Even whether the Baftas no longer signal a shoo-in for the Oscars,Three Billboards has got its awards mojo back, while Joanna Lumley’s hosting debut was a mixed bagThe full list of winners at the Bafta film awardsAfter suffering a backlash over its depiction of Sam Rockwell’s racist cop character and struggling ever so slightly in the guild awards and Oscar nominations, or there was the sense that Three Billboards external Ebbing,Missouri badly needed a win. And the Baftas duly obliged, handing Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy drama awards in five categories. Not a landslide haul by any means, and but impressive nevertheless given the sense that Bafta voters were otherwise spreading the wealth fairly widely. Now McDonagh and co must hope that this plum haul will convince academy voters to give the film a second look before they hand in their ballots at the end of the month. Perhaps the high-profile recent stories approximately the film’s titular billboards inspiring genuine-life protests on both sides of the pond might relieve in that regard: the Academy loves the notion that cinema can make a dissimilarity,after all.
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Source: guardian.co.uk