Snubs, sneers and snobbery
MOVIES are the most exciting, inspiring and successful entertainment industry in history.
So why are the Baftas so toecurlingly dull? How can something so thrilling spawn this annual soulsapping endurance test?
The night was so woke I fell asleep. And look at the results. The Irishman didn’t do at all well. But then Graham’s gags were pretty weak.
I felt for Norton, lumbered with a toothless script, having to perform to an ungenerous bunch of sour-faced millionaires.
At least Rebel Wilson shook them up with some filth, likening Bafta’s “gifting wallet” to a precious part of her anatomy. Shame her films aren’t that funny.
Prince William hit out at Bafta’s lack of diversity, thereby winning the coveted Lily Allen award for self-awareness.
Po-faced Joaquin Phoenix banged on about all-white shortlists.
Awards should be about merit, not quotas and virtue-signalling.
Bafta did snub some seriously hefty talent, though. Eddie Murphy’s. Dol
Email me at: garry.bushell@dailystar.co.uk or write c/o Daily Star Sunday, One Canada Square, London. E14 5AP emite Is My Name, the funniest film of 2019, didn’t get a mention. Nor did Cynthia Erivo (Harriet), Daniel Kaluuya (Queen & Slim), Lupita Nyong’o (Us) or Amazing Grace.
Bafta weren’t sending a message that “people of colour aren’t welcome here”, as Phoenix claimed. The message was: “Our clueless members don’t watch enough movies.”
Of course 1917 deserved its gongs. But Bafta should embrace more British talent, irrespective of race, instead of turning themselves into a dry run for the Oscars. Their real problem isn’t unconscious racism.
It’s old-fashioned snobbery, as it’s always been.
What does Bafta stand for? Banal and flaming tedious, actually. Still, nice dresses, eh?
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