Oppenheimer stars as Cillian Murphy
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” leads this year’s BAFTA Film Award nominations with a total of 13 films.
Among them is one by Cillian Murphy for his role as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist described as the father of the atomic bomb.
Oppenheimer’s summer box office rival, Barbie, received five nominations, matching the hit drama Saltburn.
Elsewhere, Poor Things received 11 nods, while Killers of the Flower Moon and The Zone of Interest each received nine nods.
The most prominent candidates
- 13- Oppenheimer
- 11- The poor
- 9 – Moonflower Killers and Area of Interest
- 7 – Anatomy of the Fall, Adherents and Maestro
- 6- We are all strangers
- 5- Barbie and Saltburn
Battle of Barbenheimer
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Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling were nominated for acting awards, but Barbie did not take home the award for Best Picture
Nolan’s three-hour epic Oppenheimerwhich has already won eight Critics’ Choice Awards and five Golden Globes, and is nominated for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay, among other honors.
The film’s star, Murphy, said: “I couldn’t be happier that the British Academy has recognized many of my Oppenheimer collaborators, especially Chris Nolan. Working on the film was an experience I will never forget.”
Robert Downey Jr He was also nominated for his supporting role and is the favorite to win an Oscar.
However, despite being the highest-grossing film of 2023 and receiving great reviews, Barbieabout a doll’s feminist awakening, missed out on a Best Picture nomination.
Greta Gerwig failed to make the Best Director shortlist, which included only one woman. Justin Treat To dissect a fall.
Barbie’s nominations included Best Actress Margot Robbie And Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling.
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Paul Mescal (right) was nominated for All of Us Strangers, but co-star Andrew Scott missed out
Other nominated directors include the British director Andrew Hay We are all strangers Jonathan Glazer to the area of interest.
Area of interest It was also nominated for Best British Film and Best Adapted Screenplay. The German-language film follows the life of a Nazi commandant who lives with his family near the Auschwitz concentration camp.
We are all strangersa romantic fantasy film for which he received an acting nomination Paul MescalAlthough his co-star Andrew Scott was absent from the film.
The film is also nominated for Outstanding British Film, alongside Wonka And Napoleon.
What other actors have been nominated?
Bradley Cooper was nominated for Best Actor and Best Director
Bradley Cooper He was nominated for Best Lead Actor and Director Artist, band leaderhis biography of American commander Leonard Bernstein.
The film follows Bernstein’s relationship with actress Felicia Montealegre, who plays her Carey Mulliganwhich is competing for the Best Leading Actress award.
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Barry Keoghan plays a student at Saltburn’s Oxford University
Saltburn‘s Barry Keoghan He was also shortlisted for Best Actor, and Rosamund Pike And Jacob Al-Wardi They received nominations for their supporting roles.
Emerald Fennell’s psychological thriller was also nominated for Outstanding British Film.
The story revolves around a wealthy college student who takes a friend home for the summer, and has drawn backlash for its explicit scenes.
Elordi was also nominated for the EE Bafta Rising Star Award, which recognizes promising young talent.
Other nominees in the Best Actor category are Teo yo for past life, Coleman Domingo Rustin W Paul Giamatti For detainees.
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Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, is an Oscar-nominated film
In the list of leading actress, Emma Stone She was nominated for her role in Bad things.
Stone plays Bella, a woman brought back to life using her unborn child’s brain by an unconventional scientist.
But despite the film receiving 11 nominations, Yorgos Lanthimos missed out on the Best Director award.
German actress Sandra Holler She has two nominations – one for Lead Actress in Anatomy of a Fall and one for Supporting Actress in Area of Interest.
Another candidate for lead actress is Vivian Opara British romantic comedy Ray Lynn. This is the first time she has been nominated for a BAFTA award.
Among other first-time nominees Fantasia Barrino And Danielle Brooks For a new musical film version of Alice Walker’s classic 1982 novel The Color Purple, and Davin Joy Randolph And Dominic Sessaboth for detainees.
Who missed?
Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio are both absent from nominations for Killers of the Flower Moon
Moonflower Killers He has nine nominations, including one for Robert De Niro In the supporting actor category, the star’s first nomination in 33 years. The 80-year-old American actor has never won a BAFTA award.
But the epic film’s director, Martin Scorsese, lead actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, and lead actress, Lily Gladstone, all failed to achieve success.
In January, Gladstone won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, making her the first Indigenous actress to win the award, and among the Oscar nominees.
The British film One Life, which stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as a stockbroker who helped rescue 669 children from the Nazis in World War II, was not nominated.
The 2024 BAFTA Film Awards will be held on February 18 at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Center in London. The event will be hosted by David Tennant.