It never rains. It pours. The very day that Oscar nominations drop, the BFCA decide to hold their own shindig. The winner was Ben Affleck's Argo, taking Best Picture and Director, but nothing else. A fine choice, but clearly the BFCA did not see coming this morning's surprise Oscar snub for Affleck in Best Director, otherwise they would totally have jumped ship and gone for Lincoln. This is a group that seems intent on anticipating the Academy Awards year in and year out, and had their voting taken place later after the Oscar nods, I think it would have spelled a different story.
So Affleck and company can take this as a bittersweet consolation prize, I guess. The four acting triumvirates were the same that critics have been lining up behind all season: Day-Lewis, Chastain, Hoffman, and Hathaway. But I don't know if all of these will match up with Oscar.
Winners after the cut:
Best Picture: "Argo"
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Best Documentary: "Searching for Sugar Man"
Best Original Score: John Williams, "Lincoln"
Best Original Song: Adele and Paul Epworth, "Skyfall," "Skyfall"
Best Director: Ben Affleck, "Argo"
Best Comedy: "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Actor in a Comedy: Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Actress in a Comedy: Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained"
Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony Kushner, "Lincoln"
Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, "Life of Pi"
Best Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood, "Anna Karenina"
Best Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran, "Anna Karenina"
Best Film Editing: William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Best Makeup: "Cloud Atlas"
Best Visual Effects: "Life of Pi"
Best Sci-Fi or Horror Film: "Looper"
Best Animated Film: "Wreck-It Ralph"
Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"
Best Foreign Language Film: "Amour"
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, "Les Misérables"
Best Action Film: "Skyfall"
Best Actor in an Action Film: Daniel Craig, "Skyfall"
Best Actress in an Action Film: Jennifer Lawrence, "The Hunger Games"
Best Young Actor: Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Best Ensemble: "Silver Linings Playbook"
