The End of January and Where Are We?


Anyway, when it all comes down to it, I have a feeling that O'Toole will show up on March 23, but we'll see. The Oscar circus of the 75th Anniversary has begun!

In other Oscar news, although I haven't received official confirmation from the Academy, word has gotten around that the Academy's Makeup Committee is only considering two films for the Best Makeup Oscar this year, and they have essentially ignored a number of other wonderful makeup achievements this year. Frida and The Time Machine are the two films apparently being considered for this Oscar, and will most likely be the two nominees. Yes indeed, as horrifying as it is to consider, The Time Machine may very well be an Oscar winner. Even the makeup in that movie was bad, Jeremy Irons looked like a rejected member of Blue Man Group instead of a really effective character. Let's hope Frida wins, but it's too bad that the makeup achievements of Chicago, Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, Men in Black II, or even Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones are being ignored.

Now moving on to the latest precursor awards news here at the end of January. The BAFTA Nominations were announced this past week, which are the Orange British Academy Awards. The BAFTAs really don't have that much influence over the Oscar race, but we really are seeing a lot of the same films and names receiving BAFTA nods that are being considered for Oscars. Gangs of New York and Chicago tied with 12 BAFTA nominations a piece, while The Hours took 11, and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers received 9 nominations. All four of those are in the BAFTA Best Picture category, along with Roman Polanski's The Pianist. I guess the only real surprise inclusion in the BAFTA nods was a Best Actress nomination for Halle Berry in Monster's Ball competing against this year's crop of actresses, because that film failed to make the qualifying deadline for last year's BAFTAs.

But otherwise, the BAFTA nods are all the familiar names and films. The British Academy Film Awards will be presented February 23 and will be broadcast in the UK on BBC1.

You know what's interesting? As much as this film awards season has been all over the map, with so many different films receiving honors, it's beginning to look like the Academy Awards may be fairly easy to predict

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