...............15 days to Oscar night

Completed Midnight Cowboy......

Tonight is BAFTA on BBC1 at 8.10pm...hosted by Stephen Fry
BAFTA has become an interesting precurser in recent years, since the same nominees
are more or less on Oscar's shortlist and it is now held two weeks before the Oscars

In 2002, BAFTA awarded the best director to Roman Polanski, who was also a oscar contender
but was getting bad press for his 1970s flight from US law......Academy voters then decided
it was ok to vote for Polanski and he won the oscar two weeks later

The Aviator is a major contender tonight with 14 nominations so also is Vera Drake with 11
Million Dollar Baby (a major contender at the Oscars) is not represented due to a screener problem
The Aviator fading buzz will be enormously helped by wins at BAFTA tonight.....

Screening Bad Education, directed by Pedro Almodovar on my DVD list right now.....