BAFTA 2020 Nominations

This list really made me realise how little attention I've paid to cinema since the pandemic started. I don't think I've heard of a single one of these.

Entire categories of unknowns

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

NIAMH ALGAR Calm With Horses

KOSAR ALI Rocks

MARIA BAKALOVA Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

DOMINIQUE FISHBACK Judas and the Black Messiah

ASHLEY MADEKWE County Lines

YUH-JUNG YOUN Minari

I guess white peoples aren’t allowed to win awards any more.

This will backfire

[quote]This is going to be the lowest rated Oscars in history.

Finally, an edge!

R3 BAFTA is in the UK and they nominate who they feel deserves it. Most of their nominations look nothing like ours. If they nominated black actors, it’s because they genuinely felt they deserved it.

Get over it.

Even after last year, this seems really extreme. However I do wonder, racial diversity aside, whether the era of award nominations being uniform across the board is coming to an end? It hasn't always been like that anyway, but Regina King winning the GG and Oscar a couple of years ago but not even been nominated for the SAG award or Bafta may have been a sign of things to come.

R6 she’s hardly the first person to win an Oscar and not be nominated for one of the other major awards etc.

And because movie theaters were closed. Most of these films were streaming only. And streaming services release many films with good roles for black actors.

r7 Yeah but look at this year. Jodie Foster, Andra Day and Rosamund Pike all won the GG for their respective categories and none were nominated for a SAG award and the Baftas really do seem all over the place this year. I'm not staying it's definite, but it could be a sign of things to come

r3 the BAFTA nominations(and winners) are usually very similar to the Oscars, SAG awards and GG. This year is totally different

I didn’t like it when the BAFTA voting body started genuflecting to Hollywood and anticipating Oscar voters’ taste. Prior to the early 2000s, they had so many inspired winners and nominees...would love to see them go back to that permanently.

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[quote]I didn’t like it when the BAFTA voting body started genuflecting to Hollywood and anticipating Oscar voters’ taste. Prior to the early 2000s, they had so many inspired winners and nominees...would love to see them go back to that permanently.

David Oyelowo has said something similar. Though his focus was on changing the date to give distance from the Oscars so that the BAFTAs can stand on its own as a vital award.

"What Bafta needs to do is to not be so closely tied to the Oscars. It needs to happen at a different date.

Bafta cannot be like the Golden Globes and everything else, just a precursor, and therefore a self-fulfilling prophecy – basically a road trip for Hollywood to hit London on the way to the Oscars.”

“We have a very specific identity as the British film industry that should be independent [of the Oscars],” he said. “That’s something to also be thinking about in this moment: who are we as the British film industry, not just a stop on the way to the Oscars.”

“That will bring about real change,” he said, “because when you think about the Grammys, it’s independent of the Mobos. The Emmys has its own identity; the TV Baftas is not a stop on the way to the Emmys. Change that date! You are not Oscars’ poor cousin; change the date, and be something that is truly autonomous of that.

“Take back the power, Bafta – I’m just saying!”

Who is going to watch this?

What the hell is Rocks?

R7 SAG voting took place before The Mauritanian and I Care A Lot were available to be seen or sent out. That happens sometimes as it does for Golden Globes. This year especially movies qualified til Feb 26 and some of those nominations had already been voted on. I remember The Wolf of Wall Street or The Revenant missed out on one of the award shows because it wasn't seen early enough.

They snubbed Viola and Glenn. Tears.

Frances cutting her own hair with a kitchen knife as usual.

After Weinstein no one cares about awards anymore.

My favorite nods are Frannie McD and Clarke Peters for Da 5 Bloods.

Sorry R6 rather

OMG!!! All the SNooZe-athons and Wokeramas are well-represented here.

How is Mank an original screenplay, I thought his father wrote it long ago, and died, and he then adapted it?

Winners announced tonight

Nomadland, Chloe Zhao, Anthony Hopkins, Frances McDormand, Daniel Kaluuya, Yuh-Jung Youn

Does McDormand's BAFTA win make her a frontrunner for the Oscar now?

I didn’t realize Alfre Woodard was still working, or really even alive. Did Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer basically absorb her career and displace her?

Alfie was very good in her film. I’m still haunted by the final scene.

R26, did Dionne Warwick sing the theme song over the credits?

"What's it all about, Alfre?"