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\nBAFTA Nominations: Barbie underperformed with only five nominations, while the director category shut out Martin Scorsese, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Greta Gerwig.
\nThe BAFTA nominations yesterday shook up the awards race with some surprising inclusions and omissions. In recent years, the BAFTAs have not been a very accurate predictor of the Oscars, but they have been indicative of the final results.
\nLeonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon, He did not get a BAFTA nomination in Best Actor category.
\nThe BAFTAs have a somewhat convoluted way of picking nominees in the directing and acting races.
\nAfter the top two or three (depending on the race) vote-getters are ascertained, there are juries in place that will select the rest of the nominees for each of those categories.
\nThis makes the results a little difficult to parse, but that doesn\u2019t stop anyone from speculating.
\nThe BAFTAs had been criticised locally in the past for not being \u201cBritish\u201d enough.
\nAfter a review in 2020, the Academy took steps to rectify that with measures like jury intervention in major races, the introduction of \u2018viewing groups\u2019 (where each voting member is given a group of 15 films that they are encouraged to watch before voting), as well as multiple British-only categories – allowing for movies like All of Us Strangers, Rye Lane, and How to Have Sex to shine.
\nSurprise – Best Director
\nThis category was full of shockers. Even though he was unlikely to win, it\u2019s notable Martin Scorsese was snubbed for Killers of the Flower Moon. Yorgos Lanthimos was also shut out even though Poor Things landed 11 nominations. Most surprisingly, Greta Gerwig wasn\u2019t nominated here in spite of Barbie being shot and produced in the United Kingdom. Two of those spots were taken by Andrew Haigh for All of Us Strangers, and Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest, both British filmmakers. And the surprise nomination here was Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall, the only woman director in the category.
\nLily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon.
\nSnub – Killers of the Flower Moon
\nIt\u2019s more than a little odd to say that a movie with nine nominations (the third-highest haul this year) was snubbed, but here we are. Scorsese didn\u2019t get a nomination. Neither did Leonardo DiCaprio in lead, but he also wasn\u2019t nominated for the SAG Awards. At this point, it\u2019s safe to assume he\u2019s not going to get an Oscar nomination. Most shockingly, Oscar frontrunner and Golden Globe winner Lily Gladstone was snubbed by the BAFTAs. This is a major blow, considering her closest rival, Emma Stone, was nominated and will likely win.
\nRyan Gosling and Margot Robbie in Barbie. (Film still)
\nSnub – Barbie
\nLooks like the Barbenheimer train has decoupled; Oppenheimer is surging ahead with 13 nominations, while Barbie landed only five nominations in spite of being on 15 longlists. Importantly, the doll movie was left out of the Picture and Directing races, despite many considering those categories to be locks for the biggest movie of the year. Greta Gerwig went from a potential triple nomination to just one for Original Screenplay with partner Noah Baumbach. It\u2019s been a slow but steady decline for Barbie\u2019s fortunes in the last couple of weeks. But consider that both the Globes and BAFTAs are \u2018international\u2019 compared to the Oscars, so all hope is not lost yet.
\nSurprise – Sandra H\u00fcller
\nGerman actress Sandra H\u00fcller landed an impressive double nomination – Lead Actress for Anatomy of a Fall and Supporting Actress for The Zone of Interest. Double nominations are rare but not impossible. That being said, H\u00fcller is the first double nominee for films not in the English language. There\u2019s been a growing trend in the last few years favouring foreign films in major categories outside the \u2018Foreign Film\u2019 ghetto. H\u00fcller could be a beneficiary of that trend, with a potential historic double nomination next week at the Oscars as well.
\nThe BAFTA ceremony will be held on February 18, streaming on Lionsgate Play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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