79th BAFTA Film Awards Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ Leads with ‘Sinners’ Close
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another leads the nominations for the 79th BAFTA film Awards 14, just two shy of the record set by Gandhi and on par with previous leaders like All Quiet on the Western Front, Atonement, The King’s Speech and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Along with nominations for Best Film, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Anderson, Supporting Actress for Teyana Taylor and Leading Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio (more on him in a bit), Rising Star nominee Chase Infiniti is nominated for Leading Actress. Infiniti, who was nominated for Critics Choice, the Golden Globe and SAG Actor Award, was snubbed earlier this week by the Oscars, missing a nomination there.
This is DiCaprio’s seventh lead nomination—after The Aviator, The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Revenant (which he won on his way to his first Oscar win), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Don’t Look Up—putting him alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Jack Lemmon, Peter Finch and Dustin Hoffman. At 51, DiCaprio is now the youngest to hit that number, besting Hoffman by one year. Meryl Streep holds the overall record (as she often does) with 12 Best Actress nominations. Across all performance categories, however, Streep and Judi Dench tie with 15 each. At six, Dench is the undisputed queen of wins.
Ryan Coogler’s horror hit Sinners was very close with 13 nominations, the highest for any film by a Black director in BAFTA history, and coming just five days after the film set the all-time Oscar record for most nominations for a single film in Academy history with 16. The film grabbed acting nominations for Michael B. Jordan in Leading Actor and Supporting Actress for Manchester-born Wunmi Mosaku but not a Supporting Actor nod for Delroy Lindo, who stands as the only Oscar nominee this season without a single precursor nomination under his belt.
Next, Hamnet and Marty Supreme both earned 11 nominations, with Timotheé Chalamet returning to BAFTA’s leading actor race for a second year in a row after A Complete Unknown, and Mescal rebounding from his Oscar snub last week. Chloe Zhao’s Shakespeare saga sets the the record for the highest number of BAFTA nominations from a female director.
As is almost every year, BAFTA saves several nominations for its local and more indie fare, not just Oscar frontrunners. I Swear, Pillion and The Ballad of Wallis Island. All found their way into the Outstanding British Film category while I Swear’s Robert Aramayo (also a Rising Star nominee), is nominated for Leading Actor while Carey Mulligan made the cut for Supporting Actress for The Ballad of Wallis Island. All three films made it into the screenplay categories.
As for the snubs, and there always are, Frankenstein missed Best Film while still landing eight nominations, Wicked: For Good scored two nods, for costume and makeup & hair, faring better than its complete shutout at the Oscars. But the biggest miss of the day has to be Amy Madigan for Weapons. After Golden Globe and SAG Actor nominations and winning Critics Choice, missing here in a field of six isn’t a small deal for the veteran actress in the Oscar race.
The 79th BAFTA Film Awards take place on February 22 at London’s Royal Festival Hall, with Alan Cumming on hosting duties. Here is the complete list of nominations.
BEST FILM
“Hamnet” — Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes
“Marty Supreme” — Timothée Chalamet, Anthony Katagas, Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
“One Battle After Another” — Adam Somner, Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson
“Sentimental Value” — Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
“Sinners” — Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
“28 Years Later” — Danny Boyle, Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, Bernard Bellew, Alex Garland
“The Ballad of Wallis Island” — James Griffiths, Rupert Majendie, Tom Basden, Tim Key
“Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” — Michael Morris, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jo Wallett, Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer, Abi Morgan
“Die My Love” — Lynne Ramsay, Martin Scorsese, Jennifer Lawrence, Justine Cirrocchi, Andrea Calderwood, Enda Walsh, Alice Birch
“H Is for Hawk” — Philippa Lowthorpe, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Emma Donoghue
“Hamnet” — Chloé Zhao, Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Speilberg, Sam Mendes, Maggie O’Farrell
“I Swear” — Kirk Jones, Georgia Bayliff, Piers Tempest
“Mr. Burton” — Marc Evans, Ed Talfan, Josh Hyams, Hannah Thomas, Trevor Matthews, Tom Bullough
“Pillion” — Harry Lighton, Emma Norton, Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe
“Steve” — Tim Mielants, Alan Moloney, Cillian Murphy, Max Porter
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
“The Ceremony” — Jack King (Director, Writer), Hollie Bryan (Producer), Lucy Meer (Producer)
“My Father’s Shadow” — Akinola Davies Jr. (Director), Wale Davies (Writer)
“Pillion” — Harry Lighton (Director, Writer)
“A Want in Her” — Myrid Carten (Director)
“Wasteman” — Cal McMau (Director), Hunter Andrews (Writer), Eoin Doran (Writer)
DIRECTOR
“Bugonia,” Yorgos Lanthimos
“Hamnet,” Chloé Zhao
“Marty Supreme,” Josh Safdie
“One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson
“Sentimental Value,” Joachim Trier
“Sinners,” Ryan Coogler
LEADING ACTRESS
Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet”
Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”
Chase Infiniti, “One Battle After Another”
Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”
Emma Stone, “Bugonia”
LEADING ACTOR
Robert Aramayo, “I Swear”
Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”
Jesse Plemons, “Bugonia”
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Odessa A’zion, “Marty Supreme”
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value”
Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners”
Carey Mulligan, “The Ballad of Wallis Island”
Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another”
Emily Watson, “Hamnet”
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Benicio del Toro, “One Battle After Another”
Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”
Paul Mescal, “Hamnet”
Peter Mullan, “I Swear”
Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”
Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value”
CASTING
“I Swear,” Lauren Evans
“Marty Supreme,” Jennifer Venditti
“One Battle After Another,” Cassandra Kulukundis
“Sentimental Value,” Yngvill Kolset Haga and Avy Kaufman
“Sinners,” Francine Maisler
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Frankenstein,” Dan Laustsen
“Marty Supreme,” Darius Khondji
“One Battle After Another,” Michael Bauman
“Sinners,” Autumn Durald Arkapaw
“Train Dreams,” Adolpho Veloso
EDITING
“F1,” Stephen Mirrione
“A House of Dynamite,” Kirk Baxter
“Marty Supreme,” Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
“One Battle After Another,” Andy Jurgensen
“Sinners,” Michael P. Shawver
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“The Ballad of Wallis Island,” Tom Basden and Tim Key
“Bugonia,” Will Tracy
“Hamnet,” Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell
“One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson
“Pillion,” Harry Lighton
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“I Swear,” Kirk Jones
“Marty Supreme,” Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
“The Secret Agent,” Kleber Mendonça Filho
“Sentimental Value,” Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
“Sinners,” Ryan Coogler
COSTUME DESIGN
“Frankenstein,” Kate Hawley
“Hamnet,” Malgosia Turzanska
“Marty Supreme,” Miyako Bellizzi
“Sinners,” Ruth E. Carter
“Wicked: For Good,” Paul Tazewell
PRODUCTION DESIGN
“Frankenstein,” Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau
“Hamnet,” Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton
“Marty Supreme,” Jack Fisk and Adam Willis
“One Battle After Another,” Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino
“Sinners,” Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne
MAKE UP & HAIR
“Frankenstein” — Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Mike Hill, Megan Many
“Hamnet” — Nicole Stafford
“Marty Supreme” — Kyra Panchenko, Kay Georgiou, Mike Fontaine
“Sinners” — Siân Richards, Shunika Terry, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine
“Wicked: For Good” — Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Mark Coulier, Sarah Nuth
ORIGINAL SCORE
“Bugonia,” Jerskin Fendrix
“Frankenstein,” Alexandre Desplat
“Hamnet,” Max Richter
“One Battle After Another,” Jonny Greenwood
“Sinners,” Ludwig Göransson
SOUND
“F1” — Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta
“Frankenstein” — Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitallie, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoem
“One Battle Afte Another” — Jose Antonio Garcia, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor
“Sinners” — Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Felipe Pacheco
“Warfare” — Mitch Low, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, Richard Spooner
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” — Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Eric Saindon
“F1” — Ryan Tudhope, Keith Alfred Dawson, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington
“Frankenstein” — Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell
“How to Train Your Dragon” — Christian Mänz, Francois Lambert, Glen McIntosh, Terry Palmer
“The Lost Bus” — Charlie Noble, Brandon K. McLaughlin, David Zaretti
DOCUMENTARY
“2,000 Meters to Andriivka” — Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath
“Apocalypse in the Tropics” — Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino
“Cover-Up” — Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Olivia Streisand, Yoni Golijev
“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” — David Borenstein, Helle Faber, Radovan Síbrt, Alžběta Karásková
“The Perfect Neighbor” — Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, Sam Bisbee
ANIMATED FILM
“Elio” — Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina, Mary Alice Drumm
“Little Amélie” — Mailys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago, Edwina Liard, Claire Le Combe, Henri Magalon
“Zootropolis 2” — Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
“It Was Just an Accident” — Jafar Panahi, Philippe Martin
“The Secret Agent” — Kleber Mendonça Filho, Emilie Lesclaux
“Sentimental Value” — Joachim Trier, Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
“Sirât” — Oliver Laxe, Domingo Corral
“The Voice of Hind Rajab” — Kaouther Ben Hania, Nadim Cheikhrouha
CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM
“Arco” — Ugo Bienvenu, Félix De Givry, Sophie Mas, Natalie Portman
“Boong” — Lakshmipriya Devi, Ritesh Sidhwani
“Lilo & Stitch” — Dean Fleischer Camp, Jonathan Eirich
“Zootropolis 2” — Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
“Cardboard” — J.P. Vine, Michaela Manas Malina
“Solstice” — Luke Angus
“Two Black Boys in Paradise” — Baz Sells, Dean Atta, Ben Jackson
BRITISH SHORT FILM
“Magid/Zafar” — Luis Hindman, Sufiyaan Salam, Aidan Robert Brooks
“Nostalgie” — Kathryn Ferguson, Stacey Gregg, Marc Robinson, Kath Mattock
“Terence” — Edem Kelman, Noah Reich
“This Is Endometriosis” — Georgie Wileman, Matt Houghton, Harriette Wright
“Welcome Home Freckles” — Huiju Park, Nathan Hendren
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
Robert Aramayo
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling
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