This Sunday, Spectator Life will be live blogging the Baftas. Lloyd Evans, Melissa Kite, Jasper Rees, Emily Hill and I will be covering the red carpet show on BBC3 at 8.30pm and then, from 9pm, the highlight show on BBC1. We’ll be covering all the highlights, doing our best to sound knowing, funny and insightful while, at the same time, concealing the fact that we know very little about the film business.
Impossible to predict what the highlights will be with absolute certainty, but expect some terrible jokes from host Stephen Fry, a rambling, incoherent speech from Leonardo DiCaprio in which he’ll lambast the oil companies for despoiling the environment before flying back to Hollywood on a private jet, and at least one misguided apology for the lack of black nominees from a well-meaning middle-aged luvvie that ends up causing widespread offence. Maybe Fry will step on that landmine. Or maybe he’ll make a bad joke about sidestepping it.
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