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Biases And Weirdnesses: The BAFTA Longlist For 2012
BAFTA have published their full longlist of films eligible for consideration in the 2012 awards. You can read the whole thing as a PDF, but here are the key bits.If your name's not on the list, then you're not going to win.
The candidates for Best Film are:
The Artist The Descendants Drive The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Help Hugo The Ides of March The Iron Lady Midnight in Paris Moneyball My Week with Marilyn Senna Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy War Horse We Need to Talk About Kevin
And for Best British Film:
Arthur Christmas Attack the Block Coriolanus The Guard Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ? Part 2 The Iron Lady Jane Eyre My Week with Marilyn Senna Shame Submarine Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Tyrannosaur War Horse We Need to Talk About Kevin
It can happen that the winner of the Best Film isn't the winner of Best British Film despite appearing on both lists. That could potentially occur this year with any of My Week With Marilyn, Senna, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, War Horse or We Need To Talk About Kevin. I wouldn't be surprised to see Tinker Tailor win either or both, so that's possibly the number one candidate for such confusion.
Such splits seem to suggest different standards are being held for films "British" and "Other", but that's probably not the case so much as there being a difference in competition that results in different voting biases. For example, you might think that Tinker Tailor is the best film in List A, but you won't vote for it in List B because there you have the option of Submarine, your overall preferred film.
Anyhow, isn't it absurd that some of those are being called British films? War Horse seems the most conspicuously American of them all.
On a happier bent, I'm glad to see 50/50, Bridesmaids and Tyrannosaur on the list for Best Original Screenplay because they do all feature great writing but have been, generally, praised on other grounds.
The Artist seems to have the most mentions. I imagine it's going to clean up on the night.
There's only one mention of The Tree of Life and that's in cinematography. That's also how I like it.
The most bemusing category, overall, is the special effects one. It seems like they listed everything they can think of that had special effects in and then added on Midnight in Paris, perhaps at random. It surely won't make it to the nomination stage but how did it even get this far?
It's also the one category that should be Case Closed right now, I think, because while Rise of the Planet of the Apes doesn't have the consistently great FX we were promised it definitely ascends higher than any of its competition.
This year's ceremony falls on Sunday 12th February. Before that, the nominations will be revealed on Tuesday 17th, and before that, the nominations for the public-voted category, the Orange Rising Star award, will be announced this Wednesday morning.
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