Colin Firth snagged Best Actor for his work in "A Single Man" while Carrie Mulligan won Best Actress for her work in "An Education" (Mulligan is my personal pick for Best Actress at the Oscars). Mo'Nique continued to collect awards for her supporting turn in "Precious" while Christoph Waltz picked up another Best Supporting Actor award for "Inglourious Basterds". Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner picked up a Best Adapted Screenplay for "Up in the Air", while Pixar's "UP" won for Best Animated Feature.
While the BAFTAs are about as accurate a prediction of who will win at the Oscars as the Golden Globes are (translation: not really), the winners tonight are pretty much in line with people's guesses for the Oscars (Firth and Mulligan aside). I hope it's fairly on target. Bigelow's film deserves all the awards love it is bestowed, "UP" is one hell of a terrific animated feature (my overall pick for Best Film of 2009) and the less awards "Avatar" gets, the happier I am.
Isn't this great news? Kathryn Bigelow is so easy on the eyes to boot. I'm geared up for Oscars more than ever now! I agree that Firth and Mulligan will be passed over by Jeff Bridges and the Bullock/Streep battle.
ReplyDeleteI was reading where there is a real possibility that votes for "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" could split allowing Inglourious Basterds to take the statue.
You know, if that happened I would actually be okay with that. How frickin' funny would that be? Tarantino would probably drop dead of shock...along with Bigelow and Cameron. :-)
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