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The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were handed out on Sunday and featured the latest instance of the acting awards not going the way we were expecting. While Hamnet\u2019s Jessie Buckley continues to steamroll in Best Actress, the other three acting categories broke from the previous precursors. After Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein) took the Critics Choice Award and Stellan Skarsgard (Sentimental Value) the Golden Globe, Best Supporting Actor at the BAFTAs went to Sean Penn for his chicken-walking Colonel Lockjaw in One Battle After Another. Meanwhile, after Amy Madigan (Weapons) won at Critics Choice and Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another) won the Globe, Sinners\u2019s Wunmi Mosaku took Best Supporting Actress. In the night\u2019s most surprising upset, Robert Aramayo from the British indie I Swear \u2014 which doesn\u2019t get released in the States until April and was thus ineligible for MFL consideration \u2014 won Best Actor. With Oscar front-runner Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet nominated but not winning, Best Actor at the Oscars looks a lot less certain than it did a few days ago.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, the usual dynamic of this awards season prevailed: One Battle After Another won the most awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson, Penn for Supporting Actor, plus awards for the film\u2019s cinematography and editing. All told, OBAA picked up another 180 points to pad its already sizable lead as the MFL\u2019s leading point-earner. For its part, Sinners picked up a few awards of its own. In addition to Mosaku\u2019s win, Ryan Coogler won for Original Screenplay, and Ludwig G\u00f6ransson prevailed in Best Original Score, good for 90 MFL points. And while it\u2019s been my feeling that Sinners is going to clean up in the Oscars\u2019 craft categories, the BAFTAs went repeatedly for Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein, which won for its production design, costumes, and hair\/makeup, good for 60 MFL points.<\/p>\n

Hamnet took home the Best British Film prize in addition to Buckley\u2019s win, Sentimental Value took Best Film Not in the English Language, and Zootopia 2 took advantage of an unnominated KPop Demon Hunters to win Best Animated Film. Somewhat expectedly, the vroom-vrooms of F1 were deemed the year\u2019s best achievement in sound, and the pyromaniac Na\u2019vi of Avatar: Fire and Ash helped that film win Best Visual Effects.<\/p>\n

Full list of BAFTA points:<\/p>\n

One Battle After Another: 180
Sinners: 90
Frankenstein: 60
Hamnet: 55
Avatar: Fire and Ash: 20
F1: 20
Sentimental Value: 20
Zootopia 2: 20<\/p>\n

Incremental gains are slowing to a trickle when it comes to box-office points. Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash have long since blown beyond the top echelon of bonus points, so at this point they\u2019re just adding points in the low single figures. Marty Supreme and Hamnet continue to inch closer to their next bonus thresholds but are not likely to get there without a boost of some kind. The most notable developments of the weekend were Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie picking up another million dollars and thus another MFL point. And director Harry Lighton\u2019s dom-sub dramedy romance Pillion finally crossed the $1 million threshold, earning itself a point.<\/p>\n

The full list of box-office performers this weekend (amounts are cumulative domestic earnings to date):<\/p>\n

Zootopia 2: $423 million
Avatar: Fire and Ash: $399m
The Housemaid: $126m
Marty Supreme: $95m
Hamnet: $23m
Sentimental Value: $5m
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie: $2m
Pillion: $1m<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re less than three weeks away from the Oscars, with only a few more precursors left at which to pick up points. This coming weekend will see the Producers Guild hand out its Best Film award on Saturday night, followed by the Actor Awards (formerly the SAG Awards) on Sunday. All eyes will be on Sinners at both events, since the PGA tends to favor box-office successes (one area where Sinners has a definite advantage over One Battle After Another), and a win in the Best Cast category at SAG could signal real potential for Sinners to win the Oscar.<\/p>\n

Producers Guild Awards: February 28
Actor Awards: March 1
Writers Guild Awards: March 8
98th Academy Awards: March 15<\/p>\n

Questions? Feedback? Can\u2019t find your team or mini-league on the leaderboard? Drop us a line at moviesleague@vulture.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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