Given the number of high-powered films that received multiple nominations at the BAFTAs this year, the awards are always likely to be unpredictable on the night. And so it is proven, that means Area of interest And Bad things It has already gnawed away at OppenheimerThe film’s chances of achieving a good sweep before the Best Director award comes out. with Bad things Director Yorgo Lanthimos was inexplicably left out of the running, and Christopher Nolan’s snub this year would certainly have sent a signal to the British-American director.
Fortunately, the fates were smiling, and Nolan finally received a BAFTA award. By all accounts, a win is long overdue for this artist, whose films attracted wide audiences out of the gate and then quickly turned that formula into critiques — intelligent, character-driven works — for the mainstream. But for the craft crew awards and the acting award for the late Heath Ledger, BAFTA largely ignored the Batman trilogy and even prestige (2006), the cerebral science fiction he created in between.
since beginning (2010) and Dunkirk (2017), with the notable exception of Interstellar (2014), Nolan twice received the three crucial nominations in his field – Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay – but to no avail. The BFI’s recent award of its follow-up award feels like a valiant effort to right this wrong, and has sent a slightly worrying signal, even with 13 BFI award nominations. OppenheimerHe might go home empty-handed.
Nolan turned a blind eye to all this baggage and graciously accepted his award – unlike his colleague Michael Caine, who famously mentioned his years “in the cold” at the 2000 ceremony – and recalled being taken to the Royal Festival. Hall was hired by his parents when he was a child “to make me have some culture.”
In addition to the cast, Nolan thanked Universal’s Donna Langley for “letting us or do something quite dark and seeing the potential in that.”
He continued: “And on that note, I just want to say that our film ends on a very necessary note of despair. But in the real world, there are all kinds of individuals and organizations who have fought long and hard to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world. Since 1967, they have done so at about 90%. Recently, this has gone in the wrong direction ever since. Therefore, in accepting this award, I would only like to commend their efforts and point out that they demonstrate necessity and urgency Possible for peace efforts.”