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Post by MagdaFR on Jul 12, 2017 20:36:53 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Jul 12, 2017 22:22:13 GMT
I love that picture! We don't see enough of those gorgeous curls!
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Post by mllemass on May 31, 2021 8:53:57 GMT
They finally gave him a Bafta, and now they use him to promote the show!
(And they still owe him one for Sherlock)
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Post by sgev1977 on May 31, 2021 11:58:14 GMT
Weren’t they using his image a lot even before he was awarded?
He “suffered” with Sherlock something similar than what happened with DiCaprio and Titanic: they were kind of the very charismatic leads of both productions and kind of the center of everything in them but they had the bad fortune of compete in the most, well, competitive category than their co-stars. The supporting actors (and actress, in Titanic) in both productions were great but no way they stole the limelight to the star. It’s just that they had it relatively easy and some other factors: Freeman was slightly more popular than BC before Sherlock; BC was too posh for some voters; BC was just too successful at certain point, etc.
But in retrospective, it’s clear they really like him. I mean, he has a lot of nominations! Compare that with other actors from his generation, specifically white posh males: they mostly ignored.
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Post by mllemass on May 31, 2021 15:15:56 GMT
It just still makes me angry that everyone from Sherlock who has been nominated for a Bafta has won it at least once - except for Benedict.
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Post by queenzod on May 31, 2021 16:00:08 GMT
I agree, Mllemass! He MADE that show. He was the star, the center, glowing, arresting amazing. And not only was he the locus of it, he was bloody brilliant and created a unique, iconic version of that character that people are still excited over and talk about years later. It’s a travesty he never was awarded a BAFTA for that role.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 31, 2021 16:10:33 GMT
For Sherlock, he lost to Daniel Rigby, Dominic West and Jason Watkins. All of them wonderful actors but yeah, two of them are so called "working class" actors and the third one, West won for a gritty sordid drama.
He later lost to Adeel Akhtar but for The Hollow Crown. The reaction was fascinating because there were professional British actors celebrating that a minority actor won over the typical posh actor who always win! The problem was that BC had never won it! Lol But they thought he had because he is the kind of "posh" actor that used always won... decades ago!
I guess he was between generations:years ago a certain kind of actor dominated award ceremonies then juries tried to be "faired" to others.
The thing is just look the other young "posh" successful actors (or semi-posh) around his age:
Tom Hiddleston was nominated to a rising star award. That's all!
Michael Fassbender also received a rising star nomination and 3 acting ones. All in movies. No win.
Tom Hardy: one rising star and one in TV nominations. He won the rising star one.
More successful were Eddie Redmayne with another rising star nomination and two best actor in movies. One win.
And Ben Wishaw with another rising star nomination and 4 TV nominations with two wins! He isn't straight, tho. so not exactly the straight posh male celebrity.
BC has 8 nominations and one win! I'm mixing TV and movies, though. In that regard, he only has one film nomination but I think his better work till now has been on TV and some of the others rarely do TV. Also he is the only one who did not received a rising star nomination! His first one was for Hawkings and then the supporting one for Little Island then Sherlock and when he entered to the movies he was already a known name.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 31, 2021 17:19:53 GMT
Here is the list of rising actors winners and nominees and yeah it seems almost everyone is there except BC! Maybe Idris Elba? But he is older and he was in The Wire years earlier this award existed;Saoirse Ronan is another HUGE omission. Probably because she was pretty young? They went for James McAvoy instead. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAFTA_Rising_Star_AwardBC was nominated for a Breakthrough award by the London Critics circle for Amazing Grace. He lost to Sam Riley. So that's around the year he could had been nominated. Shia LaBeouf won that year. EDITED I forgot to say that BC was actually part of the jury the year Juno Temple won! |
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 1, 2021 0:22:28 GMT
I checked other male British actors born in the 1970s and their relationship with the BAFTAs but I quickly got bored! Lol Anyway, I discovered that Christian Bale (probably the biggest name there) has never won a BAFTA!!! Four nominations and 0 wins.
My point is that it seems to me that even when the TV section making him wait too long, they kinda like him and he has a huge number of nominations compared to others!… And he deserved at least three more for Parade’s End (for which he was nominated to the Emmy and won a few Critics awards), The Child in Time and Brexit!
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