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2023 BAFTA predictions
BAFTA, aka the British Oscar’s recently released a longlist. In recent years BAFTA has moved onto a juried system. This was made in order to make the nominees more diverse (as BAFTA has often been...
BAFTA, aka the British Oscar’s recently released a longlist. In recent years BAFTA has moved onto a juried system. This was made in order to make the nominees more diverse (as BAFTA has often been the worst offenders in keeping the nominees white). So if you see some weird nominations from movies you’ve never heard of that’s why.
There are some categories that are not juried: Film and Screenplay being the above-the-line categories to not be juried at all. But the rest are partially juried, meaning the top 3 of normal vote getters get nominated, and the next 3 are juried. Here we go.
Best Film
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- TÁR
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Triangle of Sadness
Best Director
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- TÁR
- Aftersun
- Saint Omer
- Corsage
Original Screenplay
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- TÁR
- The Fabelmans
- Triangle of Sadness
Adapted Screenplay
- Living
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Women Talking
- The Wonder
Lead Actress
- Cate Blanchett - TÁR
- Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans
- Danielle Deadwyler - Till
- Lesley Manville - Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
- Ana De Armas - Blonde
Lead Actor
- Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin
- Austin Butler - Elvis
- Brendan Fraser - The Whale
- Bill Nighy - Living
- Paul Mescal - Aftersun
- Darryl McCormack - Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
Supporting Actress
- Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
- Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Dolly De Leon - Triangle of Sadness
- Aimee Lou Wood - Living
- Janelle Monae - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Hong Chau - The Whale
Supporting Actor
- Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin
- Brad Pitt - Babylon
- Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin
- Albert Schuck - All Quiet on the Western Front
- Michael Ward - Empire of Light
Casting
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Triangle of Sadness
- Aftersun
- All Quiet on the Western Front
Best British Film
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Living
- Aftersun
- Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
- The Wonder
- Brian and Charles
- Mrs Harris Goes To Paris
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- Blue Jean
- Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
- Emily
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BAFTA Film Awards longlists unveiled: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ ‘Banshees of Inisherin’ and ‘Everything Everywhere’ lead pack
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British fashion legend Dame Vivienne Westwood dies aged 81
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Critical incidents being declared across English hospitals
@Shaun Lintern: 🚨 @UHDBTrust declared a critical incident last night - cancelling all meetings and training to ensure clinical staff "are on wards and patient facing" pic.twitter.com/vLxUHwLZPD
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Iceland Foods has lost its ongoing legal battle with the country Iceland over the frozen food retailer's trademark name after the EUIPO dismissed its appeal
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Dismantling Sellafield: The epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
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I was wrong (and so was everyone)
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Inside the hip-hop record store run by undercover cops
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Bush (Gavin Rossdale) - What's in my (record store) bag?
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Darwin's Barometer
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The evolution of Father Christmas
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What you need to know about Group A Strep (scarlet fever)?
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Swedes from across the north-east of England have celebrated the traditional Scandinavian festival of Sankta Lucia at Hexham Abbey
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What kind of Angel: On Percy Shelley
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What went wrong with the London Tube map? | Unfinished London
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Fanny and Alexander review – Ingmar Bergman's dark fusion of William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens
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Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter, dies at 79
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BBC to air Detectorists Christmas special
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Welsh council bids to print McDonald’s customer car number plates on wrappers
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In accordance with annual tradition, a Norwegian Christmas tree has arrived in Trafalgar Square, London – this year marks the 75th anniversary
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Teletubbies: The bizarre kids' TV show that swept the world
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Supreme court rules against Scottish parliament holding new independence referendum
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Wilko Johnson: Dr Feelgood guitarist and punk forebear dies aged 75
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King Charles III's new cypher is a design classic
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Greta Thunberg Foundation has donated £158,000 to cover legal costs of indigenous people in Sweden's Arctic as they battle a British mining company
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King Charles: Foie gras banned at royal residences
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Banksy unveils Ukraine gymnast mural on building shelled by Russia
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Astronomer incorrectly suspended from Twitter by automatic moderation
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Tom Scott chases the Jet Lag team around London
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How to stop Erling Haaland
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John Lewis - The Beginner
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Health in England 2015-2020
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'Now I'm one of you,' Lewis Hamilton tells Brazil as he becomes honorary citizen
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The Heavy Heavy - Life and Life Only (2022)
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British Film Commission and the Norwegian Film Commission have signed a memorandum of understanding to boost filming collaboration
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RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language
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Norway-style windfall tax on energy companies could raise £33.3bn extra by 2027, plugging a hole in UK government finances, analysis has found
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Rishi Sunak to become first British Asian PM as Penny Mordaunt bows out
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So, uh, about the UK
It's difficult to talk about the UK at the moment because, and it's hard to give this enough emphasis, IT'S AN ENORMOUS CLUSTER-FUCK AND EVERYTHING IS AWFUL. To give you some idea, Truss is...
It's difficult to talk about the UK at the moment because, and it's hard to give this enough emphasis, IT'S AN ENORMOUS CLUSTER-FUCK AND EVERYTHING IS AWFUL.
To give you some idea, Truss is currently less popular than Putin and is the least popular PM the UK has ever had (in the years that we measured).
There's a bill going through tonight about fracking. But it's been turned into a confidence motion on Liz Truss, and it has full hard /// three line whip, slips withdrawn. (basically, members of the Conservative Party have been instructed to vote in accordance with their party's wishes, and not doing so is serious, and can lead to the MP effectively being expelled from their party.) And the three line whip is against their 2019 manifesto pledge.
Normally, we'd expect to see MPs rebelling against this. Certainly, at the moment, a bunch of them are in the mood to do so.
There's an additional complication here though - a bunch of MPs have sent in letters of no confidence, and that could trigger Yet Another Leadership Race (they've already met the threshold, but they've raised the bar to be half the party needs to send the letters because lol who cares about rules). But, if an MP is expelled their letter no longer counts. So a bunch of MPs are openly saying they're only voting for this fracking bill because they think Truss is hopeless and needs to go.
https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1582672374369226753
https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1582762437954375680
Also, Suella Braverman (who managed to be a crueller home secretary than any who've been before her which is remarkable considering the list of utterly hateful cunts who've had the job) was sacked / resigned today.
So, if there's not much talk here from people in the UK it's because nothing makes any sense and everything's changing every day.
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The horrifying Public Information Films of 1970s Britain
As far as I can make out, every country has public information films. They rarely pull punches, which is pretty important as their messages are usually important. I remember being terrified by...
As far as I can make out, every country has public information films. They rarely pull punches, which is pretty important as their messages are usually important. I remember being terrified by Monolith as a child. I still think about It's Thirty For a Reason whenever I drive in suburban areas, and I've seen similar things from New Zealand, Canada and so on. Creative agencies love PIF gigs because you can do so much more than a normal advert/TV spot would allow. People can, and do, go all out on them. They're also ripe for parody
However, back in the seventies, that's when the UK government went a little... well.. overboard. Imagine showing Lonely Water to actual children. Or Stand Steady, or even Frisbee? I remember being shown films like these at school, from scratchy old VHS tapes on clunky old school TVs. I remember them being broadcast during children's programming time. I remember being irrationally terrified of old fridges even though I've never see a fridge with a lock in my entire life.
But sure, they're scary topics and sometimes you do need to scare people into not doing stupid stuff that might kill them. There are plenty of examples of scary short PIFs aimed at all ages from their invention right up to the present day. But then there are the longer form movies about safety for children. That's what this post is really about. Let's call these the "unholy trinity" of PIF terror:
There's the weird time-loop slaughter fest of Building Sites Bite (unfortunately the only copy I could find was a 'reacts' video but it's worth watching)
Ignoring the of-it's-time but now recognised as problematic "Cowboys and Indians" conceit, Apaches is utterly horrifying.
Then there's the dystopian awfulness of The Finishing Line
These films were rated PG (aka safe for kids). They were shown in schools. Not just high schools, but primary (elementary) schools. Although to be fair, someone did get a clue fairly quickly and The Finishing Line was banned and withdrawn in under a year because holy shit.
I'd be interested to see some of your favourite public information films, please do link them if you have any.
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I doodled my house
@Mr Doodle: I doodled my house pic.twitter.com/hHhNvqKPqa
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See the buzzworthy winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition
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Why Olympic curling stones are so expensive | So Expensive
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Edinburgh-based Skyrora got its suborbital Skylark L rocket successfully off an Icelandic launch pad – but the booster didn't go far, falling into the Norwegian Sea
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Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died aged 72
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How Brian Eno created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
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Maybeshewill - Not For Want Of Trying (2008)
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65daysofstatic - Mountainhead (2010)
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This man is allowed to starve himself to death, but not to eat some biscuits
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