nightwingnova wrote: The world is so interconnected that BAFTA is voting like Hollywood.
As I noted in the supporting actress discussion: BAFTA voters now include a significant chunk of American voters, including a good friend of mine who's no closer to British than Bong Joon Ho. They vote like Hollywood because many of them ARE Hollywood.
This was my annual "stay away from all film sites so you can watch BAFTA unspoiled" day (made an even longer abstention by the Super Bowl, which both occupied my attention and pushed the telecast later, in a presumably vain attempt to avoid ratings-slaughter).
As always, deeply sad that the hive mind took over and ruined potentially fun acting contests. Daniel Day-Lewis and Christopher Walken (2002) were the last actors to win SAG/BAFTA but not the Oscar; these acting races are in concrete. The winner speeches were pretty good -- Pitt's, in absentia, maybe the best, but Phoenix took a chance and got the crowd behind him; Dern made some lovely associations; and Zellweger gave her best oration of the season.
BAFTA and WGA don't often agree on either screenplay category, let alone both (2015 the only other time this decade that's happened). I will note that one recent time they agreed (Grand Budapest Hotel), Oscar differed. But more on that in the screenplay threads.
The 1917 sweep took in production design and visual effects, but still couldn't find a spot for poor Thomas Newman. He's now relying on hometown favoritism to end his drought.