Amid Award Season, we have just had the announcement of the nominations of the Bafta 2024 Nominations, 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 in the Bafta 2024 nominations.
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
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
Read Joseph’s recent Golden Globes Recap
