Bafta 2014

[Stavros]

I was going to ask you that a few days ago -so you get to vote as well?

[Prospero]

Yes I do... but I've never been nominated for an award

[Stavros]

I read somewhere that it cost £350 a year to join, and £750 to go the show -but can anyone join BAFTA? Or do you have to have some connection to film and tv in a professional capacity?

[Prospero]

The membership fee rises each year. Yes - you have to work in television, film or an associated industry and have to be proposed by existing members. And yes going to the event costs an arm and a leg. I bet the tranny awards in LA are a bit less costly.

[Tiffany Anne]

I'm sorry....did you just piss on Stephen Fry? Who does that?

[Prospero]

No one pissed on or dissed mr Fry

[Stavros]

The membership fee rises each year. Yes - you have to work in television, film or an associated industry and have to be proposed by existing members. And yes going to the event costs an arm and a leg. I bet the tranny awards in LA are a bit less costly.

Unless you need to fly into the US from Europe...

[Stavros]

I'm sorry....did you just piss on Stephen Fry? Who does that?

I kept my trousers on throughout and was never once tempted to reach for the zipper...he is all over tv here and a borderline public nuisance. I might be wrong but I think they are changing the MD for next year's ceremony.

[bluesoul]

Greenaway has given up making films (to many people's relief) and i agree his ward was a curiosity.

no he hasn't. he's been making films steadily since the (late?) 90s. he just released a film last year and has films ready for the next three years. he also did a mindblowing art show in rome 2 years ago that taught me more about art than my 4 years in college

btw: i don't get the love for 'art of killing'. i found it extremely boring, and it took them forever to start making their stage play. i also hated how they took the first hour or so to tell us everything they did- so i ended up rolling my eyes and thinking "you just couldn't wait to tell us that could you?"

[Stavros]

no he hasn't. he's been making films steadily since the (late?) 90s. he just released a film last year and has films ready for the next three years. he also did a mindblowing art show in rome 2 years ago that taught me more about art than my 4 years in college

btw: i don't get the love for 'art of killing'. i found it extremely boring, and it took them forever to start making their stage play. i also hated how they took the first hour or so to tell us everything they did- so i ended up rolling my eyes and thinking "you just couldn't wait to tell us that could you?"

I cant comment because I know nothing about the film, but I note that in the documentary category it competed against Tim's Vermeer which I think one of the posters on HA was interested in...