BAFTA 2024 NOMINATIONS:



Amid Award Season, we have just had the announcement of the nominations of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, set to be televised on February 18th at the London Royal Festival Hall. Oppenheimer leads the event with 18 nominations. The epic biopic of Robert Oppenheimer famously blasted the box office and is now dominating the award season, having garnered Nolan his first Golden Globe. Now, we can only hope that the director of The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception and Dunkirk will take Best Director for the first time at the BAFTAs as well. Murphy also hopes for success after receiving his first-ever BAFTA nomination (and about time too) for his career-best performance in portraying the titular Oppenheimer, whilst his co-stars, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr., have also received nominations.


Not too far behind is Poor Things where Emma Stone, having already won at the Globes and Critics' Choice for her hypnotic performance, hopes for gold on British soil as well (she already had the accent down for a start). Barbie, Oppenheimer’s rival in the 2023 sensation, Barbenhiemer, found itself on the shelf for Best Film and Director. In total, it only received five nominations, including a well-deserved nomination for Ryan Gosling. For me, the worst of the snubs was Lily Gladstone and her exceptional performance in Killers of the Flower Moon, even after achieving a historic victory at the Globes. The historical crime drama from Martin Scorsese received an otherwise impressive total of nine nods. 

Here are the following nominations:


Best Film

Anatomy of A Fall

The Holdovers

Killers of The Flower Moon

Oppenheimer 

Poor Things

 

Best Director

Andrew Haigh, All of Us Stranger

Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall

Alexander Payne, The Holdovers

Bradley Cooper, Maestro

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest

 

Leading Actor

Bradley Cooper, Maestro

Colman Domingo, Rustin

Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers 

Barry Keoghan, Saltburn

Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

Teo Yoo, Past Lives

 

Leading Actress

Fantasia Barrino, The Colour Purple

Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of A Fall

Carey Mulligan, Maestro

Vivian Oparah, Rye Lane

Margot Robbie, Barbie

Emma Stone, Poor Things 

 

Supporting Actor

Robert De Niro, Killers of The Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer 

Jacob Elordi, Saltburn

Ryan Gosling, Barbie

Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers

Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

 

Supporting Actress

Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks, The Colour Purple

Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers

Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest

Rosamund Pike, Saltburn

Da'vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers 

 

Original Screenplay

Anatomy of a Fall 

Barbie

The Holdovers

Maestro

Past Lives

 

Adapted Screenplay

All of Us Strangers

American Fiction

Oppenheimer 

Poor Things

The Zone of Interest

 

Animated Film

The Boy and The Heron 

Chicken Run: Dawn of The Nugget

Elemental

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

 

Outstanding British Film

All Of Us Strangers

How To Have Sex

Napoleon

The Old Oak

Poor Things

Rye Lane

Saltburn

Scrapper (my pick)

Wonka

The Zone of Interest

 

Film Not in the English Language

20 Days In Mariupol

Anatomy of a Fall

Past Lives

Society of the Snow

The Zone of Interest

 

Outstanding Debut

Blue Bag Life

Bobi Wine: The People's President

Earth Mama

How To Have Sex

Is There Anybody Out There?

 

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer

Lisa Selby, Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, Alex Fry

Christopher Sharp

Savanah Leaf, Shirley O'Connor, Medb Riordan

Molly Manning Walker

Ella Glendining


British Short Animation

Crab Day

Visible Mending

Wild Summon

 

 

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