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Okay I fixed it. Copy and pasting from my phone doesn't always work right.

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PTA wins the DGA. 9 of the last 10 DGA winners won the Oscar as well.

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Not going to copy & paste all the winners at the Independent Spirit Awards, but Train Dreams won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography. Rose Byrne won Best Lead Performance (there is no gender-categorized award). Naomi Ackle won Best Supporting Performance for Sorry, Baby, which also won Best Screenplay.
The Secret Agent won Best International Feature (Sirat was the only other nominee up for the Oscar).

Honestly I don't know what makes an Independent feature and what doesn't. Train Dreams was an Independent film acquired by Netflix, I guess that still makes it an indie? And somehow Roofman is considered an Independent film even though it got a major release and push from Paramount?

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I don't know what the exact rules are, but I think as long as it's produced independently, it doesn't matter how it's distributed.

Edit to add: Apparently there is a budget limit as well. In this year's case it's $30m.

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Hard to believe a film can cost 30m and still can be considered an independent film.
It's like hearing homes costing 1m+ being referred to as "starter homes" in some cities.

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I guess if it was much lower you'd end up with Iron Lung sweeping

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For me it was just Roofman. In no way did Roofman feel like an independent picture. High profile, big name leads, major distribution weekend. Produced by Miramax.
It's not Avengers, sure. But it didn't feel indie at all. $19M budget, apparently.

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Speaking of budgets, how in the hell did Bugonia cost between 45m-55m to make? Emma Stone got paid like 7mill for it, so that's not a big reason.
The film mostly takes place in a house.

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Location shooting on Andromeda.

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BAFTA Award Winners:

Best Film

Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Outstanding British Film

28 Years Later
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Die My Love
H Is For Hawk
Hamnet
I Swear
Mr. Burton
Pillion
Steve

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

The Ceremony
My Father's Shadow
Pillion
A Want In Her
Wasteman

Best Film Not in the English Language

It Was Just An Accident
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sirat
The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best Documentary

2000 Meters to Adraiivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Cover-Up
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

Best Animated Film

Elio
Little Amélie
Zootopia 2

Best Director

Yargos Lanthimos, Bugonia
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best Original Screenplay

I Swear
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Pillion

Best Leading Actress

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia

Best Leading Actor

Robert Aramayo, I Swear
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Jesse Plemmons, Bugonia

Best Supporting Actress

Odessa A'Zion, Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Carey Mulligan, The Ballad of Wallis Island
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Emily Watson, Hamnet

Best Supporting Actor

Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Paul Mescal, Hamnet
Peter Mullan, I Swear
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best Casting

I Swear

Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best Cinematography

Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams

Best Editing

F1
A House of Dynamite
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best Costume Design

Hamnet
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good

Best Makeup & Hair

Hamnet
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good

Best Original Score

Bugonia
Frankestein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best Production Design

Frankenstein

Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Hamnet

Best Sound

F1

Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare

Best Special Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
How to Train Your Dragon
The Lost Bus

Best British Short Animation

Cardboard
Solstice
Two Black Boys in Paradise

Best British Short Film

Magid/Zafar
Nostalgie
Terence
This Is Endometriosis
Welcome Home Freckles

EE Rising Star Award

Robert Aramayo

Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling

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Marty Supreme tied a BAFTA record going 0 for 11. Literally no idea what I Swear is, but the Brits apparently love it.

EDIT : NOW I know. Yikes.

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It has a 4.2 on letterbox so a very well liked film.

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Best Supporting Actress

Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners


Hell yeah! She has become one of my favorite actresses, quietly popping up all over the place. Glad to see her get some love!

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:eek:

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The BAFTAs aired on E!?

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Robert Aramayo's Best Actor win is the first time someone won a Bafta in the category without being an Oscar nominee since Jamie Bell 25 years ago for Billy Elliot.

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So far the Globes, Critics Choice and BAFTA have chosen different actors for Best Supporting Actor (Skarsgård, Elordi, Penn) and for Best Supporting Actress (Taylor, Madigan, Mosaku).
Lots of uncertainty in those races still.

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The ACE Eddie awards were last night. These are the Editing Guild Awards.
No Oscar clarity here as Sinners won for Drama and One Battle After Another won for Comedy.
KPOP Demon Hunters won for Animated Feature and The Perfect Neighbor won for Documentary Feature.

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The PGA Awards were announced tonight.
I think all the BP suspense is gone -- One Battle After Another won Best Picture. KPOP Demon Hunters won Best Animated Film.

It's still possible that Sinners wins Best Ensemble tomorrow night, but after the sweep One Battle has run (Critics Choice, Golden Globe, BAFTA, DGA, PGA) , it sure feels like this race is done.

And speaking of keeping trends going, stop me if you've heard this one before but the PGA picked The Pitt, The Studio and Adolescence as Best TV Drama, Comedy and Limited Series, respectively.

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Some clarity maybe in Supporting?
Amy Madigan won Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Weapons.
Sean Penn won Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role for One Battle
Jesse Buckley continues her dominance winning Best Female Actor in a Lead Role for Hamnet.

The one new winner was Michael B. Jordan for Best Male Lead Actor for Sinners.

As predicted, Sinners won the Ensemble Award.
Yeah, keeping the boring going, The Studio won for Best Comedy Ensemble, Male Actor in a Comedy and for the late great Catherine O'Hara, Best Female Actor in a Comedy (Yay).
The Pitt won for Best Drama Ensemble and Best Male Actor in a Drama Series.
Adolescence won for Best Actor in a Limited Series (Owen Cooper as Jamie, not Steven Graham as his dad). There is no Ensemble Award for Limited Series.

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One Battle is still the obvious front-runner if you parse out that the SAG Guild awards to Sinners was specifically for the acting ensemble and did not take into consideration the screenplay, editing, music, direction.

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Coda is a recent example of the SAG showing a trend away from the other guilds and towards the actual BP winner, but that was obviously a weird Covid year.
Best Ensemble has missed the same amount as it has hit in the last 10 years, missing on Hidden Figures, Black Panther, Three Billboards, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Conclave last year (of course a qualifier here is that there literally wasn't an ensemble of SAG actors in Nomadland).
The Acting Branch of the Academy is it's largest.

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I can't tell if you have changed your mind or not.

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No. The SAG isn't nearly as good a bellweather as the others, especially the PGA which matched the Oscars 7 of the last 10 (missing on The Big Short over Spotlight, 1917 over Parasite and La La Land over Moonlight). They've gotten the last 5 exactly the same.

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To the surprise of nobody, the WGAs delivered more awards for One Battle and Sinners.