BAFTA Film Awards Analysis: No Shock As ‘Oppenheimer’ Continues Dominance; Complete Snub For ‘Barbie’ And Streamers; ‘American Fiction’ Surprises

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After eight straight years of the BAFTA and Oscars failing to match on their choice for Best Picture, you can probably take it to the bank that this year that streak will be broken as Oppenheimer continues its flawless roll toward the Academy Awards and now adding seven wins at BAFTA including the big prize to its previous triumphs at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice, and DGA awards.

It is all going according to plan. And after a similar Oppenheimer-style sweep at last year’s BAFTAs with seven wins for its All Quiet On The Western Front, Netflix was completely shut out this year despite coming in with seven nominations for Masestro and twelve overall.

For that matter every single streamer was pretty much royally snubbed, to use my best British term, including an even bigger loss for Apple Original Films going zero for nine with Killers Of The Flower Moon (something foretold by Martin Scorsese’s direction and Lily Gladstone’s lead actress not even nominated), and fourteen overall.

Amazon, thinks to its acquired MGM studios label had five nominations for Saltburn but came up empty. However in the night’s biggest BAFTA surprise Orion/Amazon MGM Studios/Curson’s American Fiction pulled off a stunner for those in the crowd, and first time screenwriter/director Cord Jefferson himself, by turning its single nomination for American Fiction into a victor for Adapted Screenplay.