The British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) took place this weekend and supposedly it is a good indicator for possible Oscar success. The Hurt Locker and Avatar both went into the BAFTAs with eight nominations, including Best Film and Best Director. Interestingly enough, Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow and Avatar director James Cameron used to be married for a couple years in the early 90's. A bit awkward, huh? Well, Hurt Locker took the Best Director and Best Film awards, meaning Kathryn won the former spouses battle according to the Brits. Even though Avatar has made $2 billion at the box office and has dominated the American film scene, Britain loves an underdog, as last year's Slumdog Millionare won Best Film at the BAFTAs and Best Picture for the Oscars.
There are talks that because of last year's similar nominations that the same could be for this year. However, I disagree. Last year, the biggest competition for Slumdog was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was a great movie but not Oscar Best Picture worthy. There were only 5 nominations last year for the Oscars, while this year they are going back to the old way of 10 nominations. The Brits like an underdog, while most of the time America likes big budget films that tend to dominate every category the Oscars have to offer (Avatar). Surprisingly, Avatar only took two awards at the BAFTAs. They're each going into the Oscars with nine nominations. However, I think at this award show, it'll be the Hurt Locker walking away with two awards, if that.
The only award won that I can guarantee will also be won at the Oscars, that was won at the BAFTAs is Best Supporting Actor, Christoph Walz for Inglourious Basterds (see previous post to learn more about him in this film).
It will be interesting to see the match-up for these two Oscar contenders (Hurt Locker and Avatar). Will it be the small indie film or the box office record breaker? Or, if you want to look at it another way (as the media does), the ex wife or the ex husband?
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