BAFTA Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ leads with 13 nominations, ‘Poor Things’ earns 11
Baku, January 19, AZERTAC
Christopher Nolan’s biographical epic Oppenheimer is leading the pack of the 2024 BAFTA film awards nominees, unveiled Thursday, with 13 nominations, with Yorgos Lanthimos’ black-comedy science fantasy Poor Things earning 11, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Oppenheimer, which had earned 15 mentions on the BAFTA longlists unveiled earlier this month, is competing for British Academy honors in such categories as best film, director (for Nolan), adapted screenplay, as well as for best leading actor (Cillian Murphy), best supporting actress (Emily Blunt) and best supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.), among others.
Poor Things is nominated for such honors as best film, outstanding British film (for Lanthimos and others), best adapted screenplay, as well as best leading actress (Emma Stone).
After getting 15 longlist mentions, Martin Scorsese’s Western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon received nine BAFTA nods, including for best film and best supporting actor (Robert De Niro), tying with Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, which is competing for the likes of the best film not in the English language honor and the best supporting actress award. For the latter, German star Sandra Hüller is nominated, and she is also in the running for the best leading actress BAFTA for her role in Anatomy of a Fall.
Justine Triet’s Cannes-winning Anatomy of a Fall, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers and Bradley Cooper’s biographical Leonard Bernstein film Maestro earned seven nominations each; Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers six; and Greta Gerwig’s juggernaut Barbie, which had earned 15 longlist mentions, and Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn received five each.
Across the four performance categories, 11 out of 23 nominees received their first BAFTA film nominations, including Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest), Murphy (Oppenheimer), Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple), Colman Domingo (Rustin), Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers), Jacob Elordi (Saltburn), Vivian Oparah (Rye Lane) and Teo Yoo (Past Lives). Of the 11 first-time nominees, BAFTA said six, or 55 percent, are “ethnically diverse.” In 2023, the British Academy had highlighted 14 first-time nominees in the acting categories, with 40 percent of them from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
Six former BAFTA Rising Star winners are also nominated in the performance categories: Emily Blunt (Rising Star winner 2007), Carey Mulligan (2010), Cillian Murphy (2007), Emma Stone (2011), Margot Robbie (2015) and Barry Keoghan (2019).
Robbie, Stone and Mulligan are among the BAFTA nominees for leading actress. Rounding out the field are Barrino, Hüller and Oparah. Among the names included on the longlist were the likes of Annette Bening and Lily Gladstone.
The final winners of 2024 will be unveiled and presented with their awards at the 77th BAFTA film awards ceremony, taking place Sunday, Feb. 18, at London’s Royal Festival Hall, which will serve as the venue for the second year in a row after several years at Royal Albert Hall. Scottish actor David Tennant (Doctor Who, Inside Man) will host the ceremony.
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