Part 2 of the BAFTA award ceremony took place this evening, hosted by “Mr Suave” Dermot O’Leary and Edith Bowman: someone who actually knows about film!! 🙂 And tonight had all the heavy-hitter awards. I still have a major problem with an awards show celebrating “2020” movies when I have not had a chance to … Read more
So, tonight we had the first part of the BAFTA award ceremony, covering more of the technical awards. A nice all female panel, led by Clara Ambo, made for an entertaining and informative broadcast. Here are the results. Production Design The nominations were: THE DIG Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald THE FATHER Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone … Read more
So, the 2021 Oscar nominations are out, announced in a broadcast by husband and wife Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra, recently seen in “The White Tiger” – here nominated for a screenplay award. “Mank” leads the nominations by some margin with ten. But, again, its a nicely diverse bunch of nominations, but not quite as … Read more
So, the BAFTA nominations are out, and what a strikingly diverse set they are! I have to admit to being sideswiped here with a whole lot of films that I haven’t seen yet, and a whole bunch that I’ve never heard of! The selection panel was apparently very restricted in number, and from a diverse … Read more
One Mann’s Movies predictions for the 92nd Academy Awards. This post will be updated with the results on the night.