The 2019 British Academy of Film and Television Arts annual film awards are tonight – 10 February 2019 – but who do we think will win the big eight awards? Read on for our preferred winners (in bold) and – if we think the awards will disagree – who could win (italics). We’ve linked to our reviews.
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Film review, by Jason Day, of Vice (2018) the political satires about former US Vice President Dick Chaney, played by Christian Bale. Co-starring Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush.
Comedy
Film review, by Jason Day and Kyle Vevers of Smallfoot, the animated movie about a Yeti who sets out to prove the existence of the mythical Smallfoot (humans). With the voices of Channing Tatum and James Corden.
Animation
Film review by Jason Day of the comedy drama about a young bride whose husband turns out to be very wealthy, leaving her at the mercy of his socialite friends and snobbish mother.
Comedy
Promotional post for the first CineSocial film club screening, in Olney, Buckinghamshire on Sunday 28 June 2015. Scroll down for booking details.
We are screening the satirical drama Birdman: Or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance (2014) starring Michael Keaton, Edward Norton and Naomi Watts.
CineSocial, the new Olney film club (in association with Independent Cinema Milton Keynes) presents its first screening, on Sunday 28 June:
Birdman (Or the Unexpected Virtue Of Being Ignorant) 2014
Winner of the 2015 Academy Awards for:
Best Picture, Best Director, Original Screenplay & Cinematography
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Andrea Riseborough, Emma Stone.
Story: Michael Keaton stars as a washed-up actor, previously a star of successful comic-book films. To increase his artistic credentials, he’s staging a self-written play. But his attempts to resurrect his career are thwarted by the cast and crew, including the brilliant but volatile method actor Mike Shiner (Edward Norton).
González Iñárritu, the internationally acclaimed director of 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006), directs, co-writes and co-produces a satirical look at theatrical creation and the artistic temperament that has received widespread critical acclaim.
What the critics said:
Robbie Collins, Daily Telegraph
‘This is grand, spectacular, star-powered cinema – a cosmological blockbuster – that makes us ask again what cinema can do and be. Call it a Dark Knight of the soul.
Peter Debruge, Variety
‘A blisteringly hot-blooded, defiantly anti-formulaic look at a has-been movie star’s attempts to resuscitate his career by mounting a vanity project on Broadway.’
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