Awards Season 2018: BAFTA Film Awards Nominations

It was an early start to the day for some, as this year's BAFTA Film Awards nominees were announced at 7:30am this morning (9th January) by Natalie Dormer and Letitia Wright.

Here's a selection of the nominees:

BEST FILM

Call Me By Your Name

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape Of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

Darkest Hour

The Death Of Stalin

God's Own Country

Lady Macbeth

Paddington 2

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

LEADING ACTOR

Jamie Bell (Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool)

Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name)

Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)

Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)

Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)

LEADING ACTRESS

Annette Bening (Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool)

Sally Hawkins (The Shape Of Water)

Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Margot Robbie (I, Tonya)

Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)

Hugh Grant (Paddington 2)

Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Christopher Plummer (All The Money In The World)

Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Allison Janney (I, Tonya)

Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread)

Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)

Kristin Scott Thomas (Darkest Hour)

Octavia Spencer (The Shape Of Water)

DIRECTOR

Guillermo del Toro (The Shape Of Water)

Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name)

Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)

Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049)

A full list of nominees can be found here.

The Shape Of Water leads the field with 12 nominations, whilst Darkest Hour and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri have 9 apiece.

Whilst there's a lot of the usual names been mentioned here, there's always a British slant to the BAFTAs which means it can often buck the trends of the American-based awards bodies; that's why the nods for Lesley Manville, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jamie Bell might seem surprising at first (but actually aren't that radical; well, maybe Hugh Grant's is). There's also the issue of eligibility due to release- for example, two of the nominees for Film Not In The English Language (Elle and The Salesman) were nominated for many awards last year but not the BAFTA. It may be that films like Mudbound and Downsizing (who have had several nominations throughout this awards season) weren't shown in time to make them eligible. Besides, always good to shake things up a bit, and I'm glad to see Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool get some awards love as it was a superb film. 


This year's EE Rising Star nominees are Timothee Chalamet, Daniel Kaluuya, Josh O'Connor, Florence Pugh and Tessa Thompson. This award is voted on by the general public and you can vote for your favourite here.

The BAFTA Film Awards will be handed out on Sunday 18th February at the Royal Albert Hall, with Joanna Lumley taking up the mantle of host (as Stephen Fry has stepped down after 12 years in the role). 

Congratulations to all nominees!




Thursday (11th January) sees the announcement of the Directors' Guild Awards (DGA) and also the Critics' Choice Awards ceremony, so there'll be a post about that on Friday (12th January).