AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 334 – 79th BAFTA Film Awards Reaction
On episode 334 of the AwardsWatch Podcast, Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson is joined by Executive Editor Ryan McQuade and Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello to break down the winners of the 79th BAFTA Film Awards.
Recorded minutes after the BAFTA ceremony, the details of the horrible incident involving Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo being hurled slurs by Tourette’s Syndrome advocate and subject of the BAFTA-winning film I Swear were not available and therefore not heavily discussed at risk of misinformed or misinformation. The full details are available in the BAFTA winners write-up, which was updated this morning.
The team opens with a healthy amount of time on the two supporting wins for Sean Penn (One Battle After Another) and Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners) and how that may have tipped us off on the upcoming SAG Awards and potential Oscar winners. Going deeper, we look at the haul of both One Battle (6) and Sinners (3) as the Oscar frontrunners and how the surprise Best Actor win for Robert Aramayo impacts that Oscar race.
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This podcast runs 1h28m. We’ll be back next week for a post-PGA and post-SAG Actor Awards reaction. Til then, let’s get into it.
Music: “Modern Fashion” from AShamaleuvmusic (intro), “B-3” from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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