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Here are some of the key highlights of this year’s BAFTA awards: La La Land led from the front: The Hollywood musical was nominated in 11 categories, and won in five, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film and Best Actress for Emma Stone. Just ahead of the Oscars, the film shows no signs of slowing down, with it dominating every single award show ceremony so far. La La Land has already smashed the record for the most Golden Globes, winning a total of seven awards last month.

Emma Stone Wins the Best Actress Award

  British director Ken Loach has finally won his first non-honorary Bafta for gritty benefits drama I, Daniel Blake which had [...]

Gravity – Is it overhyped?

Gravity

It was recently announced that ‘Gravity‘ seized 11 BAFTA nominations making it the lead contender which beat ’12 Years a Slave’ and ‘American Hustle’.  This didn’t come as a shock to me as I knew the British film institution would favor a film developed in the UK over others such as Russell’s ‘American Hustle’.  Although it wasn’t a shock, it found it dissatisfying that this film achieved so much attention and hype solely due to its spectacular effects and it’s impressive use of CGI. ‘Gravity’ failed to resonate with me, it was a marvelous [...]