Complete silence at BATFAs

Let's hope so. But sadly it could simply be anti-Christian snobbery from the elites at Bafta.

It bemuses me that they're so desperate to nominate a film like I, Daniel Blake and talk about increasing diversity, and yet the British film industry is still overwhelmingly an old boys' club of public school and Oxbridge educated actors, directors, producers and critics with little access for the working-class and anyone who comes from anything resembling Daniel Blake's world.

Typical neolib hypocrisy and faux 'virtue' signaling.

It isn't eligible for this year's awards in the UK.

It opened in London on January 1. It expands this week in the UK.

It will be eligible for the 2017 awards in 2018, if anyone in the UK cares to remember it, by then. Maybe it will even give it time to develop a following, who knows?

Anyway, that's why the London Film awards and the BAFTAS shut it out.

Now, in the US, it DOES qualify for this year. However, it was finished so late that many awards groups' voting members had not yet had the chance to see it, yet. The Golden Globes, for example, had the nominating process end the week it was completed. So, no nominations for it. Several other groups, like the Critics Choice Awards, ended their nominating process BEFORE this film was even finished or screened. Now, on the other hand, there now have been several voting critics groups and Guilds that have had time to see it, and are still ignoring it, anyway. Like the Producer's Guild, where it was completely shut out. This nearly assures that it won't likely be nominated for Best Picture by the Academy.

Anyway, the film is out now, there have been numerous screenings, and the studio even mailed screener DVDs of it to all Academy members some weeks back. The nominations will be announced in a couple of weeks. We'll see if the Academy recognizes it at all.