So with the Golden Globe awards done and dusted BAFTA were next to announce their nominations with Joanna Lumley replacing Stephen Fry who has stepped down from presenting duties. Leading is The Shape of Water with 12 nominations followed by Darkest Hour with nine nominations, including best film, and Blade Runner 2049 with eight nominations, including a best director berth for Denis Villeneuve (and not before time!) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, also has nine nominations and is building quite a following after its four Golden Globe wins and would appear to be the favourite with the bookmakers for the Best Picture Oscar.
However there are some noticeable omissions. Unusually The Post has been completely ignored extremely rare for a Steven Spielberg film. Judi Dench has been overlooked for Victoria & Abdul and Isabelle Huppert should have received a best actress nomination for Elle as the film was nominated in the foreign-language category. Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig was overlooked in the best director category and female directors are omitted from the best director category for a fifth year in a row and only two of 14 nominated writers are women . Downsizing is Alexander Payne’s first film since 1999 comedy Election not to get a single Bafta nomination. Just as surprising is the acclaimed UK drama God’s Own Country, which won four BIFAs, missed out on a nomination for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer. An unsurprisingly and exasperatingly once again Andy Serkis sterling work in motion capture performance is ignored yet again! Come on BAFTA, give the guy a break!!!
The Bafta ceremony will take place on Feb 18 at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
BEST FILM
- CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito, Peter Spears
- DARKEST HOUR Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski
- DUNKIRK Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
- THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale
- THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
- DARKEST HOUR Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski
- THE DEATH OF STALIN Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader, Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenou, Ian Martin, David Schneider
- GOD’S OWN COUNTRY Francis Lee, Manon Ardisson, Jack Tarling
- LADY MACBETH William Oldroyd, Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, Alice Birch
- PADDINGTON 2 Paul King, David Heyman, Simon Farnaby
- THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
- THE GHOUL Gareth Tunley (Writer/Director/Producer), Jack Healy Guttman & Tom Meeten (Producers)
- I AM NOT A WITCH Rungano Nyoni (Writer/Director), Emily Morgan (Producer)
- JAWBONE Johnny Harris (Writer/Producer), Thomas Napper (Director)
- KINGDOM OF US Lucy Cohen (Director)
- LADY MACBETH Alice Birch (Writer), William Oldroyd (Director), Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (Producer)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- ELLE Paul Verhoeven, Saïd Ben Saïd
- FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER Angelina Jolie, Rithy Panh
- THE HANDMAIDEN Park Chan-wook, Syd Lim
- LOVELESS Andrey Zvyagintsev, Alexander Rodnyansky
- THE SALESMAN Asghar Farhadi, Alexandre Mallet-Guy
DOCUMENTARY
- CITY OF GHOSTS Matthew Heineman
- I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO Raoul Peck
- ICARUS Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan
- AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
- JANE Brett Morgen
ANIMATED FILM
- COCO Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson
- LOVING VINCENT Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Ivan Mactaggart
- MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE Claude Barras, Max Karli
DIRECTOR
- BLADE RUNNER 2049 Denis Villeneuve
- CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Luca Guadagnino
- DUNKIRK Christopher Nolan
- THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro
- THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Martin McDonagh
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- GET OUT Jordan Peele
- I, TONYA Steven Rogers
- LADY BIRD Greta Gerwig
- THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor
- THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Martin McDonagh
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- CALL ME BY YOUR NAME James Ivory
- THE DEATH OF STALIN Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, David Schneider
- FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL Matt Greenhalgh
- MOLLY’S GAME Aaron Sorkin
- PADDINGTON 2 Simon Farnaby, Paul King
LEADING ACTRESS
- ANNETTE BENING Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
- FRANCES McDORMAND Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- MARGOT ROBBIE I, Tonya
- SALLY HAWKINS The Shape of Water
- SAOIRSE RONAN Lady Bird
LEADING ACTOR
- DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Phantom Thread
- DANIEL KALUUYA Get Out
- GARY OLDMAN Darkest Hour
- JAMIE BELL Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
- TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET Call Me by Your Name
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- ALLISON JANNEY I, Tonya
- KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Darkest Hour
- LAURIE METCALF Lady Bird
- LESLEY MANVILLE Phantom Thread
- OCTAVIA SPENCER The Shape of Water
SUPPORTING ACTOR
- CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER All the Money in the World
- HUGH GRANT Paddington 2
- SAM ROCKWELL Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- WILLEM DAFOE The Florida Project
- WOODY HARRELSON Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
ORIGINAL MUSIC
- BLADE RUNNER 2049 Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer
- DARKEST HOUR Dario Marianelli
- DUNKIRK Hans Zimmer
- PHANTOM THREAD Jonny Greenwood
- THE SHAPE OF WATER Alexandre Desplat
CINEMATOGRAPHY
- BLADE RUNNER 2049 Roger Deakins
- DARKEST HOUR Bruno Delbonnel
- DUNKIRK Hoyte van Hoytema
- THE SHAPE OF WATER Dan Laustsen
- THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Ben Davis
EDITING
- BABY DRIVER Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss
- BLADE RUNNER 2049 Joe Walker
- DUNKIRK Lee Smith
- THE SHAPE OF WATER Sidney Wolinsky
- THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Jon Gregory
PRODUCTION DESIGN
- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
- BLADE RUNNER 2049 Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
- DARKEST HOUR Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
- DUNKIRK Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
- THE SHAPE OF WATER Paul Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, Shane Vieau
COSTUME DESIGN
- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Jacqueline Durran
- DARKEST HOUR Jacqueline Durran
- I, TONYA Jennifer Johnson
- PHANTOM THREAD Mark Bridges
- THE SHAPE OF WATER Luis Sequeira
MAKE UP & HAIR
- BLADE RUNNER 2049 Donald Mowat, Kerry Warn
- DARKEST HOUR David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick, Kazuhiro Tsuji
- I, TONYA Deborah La Mia Denaver, Adruitha Lee
- VICTORIA & ABDUL Daniel Phillips
- WONDER Naomi Bakstad, Robert A. Pandini, Arjen Tuiten
SOUND
- BABY DRIVER Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater
- BLADE RUNNER 2049 Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Mark Mangini, Mac Ruth
- DUNKIRK Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, Mark Weingarten
- THE SHAPE OF WATER Christian Cooke, Glen Gauthier, Nathan Robitaille, Brad Zoern
- STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
- BLADE RUNNER 2049 Gerd Nefzer, John Nelson
- DUNKIRK Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson
- THE SHAPE OF WATER Dennis Berardi, Trey Harrell, Kevin Scott
- STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Nominees tbc
- WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Nominees tbc
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
- HAVE HEART Will Anderson
- MAMOON Ben Steer
- POLES APART Paloma Baeza, Ser En Low
BRITISH SHORT FILM
- AAMIR Vika Evdokimenko, Emma Stone, Oliver Shuster
- COWBOY DAVE Colin O’Toole, Jonas Mortensen
- A DROWNING MAN Mahdi Fleifel, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Patrick Campbell
- WORK Aneil Karia, Scott O’Donnell
- WREN BOYS Harry Lighton, Sorcha Bacon, John Fitzpatrick
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
- DANIEL KALUUYA
- FLORENCE PUGH
- JOSH O’CONNOR
- TESSA THOMPSON
- TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET
