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Thursday 3 February 2022

Awards Season 2022: BAFTA Film Awards Nominations


The nominations for the 75th British Academy (BAFTA) Film Awards were announced this afternoon, by Tom Allen (Bake Off: The Professionals, Live At The Apollo) and A.J. Odudu (Big Brother's Bit On The Side, Strictly Come Dancing) at the organisation's newly redeveloped London headquarters, BAFTA195 Piccadilly.

Like last year's announcement, this year's took place at a much more agreeable time of 12:10pm. After a couple of technical issues, and a lot of cringy "banter", nominees in several major categories were announced. 

Here's a selection of the nominees:

BEST FILM
Belfast
Don't Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
After Love
Ali & Ava
Belfast
Boiling Point
Cyrano
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
Last Night in Soho
No Time To Die
Passing

LEADING ACTOR
Adeel Akhtar (Ali & Ava)
Mahershala Ali (Swan Song)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Don't Look Up)
Stephen Graham (Boiling Point)
Will Smith (King Richard)

LEADING ACTRESS 
Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)
Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)
Emilia Jones (CODA)
Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World)
Joanna Scanlan (After Love)
Tessa Thompson (Passing)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mike Faist (West Side Story)
Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)
Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Woody Norman (C’mon C’mon)
Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Caitríona Balfe (Belfast)
Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Ann Dowd (Mass)
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Ruth Negga (Passing)

DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
Audrey Diwan (Happening)
Julia Ducournau (Titane)
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Aleem Khan (After Love)


A full list of nominees in all categories can be found here.

As they did last year, BAFTA had previously announced longlists for all categories, so you can see what was in contention for nominations here

Dune leads the field with 11 nominations across all categories, with The Power Of The Dog in second with 8.

Some interesting omissions- notably Olivia Colman, Andrew Garfield and Kirsten Dunst in the acting categories, and Kenneth Branagh in Best Director- although I don't think this will affect their Oscar chances too greatly. I was happy to see Aaron Sorkin's script for Being The Ricardos recognised in the Best Original Screenplay category, and Everybody's Talking About Jamie in Outstanding British Film. 

The nominees for the 2022 Rising Star award - the only BAFTA awarded by public vote- have also been announced: this year's nominees are Ariana DeBose, Harris Dickinson, Lashana Lynch, Millicent Simmonds, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Find out more about them, and cast your vote here.

The 75th BAFTA Film Awards will be handed out on Sunday 13th March 2022 in an in-person ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall, with Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids) taking hosting duties. 

[Somewhat awkwardly, this is also the date that the rescheduled Critics Choice Awards will also take place.]

Congratulations to all nominees!

We are getting to the sharp end of the awards nominations now, with the Razzies due to announce theirs on Monday (7th February) and the Oscars on Tuesday (8th February).

I'll be making my Oscar nomination predictions as usual; expect them at some point on Monday. 

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