Film awards season - Oscars/BAFTAs

[backontrack]

It's the film rewards season now, and with the Academy Awards coming up soon, the focus has been on the BAFTAs that took place earlier tonight. The main winners were:

Best film: The Revenant
Best director: Alejandro G Inarritu (Spotlight)
Best actor: Leonardo di Caprio (The Revenant)
Best actress: Brie Larson (Room)
Best supporting actor: Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
Best supporting actress: Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs)
Best original screenplay: Spotlight
Best adapted screenplay: The Big Short
Best animated film: Inside Out
Best British film: Brooklyn

Mad Max: Fury Road won four gongs, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens winning 'Best Visual Special Effects' as John Boyega picked up the 'EE: Rising Star' award.

In total, The Revenant won 5 BAFTAs, with MM:FR getting 4. Star Wars: TFA won two BAFTAs, with Spotlight, The Big Short, Room, Bridge of Spies, Steve Jobs, Inside Out and Brooklyn all getting one apiece. The Hateful Eight also picked up a BAFTA for its music.

My question is: what are your opinions on the films featured in the running before the Oscars? Which do you think were particularly good or bad? Please don't divulge any spoilers. TIA.

 

[DarloRich]

Hardly surprising the Revenant won - technically fantastic, made with such quality and superbly acted by Di Caprio IF very long and not the most action packed feature

 

[TheEdge]

Bridge of Spies is a brilliant film and I feel deserved more than it got. It'll probably be the same at the Oscars.

 

[backontrack]

Oscars tonight.

This image is by Mike Rogalski/Mental Floss. Among the C-3POs, there is an Oscar. Can you spot it?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Yep - took me about 20 seconds.