It's all over again for another year. All the awards have been given and the BAFTA's race starts all over again. While many awards were expected, there are some who will have lost quite a lot of money at the bookies tonight.
The biggest shock is that 'Lincoln', Steven Spielberg's epic about America's most revered president, was beaten by Ben Affleck's 'Argo', which also gained the coveted best director award. While Daniel Day Lewis won his well deserved best actor BAFTA, the movie didn't perform as well as I thought it definetly would tonight. I had predicted that it would sweep the BAFTAs completely, winning not just best picture and actor but also most of the technical awards including music, cinematography and production design. I think a lot of the members of the Oscar committee may be quite surprised as well and I think the Academy Awards may not go the way people think in Hollywood. Tom Hooper's musical epic 'Les Miserables' fared quite well, with Anne Hathaway bagging her predicted BAFTA for her astonishing performance, as well as winning multiple other technical awards, including production design, make up and hair and sound, but missing out on the BAFTA for best British movie, which instead went to 'Skyfall'. While all of these movies fared relatively well, tonight was undoubtedly Ben Affleck's night, who won the awards for both best picture and director for 'Argo', for which the film also won the BAFTA for best editing as well. Amazingly, it didn't win the award for adapted screenplay of which I thought it stood a good chance, Instead the BAFTA went to David O' Russell for 'Silver Linings Playbook'. I'm really looking forward to the 24th February now, where I think we may in for a few shocks as 'Argo' certainly seems to be the dark horse of the awards season this year.
'Brave' won the best animation award, even though I really wanted it to be Tim Burton's much more entertaining 'Frankenweenie', which for my money was more deserving of a BAFTA due to it's originality and beautiful stop-motion animation. I also incorrectly guessed 'The Imposter' as the predicted winner of the best documentary, which instead went to 'Searching For Sugar Man' but I correctly predicted 'Amour' as the best foreign movie which also surprisingly won the BAFTA for best actress for Emmanuelle Riva.
Overall, the ceremony was an extremely entertaining, if not surprising night. Stephen Fry was magnificent as ever as the master of ceremonies and there were many stand out speeches. These included Christoph Waltz who couldn't stop thanking Quentin Tarantino while accepting his award for best supporting actor in 'Django Unchained', Anne Hathaway in pieces on stage accepting her BAFTA for 'Les Miserables' and most perfectly, Sir Alan Parker's Fellowship award which the most deserved of the whole evening. It is with great anticipation that I await the upcoming Academy Awards, for all of the speeches, tantrums and now it seems, inevitable controversy.
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