BAFTA 2018 - Three Billboards Big Winners, Paddington Robbed & This Show NEEDS To Be Live

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Last night was the biggest night on the British film calendar with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri taking home five awards from this year’s BAFTA awards.

The hotly tipped Oscar favourite took home Best Film, Best British Film, Original Screenplay, meanwhile Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell picked up Leading Actress and Supporting Actor respectfully.

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Meanwhile, The Shape of Water’s Guillermo del Toro won Best Director, Gary Oldman picked up Leading Actor award following wins at the Golden Globes and SAG and now his upcoming Oscar will have a gang. Allison Janney is also set to make a clean sweep after receiving Supporting Actress for her performance in I, Tonya.

Elsewhere, Daniel Kuluuya received the EE Rising Star award voted by the public.

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However, Paddington 2 was ROBBED of all three awards it was nominated for especially since Three Billboards was going to win Best Film, this wonderful film deserved to win Best British Film as well as Hugh Grant for Supporting Actor.

Mr Brown has been muttering something about daylight robbery. However, it's dark outside and I haven't heard the burglar alarm.

— Paddington (@paddingtonbear) 18 February 2018

The night overall was mixed but leaning towards the positive as Joanna Lumley was a great host with her jokes hit and miss. You can say that about most of the jokes during the evening with some bombing like Taron Egerton and Karen Gillian joke aimed at the Visual Effects while Bryan Cranston and Salma Hayek with the joke of the night during the presentation of Leading Actor.

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The theme of the night was everyone wearing all black in support of Time’s Up and Me Too minus McDormand who is a badass and doesn’t conform to anything. Then you have the numpties having a go at the future Queen, the Duchess of Cambridge, for wearing a lovely royal dark green dress as (and this is important) royalty is expected to avoid taking a political position in public but showed support for the movement by wearing a black ribbon.

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On the TV side, the opening segment was funny and while the Cirque du Soleil The Shape of Water inspired performance was lovely but having the first award handed out 20 minutes into the show and it meant awards like Cinematography, Original Score, Animation and Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema were revealed in the recap part at the end of the show.

That’s unacceptable. This and the Twitter spoilers proved more evidence this show SHOULD be shown live! Start it at 8pm and have it wrapped by 10:30pm. It’ll give every award the right amount of time to have their moment.

Finally, going back to Paddington 2 the end credit scene of the film should’ve been the opening segment as it would’ve started the show off with a bang and give everyone a smile.

Here is the list of the winners of the 2018 BAFTA Awards:

Best Film – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Outstanding British Film – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Director – Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)

Leading Actor – Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)

Leading Actress – Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Supporting Actor – Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Supporting Actress – Allison Janney (I, Tonya)

EE Rising Star – Daniel Kaluuya

Adapted Screenplay – Call Me By Your Name

Original Screenplay – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer – I Am Not A Witch – Rungano Nyoni (Writer/Director), Emily Morgan (Producer)

Animated Film – Coco

Documentary – I Am Not Your Negro

Film Not In The English Language – The Handmaiden

Cinematography – Roger Deakins (Blade Runner 2049)

Costume Design – Mark Bridges (Phantom Thread)

Editing – Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss (Baby Driver)

Make-Up & Hair – David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick, Kazuhiro Tsuji (Phantom Thread)

Original Music – Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water)

Production Design – Paul Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, Shane Vieau (The Shape of Water)

Sound – Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, Mark Weingarten (Dunkirk)

Special Visual Effects – Gerd Nefzer, John Nelson (Blade Runner 2049)

British Short Animated – Poles Apart

British Short Film – Cowboy Dave

Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema – National Film & Television School

BAFTA Fellowship – Sir Ridley Scott