The BAFTA Film Awards nominations were revealed this afternoon in London, with a mix of titles from studios (and their specialty labels), indies and streamers spread out across the field again this year. All nominations are led by Edward Berger’s Conclave which scored 12 total. In the UK, the papal election thriller is released by Black Bear which nabbed a total 15 nods (including three for Sing Sing). Conclave is a Focus title in North America. (Scroll down for scorecards by film and distributor.)
Combined, Focus and parent studio Universal landed a leading 32 nominations as distributor for such movies as The Brutalist (9), Anora (7), Wicked (7), Nosferatu (5), The Wild Robot (3) and Monkey Man (1).
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Netflix had a better showing this year than last, with Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez the second most nominated feature at 11, including Best Film and three nods in the Actress and Supporting Actress categories. Netflix’s other titles vying for BAFTAs are Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (3), Daughters (1) and Will & Harper (1).
Disney is the only other distrib with double-digit nominations at 10, largely from Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan. The movie is up for Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Leading and Supporting Actor (the latter for Edward Norton), Casting and Costume Design. The highest-grossing movie of 2024 globally and in the UK, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2, pops up with two nominations, as does Searchlight’s A Real Pain, while 20th Century’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has one.
Other studios in the field are Warner Bros with eight mentions, including seven for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, and one for documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.
Paramount’s Gladiator II is in with three mentions, though Denzel Washington continues his streak of never being nominated at BAFTA.
Among the UK indies celebrating today are Curzon Artificial Eye with eight nods, two for the animated Latvian title Flow and six for Irish pic Kneecap (both of those films are shortlisted for the International Feature Oscar, though only Kneecap made the BAFTA equivalent category of Film not in the English Language).
Studiocanal has seven nominations for a mix of The Apprentice, Hard Truths and The Outrun; Paddington in Peru was snubbed across the board.
Check out the scorecards below based on today’s nominations.
NOMINATIONS BY FILM
(2 or more)
Conclave – 12
Emilia Pérez – 11
The Brutalist – 9
Anora – 7
Dune: Part Two – 7
Wicked – 7
A Complete Unknown – 6
Kneecap – 6
Nosferatu – 5
The Substance – 5
The Apprentice – 3
Blitz – 3
Gladiator II – 3
Sing Sing – 3
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – 3
The Wild Robot – 3
A Real Pain – 2
Flow – 2
Hard Truths – 2
The Outrun – 2
NOMINATIONS BY DISTRIBUTOR
Universal Pictures & Focus Features – 32
Netflilx – 16
Black Bear – 15
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures – 10
Curzon Artificial Eye – 8
Warner Bros Entertainment – 8
Studiocanal – 7
Mubi – 6
Apple Original Films – 3
Paramount Pictures – 3
Altitude Film Distribution – 2
Doogwoof – 2
Entertainment Film Distribution – 2
Lionsgate International – 2
Vertigo Releasing – 2
BFI Distribution – 1
Modern Films – 1
Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios/Curzon – 1
Picturehouse Entertainment – 1
Sky – 1
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