Damien chouly el, and best actor. It is an escapist musical . It is the film at the moment that is giving people a lift, a bit of sunshine in an ever darkening world is how it has been pitched. And that is interesting because for people who havent seen it, it is so los angeles, so hollywood, steeped in that world, and i think we were interested to see whether the British Academy, a different set of voters from the Academy Awards in the states, from the golden globe is, might not be quite as in thrall to that as an american judge might be. Indeed, but it turns out that the charm of the leads, ryan gosling and emma stone, and the craft of it all, it won for cinematography, those memorable shots of dancing on the freeware, the levitating people in the griffith observatory, the texture of the film, it has kind of one people over, and also the music which is rather an interesting score, because it is not an Old Fashioned musical. Score, because it is not an Old Fashioned musical. People sco