Conclave, featuring British actor Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal overseeing the election of a new pope, tops the BAFTA Film Awards nominations with twelve nods.
Conclave, Emilia Perez, and The Brutalist Lead BAFTA Film Awards Nominations
Fiennes is nominated for Best Leading Actor, competing against Adrien Brody for “The Brutalist,” Timothee Chalamet for the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” and Colman Domingo for “Sing Sing,” a film about prisoners joining a theatre group.
Hugh Grant is also in the running for Best Leading Actor for his role in the thriller “Heretic,” where he plays a manipulative scholar targeting two Mormon missionaries. Sebastian Stan earns his first BAFTA nomination for portraying Donald Trump in “The Apprentice.”
“Conclave” further secures nominations for Best Director (Edward Berger), Supporting Actress (Isabella Rossellini), casting, Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay, and Cinematography. Director Berger praised his “wonderful crew” and emphasized the theme of “doubt” in his work, highlighting the importance of a dedicated team striving for perfection. British writer Peter Straughan, the screenplay author, described the project as a “labor of love from the beginning.”
Netflix’s musical thriller “Emilia Perez,” about a Mexican drug lord who transitions genders and starring Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana, is the second most nominated film with eleven nominations. This includes a Best Leading Actress nod for Karla Sofia Gascon, the first transgender actress to receive such recognition at the Golden Globes. Gomez and Saldana will compete in the Supporting Actress category.
Other first-time nominees in the Leading Actress category include Cynthia Erivo for “Wicked,” Mikey Madison for “Anora,” and Demi Moore for “The Substance.” Competing alongside them are Marianne Jean-Baptiste for “Hard Truths” and Saoirse Ronan for “The Outrun.”
In the Supporting Actress category, Ariana Grande is nominated for her role in “Wicked,” alongside Felicity Jones for “The Brutalist” and Jamie Lee Curtis for “The Last Showgirl.”
The Supporting Actor category features Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong, along with Yura Borisov, Clarence Maclin, Edward Norton, and Guy Pearce. Notably absent is Denzel Washington, who was longlisted but did not make the shortlist for his role in “Gladiator II.”
For Best Film, “Conclave” leads against “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown,” and “Emilia Perez.” Other films with multiple nominations include “Dune: Part Two,” “Wicked,” “Kneecap,” “Nosferatu,” and “The Substance.”
Directing nominations include Sean Baker for “Anora,” Brady Corbet for “The Brutalist,” Coralie Fargeat for “The Substance,” Denis Villeneuve for “Dune: Part Two,” and Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Perez.”
The Outstanding British Film category features “Gladiator II,” “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” “The Outrun,” “Kneecap,” and “Blitz,” along with nominations for “Lee,” “Love Lies Bleeding,” “Bird,” and “Hard Truths.”
Notably absent from the BAFTA nominations were Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman for “Babygirl,” and “Paddington In Peru.”
In the Best Actor category, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, and Dev Patel were not nominated, although Patel received recognition for his directorial work on “Monkey Man.”
BAFTA chairwoman Sara Putt praised the diverse range of genres represented in the nominations. The EE BAFTA Film Awards Nomination, hosted by David Tennant, will take place at the Royal Festival Hall in London on February 16 and will be broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer.
source: news.yahoo