BEST PICTURE
Argo

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Skyfall

DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck, Argo

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Django Unchained

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Silver Linings Playbook

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Amour

ANIMATED FILM
Brave

DOCUMENTARY
Searching for Sugar Man

LEADING ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

LEADING ACTRESS
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Skyfall

EDITING
Argo

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Life of Pi

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Les Misérables

COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina

SOUND
Les Misérables

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Life of Pi

MAKE UP & HAIR
Les Misérables

SHORT FILM
Swimmer

SHORT ANIMATION
The Making of Longbird

DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
Bart Layton (writer) and Dimitri Doganis (producer), "The Imposter"

RISING STAR
Juno Temple

Argo continues its streak of BP wins!

Surprise win here for Riva.

Waits for DIB to jizz over Waltz win and Django Screenplay win...

but also disappointment in Cotillard not winning

BEST PICTURE
Argo


fuckin gross.

Riva winning bodes well for Haneke, given how little clue elsewhere we could get for the director category. She could very well upset in actress as well, although I'm still thinking Lawrence is in the lead.

Adapted screenplay will go down to the wire between Argo and SLP, but editing is now safe in Argo's corner.

Battle between Les Mes and Anna Karanina continues in Art Direction and Costume Design categories. Score and sounds are still up in the air. The other techs look set.

Umm, I still think Argo could walk away with two wins. Picture and Editing. Which is fucking crazy.

We wouldn't even having this conversation had Ben Affleck been nominated for BD at the Oscars. He'd be a lock to win now.

Riva could pull an upset over Chastain and Lawrence. Amour could walk away with four Oscars...fucking insane, isn't it?

And could Waltz actually win his second?

Glad Anna Karenina won an award. Stupid Les Shit stole a few, though.

David O. Russell was clearly disgusted by Riva's win.

In all seriousness, though, c'mon. Riva will now probably win the Oscar too (since 2005 BAFTA and the Oscars haven't matched only once in the Best Actress category). Chastain, Cotillard and Lawrence were both better than her, maybe even Mirren. The main reason she's probably going to win is because she is a screen legend and she is old. Half of the film she spends paralyzed in bed. Trintignant actually delivered a better performance.

Meh.

I don't know that this necessarily is enough to make her the frontrunner over J.Law's GG/SAG wins. There were a lot of years where the BAFTA winner and Oscar winner didn't match up, albeit due to ineligibility, but I think it's a bit skewed not to point that out as a stipulation to the BAFTA/Oscar statistical correlation.

I agree with Jiffy, I don't think we should just assume Riva wins the Oscar just because she won BAFTA.

I'd put Riva at least in second in terms of votes for Actress nominees.

Umm, she is definitely NOT the frontrunner, but she is the upset I could TOTALLY see happening. It wouldn't shock me. She's exactly the type of an upset the Oscars love.

Oh I agree, if anyone other than Lawrence is going to win Best Actress, it's Riva. I think Chastain is probably out of the running (i.e. third) at this point. Which is unfortunate, but Zero Dark Thirty's momentum just sagged with the controversy and the Bigelow snub.

But I don't think the BAFTA win puts Riva in front. It just makes it more of a race.