70. Let’s Go to the Movies: Celebrating the BAFTAs and the Oscars Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town House

This week we’re going on a whirlwind tour of the movies with BAFTA committee member Anna Higgs. She tells us about the BAFTA winning movies, starting with Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and moving on to Jeymes Samuel’s contemporary Western The Harder they Fall. We discuss some of the winning actors from Will Smith for King Richard, the film about the father of Venus and Serena Williams, Joanna Scanlon for Ali Khan’s After Love and Tony Kotsur, the first deaf male actor to win, for Coda (which means Child of Deaf Adult). We also chat about the inspiring acceptance speech given by Lashana Lynch, for her Rising Star award voted for by the audience, who shot to fame for her role as the next 007 in No Time to Die.

We’re airing just before the Oscars so Anna gives us her rundown and predictions on these too – why Andrew Garfield in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tick Tick… BOOM! and Olive Coleman in The Lost Daughter are in the running for an Oscar but weren’t nominated for a BAFTA.  We also discuss the smaller films making big waves like animated Danish film Flee and one of Anna’s favourites, Ali & Ava.

Listen in, and then head straight out to the cinema or get streaming – we give you enough good movie tips to keep you busy for weeks.