The BAFTA Awards

Here are the results:

Best Film
Brokeback Mountain

-- Shocker! I was kind of hoping for The Constant Gardener, too bad.

Best British Film
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit

-- This one was weird. I thought The Constant Gardener would win this for sure (and wanted it to). Blech.

Best actor in a leading role
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote

-- Another shocker! Was hoping for Ralph Fiennes, too bad.

Best actress in a leading role
Reese Witherspoon - Walk The Line

-- Despite the fact that Reese Witherspoon is locked for Oscar, I thought Rachel Weisz (who was nominated in Lead at the BAFTAs) would win, so I was actually pretty surprised.

Best actor in a supporting role
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain

-- This will be, by far, the most interesting Oscar category. Note that Paul Giamatti wasn't nominated, and George Clooney was nominated twice (vote splitting?) so it could potentially go to any of the three of them. I actually agree with this one based on nominees.

Best actress in a supporting role
Thandie Newton - Crash

-- Um, what? The absolute weirdest award of them all. Note that Amy Adams wasn't nominated, and Rachel Weisz was in lead instead of supporting, so the only real thing to note here is that Michelle Williams lost. She's not going to win (nor should she, she had one good scene for crying out loud).

Original screenplay
Crash - Paul Haggis/Bobby Moresco

-- Yet another complete and total surprise.

Adapted screenplay
Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry/Diana Ossana

-- How unpredictable!

Achievement in Direction
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain

-- No way!

So let's see here. Out of the 8 major awards (I am excluding British Film), 6 matched what I'm predicting for Oscar. The two supporting categories did not, but I don't think this indicates anything that I didn't already think... pretty much everything except for Supporting Actor is already over and done with. Supporting Actress might go to Amy Adams in a longshot (but I doubt it).

What's really weird is that, considering that this is the British Film Awards (that has a penchant for going for British winners or British films), The Constant Gardener, which had more nominations than anything else (including Brokeback Mountain) won *nothing* except for *BEST EDITING*.