Christopher Nolan’s eponymous biopic about the creator of the atom bomb, Oppenheimer, is continuing to lead the charge during Awards Season, picking up a pack-leading 13 nominations at the BAFTA film awards.
Fresh from taking 8 Critics Choice Awards last weekend, a week after dominating the Golden Globes, the film that came second to Barbie during the summer box office contest, dubbed Barbenheimer, has set itself up as the film to beat.
The leads of both films, Cillian Murphy and Margot Robbie, are among the nominees, but Barbie’s director Greta Gerwig and the film itself missed out in the contests for the top awards – Best Director and Best Film, where Oppenheimer will face off against Alexander Payne’s bitter-sweet The Holdovers, Yorgos Lanthimos’ baroque horror Poor Things, Justine Triet’s French drama Anatomy of a Fall and Martin Scorsese’s native American epic, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Scorsese himself has missed out on a directing nomination, with Nolan, Payne and Triet up against The Zone of Interest’s Jonathan Glazer, Andrew Haigh, who made All of Us Strangers, and Maestro’s Bradley Cooper, who’s also in the running for the Best Actor prize, alongside Murphy, The Holdovers’ Paul Giamatti and Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan, among others.
Killers of the Flower Moon also missed out on nominations for its leads, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, who won their respective categories at the Golden Globes, although veteran Robert De Niro is up for best supporting actor. He’ll face competition from the front-runner in the Oscar race, Oppenheimer’s Robert Downey Jr and Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi, who’s also among the nominees for the Rising Star Award, which is voted for by the public.
Ticking all the usual BAFTA boxes – One Life, a British holocaust film starring Sir Anthony Hopkins – failed to pick up any nominations, while the British-directed but German language The Zone of Interest came away with nine – including the German actress Sandra Hüller, in the supporting actress category. She’s also nominated as the lead in Anatomy of a Fall, alongside Maestro’s Carey Mulligan and Emma Stone for Poor Things. Other nominees for the supporting actress BAFTA include Saltburn’s Rosamund Pike and The Holdovers’ Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who picked up the Golden Globe in the category.
The 2024 film BAFTAs will be handed out in a month’s time at the Royal Festival Hall, at a ceremony hosted by the former Doctor Who star David Tennant.
The winners will be voted for by members of the British Film and Television Academy, from the following full list of nominees:
Best film
- Anatomy of a Fall
- The Holdovers
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
Outstanding British film
- All of Us Strangers
- How To Have Sex
- Napoleon
- The Old Oak
- Poor Things
- Rye Lane
- Saltburn
- Scrapper
- Wonka
- The Zone of Interest
Leading actress
- Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple
- Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
- Carey Mulligan – Maestro
- Vivian Oparah – Rye Lane
- Margot Robbie – Barbie
- Emma Stone – Poor Things
Leading actor
- Bradley Cooper – Maestro
- Colman Domingo – Rustin
- Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
- Barry Keoghan – Saltburn
- Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
- Teo Yoo – Past Lives
Supporting actress
- Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
- Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
- Claire Foy – All of Us Strangers
- Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest
- Rosamund Pike – Saltburn
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Supporting actor
- Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon
- Robert Downey Jr – Oppenheimer
- Jacob Elordi – Saltburn
- Ryan Gosling – Barbie
- Paul Mescal – All of Us Strangers
- Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
Director
- All of Us Strangers – Andrew Haigh
- Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet
- The Holdovers – Alexander Payne
- Maestro – Bradley Cooper
- Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan
- The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
- Blue Bag Life
- Bobi Wine: The People’s President
- Earth Mama
- How To Have Sex
- Is There Anybody Out There?
Film not in the English language
- 20 Days In Mariupol
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Past Lives
- Society of the Snow
- The Zone of Interest
Documentary
- 20 Days In Mariupol
- American Symphony
- Beyond Utopia
- Still: A Michael J Fox Movie
- Wham!
Animated film
- The Boy and the Heron
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
- Elemental
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Original screenplay
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Barbie
- The Holdovers
- Maestro
- Past Lives
Adapted screenplay
- All of Us Strangers
- American Fiction
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
- The Zone of Interest
EE Bafta rising star award (voted for by the public)
- Phoebe Dynevor
- Ayo Edebiri
- Jacob Elordi
- Mia Mckenna-Bruce
- Sophie Wilde
Original score
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
- Saltburn
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Casting
- All of Us Strangers
- Anatomy of a Fall
- The Holdovers
- How To Have Sex
- Killers of the Flower Moon
Cinematography
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Maestro
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
- The Zone of Interest
Costume design
- Barbie
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Napoleon
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
Editing
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
- The Zone of Interest
Production design
- Barbie
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
- The Zone of Interest
Make-up and hair
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Maestro
- Napoleon
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
Sound
- Ferrari
- Maestro
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
- Oppenheimer
- The Zone of Interest
Special visual effects
- The Creator
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
- Napoleon
- Poor Things
British short film
- Festival of Slaps
- Gorka
- Jellyfish and Lobster
- Such a Lovely Day
- Yellow
British short animation
- Crab Day
- Visible Mending
- Wild Summon
The top nominees
- 13 nominations – Oppenheimer
- 11 – Poor Things
- 9 – Killers of the Flower Moon and The Zone of Interest
- 7 – Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers and Maestro
- 6 – All of Us Strangers
- 5 – Barbie and Saltburn