BAFTA to announce nominations in surprise awards race

The BAFTA nominations will be announced on Wednesday, the latest milestone in an unpredictable awards season that has produced many surprises.

The British Academy’s shortlist is likely to be a strong Oscar indicator. Last year, the winners of the top six categories matched exactly between the two ceremonies.

Enrollment Follow last week’s Golden Globe AwardsSpanish-language musical Emilia Pérez won the most awards, and Demi Moore boosted her chances in the best actress race for body horror The Substance.

The BAFTA Film Awards, hosted by David Tennant, will take place at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 16 February.

There is currently no consensus on who will ultimately win best picture at this year’s Oscars on March 2 in Los Angeles.

The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, Anora, Conclave and Wicked have been nominated by different pundits for the top prize. These five currently have a possible path to victory.

The BAFTA shortlists come a week after the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nominations, In which Wicked’s strong performance was seen And a surprise nod to Pamela Anderson for her role as an aging Las Vegas stripper in The Last Showgirl.

The long lists of the British Academy, from which nominees will be selected, It was announced earlier this month,

They included most of this year’s leading men but with a few notable omissions, like Angelina Jolie and Golden Globe winner Fernanda Torres. failed to make paddington in peru New kids and family movie category.

But the fact that the longlist has already been released doesn’t mean there won’t be any surprises when the final nominations are announced.

Emilia PerezThe Spanish-language musical about a Mexican cartel leader who leaves the world of crime to live a new life as a trans woman leads the BAFTAs after a long list of mentions.

It was closely followed conclaveAn adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel about a gossiping and scheming group of cardinals who gather in Rome to elect a new Pope, and a complete unknown, which follows Bob Dylan’s rise to fame in the 1960s.

brutalistabout a Hungarian architect who is hired by a wealthy American after World War II, and Substance, which depicts a woman taking a black-market drug to make herself appear younger and more beautiful, also features prominently in the long list.

Blockbuster films also joined him WickedElphaba’s origin story from The Wizard of Oz, and the sandy sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Two.

Anorawhich follows the whirlwind romance of a young couple who meet in a strip club, and gladiator iiThe long list also included several times the grandson of a former Roman emperor being forced into slavery.

The BAFTAs have six nomination slots available in each acting category, one more than the Oscars, meaning there’s extra room for some fun surprises.

Strong Bafta prospects among best actress frontrunners semi-swamp (The Substance) for his role as a TV aerobics instructor whose relevance is fading, and carla sofia gascon (Emilia Perez) to play a newly converted woman who used to be a drug dealer.

There are other death certificates Cynthia Erivo (Wicked) for her role as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and mickey madison (Anora), to play a New York stripper who falls in love with the son of a rich Russian.

But there is still a possibility of nomination for those on the long list Marianne Jean-Baptiste (harsh truth), for her performance as an angsty woman struggling with depression, and Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun) to play a young alcoholic who returns to Scotland.

Kate Winslet (Lee) The role of journalist Lee Miller can also make a place in this category. amy adams (nightbitch) and nicole kidman (Baby girl). a nomination for Marisa Abella, For the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, there will be a special surprise.

Meanwhile, the Best Actor category has been widely closed down by contenders adrien brody (The Brutalist) for his role as an architect from Budapest building a new life in America, and timothy chalamet (a complete unknown) for its portrayal of a young Bob Dylan and the conflict between his love of folk music and rock’n’roll.

colman domingo (Sing Sing) may be recognized for playing a prison inmate who enrolls in a performing arts program sebastian stan (The Apprentice) may be nominated for portraying Donald Trump in his early years as a real estate tycoon.

British pioneers include Daniel Craig (Queer), who plays a gay man who ventures into the woods in search of a plant with telepathic properties, and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), a Cardinal who oversees the race to elect a new Pope.

But don’t bet on it being behind one or two outsiders like BAFTA Hugh Grant (heretics), Dev Patel (Monkey Man), kingsley ben adir (Bob Marley: One Love) and Jude Law (Firebrand). All are British, and if any of them were going to make a surprise nomination, Bafta would be the place where it would happen.

Meanwhile, leaders in supporting categories are likely to feature such as zoe saldana (Emilia Perez), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Kieran Culkin (a real pain) and Yura Borisov (Anora).

But the supporting actor race is particularly focused on whether denzel washington (Gladiator II) will be nominated. Despite a decades-long career and nine Oscar nods for acting (including two wins), Washington has never been nominated for a BAFTA.

A few years ago, BAFTA changed the voting system in some of its major categories in an effort to increase diversity.

came after this No ethnic minority actors were nominated in 2020, Margot Robbie, a white actress, was also nominated twice for two different films.

The jury system introduced the following year meant that members’ votes determined only two of the six slots in the acting categories, while the jury decided the other four.

The resulting 2021 shortlists were certainly more diverse, but they were also wildly out of line with the rest of awards season (though the eventual winners roughly matched the Oscars).

BAFTA continued to use the jury system in the following years, although the number of places determined by the jury was reduced to three.

However, things have changed this year.

Although the jury helped compile this year’s longlist, the final nominations for most major categories such as acting awards are now determined entirely by BAFTA members.

As a result, nominations are more likely to be similar to other ceremonies, with fewer outliers shortlisted than in recent years.

The BAFTA nominations will be announced by Mia McKenna Bruce and Will Sharp from BAFTA’s headquarters in central London at 12:00 GMT.

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