Me Margaret

Supporting Actor

RDJ - Oppenheimer

Ryan Gosling - Barbie

Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon

Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers

Willem Dafoe - Poor Things When there's two from the same movie they go with the older one - Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things If they have to nominate someone under 50 in this category it certainly won't be for someone this pretty! - Charles Melton - May December cannot conjure the image of a single person putting this at number 1 on their ballot - Sterling K. Brown - American Fiction

Adapted Screenplay

American Fiction

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

Barbie

Killers of the Flower Moon This is for my people who just lost someone - The Zone of Interest, All of Us Strangers, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret

Original Screenplay

The Holdovers

Past Lives

Anatomy of a Fall

Maestro

Saltburn They can't do three good screenplays - May December Congrats on the WGA nominations - Air, Asteroid City

Cinematography

Poor Things

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

The Zone of Interest honestly wasteful to have shot this on film - Saltburn am I an Ed Lachman FAN? - El Conde

Costume Design

Barbie

Poor Things

Killers of the Flower Moon

Napoleon

Oppenheimer (if EEAAO could do it) COIN TOSS - Maestro

Film Editing

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Killers of the Flower Moon

Poor Things

The Holdovers

Anatomy of a Fall enough - Barbie Tar voters I know you're out there - The Zone of Interest get some help - Maestro cars - Ferrari

Makeup & Hairstyling

Maestro

Poor Things

Golda

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon (the BAFTA nomination is throwing me) ???? - Society of the Snow Presumably has to get one of it's shortlists? - Napoleon

Production Design

Poor Things

Barbie

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Napoleon wish I were brave enough to predict this - The Zone of Interest

Score

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Poor Things

Indiana Jones

The Zone of Interest Alt - anything animated

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the good Barbie song

the bad Barbie song

Diane Warren

Rustin

Killers of the Flower Moon alt - American Symphony, the other good Barbie song

Sound

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Maestro

Killers of the Flower Moon

Ferrari

The Zone of Interest I feel like that's it but here's the rest of the list in descending order of likelihood - Barbie, Napoleon, The Killer, Mission Impossible, The Creator

Visual Effects

Poor Things

Marvel 32

The Creator

Godzilla

Society of the Snow I'm bombing this category as usual - Spiderman, Napoleon, Indiana Jones

Animated

Spiderman

The Boy and the Heron

Elemental

Nimona

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (really?) every year I try to predict one of these but I've decided to learn my lesson this time - Suzume they're running - Chicken Run

Documentary

20 Days in Mariupol

Beyond Utopia

Still: a Michael J. Fox Movie

The Eternal Memory

Bobi Wine: The People's President FRONTRUNNER SNUB - American Symphony possibly too experimental? - Four Daughters

International

The Zone of Interest

Society of the Snow

Fallen Leaves (BECAUSE there is nothing to get)

20 Days in Mariupol

Totem Justine's Revenge - The Taste of Things lmao - The Teachers' Lounge is Danish - The Promised Land is allegedly terrible so definitely a contender - Amerikatsi forgot to release it - Perfect Days what about the YAK - The Monk and the Gun It*lian - Io Capitano Remember taste? - Godland