In this foreshortened, speedy awards schedule, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards arrived mere hours, rather than a week, before Oscar voters hand in their nominations ballots.
BAFTA’s February 2 Awards show comes two days before Academy ballots are due on February 4.
BAFTA has an overlap of a few hundred Academy voters living mostly in London, New York and Los Angeles.6700 BAFTA members voted for the nominations covering 39 feature films.
One movie that one would expect would do well with the BAFTAs, British theater-maven and filmmaker Sam Mendes’ one-shot World War I epic “1917,” landed nine nominations, but no acting nods.
The war movie took home two Golden Globes on Sunday, for Motion Picture Drama and Director.
Historically, about two-thirds of BAFTA contenders also reap Oscar bids.
Last year, the BAFTAs chose “Roma” over eventual Oscar Best Picture “Green Book.
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