Filthy gags, muted politics and Bassey bossing it: what we learned from the Baftas 2022
14.03.2022 - 05:49
/ msn.com
ANFor a while, back last autumn, Belfast looked like the film to beat this awards season. Kenneth Branagh’s drama tickled the Academy’s favour in a similar fashion to Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma: black and white, coming-of-age, cineaste autobiographical. But then it dipped.
Other films built up a head of steam and Belfast looked increasingly doomed. Now, it rises once more, its spell out of the limelight re-energising the race and endearing it to anyone slightly jaded by big skies and conflicted cowboys. Branagh was popular on Sunday night, delivering a warm, button-pushing, fight-the-good-fight rallying cry for cinemas – and he’s even more popular in Hollywood.
A good outside punt. CSEvery awards year seems to have a little movie that could; Coda is the one that has got the nod this time. A remake of a fairly obscure French film, entrusted to a director with a pretty short CV, it has ridden a wave of excitement for its emotive narrative arc and its discovery of a veteran talent in Troy Kotsur, only the second deaf actor to be up for an Oscar (after Marlee Matlin, who plays his wife in the movie).
Coda seemed to have inspired real affection within the industry if the roars of approval greeting its two wins tonight were anything to go by. Director Sian Heder will be up against the same crew on Oscar night for best adapted screenplay; she may not repeat the trick, but Kotsur now looks nailed on for best supporting actor. APGallery: Netflix’s all-time biggest hits (Espresso)The Power of the Dog will win the Oscars for best picture and director – that’s written in stone.
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