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BAFFLING BAFTA Extravagant film producer Alexander Korda first broached the idea of establishing a British equivalent of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over a suitably lavish dinner he was hosting for his fellow film swells at swank Claridge’s Hotel on May 13, 1947. Those sitting round the table included directors David Lean and Carol Reed and Ealing Comedies creator Michael Balcon. Having worked their way through sole with Liebfraumilch followed by steak and kidney pie, Korda compared their dessert of hot whipped meringue concealing a frozen ice cream heart to Russian women of his acquaintance. That’s when the conversation abruptly turned to why didn’t Britain have its own film academy giving awards? There had never been a British equivalent of the Oscars, so Lean was appointed the first chairman and donated his royalties. At the inaugural awards on May 29, 1949, Laurence Olivier presented just four categories. Now the British Academy Of Film & Television Arts presents 22 at its televised film–only awards show. If you think the Oscars are overly complicated, then the BAFTAs will positively baffle. That’s because the current push is for their increasing democratization. Only the 6,350 film members are allowed to vote for the motion picture awards. They used to wade “ROBERT DUVALL HAS GONE NEARLY 50 YEARS IN MOVIES VIRTUALLY WITHOUT A FALSE NOTE AND ‘GET LOW’ GIVES HIM TIME AND ROOM TO EXPLORE THE CREVICES OF A WILY, WOUNDED SOUL.” -A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES “THIS FILM RELAYS AN INTRIGUING STORY BROUGHT TO LIFE BY SOME BEAUTIFUL ACTORS. A PITCH PERFECT PORTRAYAL FROM SISSY SPACEK. BILL MURRAY’S SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE SHOULD BE REMEMBERED COME AWARDS TIME- AS SHOULD DUVALL’S.” -Michael Phillips, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE VIEW THE TRAILER AT WWW.GETLOWTHEFILM.COM Tim Adler in london explAins The BriTish oscArs through every film released in Britain but that changed in 2005 when it became the responsibility of each pic’s producer and distributor to decide submissions which close on November 18 for the 2011 BAFTAs. The longlist will be published on December 3. BAFTA’s management has long debated whether to have just two voting rounds like the Academy Awards. But, fearful that worthy films would be overlooked, the leadership believes the first round establishes the broad universe of films from which nominees and winners can be selected. Second round voting opens on December 8 and closes on January 5. The actual BAFTA nominations will ALL CATEGORIES including BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR Robert Duvall BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Bill Murray BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Sissy Spacek WINNER BEST ACTOR Hollywood Film Festival GOTHAM AWARDS CAREER TRIBUTE BEST ACTRESS Sally Hawkins be announced on January 18. Final voting for the February 13 award winners begins later that same day. For this third and final round, BAFTA members only vote for Best Film, and the four performance categories, and Film Not In the English Language (which can include UK films made in Welsh, Scots Gaelic, even Cornish, as well as French, Italian, and so on). All the technical categories are voted by specialized chapters each made up of at least 80 film craft members. Some categories are then thrown out again for all BAFTA members, with a few decided by juries. Then there is the “Super Jury” made up of non–conflicted committee members, filmmakers, and other industry types who decide the winner of Outstanding British Film. By contrast, the most democratic process is for the Orange Rising Star Award. This year a jury will pick a longlist of eight before mobile phone customers who buy a midweek cinema ticket cut it to five. That shortlist then goes out to the general public again. Despite their different procedures, how amusing that BAFTA and AMPAS have picked the same best motion picture winner five times in the past 11 years: Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Gladiator, and American Beauty. “A FUNNY, TOUCHING AND VITAL SALUTE TO WOMEN.” -Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE “SALLY HAWKINS IS IS SUPERB. MIRANDA RICHARDSON ELECTRIFIES.” -Liz Smith BEST PICTURE BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Miranda Richardson Rosamund Pike MADE IN DAGENHAM VIEW THE TRAILER AT WWW.MADEINDAGENHAMMOVIE.COM BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Bob Hoskins
T By Pete hammond IN THE TRENCHES WITH OSCAR four Past show Producers reflect on how to recaPture viewers he Oscars are such a big show that no matter what you do there are going to be people who like it, and people who don’t,” muses Gil Cates, producer of a record 14 Oscar telecasts. The Academy’s Board of Governors has been discussing how to improve their telecast, even suggesting a January date change to make it the first major awards shows (that idea is now on hold), on top of expanding the list of Best Picture nominees from five to ten to make room for popcorn films among the elitist indies (that idea was implemented). Here, I pick the brains of four past Oscar show producers: GIL CATES Produced 14 telecasts sPanning 1990 to 2008 “Now you see stars everywhere, so the show has to aspire to something bigger and better than simply seeing stars. It’s an important element. But the most important thing is to do a show you like. There’s no way to get out totally alive, so do a show that’s unique and fun and special. That’s a victory. I hope the Academy considers perhaps alternating some of the awards. I hope they can come up with a way to streamline because that’s in the best interest of the show. There are always going to be branches upset by that, and it’s a big political issue for the AMPAS President and Board to tackle. But as long as they keep their eyes open to the possibilities of change, they are in great shape. One year I gave many of the awards from where the audience was sitting. I thought it was novel. A lot of folks thought it was too “Astonishing. Mike Leigh has long been a great director, but now he is surely at the top of his form.” -Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES “Lesley Manville achieves greatness.” -Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY all categories including best picture best director mike leigh best original screenplay mike leigh best actress lesley manville best supporting actress ruth sheen best supporting actor jim broadbent another year WWW.ANOTHERYEARMOVIE.COM novel. I didn’t do it the next year. You have to respect the Academy and respect the purpose of the awards and then do something that has your own unique feel to it. I always love producing the show. I’d love to do it another five or six times. How can anyone get tired producing the Academy Awards?” RICHARD ZANUCK Produced with wife lili fini Zanuck the 72nd awards in 2000 “I think it’s about revising the show, not the date. They always say the problem is all these other awards shows, but that’s because you’re thinking of the show as it’s always been. Let’s put on a different kind of show. Let’s compact the show within 90 minutes and have a whole different concept. Of course that would unfortunately mean eliminating certain technical categories. So you would have to fight those battles with the various guilds and have another event like the Academy has done with the Governors Awards. Ultimately, the answer is doing a better and more ingenious show.” JOE ROTH Produced the 76th awards in 2004 “I wanted to move the date earlier. When I produced the show six years ago. I felt the Academy had ceded its specialness to all the other award shows by going so late, and I felt there were only two ways to get it back. One way was to say to performers, ‘if you’re on any other awards show, you can’t do the Oscars’. I think that would have worked 15 years ago, but not now. The second way is you keep pushing the date earlier and just make it impossible for others to compete with it. I think the Academy may have spent too long thinking they were the only game in town only to watch some of the other awards shows steal their thunder. The earlier they go, the better off they are. It may be too little too late, but it’s the right idea.” LAURENCE MARK Produced with Bill condon the 81st awards in 2009 “One of the biggest challenges is that this is a television show, a theater piece, and a celebration of filmmaking all in one. So in a sense you are serving three masters. It’s also a show for the TV audience, and the audience in the theater, so you need to pay attention to both. If the audience in the theater is not enjoying themselves, chances are the TV audience won’t be having a good time, either. One of the things you learn is that the host does indeed set the tone for the show. And that there are certain givens. If you try to cut categories out, then all you’re doing is a TV show and not celebrating the motion picture arts and sciences the way in which the Academy would like. We chose to group categories. At the same time, we were not afraid to take risks and shake things up while also paying tribute to Oscar history.” “After watching Charles Ferguson’s powerhouse documentary about the global economic crisis, you will more than understand what went down — you will be thunderstruck and boiling with rage. This smart and confident film, thick with useful information conveyed with cinematic verve, lays out in comprehensive but always understandable detail the argument that the meltdown of 2008 was no unfortunate accident.” -Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST PICTURE BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE A FILM BY CHARLES FERGUSON VIEW THE TRAILER AT WWW.INSIDEJOBFILM.COM BEST FILM EDITING Chad Beck & Adam Bolt
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