Conclave, which stars British actor Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal overseeing the election of a new pope, leads the BAFTA Film Awards nominations with 12 nods.
The film’s star, Fiennes, is nominated for Best Actor, where he will compete with Adrien Brody for the immigrant story The Brutalist, Timothée Chalamet for the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, and Colman Domingo for Sing Sing, about prisoners who become part of a life story. Theater group.
Hugh Grant is also nominated in this category for the thriller Heretic, for his role as a sociopathic scientist who plays mind games with two Mormon missionaries, and Sebastian Stan scores his first BAFTA nomination for playing Donald Trump before he becomes President of the United States in The Apprentice.
Other nominations for the Conclave include Best Director for German-born director Edward Berger, and a Supporting Actress nomination for Italian-born American star Isabella Rossellini, as well as nominations for Choice Cast, Best Picture, Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay and Cinematography.
In a statement to the PA news agency, All Quiet On The Western Front director Berger praised his “fantastic cast” and said that being a director, and his film Conclave, were full of “doubt”.
He also said, “The only way to achieve this is to be surrounded by a team of like-minded people who bond together to strive for the elusive goal – perfection.”
British writer Peter Straughan, who wrote the script, said he was “thrilled” and described it as “a labor of love from the beginning”.
Netflix’s musical thriller “Emilia Perez”, which revolves around a gender-changing Mexican drug lord and stars American singer and actress Selena Gomez and American star Zoe Saldana, comes in second in terms of nominations with 11 nominations.
These include leading actress nominations for Spanish star Carla Sofía Gascón, who became the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for an acting film at the Golden Globes, while stars Gomez and Saldana will compete in the supporting actress category.
Other nominees for first-time film performance in the leading actress category include British star Cynthia Erivo for the musical The Wizard Of Oz prequel Wicked, Mickey Madison for her role as a stripper who falls in love with the son of a Russian oligarch in Anora, and Hollywood actress Demi Moore for the body horror film The material.
Also competing in the category are British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste for the comedy-drama Hard Truths and American-born Irish actress Saoirse Ronan for The Outrun, the film based on journalist Amy Liptrot’s 2016 memoir about her struggle with alcoholism.
In the supporting actress department is American pop singer Ariana Grande who plays Glinda the Good Witch, an early friend of the green-skinned witch Elphaba (Erivo) in Wicked.
English actress Felicity Jones was also nominated for her role as Brody’s wife in The Brutalist, and Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis in The Last Showgirl, in which Baywatch star Pamela Anderson plays a showgirl who needs to find a new path after her show suddenly ends after three decades. .
While the supporting cast includes two former Succession stars, Kieran Culkin, who played Jesse Eisenberg’s cousin who goes on a journey to reclaim his Jewish grandmother’s past in Poland in A Real Pain, and Jeremy Strong, who played Trump’s former mentor Roy Cohn in The Apprentice. . .
They were nominated alongside Russian actor Yura Borisov for Anora, American actors Clarence MacLean for Sing Sing, Edward Norton for A Complete Unknown, and Australian star Guy Pearce for The Brutalist.
Missing from the supporting actors category is American star Denzel Washington, who appeared on the long list. He was nominated for his role as a bisexual sidekick and owner of gladiators in Sir Ridley Scott’s film Gladiator II, but did not make it to the shortlist.
For Best Picture, the Nominations frontrunner Conclave will compete with Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown and Emilia Perez.
Also receiving a string of nominations were Anora, the sci-fi film Dune: Part Two, starring Chalamet as the son of a prominent family who leads a rebellion against an alien empire, and Wicked, which all received seven nods, and the biopic A Complete Unknown and the comedy-drama Kneecap with six. Nominations.
There are also five nominations for Nosferatu, based on the 1922 horror film of the same name which was scheduled to be destroyed after a copyright case was brought by the family of Irish writer and Dracula creator Bram Stoker, and The Substance – which sees Moore portray a fitness trainer TV physicality. Who seeks to become young again with mysterious injections after being fired from her job.
Films nominated for Best Picture include: Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave and Emilia Perez, with most of these films also competing in the Best Director category.
Among the first-time directors nominated in the directing category are Sean Baker for Anora, Brady Corbett for The Brutalist, and Coralie Farget for The Substance, while Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two and Jacques Audiard also received nominations. About his movie. Emilia Perez.
The Outstanding British Film category is once again filled with nominations, with blockbuster Gladiator II earning one of the three nods, while competing with the BBC’s Christmas blockbuster Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, which sees the return of evil penguin Feathers MacGraw From the Oscar-winning short. The Wrong Trousers, The Outrun, Kneecap, and Sir Steve McQueen’s WWII film Blitz, starring Ronan.
Other nods include “Lee” starring Kate Winslet as a journalist covering World War II on the front line, the romantic thriller “Love Lies Bleeding” about a reclusive bodybuilder and gym manager who falls in love, and the family drama “Bird” directed by Barry Keoghan , and “Hard Truths”. which sees Jean-Baptiste as a working-class woman with anger issues.
Bafta chairwoman Sarah Bott told the newspaper the list of nominations was a “fantastic variety”, with horror films, comedies, sci-fi and musicals all receiving nods.
The EE Bafta Film Awards, hosted by star David Tennant, take place at the Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Center in central London on Sunday 16 February.
The event will be broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer.
