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Post by d'James on Feb 15, 2016 20:28:20 GMT
Yeah. If we'd actually seen her reaction it would've been better. Apparently there's a picture of them at the after party, so obviously there's no hard feelings. Maybe he apologised first. We'll never know.
Next year, hopefully he'll learn how to deliver those lines better, although he'd have to admit he made a mistake first.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2016 9:31:13 GMT
Well all he needed to have said was "only my dear friend, one of the greatest cinema costume designers blah blah blah" to have made it clear that she wouldn't have been offended. If indeed, she wasn't offended. I haven't seen her rushing to Stephen Fry's defence to be honest.
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Post by Steve on Feb 16, 2016 10:28:07 GMT
Well all he needed to have said was "only my dear friend, one of the greatest cinema costume designers blah blah blah" to have made it clear that she wouldn't have been offended. If indeed, she wasn't offended. I haven't seen her rushing to Stephen Fry's defence to be honest. First, comedians working in the moment, trying to get laughs, by thinking up surprising correlations, do not always get every word right. As long as they are not Bernard Manning, actively peddling bigotry, I prefer to cut them some slack. Second, she defended him, but wants to protect him by not saying too much, so the furore dies down quicker: www.independent.co.uk/news/people/stephen-fry-bafta-joke-award-winner-jenny-beavan-absolutely-not-upset-over-bag-lady-joke-a6876141.html
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 16, 2016 10:40:08 GMT
If they wanted the furore to die down quicker then he could have helped by:
Not flouncing off Twitter Not writing a lengthy blog entry about flouncing off Twitter yesterday Not announcing this morning his departure from these troubled shores to live in LA and his plans to apply for a green card.
One cannot help thinking that Mr Fry is waiting for the chorus of "don't leave us!" from his fans. Either that, or he's just a media whore with an insatiable appetite for publicity.
Is there a book due to come out or something?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2016 11:37:01 GMT
Did you see the Beeb programme last night about bipolar disorder? It featured Fry amongst others, talking about their experiences of the condition. Sheds quite a bit of light on this, I think.
Given that Fry's diagnosis has worsened in the last few years, and that he's previously attempted suicide, I really think Beavan is right to try to draw a line under it and the media/social media should ease up a bit.
I'm sure with the benefit of a little time, Fry will take a more proportional view of the whole thing too.
Let's face it, there are far worse things being said about women in the entertainment industry every day - and they're not even jokes. We should probably be worrying a bit more about those!
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Feb 20, 2023 11:46:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2023 11:46:38 GMT
The Ariana DeBose number last evening was quite cringe-worthy. I thought her Tony Award pefforts were overrated and this sealed it for me.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Feb 20, 2023 11:49:22 GMT
I mean the song was atrocious and there's that much she could do about it. As for the awards, it was nice to see Western Front doing so well after the Golden Globe virtual snub, although I wish somebody else had won best actor, even just to get a break from the Elvis impersonator.
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Post by alessia on Feb 20, 2023 13:09:52 GMT
Hilarious how Cate Blanchett was pretending to be surprised that she'd won. For such a great actress, she wasn't convincing lol. Haven't seen Elvis OR All Quiet but interesting that they both won so much. I keep meaning to watch All Quiet but I'm never in the mood for horrible war scenes when at home in front of the tv.
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Post by mkb on Feb 20, 2023 13:42:32 GMT
Unlike a lot of people on Twitter, I didn't have a problem with Alison Hammond's contribution. What was completely off though was taking her backstage interviews, which would have worked fine as a separate follow-up programme after the ceremony, and editing them in between individual awards.
Richard E Grant's script needed work. The jokes were weak.
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Post by mkb on Feb 20, 2023 13:54:08 GMT
I had to Google The Good Nurse and Blonde. Somehow they had escaped my attention. I'm not sure they were even released at any cinemas near me.
Similarly I was disappointed that the very limited screenings of All Quiet on the Western Front here were during a week I was abroad. I happened to be staying in a hotel with Netflix access last weekend, so saw it then, and it was painfully obvious that this is a movie that needs to be seen with attention uninterrupted on a big screen. I might have liked it more had I been able to do that.
It's very good but not great (four stars), and is spoiled by a sci-fi style, industrial score that jars and distracts. Winning the BAFTA for best score is hilarious.
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 20, 2023 14:14:50 GMT
I had to Google The Good Nurse and Blonde. Somehow they had escaped my attention. I'm not sure they were even released at any cinemas near me. Similarly I was disappointed that the very limited screenings of All Quiet on the Western Front here were during a week I was abroad. I happened to be staying in a hotel with Netflix access last weekend, so saw it then, and it was painfully obvious that this is a movie that needs to be seen with attention uninterrupted on a big screen. I might have liked it more had I been able to do that. It's very good but not great (four stars), and is spoiled by a sci-fi style, industrial score that jars and distracts. Winning the BAFTA for best score is hilarious. The Good Nurse and Blonde were also both Netflix.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 20, 2023 15:54:17 GMT
I’m happy that The Banshees of Inisherin did so well (haven’t got Netflix so haven’t seen All Quiet… so can’t say if it deserved to win) but in the Best Actor category , Bill Nighy, and to a lesser extent Colin Farrell were robbed, I’ve seen Elvis and Austin Butler was the weakest thing about it. Father Ted did a much better portrayal of Elvis (and the three ages too, none of this finishing before we get to see him ending his days on the toilet)
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Post by mkb on Feb 20, 2023 16:36:58 GMT
I had to Google The Good Nurse and Blonde. Somehow they had escaped my attention. I'm not sure they were even released at any cinemas near me. Similarly I was disappointed that the very limited screenings of All Quiet on the Western Front here were during a week I was abroad. I happened to be staying in a hotel with Netflix access last weekend, so saw it then, and it was painfully obvious that this is a movie that needs to be seen with attention uninterrupted on a big screen. I might have liked it more had I been able to do that. It's very good but not great (four stars), and is spoiled by a sci-fi style, industrial score that jars and distracts. Winning the BAFTA for best score is hilarious. The Good Nurse and Blonde were also both Netflix. I know, but I believe they have to have had a cinema release somewhere in the UK in order to qualify for the film awards. (Is that still true?) In previous years, I have known some films get an unannounced and unmarketed one-week-only run at my local Showcase in Coventry, and nowhere else in the country. Often this was in advance of an official release the following year. The whole purpose was to qualify for the next awards season. I have come across it happening at other cinemas too, typically low-profile ones with a lot of screens, where this short advance release can be largely hidden. It's less common now, because US and UK release dates tend to align, so you don't get the scenario where a film qualifies for the Oscars one year and the Baftas a year later, which is what this advance release tries to avoid.
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Post by distantcousin on Feb 20, 2023 16:51:31 GMT
The Ariana DeBose number last evening was quite cringe-worthy. I thought her Tony Award pefforts were overrated and this sealed it for me. Truly awful, and she was out of tune for most of it.
Who approved this performance?!
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Post by distantcousin on Feb 20, 2023 16:52:43 GMT
Unlike a lot of people on Twitter, I didn't have a problem with Alison Hammond's contribution. What was completely off though was taking her backstage interviews, which would have worked fine as a separate follow-up programme after the ceremony, and editing them in between individual awards. Richard E Grant's script needed work. The jokes were weak.
Yes, I worked on the Awards and the ceremony actually took place from 6pm til 9pm, so there was some very clever fast editing going on.
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Post by mkb on Feb 20, 2023 17:08:25 GMT
I was surprised Andrea Riseborough did not even manage a Leading Actress nomination for To Leslie. For me, she pips Cate Blanchett if you're going solely on merit.
To Leslie was another movie that popped up for one week in November at the Empire Haymarket in London, presumably to qualify for the Baftas. It then got a very limited outing on the art-house circuit a few weeks later iirc. Annoyingly, it was scheduled for the Empire's lovely (and huge) screen 1 -- one of the most underrated screens in London -- but had to be moved to screen 3 because of unspecified problems that shut screen 1 for a few weeks.
People on here may be familiar with screen 1, as it was the home of Kneehigh's Brief Encounter in London. They replaced the screen with a much larger, slightly curved one after that run.
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Post by alessia on Feb 20, 2023 17:47:43 GMT
To Leslie- I went to see the 1 showing at my local Everyman, on a Thursday evening (me and the other 6 people in the room lol) I really rate AR's performance, she was brilliant- wouldn't say as good as CB but close! She definitely ought to have at least be nominated, if Michelle Yeoh and Emma Thompson were.
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Post by peggysue on Feb 20, 2023 18:05:29 GMT
I’ve seen the Elvis film and thoroughly enjoyed it. Austen Butler was brilliant and deserved his best actor award. Unfortunately couldn’t say the same for The Banshees of Inisherin as I was totally bored throughout.
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Post by crabtree on Feb 20, 2023 18:27:22 GMT
Awards dos like this are always grim, unless you win. Years ago there was a trend for BAFTA to do a modern dance interpretation of the five nominated best films. I'm still scarred by such a dance for the Last of the Mohicans. But the frocks, absurd
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Post by justfran on Feb 20, 2023 20:26:07 GMT
Overall I enjoyed the Baftas last night. Richard E Grant was clearly nervous towards the beginning but settled in and he always comes across as a genuinely nice person. Most of the winners were quite predictable and it can get a bit boring seeing the same people/films "sweeping the board" across all of the award ceremonies so I was glad that Austin Butler won for Elvis. I've seen the film a couple of times now and he is brilliant in the role (as good, if not better than, Rami Malek and Taron Egerton in similar biopic roles in recent years). Whilst I liked The Banshees of Inisherin and Colin Farrell's performance, I don't think he will be too disappointed at missing out on one award this year. In terms of live music at the awards ceremony, why not have performances of songs from films that year since at least there's a link so wouldn't seem so random.
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Post by talkingheads on Feb 21, 2023 11:29:09 GMT
The best thing about the whole ceremony was seeing Joan Armatrading, she hasn't played live for ages but she's such a brilliant guitarist.
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Post by intoanewlife on Feb 21, 2023 20:54:54 GMT
Hilarious how Cate Blanchett was pretending to be surprised that she'd won. For such a great actress, she wasn't convincing lol. Haven't seen Elvis OR All Quiet but interesting that they both won so much. I keep meaning to watch All Quiet but I'm never in the mood for horrible war scenes when at home in front of the tv. It is not a patch on Tar or frankly even Elvis. I was a very run of the mill war film and I didn't think there was anything about it that elevated it to the point it is getting so much attention other than Netflix spending a fortune on pushing it. It's probably just been seen by more voters.
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Post by mkb on Feb 21, 2023 23:57:11 GMT
The best thing about the whole ceremony was seeing Joan Armatrading, she hasn't played live for ages but she's such a brilliant guitarist. I saw a gig of hers in Coventry in October 2018. It was very good. Given she was at the BAFTAs, she was criminally underused. But I've no idea why she was there. What have her or Little Simz (who was as unappealing as it gets to my ears) got to do with the film industry? Just seemed like part of a ridiculous attempt to stuff the ceremony with non-white faces as a desperate attempt to appease race-critical commentators.
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