Lets start with the good news. All five nominations for Best Costume Design at this years BAFTA Awards were on general release and I saw then all: Cyrano, Dune, The French Dispatch, Nightmare Alley and the winner in this category Cruella. Nomination for Best Make Up and Hair also featured three of the above plus The Eyes of Tammy Faye (the winner) and House of Gucci. I was also able to see all those films nominated for Best Production Design which included West Side Story.
But after that it made no sense. How can Power of the Dog win best picture and best director when it never had a general release? For Netflix to enjoy it's inclusion in the lists, it opened in just a very, very, very..... few selected cinemas. There was no release in the two big chains, Odeon and Cineworld. You would have to travel all the way into London or Oxford for a Curzon or Everyman cinema. Otherwise watch it on Netflix on a small screen. Until BAFTA revert back to films on general release, they are failing us cinema fans.
The same goes for other films having nominations. Drive My Car (winning Best Foreign Language film) when only the wonderful Parallel Mothers had a general release. Other winners with only selected cinemas included Coda (Apple tv) and After Love (Amazon?) I give up. At least, for me, the most important award being for Best Original Screenplay went to Paul Thomas Anderson for Licorice Pizza. It also received nominations for Best Director and Best Film. Thank goodness for small mercies.
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