Can Gaga win this whole thing?
The British Film Academy is often a look into how some Oscar voters are feeling, because there is significant overlap in the two organizations. But their nominations are all out of whack too, because they have a jury system selecting most of the acting nominations and all of the directing nominations, in order to ensure some diversity in the picks. This year they tweaked them to allow the top two vote getters to get in, while the jury selected 4 of the 6 nominees for acting. This mostly means that Lady Gaga is the only Best Actress nominee to hit every precursor (there’s no way she was a jury pick) and she’s likely to win here, so is she the new frontrunner for Best Actress? Possibly. I’m waiting to see how well or poorly House of Gucci does with the actual Oscars, because so far it looks like the only place it has major support is with actors. What about the rest of the Academy? In other news, they really seemed to love Licorice Pizza and Power of the Dog, which by the way, is looking more and more like the frontrunner to win the whole thing every day. All in all, the BAFTA winners are usually more predictive than their nominees, so look out for those. But now that we’re done with precursors, the official Oscar nominations come in bright and early next Tuesday morning.
BEST PICTURE
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Audrey Diwan, Happening
Julia Ducournau, Titane
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Aleem Khan, After Love
BEST ACTOR
Adeel Akhtar Ali & Ava
Mahershala Ali Swan Song
Benedict Cumberbatch The Power of the Dog
Leonardo DiCaprio Don’t Look Up
Stephen Graham Boiling Point
Will Smith King Richar
BEST ACTRESS
Lady Gaga House of Gucci
Alana Haim Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones CODA
Renate Reinsve The Worst Person in the World
Joanna Scanlan After Love
Tessa Thompson Passing
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mike Faist West Side Story
Ciarán Hinds Belfast
Troy Kotsur CODA
Woody Norman C’mon C’mon
Jesse Plemons The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee The Power of the Dog
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Caitríona Balfe Belfast
Jessie Buckley The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose West Side Story
Ann Dowd Mass
Aunjanue Ellis King Richard
Ruth Negga Passing
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Being The Ricardos
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog
BEST CASTING
Boiling Point
Dune
The Hand of God
King Richard
West Side Story
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dune
Nightmare Alley
No Time To Die
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley
BEST FILM EDITING
Belfast
Dune
Licorice Pizza
No Time To Die
Summer of Soul
BEST MAKE UP & HAIR
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Being The Ricardos
Don’t Look Up
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Power of the Dog
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Cyrano
Dune
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
BEST SOUND
A Quiet Place Part II
Dune
Last Night in Soho
No Time To Die
West Side Story
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune
Free Guy
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time To Die
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs the Machines
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Becoming Cousteau
Cow
Flee
The Rescue
Summer of Soul
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Drive My Car
The Hand of God
Parallel Mothers
Petite Maman
The Worst Person in the World
BEST BRITISH FILM
After Love
Ali & Ava
Belfast
Boiling Point
Cyrano
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
Last Night in Soho
No Time To Die
Passing
Dune is the heavy tech player of the year
