It's time for those Oscarbaftaglobecircle awards

It’s award season.  Bite those nails, breathe deeply and emerge into the halogen looking genuinely stunned. One to the difficulties at this time of the year - for the casual movie fan at least - is navigating through the awards season without it perverting your view of recent releases to a point whereby you, erm just don't bother.

This year is strong.  Really strong.  After the banality of everyone in the world falling for Slumdog, this year there is real competition for the major awards:  films about a crazy ballet dancer, the birth of social networking, a real modern family, the obligatory Brit flick in period costume, another film about a fighter/boxer/gunslinger and (after making about two billion dollars and making grown men cry), a story about toys. 

But in Blighty, bless us, we are likely not to unashamedly fete Portmans’s brilliant Swan, or Michelle Williams young wife on the brink of divorce or even the CGI Toys from Pixar, but here’s the WYA prediction... Made in Dagenham.  BAFTA, bless ‘em tend to like awful films about quirky real life stories from industrial towns with no jobs.  Note the awful Billy Elliot, Full Monty, Calendar Girls.  Well, this year BAFTA have only gone and long-listed the risibly awful Dagenham Girls.  How do I know it is bad?  I don’t need to know.  Aaaaarghh.  I heard someone is thinking of making Last of the Summer Wine into a feature with Bill Nye as ‘Compo’ and Julie Walters as ‘Nora Batty’.  In fact it’s not true, but gosh wouldn’t that quirky lovely home-spun stuff go down a storm.  I might pitch it in Cannes.  

Meanwhile the safe conservative studio dominated US are making Black Swan and True Grit and Blue Valentine.

Here endeth...

UPDATE.  17 Jan.  Dagenham Girls not mentioned at The Golden Globes, but Social Network wins four gongs and Colin Firth uses his tux for the first time this awards season.   I expect his dry cleaning bill to be monstrous come March.  Glee swept the TV awards.  Not sure why.

UPDATE TO UPDATE.  18 Jan.  Well, Dagenham Girls, I mean ...Made in Dagenham , oh, well whatever its called has been nominated in the TOP FIVE ‘outstanding British Films’ by BAFTA.  Despite my extensive viral campaign for the judges [I sent at least two tweets objecting] to see sense, this pile of Monty/Brassed Off/Elliot nonsense in now officially one of the five “best films of 2010” and will live LONG in the hearts and minds of all seven people who went to see it.  

UPDATE TO UPDATE II.  20 Jan.  Actress Rosamund Pike reckons Made in Dagenham was “overlooked” for more nods as all the BAFTA judges were too busy watching “other films” over Christmas.  The WHOLE world it seems has fallen in love with the Kings Speech (which is class) and MiD has not got the credit it deserved.  Sorry Ros.