The 78th British Academy Film Awards, is taking place tonight at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank. David Tennant is presenting for the second year running and hotly tipped to scoop the major awards are the Ralph Fiennes Vatican thriller Conclave, the popular musical Wicked and the trans-mafia musical Emilia Perez; well, the latter was hotly tipped until various scandals overwhelmed its momentum, including uncovered nasty tweets by its star Karla Sofia Gascon.
But hey, this is all about undeserving winners as well as deserving. So let’s see who picks up what... Really? Who writes this. My dad?. I like Tennant, but he’s no stand-up. “I thought the sequel to Dune was called July...” was a low point. “Putinder” another one. A gag about dating Russian oligarchs, which I can’t even bring myself to properly repeat. Generally it seemed the monologue was received with good-natured embarrassment.
Although he brought a round of applause when he mentioned Donald Trump and said, “talking of villains...”. Tennant is one of the loveliest luvvies around and he draws on that in his opening sketch. Backstage, various thespy stars appear in his magic mirror to give him some advice: Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Brian Cox... who tells him “he’s carrying the spirit of Scotland with him.”. It leads into a rendition of The Proclaimers’ I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), probably the most irritating song ever written.
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