Last year all the BAFTA acting winners went on to Oscars and I'm noticing 'round the web that that's exactly what everyone seems to be predicting again this year including me. Occasionally someone will throw in another name for one of them (though no one is foolish enough to assume that Heath Ledger will lose that posthumous Oscar). But will this 4/4 repeat really occur two years in a row? Can BAFTA really be that "accurate" for lack of a better word (I hate the business of other trophies purposefully acting as tea leaves) and if they are will the BFCA membership turn green with envy en masse?I'm starting to worry that the lovely Cruz will be booted out of the photo op once they exchange those British masks for the American bald men. (It's an exchange/recycling system, right? If it isn't, how much is Helen Mirren paying for storage alone on her 2006 haul?) The recent news that Javier Bardem will not be attending the Oscars seems like another cosmic sign of a Penépole loss. But then... I can get a bit superstitious with awards.
"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."Are you having any last minute changes of mind about who might prevail? Or perhaps you're totally over awards season and wishing I would speak of something anything else? If so... fear not. The 2008 celebrations are almost over.
- Niels Bohr, 1922 Nobel Prize winner for Physics
