Carey Mulligan wins Best Actress at BAFTAS

[Candlelight]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/3357869/Hurt-Locker-wins-big-at-BAFTAs

Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker swept 3-D blockbuster Avatar aside at the BAFTA British film awards on Sunday, picking up best film and best director among its six prizes and laying down a marker for the Oscars.
The movies, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and ex-husband James Cameron respectively, were both nominated for eight awards at the BAFTAs, and also lead the field heading into next month's Academy Awards with nine nominations apiece.
Bigelow became the first woman to win the best director BAFTA, and said she hoped she would not be the last.
The BAFTAs tend to lean towards British talent more than the Oscars, and they are a far-from-perfect barometer of what happens at the Academy Awards.

But the scale of The Hurt Locker's success will be noted by the industry as well as the media, which has built both the BAFTAs and Oscars into a Bigelow-versus-Cameron duel.

Colin Firth (A Single Man) and Carey Mulligan (An Education) made it a home double in the main acting categories.

Best supporting actress went to Mo'Nique for the gritty US production Precious and Christoph Waltz won the best supporting actor prize for his chilling turn as a Nazi in Quentin Tarantino's riotous Inglourious Basterds.

I really don't think short hair suits her.

That link also includes a (seemingly random) photo of Noel Clarke (Mickey).

 

[captcalhoun]

i don't like her blonde.

 

[Starkers]

Sw her interviewed by the BBC she is adorable, glad she won but really do wish she'd grow her hair back

 

[Jim Steele]

I couldn't give less of a shit if I tried, but felt the need to comment, if only to give y'all the warm fuzzy satisfaction that comes from pointing out hypocrisy. Enjoy.

 

[23skidoo]

I couldn't give less of a shit if I tried, but felt the need to comment, if only to give y'all the warm fuzzy satisfaction that comes from pointing out hypocrisy. Enjoy.

Care to elaborate on the point you're trying to make?

Anyway, back on topic, while I happen to like her short hair (so sue me, I'm an Audrey Hepburn fan) it looks much better ginger than blonde. I see from other BAFTA pics that Jamie Winstone also's gone blonde, which I hope is temporary.

Alex

 

[Starkers]

I couldn't give less of a shit if I tried, but felt the need to comment, if only to give y'all the warm fuzzy satisfaction that comes from pointing out hypocrisy. Enjoy.

huh

Care to elaborate?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Every time Carey Mulligan opens her mouth, she comes across as more ditzy than the previous time. Fortunately, Vanessa Redgrave completely outditzed her with a long, rambling collection of anecdotes on receiving her fellowship, so no-one probably remembers CM's toe-curling gushiness. Anyway, who cares -- all actors really have to do is remember their lines and try not to knock over the scenery. Give their real personalities too much exposure, and they start to look like candidates for the looney bin.

 

[Cutter John]

This is why I've never been one to follow celebrities. Its very rare that an actor/actress is as smart/interesting as the characters they play.

 

[Sci]

Anyway, who cares -- all actors really have to do is remember their lines and try not to knock over the scenery. Give their real personalities too much exposure, and they start to look like candidates for the looney bin.

While I tend to agree that a lot of actors are either narcissists or slightly crazy, I take exception to your claim that "all actors really have to do is remember their lines and try not to knock over the scenery." Professional acting is a very difficult, very complex process that few people can do well and fewer people can do greatly, and only somebody who has never studied or participated in the professional acting process can claim that it's all that simple.

 

[Jim Steele]

Anyway, who cares -- all actors really have to do is remember their lines and try not to knock over the scenery. Give their real personalities too much exposure, and they start to look like candidates for the looney bin.

While I tend to agree that a lot of actors are either narcissists or slightly crazy, I take exception to your claim that "all actors really have to do is remember their lines and try not to knock over the scenery." Professional acting is a very difficult, very complex process that few people can do well and fewer people can do greatly, and only somebody who has never studied or participated in the professional acting process can claim that it's all that simple.

This.

The vast majority of people out there can't even act to the standard of "poorly".

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Meh, I'm sick of this cult of celebrity for the prancing, painted people. Anything that is truly worthwhile is belittled in this culture; anything frivolous is lauded to the roof.

 

[Starkers]

Anyway, who cares -- all actors really have to do is remember their lines and try not to knock over the scenery. Give their real personalities too much exposure, and they start to look like candidates for the looney bin.

While I tend to agree that a lot of actors are either narcissists or slightly crazy, I take exception to your claim that "all actors really have to do is remember their lines and try not to knock over the scenery." Professional acting is a very difficult, very complex process that few people can do well and fewer people can do greatly, and only somebody who has never studied or participated in the professional acting process can claim that it's all that simple.

This.

The vast majority of people out there can't even act to the standard of "poorly".

I'm still waiting to find out exactly how I'm being hypocritical in being vaguely glad that an actress whose work I admire won an award?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

While I tend to agree that a lot of actors are either narcissists or slightly crazy, I take exception to your claim that "all actors really have to do is remember their lines and try not to knock over the scenery." Professional acting is a very difficult, very complex process that few people can do well and fewer people can do greatly, and only somebody who has never studied or participated in the professional acting process can claim that it's all that simple.

This.

The vast majority of people out there can't even act to the standard of "poorly".

I'm still waiting to find out exactly how I'm being hypocritical in being vaguely glad that an actress whose work I admire won an award?

You did read what he said, didn't you? He was saying he didn't care but he wanted to post anyway and as such he was expecting to be called a hypocritical twat for it and invited everyone to have fun doing so.

 

[Starkers]

^Ahhh....

Well he could have made that clearer, the hypocritical twat!

 

[Sci]

Meh, I'm sick of this cult of celebrity for the prancing, painted people. Anything that is truly worthwhile is belittled in this culture; anything frivolous is lauded to the roof.

While I'll happily agree that actors probably shouldn't get the disproportionate amount of attention and adulation they receive and that there are numerous other professions that deserve much more respect than they receive, again, I would point out that professional acting is a very difficult process, and that doing so with great skill is worthy of respect -- as worthy of respect as painting, singing, or sculpting with great skill, amongst other artistic endeavors.

 

[Starkers]

To be honest I have more time for actors and people who actually have a job in the creative industries than those who are famous merely for being famous.

People go on about actiging being easy, but they'd soon complain if the BBC made Vernon Kay the doctor...

 

[Sci]

To be honest I have more time for actors and people who actually have a job in the creative industries than those who are famous merely for being famous.

People go on about actiging being easy, but they'd soon complain if the BBC made Vernon Kay the doctor...

Indeed. Only someone who has never tried to act on a professional level can claim acting is easy and believe it.

Sure, bad acting is easy, but, then, bad anything is easy!

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Oh I'm sure acting isn't easy, but fundamentally it's still trivial.

ETA: Some quotes by Katharine Hepburn:

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

 

[23skidoo]

Reading this thread, which somehow turned from being a "Doctor Who alumni makes good" topic to "Let's all gang up on Carey Mulligan and anyone else who ticks the 'actor' box on their tax returns", I have to wonder if there are people out there so jaded and world-weary that they no longer understand the concept of entertainment, and that there are people whose job it is to entertain. There are plenty of ditch-diggers, plumbers, schoolteachers, journalists, who in interviews come off sounding dull or dumb as a post, too. I don't see why people actually let this concern or upset them. I honestly do file this sort of concern under the "get a life" column, alongside those who condemn famous people who actually decide to use some of their fame and money to help people rather than buying another condo in Cancun.

Can we get back to discussing the fact that with the BAFTA win Carey Mulligan is back on track to possibly becoming the first Doctor Who actor to ever win an Oscar? Or would it be better for a mod to move this to TNZ?

Alex

 

[Sci]

Oh I'm sure acting isn't easy,

Then why'd you imply that all it takes is remembering one's lines and not knocking over scenery?

but fundamentally it's still trivial.

Art -- whether in the form of acting, or painting, or singing, or sculpting, or what-have-you -- is not trivial, and only someone with no understanding of its role in our culture and in human psychology can claim that it is.

Put it another way:

People don't remember the Greeks because of their political traditions or their technology. They remember the Greeks because of their plays, their mythology, their writings -- their art.

When our world is dead and gone, so it will be for us, too. We will be remembered by our art.