The nominations for the 77th British Academy Film Awards are out! David Tennant will host the 2024 Bafta Film Awards on Sunday 18 February at the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Leading the contenders for Best Film is Poor Things, an outrageous comic romp from director Yorgos Lanthimos.
Poor Things is also up for Outstanding British Film, but otherwise this category gives a chance of glory to UK movies that might consider themselves unlucky not to be listed for the big prize. Nominated are Ridley Scott’s historical barnstormer How to Have Sex also earns a place on the list.
As for those top acting prizes, Cillian Murphy heads up the Leading Actor race for his turn in Oppenheimer. Barry Keoghan, winner of Best ing Actor last year, tries to go one better with his eyebrow-raising performance in Past Lives.
The likely winner of Leading Actress comes from a film that has otherwise been ignored in the major categories: Fantasia Barrino in musical literary adaptation Barbie, the ingenious toy spin-off that helped Oppenheimer to become a hit by being released on the same day, spawning the “Barbieheimer” phenomenon, gets its biggest nod here with a nomination for Margot Robbie. Emma Stone (Poor Things), Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall) and Vivian Oparah (Rye Lane) complete the line-up. Sandra Hüller pulls off a very rare feat by being nominated for both Leading and ing Actress in the same year: there she is again in the latter category for her work in The Zone of Interest.
Films overlooked in the main acting categories include wicked satire 20 Days in Mariupol - is nominated for Film Not in the English Language.
Finally, don’t forget the nominations for Animated Film: shortlisted there are Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse.
See below for your full guide to where the Bafta nominees are streaming!
