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Ben Affleck’s “Argo” won the BAFTA awards for Best Picture tonight, pretty much securing its Oscar hold on the similar award. Daniel Day Lewis won Best Actor for “Lincoln,” Emmanuelle Riva won Best Actress for “Amour,” Anne Hathaway won Best Supporting Actress for “Les Miz,” and Christoph Waltz took Best Supporting Actor for “Django Unchained.”

The James Bond hit “Skyfall” was Best British Picture. Affleck also won Best Director. If the Motion Picture Academy writes Affleck’s name on their ballots, he can win here too. But he’s not on the ballot.

Riva is not likely win in the US either, where Jennifer Lawrence has the lead. The Brits didn’t really get “Silver Linings Playbook” because of the American football theme.

Roger Friedman

Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News. Friedman previously wrote the Intelligencer column at New York Magazine, He writes for Parade magazine and has written for Details, Vogue, the New York Times, Post, and Daily News and many other publications. He is the writer and co-producer of a film about R&B Music called “Only the Strong Survive,” which was released by Miramax in 2003 and was a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals.