Cate Blanchett has been on a roll this awards season for her performance as a morally questionable conductor in the character study “TÁR,” and now she’s the front-runner to win Best Actress at the BAFTA Awards on February 19. But can Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) come from behind?

These are the first major industry peer group awards to announce winners for acting, so the results here could be highly consequential to the upcoming Oscars. Remember that Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”) and Anthony Hopkins (“The Father”) won here on their way to Oscar upsets. So it’s significant that Blanchett has a substantial lead in our predictions for Best Actress. All of the Experts who have made their predictions as of this writing are predicting Blanchett, as are most of Gold Derby’s Editors, our Top 24 Users, and our All-Star Top 24.

SEEExperts slugfest: BAFTA and DGA winner predictions — plus,...