BAFTA Wrap-up -- Casino Royale Robbed!
Filed under: Action, Drama, Foreign Language, Awards, Sony, James Bond, Oscar Watch, Miramax
The only award Casino Royale picked up Sunday at the British Academy Awards (BAFTAs) was for Best Sound. It was nominated in nine categories -- ten if you count the publicly voted Rising Star Award, which did go to Casino Royale actress Eva Green. But it would have been very shocking if the 007 movie had beaten The Queen for the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film. Oh wait; The Queen didn't win it either. Surprisingly, The Last King of Scotland won Best British Film, as well as Best Adapted Screenplay (for Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen) and, of course, Best Actor for Forest Whitaker. The Queen did win for Best Film, though, and also took the obvious prize for Best Actress for Helen Mirren.
Some of the other unexpected wins were Paul Greengrass for the David Lean Award for Direction and Alan Arkin for Best Supporting Actor for Little Miss Sunshine, which won for Best Original Screenplay. Other prizes went to Pan's Labyrinth for Best Film Not in the English Language, Best Makeup & Hair and Best Costume Design, Children of Men for Best Cinematography and Best Production Design and Babel for the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music. For the most part, the British Academy disagreed with last week's London Film Critics Circle Awards, which gave added honors to specifically British performers like Emily Blunt, Toby Jones, Michael Caine and Leslie Philips. However, Casino Royale fared badly with the critics' choices too.
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2-12-2007 @ 1:18PM
Stan Winsome said...
Umm it's a big cheesy action film not a costume drama. You're actually shocked here?
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2-14-2007 @ 4:43PM
The Jeremy said...
Aside from that dress she was wearing, Eva Green looked like she was fresh from doing a Robert Smith bio flick. Maybe "Why Can't I Be You?" is her favo(u)rite (The) Cure song. And I say that even though I think she is the new hotness.
Dame Judi Dench deserved an Oscar for not looking disappointed at losing to Mirren that night.
And while I'm at it, what's up with that fugly looking new logo that BBC America is trying to sport? It's deader than the parents on Party of Five.
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