Emma won the Best Actress BAFTA but lost the Oscar to Susan Sarandon in Dead Man Walking - I haven't seen that for a while but would still contend Emma should have won it. And whilst the Academy gave her the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, BAFTA instead awarded John Hodge for Trainspotting, another robbery. Emma's screenplay (and possibly Miss Austen's novel) is a masterclass in dramatic irony.
Michael Coulter's photography is great, and I don't just mean the 'pretties'. For example there's a scene where Emma gets out of bed with a candle and walks down a corridor and you can see it's not just the candle that's providing the light but lots of other subtle flourishes of lighting - very clever. He was BAFTA and Oscar nominated but lost to John Toll for Braveheart.
Hugh Grant's hesitancy when entering a room kept making me laugh.
I love the scene where Emma and Gemma are talking and the camera tracks back down a corridor where a curtain is being blown in by the wind - I don't think we can see the women any more - and they stop talking, and the camera just stays there for a second longer than you think it will.
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