Well, with the WGA strike coming to an end (I think), I guess this means that the Oscars will go on (woot!) and that means the hopefuls in Britain will have to settle for their noteworthy, but not nearly as prestigious, British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards as a step behind.
Nonetheless, it’s still clear in my mind that the world, especially Britain, is in love with Atonement. It scored 14 nominations (most this year) and is on the verge of sweeping both the Best Film and Best British Film of the Year. Even if that’s so (unless they award the much more deserved No Country for Old Men), I cannot believe Atonement will take any of the acting categories (Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan, and think that the Coen brothers are favored to take the Best Director award (even over fellow Brit Paul Greengrass). But again, these are the BAFTAs.
I think a very interesting category will be Best Original Screenplay. For weeks, there have been some skepticism on the titan script of Juno written by Diablo Cody. Now, some are suggesting that many don’t think of it as brilliant as the media and the minority are saying. The BAFTA will certainly be a big test (I’ll predict that The Lives of Others takes the Original Screenplay Award). Will the overseas Academy award Juno? Or are the rumors true and are people falling off the Juno bandwagon? A better gauge for this conspiracy will take place on Saturday at the WGA Awards… simply because if Juno loses at the BAFTAs, though it’ll be a surprise, only Michael Clayton is part of the nominations for the Oscar.
But for the technical categories, I won’t be surprised if Atonement wins the majority (Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Costume, Music, Make Up, and Sound). I guess we’ll see this weekend.
From the headline, I can’t forget to bring up that the Grammy Awards are also on this Sunday. Now, since they’re on at the same time where I live, I’ve figured out that I will be switching back and forth alot, but I’ll mainly watch the beginning of the Grammy’s because I can care less about what TV shows the BAFTA awards… but once the movie awards begin to pop up, that’ll hold my attention. I do wish to see some performances on the Grammy’s like Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, The Foo Fighters, and especially Amy Winehouse’s performance via satellite (since she was denied a visa to attend the awards ceremony) So I’ll be busy with the clicker come Sunday night, and I’ll be back with my reaction to the award shows.
