BAFTA Awards Analysis: Brits Spread The Wealth But With ‘Conclave’ And ‘Brutalist’ Winning Major Prizes What Does It Mean For Oscar Voting Still In Progress?

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The BAFTAs didn’t quite ignora Anora, the current Oscar frontrunner, but the British Academy which has hundreds of voters in common with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences decided to shake things up splitting some big prizes between their nominations leader, Conclave winning four including Best Film, Best British Film, Film Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay while The Brutalist also won four including Best Director for Brady Corbet and Best Actor for Adrien Brody, Cinematography and Music Score, but in a mixed bag of results it lost Best Original Screenplay to Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain which wasn’t even nominated for Best Picture.

Anora also surprisingly lost Original Screenplay just hours after taking its third major guild award at the WGA awards Saturday night in the category (in a column last week I warned about the threat of Eisenberg’s A Real Pain stealing its thunder and that is what happened in London).

But taking a different path than the DGA PGA and WGA (often more predictive voting bodies in terms of where the Oscar winds are blowing), the Brits had other ideas handing it only a Casting statuette (a category joining Oscars but not this year) and then a bit of a shocker at the end by anointing star Mikey Madison lead actress over favorite Demi Moore.

Madison had lost to her at Golden Globes and Critics Choice but now could be staging a comeback with SAG and Indie Spirits still to come pre-Oscars next weekend.