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Your BAFTA film nominees: BEST FILM BLACKkKLANSMAN Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele THE FAVOURITE Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday GREEN BOOK Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Bill Gerber, Lynette Howell Taylor OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM BEAST Michael Pearce, Kristian Brodie, Lauren Dark, Ivana MacKinnon BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Bryan Singer, Graham King, Anthony McCarten THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara McQUEEN Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Andee Ryder, Nick Taussig STAN & OLLIE Jon S. Baird, Faye Ward, Jeff Pope YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Lynne Ramsay, Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, James Wilson OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER APOSTASY Daniel Kokotajlo (Writer/Director) BEAST Michael Pearce (Writer/Director), Lauren Dark (Producer) A CAMBODIAN SPRING Chris Kelly (Writer/Director/Producer) PILI Leanne Welham (Writer/Director), Sophie Harman (Producer) RAY & LIZ Richard Billingham (Writer/Director), Jacqui Davies (Producer) FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CAPERNAUM Nadine Labaki, Khaled Mouzanar COLD WAR Paweł Pawlikowski, Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska DOGMAN Matteo Garrone ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez SHOPLIFTERS Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kaoru Matsuzaki DOCUMENTARY FREE SOLO Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin McQUEEN Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui RBG Julie Cohen, Betsy West THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD Peter Jackson THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS Tim Wardle, Grace Hughes-Hallett, Becky Read ANIMATED FILM INCREDIBLES 2 Brad Bird, John Walker ISLE OF DOGS Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord DIRECTOR BLACKkKLANSMAN Spike Lee COLD WAR Paweł Pawlikowski THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos ROMA Alfonso Cuarón A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY COLD WAR Janusz Głowacki, Paweł Pawlikowski THE FAVOURITE Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara GREEN BOOK Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga ROMA Alfonso Cuarón VICE Adam McKay ADAPTED SCREENPLAY BLACKkKLANSMAN Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty FIRST MAN Josh Singer IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Barry Jenkins A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, Eric Roth LEADING ACTRESS GLENN CLOSE The Wife LADY GAGA A Star Is Born MELISSA McCARTHY Can You Ever Forgive Me? OLIVIA COLMAN The Favourite VIOLA DAVIS Widows LEADING ACTOR BRADLEY COOPER A Star Is Born CHRISTIAN BALE Vice RAMI MALEK Bohemian Rhapsody STEVE COOGAN Stan & Ollie VIGGO MORTENSEN Green Book SUPPORTING ACTRESS AMY ADAMS Vice CLAIRE FOY First Man EMMA STONE The Favourite MARGOT ROBBIE Mary Queen of Scots RACHEL WEISZ The Favourite SUPPORTING ACTOR ADAM DRIVER BlacKkKlansman MAHERSHALA ALI Green Book RICHARD E. GRANT Can You Ever Forgive Me? SAM ROCKWELL Vice TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET Beautiful Boy ORIGINAL MUSIC BLACKkKLANSMAN Terence Blanchard IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Nicholas Britell ISLE OF DOGS Alexandre Desplat MARY POPPINS RETURNS Marc Shaiman A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson CINEMATOGRAPHY BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Newton Thomas Sigel COLD WAR Łukasz Żal THE FAVOURITE Robbie Ryan FIRST MAN Linus Sandgren ROMA Alfonso Cuarón EDITING BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Ottman THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Mavropsaridis FIRST MAN Tom Cross ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough VICE Hank Corwin PRODUCTION DESIGN FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock THE FAVOURITE Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton FIRST MAN Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas MARY POPPINS RETURNS John Myhre, Gordon Sim ROMA Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enríquez COSTUME DESIGN THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Mary Zophres BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Julian Day THE FAVOURITE Sandy Powell MARY POPPINS RETURNS Sandy Powell MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Alexandra Byrne MAKEUP & HAIR BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Mark Coulier, Jan Sewell THE FAVOURITE Nadia Stacey MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Jenny Shircore STAN & OLLIE Mark Coulier, Jeremy Woodhead VICE Nominees TBC SOUND BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey, John Warhurst FIRST MAN Mary H. Ellis, Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT Gilbert Lake, James H. Mather, Christopher Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith A QUIET PLACE Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Procter, Ethan Van der Ryn A STAR IS BORN Steve Morrow, Alan Robert Murray, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Kelly Port, Dan Sudick BLACK PANTHER Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, Dan Sudick FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD Tim Burke, Andy Kind, Christian Manz, David Watkins FIRST MAN Ian Hunter, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, J.D. Schwalm READY PLAYER ONE Matthew E. Butler, Grady Cofer, Roger Guyett, David Shirk BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION I’M OK Elizabeth Hobbs, Abigail Addison, Jelena Popović MARFA Gary McLeod, Myles McLeod ROUGHHOUSE Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boom BRITISH SHORT FILM 73 COWS Alex Lockwood BACHELOR, 38 Angela Clarke THE BLUE DOOR Ben Clark, Megan Pugh, Paul Taylor THE FIELD Sandhya Suri, Balthazar de Ganay WALE Barnaby Blackburn, Sophie Alexander, Catherine Slater, Edward Speleers EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public) BARRY KEOGHAN CYNTHIA ERIVO JESSIE BUCKLEY LAKEITH STANFIELD LETITIA WRIGHT

Kim Delaney has joined the NYPD Blue revival:

No Lanthimos, Coogler, or Jenkins.

I don’t remember, but outside of select Slams and North American Masters, Sloane still DGAF. This made me laugh:

Girl... if you’re not going to play, don’t enter the tournament. Give the spot to someone eager.

JPS is still handsome (If painfully thin), but hot damn:

Ugh, Twitter embeds are having issues for me atm. WGA nominations ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Eighth Grade Written by Bo Burnham; A24 Green Book Written by Nick Vallelonga & Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly; Universal Pictures A Quiet Place Screenplay by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck and John Krasinski, Story by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck; Paramount Pictures Roma Written by Alfonso Cuarón; Netflix Vice Written by Adam McKay; Annapurna Pictures ADAPTED SCREENPLAY BlackKklansman Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee, Based on the book by Ron Stallworth; Focus Features Black Panther Written by Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole, Based on the Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Can You Ever Forgive Me? Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, Based on the book by Lee Israel; Fox Searchlight If Beale Street Could Talk Screenplay by Barry Jenkins, Based on the novel by James Baldwin; Annapurna Pictures A Star is Born Screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters, Based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart and the 1976 screenplay by John Gregory Dunne & Joan Didion and Frank Pierson, Based on a story by William Wellman and Robert Carson; Warner Bros. NOTE: The Favourite was ineligible but is still in contention for screenplay Oscars.

Coco Vandeweghe out of Australia. Her woes continue.

I was a little weirded out by how rough PAS got with Laura and Lisa when Casey was jerking his body away when Ally and Ava tried to comfort him after his father’s death. I’m sure it was all fine, and PAS is a professional by all accounts, but it made me super uncomfortable for some reason, especially as soaps have peddled violence against women as super sexy. He was one hell of an actor, though. So many soaps have attempted the Brando/James Dean-like misunderstood boy who’s rough on the outside but really a bit soft and prone to tears, but PAS sells it much better than the Pelphreys and the Howarths of the world. And we were talking about gay men who are completely convincing as straight, and PAS absolutely is. He’s just the real deal. One of the best performers the genre has *ever* seen IMO.

Hmmm.

Close and Gaga were both in Actress - Drama, even though A Star is Born could have conceivably campaigned in the Comedy/Musical categories. Close gave a great speech and got a passionate reaction, plus the “due” factor, so it’s hard to not see her as the favorite. Ironically, Olivia Colman (for “The Favourite”) is the second favorite, but she competed in the comedy categories at the Globes.

CBS gets its first female news head.

LOL. Are Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book the worst-reviewed movies to ever win top awards?

I was watching a playlist of Casey/Ally this weekend (this was a soap binge weekend for me, for some reason), but man, were they incredible together. I’d forgotten what it was like to be invested in a soap romance, and they pulled me in immediately. (Sorry for digging up this post from a decade ago.) Loving had such a strong young cast in the early ‘90s.

One thing that’s striking about dialogue for all soaps from the late ‘70s is how thoughtful the characters are about their lives. They speak more openly about what they want or like (in a partner, in a job, in a family) in more specific but also more all-encompassing ways. Like some of Diane Ballard’s 1979 dialogue is very interesting and reflective, like that of a Shakespearean villain. I contrast this with something like modern-day DAYS where sometimes it just feels like dialogue is either zinger-focused, bland platitudes about “love,” or a battering ram to move plot forward.

I’m thrilled for Kei!

Someone noted that Serena’s husband and two of her exes (Grigor and Patrick) are all here:

Lisa Brown’s son James “Buddy” Nielsen played the original J Chamberlain on GL as a baby back in the mid-‘80s. He’s all grown up and fronting the band Senses Fail, and they have a new video out:

Yeah, he appears sporadically in the 1979 episodes I’ve been watching. In the August 22 episode, Peter proposes marriage to Holly. More info on the character here: http://soapcentral.com/gl/whoswho/peter.php

I don’t we mentioned Curt Dawson (Peter Chapman, GL), who was an ex-lover of Ian McKellen and Armistead Maupin. He died from AIDS in 1985 at 43. McKellen writes about him here: http://www.mckellen.com/writings/92dawson.htm

It’s certainly well-earned. Lots of moving pieces had to be juggled at a fast pace. Definitely similar in tone to what I loved about early ‘90s GL.