Oppenheimer and Poor Things lead BAFTA nominations

18^th January 2024

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The editorial unit

18 January 2024

In a remarkable year for cinema, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things have emerged as frontrunners in this year’s BAFTA race, scooping up 13 and 11 nominations respectively. They are closely followed by Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, each securing nine nods. This year’s BAFTA nominations highlight a diverse range of talent and stories, showcasing the best in film over the past year, with a total of 38 films shortlisted. 

The ten films with the most nominations are:

• 13 nominations for Oppenheimer
• 11 nominations for Poor Things
• Nine nominations for Killers of the Flower Moon and The Zone of Interest
• Seven nominations for Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers and Maestro
• Six nominations for All of Us Strangers
• Five nominations for Barbie and Saltburn

The following films also nominated include:

• Four nominations for Napoleon
• Three nominations for How to Have Sex and Past Lives
• Two nominations for 20 Days in Mariupol, The Color Purple, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Rye Lane and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• One nomination for each of the following: American Fiction, American Symphony, Beyond Utopia, Blue Bag Life, Bobi Wine: The People’s President, The Boy And The Heron, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, The Creator, Earth Mama, Elemental, Ferrari, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Is There Anybody Out There? The Old Oak, Rustin, Scrapper, Society of the Snow, Still: A Michael J Fox Movie, Wham! and Wonka

• The following British shorts were nominated: Crab Day, Visible Mending, Wild Summon, Festival of Slaps, Gorka, Jellyfish and Lobster, Such A Lovely Day, and Yellow

11 out of 23 nominees in the performance categories have received their first BAFTA Film nomination, including Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest), Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer), Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple), Colman Domingo (Rustin), Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers), Jacob Elordi (Saltburn), Vivian Oparah (Rye Lane), and Teo Yoo (Past Lives).

Alongside this year’s EE Rising Star nominee Jacob Elordi, six former EE Rising Stars are nominated: Emily Blunt (2007), Carey Mulligan (2010), Cillian Murphy (2007), Emma Stone (2011), Margot Robbie (2015) and Barry Keoghan (2019).

In the Best Director category, four of the six are first-time Director nominees: Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest), Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers), Alexander Payne (The Holdovers), and Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall). None of the Director nominees are previous winners in this category.

Three directors in the 2023-4 BAFTA Breakthrough cohort are nominated in addition to Vivian Oparah. Raine Allen-Miller (Rye Lane) and Charlotte Regan (Scrapper) in Outstanding British Film, and Ella Glendining (Is Anybody Out There?) in Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.

Jane Millichip, CEO of BAFTA, said: “The films and talented people nominated represent some of the most talked about films of the year, the most critically acclaimed, and films yet to be released and discovered by audiences,” while Sara Putt, Chair of BAFTA, said: “There are so many talented people both in front of, and behind the camera involved in bringing every BAFTA-nominated film to life and we look forward with excitement to celebrating their skill and creativity.” Anna Higgs, Chair of BAFTA Film Committee, also said of the shortlisted films: “From complex moral issues through to joyful journeys of self-discovery, they all ultimately explore human connection, which is why we go to the cinema: to be transported into new worlds, to laugh, cry, to be entertained and to be challenged. The films nominated today deliver all that and more.”

The nominees for the EE Rising Star Award were announced on 10^th January as Phoebe Dynevor, Ayo Edebiri, Jacob Elordi, Mia McKenna-Bruce and Sophie Wilde. It is the only award voted for by the British public and it is presented annually to a performer who has demonstrated exceptional talent early in their careers.  Voting is now open at ee.co.uk/bafta.

Actors Naomi Ackie and Kingsley Ben-Adir announced the nominations via a live broadcast from BAFTA 195 Piccadilly in London earlier today.

The winners will be announced on 18^th February from the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, as part of an unmissable celebration of film hosted by David Tennant.  

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The winners will be announced on Sunday 18^th February on BBC1 and iPlayer and @BAFTA.

See the full list of nominees below: