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.