One Battle After Another leads Bafta nominations with 14 nods

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another heads Tuesday’s Bafta nominations with 14 nods, narrowly ahead of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, which received 13 nominations. Marty Supreme and Hamnet each picked up 11 nominations, while Frankenstein and Sentimental Value earned eight apiece.

British Tourette comedy I Swear received five nominations, including a best actor nod for Robert Aramayo; The Ballad of Wallis Island and Pillion took three apiece. Sinners, which last week became the first film reported to secure 16 Oscar nominations, was beaten at Bafta despite its strong awards-season showing.

There were few shock snubs, in part because Bafta’s acting shortlists include six names. Wicked: For Good won costume and hair and makeup nods but missed acting mentions for Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Other A-listers who failed to make acting shortlists included Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love), George Clooney (Jay Kelly), Sydney Sweeney (Christy), Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine) and Julia Roberts (After the Hunt).

Leonardo DiCaprio is described as the second favourite for best actor after Marty Supreme’s Timothée Chalamet; his seventh mention in the category ties an all-time Bafta record shared with Michael Caine, Daniel Day-Lewis, Peter Finch, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Lemmon and Laurence Olivier, and the piece says he appears the most likely of that group to break the record.

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Culture, Bafta, Sinners, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Robert Aramayo