Daniel-Day Lewis and Marion Cotilliard come up big at the BAFTAs
February 11th 2008 22:33
The Guardian on the 2008 BAFTAs
Daniel-Day Lewis comes up with the Best Actor for "There Will Be Blood" and Marion Cotillard gets the nod for "La Vie En Rose", a movie that came out in the middle of 2007.
Good choices there, though it's not so surprising.... Cotillard's role was nothing short of outstanding, especially when you watch the old clips of Edith Piaf.
The Coens got Best Director for "No Country For Old Men", well deserved, and, in fact, I would have put this on the list for Best Film, if we're talking about English language films.
That accolade would go to the highly popular English period drama, "Atonement", which, regular readers of 20/20 Filmsight will know, is one of my most detested movies of the year. Do we have a plaque for that? A statuette? An awards show?
No - it'll just be me sneaking into director Joe Wright's multimillion Beverly Hills home and balancing a carton of rotten eggs about his bedroom door.
Let's look back:
Why I Hate Atonement
The only ointment for the festering Atonement-sore is the Guardian Film Blog, where writer Danny Leigh also expressed disbelief that British voters would pick "Atonement" as best film, when it was so unwarranted:
"As to the awards themselves, after a few genuine sparks of imagination, the Bafta voters then reverted spectacularly to type by declaring Atonement to be the best film of the year - a verdict that could only ever have been made in Britain.
Of course, plenty of intelligent audiences have praised Joe Wright's movie as a handsome, rounded entertainment, and not at all the slab of rank middlebrow gristle that others (me included) found it to be...
...with the eyes of the world trained on the ceremony as never before, [the] choice of best film saw the Baftas presenting themselves as a small, fusty-smelling old man dressed in a spangly Union Jack waistcoat, waving a tiny plastic flag, and bawling his way through Land of Hope and Glory. "
Of course, plenty of intelligent audiences have praised Joe Wright's movie as a handsome, rounded entertainment, and not at all the slab of rank middlebrow gristle that others (me included) found it to be...
...with the eyes of the world trained on the ceremony as never before, [the] choice of best film saw the Baftas presenting themselves as a small, fusty-smelling old man dressed in a spangly Union Jack waistcoat, waving a tiny plastic flag, and bawling his way through Land of Hope and Glory. "
*this image is from the Guardian article
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