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Killing Eve The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today announced the nominations for the 2019 Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards, where Killing Eve led way with 14, including Drama Series, Directing, Writing and two Leading Actress nominations – one each for Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer. Oh has already …

Regina King in If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures) One of the most difficult categories to predict with a top two that are nearly equal in terms of likelihood. Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) has the Golden Globe and the Critics’ Choice but missed out on the two industry nominations from SAG and BAFTA. Rachel Weisz hit …

Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox) Like Supporting Actor, the frontrunner in Best Actor has also jumped hurdles and through hoops to avoid the pitfalls of his problematic film to come out largely unscathed. Back in the early fall there wasn’t much reason to think that Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) would make too big a splash other than maybe having some …

Green Book (Universal) Arguably one of the most locked categories of the night is Supporting Actor. Unlike last year, this is the only acting category where the frontrunner has won all major precursors before Oscar night – the Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice, SAG and BAFTA. That is, of course, Mahershala Ali in Green Book. Ali is set to win his …

Vice (Annapurna) BAFTA may have gone for The Favourite but that film isn’t nominated for the Oscar. Of the three films that are (why are there still only three nominees here?), Vice has the most makeup, wins at Critics’ Choice and MUAH but most of all, it’s the only Best Picture nominee. That all but locks it here and it’s …

Free Solo (NatGeo) A complicated category in a banner year for documentaries with precursor wins going to films not even nominated. PGA and DGA went to Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and Three Identical Strangers, respectively, but Free Solo came out on top at BAFTA. I can see RBG getting a lot of votes for its topicality and as a …

In the last Frontrunner Friday before final 2019 Oscar winner predictions come out next week, we have one of the biggest pieces of the puzzle – BAFTA. But did it help or just confuse us more? Let’s just say it’s a little from column A, a little from column B. BAFTA went for Roma for Best Film, Director, Cinematography and …

Like Cinematography, Film Editing is one of this year’s category’s the Oscars’ producers decided to move to a commercial break and be inserted into the show later. It’s also one of the most up in the air categories of the year with the Best Picture frontrunner not nominated and three separate films taking industry honors for editing. Film Editing used …

Roma (Netflix)The Favourite (Fox Searchlight) Alfonso Cuarón intimate epic Roma, which he directed, wrote, edited and shot, has won the 2019 BAFTA for Best Film. It also picked up wins for Director, Cinematography and Film Not in the English Language. Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite was the big winner of the evening though, taking seven wins of its field-best 12 nominations …

The seating arrangements for this weekend’s BAFTAs (photo: John Phillips/Getty Images) Will BAFTA co-sign with the DGA or the PGA? With the Golden Globes or the Critics’ Choice? Little from column A, little from column B, perhaps? Their Best Film lineup, only 5 (unlike the Academy’s 8 this year), are all Oscar-nominated. BAFTA’s Best Director lineup matches Oscars’ 4/5, with …