Argo Takes BAFTA's Big Prize

I don't know what instructions actors are given when it comes to giving their thank you speeches but I wish they'd hire the same person for the Oscars. Speeches were wonderfully brief and it's as though no one DARED to go over their allotted time. I am imagining an elderly British schoolmarm standing stage left with a wooden yardstick, a large one, that is electrified. The awards were fun and it was nice to see people who in America walk around with a stick up their arse being irreverent and blessedly brief.

 

Zero Dark Thirty was completely shut out and except for the BAFTA that went to Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln almost was, in spite of its umpteen nominations.

 



Yeah, that's right. Suck it everybody else who is not me.



 

Best Actress went to that old broad from Amour which is making me nervous about the Oscars. Jessica Chastain deserves this Oscar and if some old French bag takes it from her I'll never eat brie again. That's a lie, I will likely be eating brie WHILE that old French bag wins.







You hate me, you really hate me.

Anne Hathaway, of course, won a BAFTA for her role as Fantine in Les Miserables and that's exactly what we all were listening to yet another breathy, winded, fake impromptu speech. There was one cute nanosecond with Clooney but then she launched into her usual gushing stupidity. Gird your loins ladies, we'll no doubt have to hear her one more time.

 



 

 

 

 

Affleck picked up a BAFTA for Best Film and Best Director. It was nice to see his genuinely humble acceptance of his awards and he even gave a small nod to being lucky enough to get a 'second chance' in Hollywood. I think he and George Clooney are now engaged.

You just know he's wearing a T-shirt that says Team Matt.

 

Representing Django Unchained, Quentin picked up Original Screenplay and Christoph Waltz went home with Supporting Actor (I should damn well hope so). Quentin and Christoph are also now going steady. I think they got pinned at the after party.

Said, Waltz, "Quentin's lips are soft, like a girl's."



 

Gratuitous picture of Daniel Craig

"Blue Steel this, Clooney"