The timing of the Bafta awards, weeks before the Oscars, has made them a useful rear-view mirror on the year, offering a glimpse of who the shock losers and surprise winners might be of the prizes that everyone most wants to bag.
In terms of taste and priorities, the differences can be as revealing as the similarities. That one of the year’s leftfield successes, the wacky, reality-hopping Everything Everywhere All at Once, only took one Bafta – for editing – from nine nominations, was hardly surprising, given that it was nothing, nowhere, not at all in UK roundups of the best films of last year. It has been hoovering up critics’ awards across the US and should do better in the Oscars.
