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A few more possible directors: John Carpenter, Werner Herzog & Mira Nair

As for actors: Annette Bening, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gong Li & Debra Winger. Or even Julie Andrews for a bit of star power even though she's won a competitive Oscar already.

Cate Blanchett's 8th acting nomination takes her to joint second on the list of non-Americans. Laurence Olivier leads that list on 10 but Blanchett is now tied with Judi Dench and Peter O'Toole.
The only other person currently working with more than 6 nominations is Kate Winslet (7).

I don't know if Russell Crowe was officially banned for his post BAFTA scuffle in 2002 but he's not been nominated for a BAFTA or Oscar since (over 20 years now) after 3 straight nominations in a row for both. If it was just down to performances I'm sure he would have had at least one further nomina...

I thought I'd have a look at a few other possibilities for most acting Oscar winners in a film and I think I may have found the winner: The Player with 12 winners (Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, James Coburn, Louise Fletcher, Joel Grey, Anjelica Huston, Jack Lemmon, Marlee Matlin, Julia Roberts...

Chastain's win raises the number of acting winners who appeared in The Help to an impressive 7 -- all female (Chastain, Stone, Davis, Spencer, Janney, Spacek, Steenburgen). I feel like there must be some disaster movie with more, but I don't know offhand. The Swarm (1978) also has 7 winners - Micha...

Despite (or maybe because of) the odd nominations the BAFTAs managed to predict almost every category at the Oscars - this is probably the closest they have ever matched.

As far as I can see the only difference was cinematography.

That's what you get when you let juries decide the "nominations."

If you look at the Best Film category that is what the general membership voted for as it didn't have a jury.

I've seen Welcome To Chechnya, it's a very good documentary and well worth seeing. The visual effects are quite strange, as I was watching the people who were being protected It looked like the side of their faces had some blurryness to it and I didn't really see the point in just doing such a small...

Here are the main categories of BAFTA Longlists, the full list can be found here https://variety.com/2021/film/awards/saint-maud-ammonite-nomadland-bafta-longlist-1234900383/ BEST FILM 15 films go through to the Round Two of voting, and five will be nominated. This is the only category voted for by ...

Here are the nominees for best feature: Collective Director/Producer: Alexander Nanau Producer: Bianca Oana ROMANIA / MAGNOLIA PICTURES, PARTICIPANT Crip Camp Directors/Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht Producer: Sara Bolder USA / NETFLIX Gunda Director: Victor Kossakovsky Producer: Anita Reho...

Here's a link to the new BAFTA rules: http://www.bafta.org/about/mission/the-bafta-2020-review Longlists are back but expect some more unusual nominees in acting and directing (and there will be 6 nominations in those categories). The big change is that juries will select the nominees so I expect th...

Thought I'd let you know in case you hadn't seen it that there is a reconstruction of The Rogue Song on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cekirq79Fzk It has the complete soundtrack so you can at least hear why Lawrence Tibbett was nominated for an Oscar. There is about 30 minutes of footage an...

The oldest book I've got is "60 Years of the Oscar" by Robert Osborne and it only lists The Racket & 7th Heaven alongside Wings for Best Picture and then Chang, The Crowd & winner Sunrise in the Artistic Picture category. They were the films that received the honorable mention cert...

Just wondering if anyone has seen East Lynne (1931) or The White Parade (1934) which I believe still survive in the UCLA archive. I've still got a couple of DVDs to watch of early Oscar Best Picture nominees and then they will be the last ones (apart from The Patriot) that I haven't seen. Obviously ...

Thanks, that's what I always thought too.