EE BAFTA Nominations: ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Poor Things’ Lead, ‘Saltburn,’ ‘Maestro,’ ‘All of Us Strangers’ Rise While ‘Barbie’ Falls

BAFTA today announced the nominations for the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards and to one one’s surprise Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer rose to the top with 13 nominations (although somehow missing Casting), followed closely by Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things with 11 and Killers of the Flower Moon and The Zone of Interest with nine apiece. Actors Naomi Ackie and Kingsley Ben-Adir announced the nominations via a live broadcast from BAFTA 195 Piccadilly in London.

But the morning didn’t come without some stunning surprises and snubs, too. While Killers entered the nomination voting stage with 15 longlist mentions the Martin Scorsese Osage epic missed out on Director, Leading Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, Leading Actress for Lily Gladstone and Adapted Screenplay. Gladstone recently won the Golden Globe for Lead Actress – Drama. Poor Things, right behind with 14 longlist mentions saw huge snubs for Lanthimos in Director and both Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe in Supporting Actor. The two actors have been inconsistent in their precursor gets with Ruffalo showing up at Critics Choice and the Globes and Dafoe making the cut at Critics Choice and SAG.

But the biggest blow today was dealt to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Coming in strong with 15 longlist mentions, it left nomination morning with just five. No Best Picture or Director but still managing nods for Original Screenplay (it will compete in Adapted at the Oscars), Leading Actress for Margot Robbie and Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling.

The strange case of All of Us Strangers today was a headscratcher. The ghostly gay drama managed to turn 10 longlist mentions into six nominations, a good ratio, including Best Director and Adapted Screenplay for Andrew Haigh, Best Supporting Actor for Paul Mescal and Best Supporting Actress for Claire Foy yet somehow Andrew Scott missed out on Leading Actor.

Bradley Cooper’s Maestro pulled off seven nominations this morning, the best showing for Netflix, including Director, Leading Actor and Original Screenplay for Cooper and Leading Actress for Carey Mulligan. Also coming in with seven nods were Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, both landing Best Film and Best Director nominations. Anatomy also earned a Leading Actress spot for Sandra Hüller (also nominated in Supporting Actress for The Zone of Interest) and The Holdovers grabbed three acting mentions: Paul Giamatti for Leading Actor, Supporting Actress for Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Supporting Actor for Dominic Sessa.

Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn staged a mini comeback with its five nominations, including Leading Actor for Barry Keoghan, Supporting Actress for Rosamund Pike and Supporting Actor for Jacob Elordi. The film also earned nods for Original Score and Outstanding British Film.

Two Netflix films, May December and Nyad, came up empty-handed after a smattering of Golden Globe, Critics Choice and Screen Actors Guild mentions.

11 out of 23 nominees in the performance categories have received their first BAFTA Film nomination, including Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall andThe Zone of Interest), Cillian 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).

“The 38 films nominated by BAFTA voters today span an extraordinary range of genres and stories.  The field this year is incredibly strong. More films were entered, making the selection process particularly tough for our voting members. The films and talented people nominated represent some of the most talked about films of the year, the most critically acclaimed, and films yet to be released and discovered by audiences. With a month to go until the EE BAFTAs on 18 February, we encourage film fans everywhere to watch as many nominated films as possible and find out more about the people who make them by listening to our new official podcast, Countdown to the BAFTAs, which is available widely on podcast platforms from today,” said Jane Millichip, CEO of BAFTA.

The winners will be announced on February 18 from the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, as part of an unmissable celebration of film hosted by David Tennant.     

The EE BAFTA Film Awards will be broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK, on BritBox International in USA, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway and South Africa, as well as BBC Australia and Britbox in Australia, NOVA Bulgaria, NOVA Greece, Turner Spain, and Canal Plus. With more territories to be confirmed.

The EE BAFTA Film Awards voting takes place over three rounds: Longlisting, Nominations and Winners, by BAFTA’s global voting membership, comprising over 7,800 creatives and film industry practitioners. Latest demographic information on BAFTA’s membership is here.    

• BAFTA announced the longlists of films and talent (culmination of Round One voting which began on December 8, 2023 to 29 December 29 2023) here.
• Round Two voting determines the nominations, unveiled today.
• The final, third voting round opens tomorrow, January 19, to determine the winners.
• Round Three is voted for by the full film voting BAFTA membership, and its opt-in chapters or juries.
• More information can be found here on BAFTA’s voting processes.

Here is the complete list of nominations for 77th EE BAFTA Film Awards.

Best Film

Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Director

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall

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 Color 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 Color Purple
Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers
Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Original Screenplay

Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer, Maestro
Celine Song, Past Lives

Adapted Screenplay

Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest

Outstanding British Film

All of Us Strangers
How to Have Sex
Napoleon
The Old Oak
Poor Things
Rye Lane
Saltburn
Scrapper
Wonka
The Zone of Interest

Animated Film

The Boy and the Heron
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Documentary

20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Wham!

Film Not in the English Language

20 Days in Mariupol
Anatomy of a Fall
Past Lives
Society of the Snow
The Zone of Interest

Casting

Kahleen Crawford, All of Us Strangers
Cynthia Arra, Anatomy of a Fall
Susan Shopmaker, The Holdovers
Isabella Odoffin, How to Have Sex
Ellen Lewis and Rene Haynes, Killers of the Flower Moon

Cinematography

Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
Matthew Libatique, Maestro
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Łukasz Żal, The Zone of Interest

Editing

Laurent Sénéchal, Anatomy of a Fall
Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Poor Things
Paul Watts, The Zone of Interest

Production Design

Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, Barbie
Jack Fisk and Adam Willis, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ruth De Jong and Claire Kaufman, Oppenheimer
Shona Heath, James Price, & Zsuzsa Mihalek, Poor Things
Chris Oddy, Joanna Maria Kuś, & Katarzyna Sikora, The Zone of Interest

Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran, Barbie
Jacqueline West, Killers of the Flower Moon
Dave Crossman and Janty Yates, Napoleon
Ellen Mirojnick, Oppenheimer
Holly Waddington, Poor Things

Make Up & Hair

Killers of the Flower Moon (Kay Georgiou, Thomas Nellen)
Maestro (Sian Grigg, Kay Georgiou, Kazu Hiro, Lori McCoy-Bell)
Napoleon (Jana Carboni, Francesco Pegoretti, Satinder Chumber, Julia Vernon)
Oppenheimer (Luisa Abel, Jaime Leigh McIntosh, Jason Hamer, Ahou Mofid)
Poor Things (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, Josh Weston)

Original Score

Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Anthony Willis, Saltburn
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Sound

Ferrari (Angelo Bonanni, Tony Lamberti, Andy Nelson, Lee Orloff, Bernard Weiser)
Maestro (Richard King, Steve Morrow, Tom Ozanich, Jason Ruder, Dean Zupancic)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Chris Burdon, James H. Mather, Chris Munro, Mark Taylor)
Oppenheimer (Willie Burton, Richard King, Kevin O’Connell, Gary A. Rizzo)
The Zone of Interest (Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers)

Special Visual Effects

The Creator (Jonathan Bullock, Charmaine Chan, Ian Comley, Jay Cooper)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Theo Bialek, Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Neil Corbould, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland, Alex Wuttke)
Napoleon (Henry Badgett, Neil Corbould, Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet)
Poor Things (Simon Hughes)

British Short Animation

Crab Day (Ross Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek, Aleksandra Sykulak)
Visible Mending (Samantha Moore, Tilley Bancroft)
Wild Summon (Karni Arieli, Saul Freed, Jay Woolley)

British Short Film

Festival of Slaps (Abdou Cissé, Cheri Darbon, George Telfer)
Gorka (Joe Weiland, Alex Jefferson)
Jellyfish and Lobster (Yasmin Afifi, Elizabeth Rufai)
Such a Lovely Day (Simon Woods, Polly Stokes, Emma Norton, Kate Phibbs)
Yellow (Elham Ehsas, Dina Mousawi, Azeem Bhati, Yiannis Manolopoulos)

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

Blue Bag Life – Lisa Selby (Director), Rebecca Lloyd-Evans (Director, Producer), Alex Fry (Producer)
Bobi Wine: The People’s President – Christopher Sharp (Director) [also directed by Moses Bwayo]
Earth Mama – Savanah Leaf (Writer, Director, Producer), Shirley O’Connor (Producer), Medb Riordan (Producer)
How to Have Sex – Molly Manning Walker (Writer, Director)
Is There Anybody Out There? – Ella Glendining (Director)

BAFTA Rising Star

Phoebe Dynevor
Ayo Edebiri
Jacob Elordi
Mia McKenna-Bruce
Sophie Wilde