After two years of misery for cinemas, backing a film that was overwhelmingly watched in living rooms feels like a pointed choice. But Bafta’s 7,000 or so voting members, drawn from all areas of the British film industry, were also notable boosters of Netflix in 2018, when they awarded Best Film to Alfonso Cuarón’s monochrome cine-memoir Roma. Famously, two weeks later the Oscars went a different path, and veered towards Green Book. 

The Power of the Dog’s biggest Bafta rival was thought to be another elegiac black-and-white auto-biopic, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, though in the end Branagh’s period piece had to make do with just one award, Outstanding British Film. It was one of a number of films to find itself unexpectedly usurped by CODA, a coming-of-age comedy about a teenager trying to reconcile her musical ambitions with her responsibilities at her deaf parents’ fishing business. 

That made good on two of its three nominations: Kotsur in Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay, as mentioned above. Time to plan a cinema trip and catch up with this dark horse? Err, no: that one comes to us courtesy of Apple TV.