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Monday 11 January 2016
Contenders talk BAFTAs, Globes and Oscars at tea time
MIKE LENNOX Globes, expressed grati- Cate Blanchett arrives at the BAFTA Awards Season Tea Party at the Four Seasons Hotel on Satur-
AP Entertainment Writer tude to the Globe organiz- day, Jan. 9, 2016, in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Many ers, the Hollywood Foreign
of the film and TV industry Press Association (HFPA), (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
award season’s principal for acknowledging the
players gathered Saturday Starz TV drama “Outland- “Transparent” can only be will be unveiled Thursday. part of the ensemble of
afternoon for a spot of tea er” with three nominations. seen online, by subscribers While there seem to be nu- the acclaimed hip-hop film
and talked a little business. Though an international of Amazon Prime. merous best-picture givens, “Straight Outta Compton,”
The semiannual event, ratings hit, the series is a Once the closing credits roll such as the widely honored said, “I think we could get
sponsored by the Los An- science-fiction romance -- on the Globes, the award- “Spotlight,” ‘’Carol” and the nomination for best
geles branch of the Brit- a genre piece, the sort that season attention turns to “The Big Short,” many pun- picture. You know, let’s be
ish Academy of Film and has historically been over- the Academy of Motion dits have said they expect very honest. The Academy
TelevisionArts (BAFTA), looked by awards groups. PictureArts and Sciences, the unexpected. is made up of mostly old
is held the day before “Well, very easily you can whose Oscar nominations Actor Demetrius Grosse, white men.
each Emmy and Golden be pigeonholed,” Balfe
Globe ceremony, and it said.
usually attracts many of “It’s hard to sort of break
each award show’s top through the ceiling.”
contenders. Among tea Veteran American actor
attendees this weekend Jeffrey Tambor also tipped
were actors Leonardo Di- his hat to the Hollywood
Caprio (“The Revenant”) Foreign Press Association
and Mark Ruffalo (“Spot- for being among the first to
light”), actresses Alicia Vi- honor his series, the trans-
kander (“The Danish Girl,” gender dramedy “Trans-
‘’Ex Machina”) and Cate parent,” which went on to
Blanchett (“Carol”). win the Emmy for outstand-
A large presence of the ing comedy series.
“Carol” cast and crew was “This year, it’s just wonder-
no surprise, given the peri- ful because we are still the
od romance tied the histor- little engine that could,”
ical drama-thriller “Bridge Tambor said. “You know,
of Spies” in BAFTA nomina- there’s film and there’s
tions, announced Friday. television. And way over
Each film earned nine there in Alhambra: stream-
nods. Such big recognition ing. It’s still a little thing.”
coming now from BAFTA
is significant given that Record-breaking ‘Star Wars’ movie opens in China
award-season spoils have
been distributed among a LOUISE WATT was released three weeks match the $229 million in release included the plac-
wider than usual array of Associated Press ago. Chinese box-office sales ing of 500 Stormtrooper
films, said “Carol” co-pro- BEIJING (AP) — The re- But internationally, it still has that “Jurassic World” gen- figures on the steps of the
ducer Stephen Woolley. cord-breaking “Star Wars” a long way to go to beat erated last year. Great Wall and the illumina-
“It’s a fantastic thumbs-up opened this weekend in “Avatar,” James Camer- Not many Chinese are fa- tion of the movie’s Chinese
for us,” he said. “And it will China, where it is far from on’s science-fiction movie miliar with “Star Wars.” The title on the guard towers for
mean a lot, I think, to the certain to draw in enough with blue aliens. The inter- franchise’s three prequel a light show in October.
more discerning voters moviegoers to knock off national box office of the films released from 1999 to It enlisted the marketing
across America, whether “Avatar” as the world’s all- latest “Star Wars” movie 2005 were shown in China, power of actor and singer
it’s the American Acad- time biggest grossing mov- stands at $1.6 billion, com- but at a time when there Lu Han, who appeared in
emy or the DGAs (Directors ie. pared to the $2.8 billion were much fewer screens promotional videos and
Guild Awards) or any of “Star Wars: The Force Awak- “Avatar” made in 2009. in the country. released a music video on
those awards still to come.” ens” is the highest ever Richard Huang, an analyst Promotional events or- Thursday called “The Inner
Irish actress Caitriona Balfe, grossing film in the North at Nomura Securities, ex- ganized by Disney in the Force” with images from
in Los Angeles to attend the American market, where it pects the movie to roughly months leading up to the the film.
