2013 BAFTA Film Awards Winners

I don't see Anna Karenina in for any of the major awards? and I can't argue with Skyfall getting supporting actor and actress noms. They wouldn't have been my choices, but I don't think they're wholey undeserved either.

Feb 10 - 07:47 PM

Trey Marksberry

I don't argue with Skyfall at all! It was no doubt a great movie. And when it comes to Anna Karenina, in my opinion, shouldn't be nominated for a single award. Which is why I think its a little bias!

Feb 10 - 08:34 PM

Yeah, but if you look the only awards its nominated for are costumes and set design ones. You can have a totally crappy movie that just has great costumes and set design.

Feb 10 - 11:06 PM

Nick Porter

Anna Karenina deserves recognition for costume, production design and music; in my opinion it's the most outstanding film of the year in all those categories. But aside from Keira Knightley being a powerful actress as usual, in my opinion it doesn't deserve noms for anything else.

I think its inclusion into the Outstanding British Film shortlist is reflective of the lack of great British films this year, the only nomination that gives me the slightest raised eyebrow is Cinematography.

Feb 11 - 01:40 AM

Alex Bauman

I would hardly call that a justification though. The Academy Awards in the US may be American but frequently give credit to other films. A french film won best picture last year, a British film the year before that. In 2007, the 4 acting categories were given to 2 Brits (Daniel Day-Lewis and Tilda Swinton, a French woman (Marion Cottilard), and a Spaniard (Javier Bardem).

They due sometimes give credit where credit is due but the bias is still noticable. Like when Jim Broadbent received a Best Supporting Actor Bafta nomination for The Iron Lady (the only nomination he got for the film) over Albert Brooks in Drive (who received doezens of awards and nominations from various film festivals and critics groups)

Feb 10 - 08:24 PM

Alex Bauman

They *do*

Feb 10 - 08:24 PM

Caleb Anderson

Yip, all fair points, and I agree they are a bit British-biased (remember how much they loved Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy? My English in-laws love it too... It didn't really do it for me). And they are certain prone to some bizarre nomination choices.

However, I don't think they're any more British-biased than the Oscars/Golden Globes/guilds are American-biased. And I don't think the BAFTA are any more prone to strange omissions or inclusions than the Academy (no Ben Affleck director nod this year, and they spurned Drive in every other category last year whilst nominating flippin' Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for Best Picture).

Feb 11 - 02:13 AM

Zach Idiculla

Dang, Argo and Affleck be killing it

Feb 10 - 05:27 PM

I still think Argo won't win best picture at the Oscars... I mean, no nod for Affleck on directing and only 7 nominations. I don't think it will be the big winner this year

Feb 10 - 05:32 PM

Kevin Valladares

Agreed.

Feb 10 - 08:52 PM

WS Shannon

Driving Miss Daisy won in 1989 without a Best Director Nod.

Feb 10 - 11:49 PM

Caleb Anderson

The question is, when does the academy vote? If they voted now, after Argo's been cleaning everything up, they'd no doubt go for that. If they voted for winners at the same time as they voted for nominees (or soon afterwards), that's another story, because they didn't seem too enamoured at that stage.

Feb 11 - 02:15 AM

Max Power

ya only 7 noms, cuz thats such a tiny amount of noms.

Feb 11 - 08:44 AM

For the big winner of the night it is a tiny amount. Lincoln has 12 and Life of Pi 11! And only 3 nods in major categories

Feb 11 - 10:26 AM

Andr� Antunes

Honestly, I duno if Argo is winning. It's defenetly between Argo and Lincoln. And at the begining I thought Lincoln would clean it,no doubt. But now, watching Argo winning Golden Globes, Directores Guild, SAG and BAFTA... I dunno. Yet, I will mantain my bet on Lincoln for 3 main reasons:

1 - 12 nominations is a lot. Usually when a movie gets this amount of nominations (and I still think it got snubbed in Makeup) It's because it was really good in a lot of things.

2 - Daniel Day Lewis. The man had probably the best performance of the century so far (Don't kill me Joker fans). Just by that alone Lincoln is a deserving winner.
3 - The Directors. You can take Driving Miss Daisy and shuve it up your asses, the truth of the matter is that Best Director is always a really important factor in determinating Best Picture. only for 3 times did a movie won without a Director nom. and in 84 editions, in 66 the Best Director won Best Picture. Spielberg is nominated, Affleck is not. It gets tougher cuz Spielberg is the clear front-runner to win (I consider Ang Lee to be an upset for the win). Besides, U know the Academy praises the old guys, the veterans. Spielberg as been around making masterpieces for 40 years, and Affleck only made 3 films, one of which (Gone Baby Gone) I don't consider to be that great of a movie.

So, for all the reasons I've listed, and even considering that Argo has been getting a lot of awards, LINCOLN will win at the Oscars

Feb 12 - 09:23 AM

Typhon Q

Argo's just winning everything... But I doubt it'll win at the Oscars

Feb 10 - 06:43 PM

Stephen Aspinall

Brits have better taste, I agree. PG Wodehouse, Oscar Wilde(I know he's Irish), Stephen Fry, Dickens, Douglas Adams and Shakespeare all support that.

Feb 14 - 05:18 PM

Andrew 222

SO happy Silver Linings got Best Adapted Screenplay.

Feb 10 - 07:27 PM

Kathleen Smith

I just saw Silver Linings Playbook last night, and I couldn't agree more about its win for screenplay! Emmanuelle Riva must have been beyond excellent in Amour to beat Jennifer Lawrence.

Feb 11 - 11:06 AM

Andrew 222

And I think it's fair to say Argo has a pretty solid shot now at Best Picture.

Feb 10 - 07:27 PM

Can't really disagree with any of the winners. This is the closest I've seen to how I'd have it.

Feb 10 - 07:44 PM

Sean D

This bodes well for QT getting the screenplay, which I am all for.
With Ben Affleck cleaning up it's hard to determine who will win come Oscar time, seeing as they clearly made a mistake.
And I am glad that Bardem got nominated for Skyfall, he certainly deserved it.

Feb 10 - 07:53 PM

Kevin Valladares

There are better films than Argo.

Feb 10 - 08:51 PM

Edd Jefferson

Yeah, but not in this year's Best Picture noms...

Feb 11 - 02:32 AM

rodrigo lopez

Amour, Beasts of the southern wild, Silver linings playbook, Zero dark thirty, Life of pi, are much better than Argo by far.

Feb 11 - 12:44 PM

Brandon Little

Your opinion. Most disagree, based on the tomatometer, all these awards shows, etc.

Feb 11 - 01:56 PM

Kristijonas Fussman

I'm really happy with these nominations and awards. Ben Affleck has been making a killing, which really just goes to show how politically biased the Academy is with their nominations. And while QT certainly is far too left-field to win Best Picture, I really hope he at least gets the recognition he deserves with the Best Original Screenplay award. Certainly not a more original or deserving film in the lot to choose from.

Feb 10 - 09:03 PM

Edd Jefferson

Totally agree, I think QT will go his entire life without ever winning Best Picture or Director, despite being deserving of both on many occasions (I think he was utterly robbed with Pulp Fiction - Forrest Gump was good, but not that good). QT is just in a league of his own and the Academy are often prone to avoiding giving controversial films (as Tarantino's always are) the win - such as with Crash beating Brokeback Mountain.

Feb 11 - 02:35 AM

Sorry, even after watching PULP FICTION again recently, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION deserved Best Picture in 1994 in every single way.

Feb 11 - 08:40 AM

Jeremy Foster

But Forrest Gump won that year. Pulp Fiction won Best Original Screenplay though.

Feb 11 - 02:14 PM

I knew that, but everyone knows what should have won. Yes, Pulp Fiction did deserve Best Screenplay, but not Best Picture.

Feb 11 - 03:54 PM

Think you'll find that everybody isn't as inclusive as you think. For my money I'd have it Pulp Fiction, Shawshank and Gump, but there are a ton of people who'd have it exactly the opposite and every other variation. All three are excellent movies and contenders in almost any year you want to name, but I give PF the edge because of its originality, innovation and effect on the film industry since.

Feb 11 - 04:28 PM

That's practically impossible to argue with, Big Brother. For my money, the sheer emotional impact of SHAWSHANK is what elevates it slightly; as much as I love PULP FICTION, I could care less about its characters. However, its influence and, yes effect, on the film industry cannot be denied.

Feb 11 - 06:05 PM

I can totally see that too. They're both such exceptional movie's it's hard to judge. I'll probably change my mind next week and have Shawshank top again.

Feb 12 - 08:38 PM

Wouldn't you love to the see the final numbers, in terms of Oscar votes, of all three of those films? I bet it was quite close!

Feb 13 - 06:59 PM

Joe Jarosz

Couldn't disagree more. Moonrise Kingdom is also quite original and quite good. Hard to compare the two films, but Moonrise is certainly being overlooked for this category. As well as The Master, but that's a whole different story

Feb 11 - 05:34 AM

Gim Ferno

This is weird.I expected Spielberg and his movie to clean up here,but instead there's Argo rocking every award ceremony.At this point,Director nod or no, Argo is a safe bet for Best Picture.Sorry,Lincoln team,but you're going down come Oscar night.
Happy for Christoph Waltz,he deserved it much more than Tommy Lee Jones (Django could take the screenplay Award as well).
ZDT ,hard luck.

Feb 10 - 09:32 PM

Gim Ferno

Did anyone notice BRAVE WINNING BEST ANIMATED FEATURE?

Feb 10 - 09:35 PM

Gage Kent

*shudders* yes...

Feb 10 - 09:39 PM

Joshua "LF" Mitchell

I'm not sure why this is confusing. Out of the three films nominated for Best Animated Feature, Brave is the one most people saw (by comparison, relatively few people saw Frankenweenie and Paranorman). Therefore, Brave has the numbers. It will be a much closer race at the Oscars when Wreck-It Ralph is also competing.

Feb 10 - 10:10 PM

Kathleen Smith

There's also the fact that Brave takes place in Scotland, aka part of Britain. That probably also gave it an edge. I haven't seen Frankenweenie or ParaNorman, so I can't judge whether the right choice was made here. I loved Brave, but I'd still like to know how Wreck-It-Ralph didn't at least nominated.

Feb 11 - 11:02 AM

Lavinia Holton

I think Wreck It Ralph's release date was too late to be considered. It just opened this weekend in UK.

Feb 11 - 02:41 PM

Ian Fastert

ParaNorman or Wreck It Ralph better win the Oscars, because they are SO much better than Brave.

Feb 11 - 03:52 PM

Eero Vanne

Not Christoph Waltz again... I hope he doesn't win the oscar, he was great in Django but the role was too similar to Inglorious Basterds. Hope that Tommy Lee Jones or Philip Seymour Hoffman gets it.

Feb 10 - 10:30 PM

Bradly Martin

I think every best support Nom all ready has an Oscar but I hope Tommy Lee get's it so people will stop calling me a liar when I say he has one...for the Fugitive.

Feb 10 - 11:01 PM

Reza Trikurnia

agree!!!
oscar for PSH

Feb 10 - 11:38 PM

WS Shannon

Similar to Inglorious Basterds? Yeah right, I doubt you even paid any attention the film. I don't think he was the best of the year (Hoffman was), but he was way better than that overrated Tommy Lee Jones.

Feb 10 - 11:48 PM

I agree! Only because it's the same actor ina movie with the same director his role doesn't have to be similar to the previous one. I do not thing the roles are similar, far from that actually

Feb 11 - 10:30 AM

Eero Vanne

Well, maybe not the role but the performance. His charisma and the way he spoke the dialogue was, to me, familiar from Basterds.

Feb 11 - 10:42 AM

Andrew 222

I disagree. I thought Tommy Lee Jones was very average in Lincoln, really just playing himself. I think Seymour Hoffman is a definitely 'should win' but I think it'll either go to Waltz or Lee Jones.

Feb 11 - 12:14 PM

Phuong Hoang

Skyfall is Outstanding British Film? I don't Understand

Feb 11 - 01:01 AM

Edd Jefferson

There isn't much to understand: it was way better than all the others.

Feb 11 - 02:36 AM

It was produced by British filmmakers, EON Productions is based in England, and James Bond is a British character from a British author...WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?????

Feb 11 - 08:55 AM

Following the nominations we would all expect Les Mis to win, because it was nominated for Best Film and Skyfall not... That's it, and I didn't understood their choice either xD

Feb 11 - 10:31 AM