the BAFTAs
Feb. 19th, 2018 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessIt's that time: the only movie awards ceremony it's feasible for me to watch!
I want to see proper pictures of the gowns. I think Lupita N'Yongo wore the best gown, certainly of the presenters, with metallic piped panniers. Apart from the black and Time's Up badges, another running theme was spectacles. It'd be cool if we saw more of them in actual films. The worst-dressed presenter, I fear, was Rachel Weisz. If you're going to break the dress code, do it like Frances McDormand, not in something that's so horribly runched up and unflattering.
Overall, I thought Joanna Lumley was fine. She decided to be her own self and wisely dropped all the kissing - there were a few awk moments when excited winners didn't know how to greet presenters - although she seemed to have kept Fry's more unctuous scriptwriters. But then, it's the BAFTAs, you're going to hear 'ineffable'.
The Cirque de Soleil tribute to The Shape of Water was gorgeous (good call whoever comissioned that - and I liked that it wasn't generic acrobatics).
JLaw DID NOT TRIP UP. (I have started to get worried that Red Sparrow may be used as another excuse not to make a Black Widow movie.)
Then came the 'and how do you decide what fits into the British film category?' moment, and Three Billboards began its winnings. (I want to check the totals, but I thought there was a decent spread. I surprised myself and got most excited that Blade Runner 20whateveritis got SFX and Cinematography, although I'd called the latter. I wasn't outraged by any win - for one thing, I had no intention of seeing all the films nominated - although I was perplexed that Phantom Thread wasn't up for more, as it's such an Anglophile film. And good.)
I'd been expecting Tessa 'in Thor' Thompson to get the Rising Star one, but I must have underestimated Get Out's popularity, and maybe the voters were more impressed by Daniel Kaluuya's American accent than her nearly there English one.
It felt like Salma Hayek was this year's BAFTA's Meryl 'Reaction Shot' Streep. She was very droll when she gave out the Best Lead Actor.
I'd wondered who that was with HBC, it turned out to be James Ivory.
Gemma Arterton and Lily James made a strong case for someone casting them in a buddy movie together.
Bryan Cranston went on a bit, Alison Janney was a very popular winner, and while her dress looked amazing, it seemed to make it challenging to walk up stairs at pace. Whoops.
More proof that they had only tweaked the BAFTA formula, because again we had young'uns playing strings on stage for the 'In Memorium' slot. (The Duchess of Cambridge looked...generally zoned out.)
We had a good speech from Frances McDormand, but an even better one from Guillermo del Toro.
Ridley Scott was a canny choice for the fellowship. (I'd forgotten about Orlando Bloom doing 'Kingdom of Heaven').
I was rather invested in the question of who won the Best Score; I was also pleased that Baby Driver won Editing.
I want to see proper pictures of the gowns. I think Lupita N'Yongo wore the best gown, certainly of the presenters, with metallic piped panniers. Apart from the black and Time's Up badges, another running theme was spectacles. It'd be cool if we saw more of them in actual films. The worst-dressed presenter, I fear, was Rachel Weisz. If you're going to break the dress code, do it like Frances McDormand, not in something that's so horribly runched up and unflattering.
Overall, I thought Joanna Lumley was fine. She decided to be her own self and wisely dropped all the kissing - there were a few awk moments when excited winners didn't know how to greet presenters - although she seemed to have kept Fry's more unctuous scriptwriters. But then, it's the BAFTAs, you're going to hear 'ineffable'.
The Cirque de Soleil tribute to The Shape of Water was gorgeous (good call whoever comissioned that - and I liked that it wasn't generic acrobatics).
JLaw DID NOT TRIP UP. (I have started to get worried that Red Sparrow may be used as another excuse not to make a Black Widow movie.)
Then came the 'and how do you decide what fits into the British film category?' moment, and Three Billboards began its winnings. (I want to check the totals, but I thought there was a decent spread. I surprised myself and got most excited that Blade Runner 20whateveritis got SFX and Cinematography, although I'd called the latter. I wasn't outraged by any win - for one thing, I had no intention of seeing all the films nominated - although I was perplexed that Phantom Thread wasn't up for more, as it's such an Anglophile film. And good.)
I'd been expecting Tessa 'in Thor' Thompson to get the Rising Star one, but I must have underestimated Get Out's popularity, and maybe the voters were more impressed by Daniel Kaluuya's American accent than her nearly there English one.
It felt like Salma Hayek was this year's BAFTA's Meryl 'Reaction Shot' Streep. She was very droll when she gave out the Best Lead Actor.
I'd wondered who that was with HBC, it turned out to be James Ivory.
Gemma Arterton and Lily James made a strong case for someone casting them in a buddy movie together.
Bryan Cranston went on a bit, Alison Janney was a very popular winner, and while her dress looked amazing, it seemed to make it challenging to walk up stairs at pace. Whoops.
More proof that they had only tweaked the BAFTA formula, because again we had young'uns playing strings on stage for the 'In Memorium' slot. (The Duchess of Cambridge looked...generally zoned out.)
We had a good speech from Frances McDormand, but an even better one from Guillermo del Toro.
Ridley Scott was a canny choice for the fellowship. (I'd forgotten about Orlando Bloom doing 'Kingdom of Heaven').
I was rather invested in the question of who won the Best Score; I was also pleased that Baby Driver won Editing.
