BAFTAs 2018: 7 Ups & 6 Downs

2. Best Special Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049 Beats War For The Planet Of The Apes

BAFTAs 2018 Blade Runner 2049
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Ironic it is that while Blade Runner 2049 was sorely robbed of the Best Production Design BAFTA, it also robbed another movie of an award that seemed like it should've been a total lock.

War for the Planet of the Apes has been leading the charge in the visual effects category ever since its release and will most certainly scoop the equivalent Oscar, but BAFTA gave it to the - admittedly incredibly impressive - VFX work in Blade Runner 2049 instead.

It's interesting that BAFTA has nominated all three recent Apes movies but not given any of them the award outright, which is especially suspicious considering it lost to the objectively inferior Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in 2012. British bias clearly prevails.

Seriously, though, what the hell does BAFTA have against these movies?

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