Margot Robbie has been nominated for Best Actress at the Bafta Awards.
Margot Robbie has been nominated for Best Actress at the Bafta Awards.
The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the Bafta Film Awards, has released this year’s nominations and it seems one award show favourite has fallen short. Barbie.
While Oppenheimer leads the nominations with 13 nods, Barbie has come in receiving only five despite having 15 places when thelonglists were announced earlier this month. These include Margot Robbie up for Best Actress, Original Screenplay, Costume Design and Production Design, as well as a Best Supporting Actor nod for Ryan Gosling.
Elsewhere, Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan could be set to secure his first win in nine nominations when he contends for the Best Director prize at next month’s ceremony, while the atomic bomb saga is also up for the coveted Best Film prize, as well as securing places on the shortlists for the Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Costume Design, Make-up and Hair, Original Score, Production Design, and Sound categories.
Barbie has only received five nominations at this year's Bafta Awards.
In addition, Cillian Murphy is nominated for Leading Actor, and co-stars Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt are up for Supporting Actor and Actress respectively.
Following Oppenheimer is Poor Things, which scooped 11 nominations including for Best Film and Best Actress for Emma Stone, who will compete against Robbie (Barbie), Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall), Fantasia Barrino (The Color Purple) and Vivian Oparah (Rye Lane). Golden Globe winner Lily Gladstone’s performance in Killers of the Flower Moon is a notable absence in that category.
Joining Oppenheimer and Poor Things in the Best Film category are Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, and Killers of the Flower Moon, while Best Director has just one female nominee, Anatomy of a Fall filmmaker Justine Trier, who will contest for the prize alongside Nolan, Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest), Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers), Maestro’s Bradley Cooper - who is also up for Leading Actor - and Alexander Payne (The Holdovers), none of whom have ever won the award in the past.
Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. Photo / Universal Pictures
Joining Murphy and Cooper in the Leading Actor category will be Barry Keoghan (Saltburn), The Holdovers actor Paul Giamatti - who has already won Golden Globe and Critics Choice awards for the role - Colman Domingo for Rustin, and Teo Yoo for Past Lives.
The ceremony will take place at the Southbank Centre in London on February 18, hosted by David Tennant.
