Preview:
- ‘Conclave’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ are leading the BAFTA nomination pack.
- ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘A Complete Unknown’ also nabbed nominations.
- The awards will be handed out on February 16th in London.
As the tragic wildfires continue to wreak havoc across Hollywood award bodies, with nomination announcements and ceremonies delayed or cancelled, the UK’s British Academy of Film and Television Arts is pushing ahead with their own annual celebration.
The nominations for this year’s BAFTA film awards have been announced, and it’s a good year for ‘Conclave’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ in particular, which were nominated for 12 and 11 awards respectively.
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Beyond the big two, there was also good news for movies such as ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Anora,’ ‘Wicked’ and ‘A Complete Unknown,’ which have cropped up on a variety of other lists so far and are all expected to scoop various trophies once awards season can truly progress.
And this being the UK, there are naturally some categories that don’t crop up elsewhere, spotlighting British talent (which explains why Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz,’ which hasn’t exactly been grabbing up nominations, saw more love here.
What are the snubs and surprises of this year’s ‘BAFTA’ Film Awards?
While ‘Gladiator II’ has had a hard time cracking nomination lists, we were surprised to see Denzel Washington shut out of the Supporting Actor line-up.
Luca Guadagnino’s duo ‘Queer’ and ‘Challengers’ were both Golden Globe nominated, including for leads Daniel Craig and Zendaya, but neither made the cut today. Both had made the BAFTA longlist.
‘Paddington in Peru,’ meanwhile, the third film in the beloved bear franchise, had the biggest opening for a British film since 2021 and has made a whopping $43M in the UK, but reviews weren’t as favorable as the first two films in the series and the movie couldn’t secure a BAFTA nom even despite the new kids and family category this year.
Both previous ‘Paddington‘ movies received multiple BAFTA nominations.
The BAFTA Awards this year will be held at the Royal Festival Hall in London on February 16th, hosted once more by former ‘Doctor Who’ actor David Tennant.
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Here’s the full list of nominees:
BEST FILM
- ‘Anora’
- ‘The Brutalist’
- ‘A Complete Unknown’
- ‘Conclave’
- ‘Emilia Pérez’
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
- ‘Bird’
- ‘Blitz’
- ‘Conclave’
- ‘Gladiator II’
- ‘Hard Truths’
- ‘Kneecap’
- ‘Lee’
- ‘Love Lies Bleeding’
- ‘The Outrun’
- ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
- ‘Hoard,’ Luna Carmoon (Director, Writer)
- ‘Kneecap,’ Rich Peppiatt (Director, Writer)
- ‘Monkey Man,’ Dev Patel (Director)
- ‘Santosh,’ Sandhya Suri (Director, Writer), James Bowsher (Producer), Balthazar de Ganay (Producer) [also produced by Alan McAlex, Mike Goodridge]
- ‘Sister Midnight,’ Karan Kandhari (Director, Writer)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- ‘All We Imagine as Light’
- ‘Emilia Pérez’
- ‘I’m Still Here’
- ‘Kneecap’
- ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’
DOCUMENTARY
- ‘Black Box Diaries’
- ‘Daughters’
- ‘No Other Land’
- ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeves Story‘
- ‘Will & Harper’
ANIMATED FILM
- ‘Flow’
- ‘Inside Out 2’
- ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’
- ‘The Wild Robot’
CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM
- ‘Flow’
- ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’
- ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’
- ‘The Wild Robot’
DIRECTOR
- ‘Anora,’ Sean Baker
- ‘The Brutalist,’ Brady Corbet
- ‘Conclave,’ Edward Berger
- ‘Dune: Part Two,’ Denis Villeneuve
- ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Jacques Audiard
- ‘The Substance,’ Coralie Fargeat
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- ‘Anora,’ Sean Baker
- ‘The Brutalist,’ Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
- ‘Kneecap,’ Writer Rich Peppiatt, Story by Rich Peppiatt, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, JJ Ó Dochartaigh
- ‘A Real Pain,’ Jesse Eisenberg
- ‘The Substance,’ Coralie Fargeat
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- ‘A Complete Unknown,’ James Mangold and Jay Cocks
- ‘Conclave,’ Peter Straughan
- ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Jacques Audiard
- ‘Nickel Boys,’ RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
- ‘Sing Sing,’ Screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Story by Clint Bentley,
Greg Kwedar, Clarence ‘Divine Eye’ Maclin, John ‘Divine G’ Whitfield
LEADING ACTRESS
- Cynthia Erivo, ‘Wicked’
- Karla Sofía Gascón, ‘Emilia Pérez’
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste, ‘Hard Truths’
- Mikey Madison, ‘Anora’
- Demi Moore, ‘The Substance’
- Saoirse Ronan, ‘The Outrun’
LEADING ACTOR
- Adrien Brody, ‘The Brutalist’
- Timothée Chalamet, ‘A Complete Unknown’
- Colman Domingo, ‘Sing Sing’
- Ralph Fiennes, ‘Conclave’
- Hugh Grant, ‘Heretic’
- Sebastian Stan, ‘The Apprentice’
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Selena Gomez, ‘Emilia Pérez’
- Ariana Grande, ‘Wicked’
- Felicity Jones, ‘The Brutalist’
- Jamie Lee Curtis, ‘The Last Showgirl’
- Isabella Rossellini, ‘Conclave’
- Zoe Saldaña, ‘Emilia Pérez’
SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Yura Borisov, ‘Anora’
- Kieran Culkin, ‘A Real Pain’
- Clarence Maclin, ‘Sing Sing’
- Edward Norton, ‘A Complete Unknown’
- Guy Pearce, ‘The Brutalist’
- Jeremy Strong, ‘The Apprentice’
CASTING
- ‘Anora,’ Sean Baker, Samantha Quan
- ‘The Apprentice,’ Stephanie Gorin, Carmen Cuba
- ‘A Complete Unknown,’ Yesi Ramirez
- ‘Conclave,’ Nina Gold, Martin Ware
- ‘Kneecap,’ Carla Stronge
CINEMATOGRAPHY
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- ‘The Brutalist,’ Lol Crawley
- ‘Conclave,’ Stéphane Fontaine
- ‘Dune: Part Two,’ Greig Fraser
- ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Paul Guilhaume
- ‘Nosferatu,’ Jarin Blaschke
EDITING
- ‘Anora,’ Sean Baker
- ‘Conclave,’ Nick Emerson
- ‘Dune: Part Two,’ Joe Walker
- ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Juliette Welfling
- ‘Kneecap,’ Julian Ulrichs, Chris Gill
COSTUME DESIGN
- ‘Blitz,’ Jacqueline Durran
- ‘A Complete Unknown,’ Arianne Phillips
- ‘Conclave,’ Lisy Christl
- ‘Nosferatu,’ Linda Muir
- ‘Wicked,’ Paul Tazewell
MAKE-UP & HAIR
- ‘Dune: Part Two,’ Love Larson, Eva Von Bahr
- ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier, Jean-Christophe Spadaccini, Romain Marietti
- ‘Nosferatu,’ David White, Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton
- ‘The Substance,’ Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, Frédérique Arguello, Marilyne Scarselli
- ‘Wicked,’ Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Sarah Nuth
ORIGINAL SCORE
- ‘The Brutalist,’ Daniel Blumberg
- ‘Conclave,’ Volker Bertelmann
- ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Camille, Clément Ducol
- ‘Nosferatu,’ Robin Carolan
- ‘The Wild Robot,’ Kris Bowers
PRODUCTION DESIGN
- ‘The Brutalist,’ Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia
- ‘Conclave,’ Suzie Davies, Cynthia Sleiter
- ‘Dune: Part Two,’ Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau
- ‘Nosferatu,’ Craig Lathrop
- ‘Wicked,’ Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales
SOUND
- ‘Blitz,’ John Casali, Paul Cotterell, James Harrison
- ‘Dune: Part Two,’ Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Gareth John, Richard King
- ‘Gladiator II,’ Stéphane Bucher, Matthew Collinge, Paul Massey, Danny Sheehan
- ‘The Substance,’ Valérie Deloof, Victor Fleurant, Victor Praud, Stéphane Thiébaut, Emmanuelle Villard
- ‘Wicked,’ Robin Baynton, Simon Hayes, John Marquis, Andy Nelson, Nancy Nugent Title
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
- ‘Better Man,’ Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs
- ‘Dune: Part Two,’ Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Gerd Nefzer, Rhys Salcombe
- ‘Gladiator II,’ Mark Bakowski, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny, Pietro Ponti
- ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,’ Erik Winquist, Rodney Burke, Paul Story, Stephen Unterfranz
- ‘Wicked,’ Pablo Helman, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner, Anthony Smith
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
- ‘Adiós,’ José Prats, Natalia Kyriacou, Bernardo Angeletti
- ‘Mog’s Christmas,’ Robin Shaw, Joanna Harrison, Camilla Deakin, Ruth Fielding
- ‘Wander to Wonder,’ Nina Gantz, Stienette Bosklopper, Simon Cartwright, Maarten Swart
BRITISH SHORT FILM
- ‘The Flowers Stand, Silently Witnessing,’ Theo Panagopoulos, Marissa Keating
- ‘Marion,’ Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine, Marija Djikic
- ‘Milk,’ Miranda Stern, Ashionye Ogene
- ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors,’ Franz Böhm, Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer
- ‘Stomach Bug,’ Matty Crawford, Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
- Marisa Abela
- Jharrel Jerome
- David Jonsson
- Mikey Madison
- Nabhaan Rizwan
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