Ricky Gervais and Christopher Guest both agreed that Guest is funnier than Gevais, Tom Hanks trashed IMDb in front of its founder, and another batch of shiny trophies was handed out at Friday night’s Britannia Awards, one more kudos-fest as awards season revs up.
The Britannia Awards are an enterprise from BAFTA-Los Angeles, the Hollywood arm of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Coming about four months before BAFTA’s big awards, the EE British Academy Film Awards, they are part career-achievement salute, part campaign stop.
This year’s honorees were Gervais, Jodie Foster, Samuel L. Jackson, Felicity Jones, Ang Lee and Ewan McGregor, some of whom have dogs in this year’s awards fight (Jones’ “A Monster Calls,” Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” McGregor’s “American Pastoral”) and some of whom don’t.