oh yeah, the BAFTAs...

I don't have much to say about these. Basically, I am through with this year's award season, other than the continued excitement over what will win Best Picture.

But anyway... I was surprised and disappointed that neither Emily Blunt nor Michael Sheen managed to win on their home turf. Instead, Jennifer Hudson cements her "mortal lock" status, and Alan Arkin wins his first big award. Is it a sign of things to come? Perhaps not. Sheen and McAvoy probably split the Brit bias vote, leaving Arkin to win with the oscar-correlate vote. Doesn't mean he'll actually win the oscar over Murphy, who wasn't nominated here. But this award cements him as Murphy's main competition, which helps. More anti-Murphy votes will be thrown his way.

Cool to see Greengrass win the BAFTA. I would've thought United would win Best British Film, but they have him this award instead. Nice.

Also nice to see The Last King of Scotland get some love outside of Forest Whitaker... though I watched it again the other night, and it isn't nearly as great as I thought the first time... oh well. It's still cool that other aspects of the film are being recognized, cause Forest certainly wasn't the only good thing about it.

And of course, The Queen took Best Film, as expected... though it didn't win much else.

Its loss to LMS in the screenplay category is particularly telling. If The Queen can't win the screenplay oscar HERE, of all places, then I doubt it can win the oscar. It seems that to most people, The Queen = the Helen Mirren show. Period.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. Now it's back to my busy busy life. Gaaaaaaaaahhhh...