Oscars 2012 Update: BAFTA Nominations

Today, the nominations for the BAFTA awards were announced.

Let’s not waste any time and get right into them. They’re the last clue we’re gonna get as to the Oscar nominations puzzle:

Best Film

Argo

Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Zero Dark Thirty

No shock here, these are the five Best Director nominees and the expected five Best Picture locks. Curious to see if they go Les Mis or not. Everything’s pointing toward Lincoln this year.

More nominees after the jump:

Outstanding British Film

Anna Karenina

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Les Misérables

Seven Psychopaths

Skyfall

I am so proud of this category. Even with Marigold Hotel, since there was no way that wasn’t getting on here. I love all of these movies. I fucking love this category. Also figuring they’re gonna go with Les Mis or Marigold Hotel. Skyfall woud be a pleasant surprise and Anna Karenina would be a big surprise.

Leading Actor

Ben Affleck, Argo

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Like this category is even a competition. Also, nice to see Joaquin getting some love! I’m still holding out hope he gets on instead of John Hawkes, but knowing the Academy, I don’t think that’s gonna happen. I also like the Affleck love instead of the Denzel obligation. I’m not 100% sold on Denzel’s performance as a nominee (only like, 80% sold), so it’s nice to see that BAFTA wasn’t over the moon with it like America seems to be.

Leading Actress

Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone

Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Helen Mirren, Hitchcock

Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

This could be your Oscar category. And it makes me sad, since I thought Naomi Watts should be on here. I’m real curious to see what happens with Emmanuelle Riva and Helen Mirren. One of them’s getting left off. (One of them should.) Also, really curious to see where they go with this one, too.

Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin, Argo

Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Javier Bardem, Skyfall

Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

Interesting to see them go with Waltz over Leo. I’ve been hearing his name as a surprise nominee quite a bit here. (The issue with that is that we don’t have SAG as a guidepost with that. I’ll explain why later today.) So this is gonna be an interesting one. (Watch them go with Tommy. You know they will.)

Supporting Actress

Amy Adams, The Master

Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables

Helen Hunt, The Sessions

Judi Dench, Skyfall

Sally Field, Lincoln

Judi! Isn’t it great that Bond is a British franchise? So that way we get to see what we know the Oscars won’t ever do.

Director

Ben Affleck, Argo

Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty

Michael Haneke, Amour

Ang Lee, Life of Pi

Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

That’s weird… nominating Quentin for Director and not Film. Also seems like they’re leaning toward Zero Dark Thirty here. Unless they’re going Amour. It’s just weird that the presumed favorite didn’t get a Director nod. Maybe Argo‘s the film. This really is a wide open year.

Original Screenplay

Amour

Django Unchained

The Master

Moonrise Kingdom

Zero Dark Thirty

Interesting that Seven Psychopaths wasn’t nominated here. Also shows that Amour has a lot of support, and now I can see why that’s on a lot of people’s lists for a writing nomination. The other four make sense, but now I’m gonna have to keep a closer eye on Amour sneaking in a Screenplay nomination. Watch them fuck over Quentin again.

Adapted Screenplay

Argo

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

I expected four of these. Not sure if Beasts of the Southern Wild is actuall gonna end up with the nomination, but it’s certainly in the conversation. Gotta be Lincoln here.

Editing

Argo

Django Unchained

Life of Pi

Skyfall

Zero Dark Thirty

BAFTA, what are you doing? Django for Director AND Editing but not Film? What? That would really fuck everyone up, if the Oscars did that.

Cinematography

Anna Karenina

Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Skyfall

Hey, remember when these were the ASC nominations like twenty minutes ago? (If they don’t give this to Deakins, all hope is lost.)

Original Music

Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli

Argo, Alexandre Desplat

Life of Pi, Mychael Danna

Lincoln, John Williams

Skyfall, Thomas Newman

This very probably could be your Oscar category. Not totally sold on the Newman nod (that it’s gonna happen, I mean), but this would be a solid Oscar category (even though I really hope Cloud Atlas gets on instead of Argo).

Animated Film

Brave

Frankenweenie

ParaNorman

Do they not have video games over there?

Production Design

Anna Karenina

Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Skyfall

This is basically confirming what I expect to be most of the Oscar nominations. And it’s easy to parse out which ones are their “British-ness” taking over. This is great.

Costume Design

Anna Karenina

Great Expectations

Les Misérables

Lincoln

Snow White and the Huntsman

They picked this Snow White film and not Mirror Mirror? Oh-kay…

Also, Great Expectations! The film I expected to have heard something about this year that never came out at all. Some people are still picking that to pick up a Costumes nod. But from Brit support only? That’s weird. Since I know that movie hasn’t come out over here yet. That’s a tall order.

Makeup and Hair

Anna Karenina

Hitchcock

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Les Misérables

Lincoln

They nominated four potential Oscar nominees. Oscar only has a three-film category. And BAFTA doesn’t have the affinity to Rick Baker as AMPAS does. So this does nothing to help me.

Sound

Django Unchained

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Les Misérables

Lincoln

Skyfall

This sounds a lot like what CAS did. Though Lincoln again. I keep refusing to believe that gets on. But it keeps showing up everywhere. I guess I should take it more seriously.

Special Visual Effects

The Dark Knight Rises

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Life of Pi

Marvel’s The Avengers

Prometheus

A likely Oscar category. Though Prometheus is kind of a surprise here. Well, until you figure that Ridley Scott is British. But… BAFTA and VFX Society both nominating it… that’s curious. I might need to rethink that one.

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

The Imposter

McCullin

Wild Bill

The Muppets

I Am Nasrine

A little late on The Muppets, aren’t you, BAFTA? No idea what most of these even are.

Film Not in the English Language

Amour

Headhunters

The Hunt

Rust and Bone

Untouchable

Amour is your easy favorite, since BAFTA tends to mirror the Oscars a lot now. But don’t rule out Headhunters.

Documentary

The Imposter

Marley

McCullin

Searching for Sugar Man

West of Memphis

This Sugar Man documentary is showing up everywhere.

Short Animation

Here to Fall

I’m Fine Thanks

The Making of Longbird

Skip it.

Short Film

The Curse

Good Night

Swimmer

Tumult

The Voorman Problem

Next.

The EE Rising Star Award

Elizabeth Olsen

Andrea Riseborough

Suraj Sharma

Juno Temple

Alicia Vikander

And we’re done.

So those are the BAFTA nominations. Mostly confirming stuff. A couple things made me think about my predictions a little bit, but mostly no surprises.

Anyway, back to the grind. Oscar predictions up in a few hours.

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