Oppenheimer leads BAFTA nominees
Australian stars Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, and Sophie Wilde all scored acting nods, with Oppenheimer emerging as the film to beat.
Boom! Christopher Nolan has all but bagged his first Best Director BAFTA win.
Oppenheimer, the British filmmaker’s three-hour biopic about the creator of the atomic bomb, boasts the highest number of nominations at this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs). Its box office bestie, Barbie, received a trifling five nominations.
In the Best Picture category, Oppenheimer will go head-to-head against Martin Scorsese’s historical epic Killers of the Flower Moon, Yorgos Lanthimos’s audacious erotic sci-fi Poor Things, Justine Triet’s French-language courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall, and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers — the secret threat of awards season — for Best Picture.
Nolan is in the running for Best Director, an award for which he has been nominated eight times for previous films such as Dunkirk and Inception but has yet to secure a win. Strangely, despite its Best Picture nomination, Poor Things’ mastermind Lanthimos missed out on a best director nod.
Poor Things was the second most nominated film, with 11, including a best-adapted screenplay nomination for Australian playwright Tony McNamara.
Oppenheimer is also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Costume Design, Makeup and Hair, Original Score, Production Design, and Sound — with a Leading Actor nomination for Cillian Murphy and Supporting Actor nominations for Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr.
Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster Barbie was not nominated in the best movie or best director categories, but Australian superstar Margot Robbie secured a nomination for Best Lead Actress. Robbie will compete for the trophy alongside Emma Stone (Poor Things), Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Fantasia Barrino (The Color Purple), Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall), and Vivian Oparah (Rye Lane).
Brisbane boy Jacob Elordi also scored his first awards season nominations for his role as the eyebrow-pierced frat boy Felix Catton in Emerald Fennell’s satire Saltburn. Elordi is up for Best Supporting Actor and the public-voted BAFTA Rising Star Award.
In the Rising Star category, Elordi will compete with Sydney actress Sophie Wilde, who broke out in this year’s Australian horror hit Talk To Me.
The winners of this year’s BAFTAs will be announced on February 18 in a ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London, hosted by David Tennant.
2024 BAFTA Nominees — Full List
Best film
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Outstanding British film
All of Us Strangers
How To Have Sex
Napoleon
The Old Oak
Poor Things
Rye Lane
Saltburn
Scrapper
Wonka
The Zone of Interest
Leading actress
Fantasia Barrino - The Color Purple
Sandra Hüller - Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan - Maestro
Vivian Oparah - Rye Lane
Margot Robbie - Barbie
Emma Stone - Poor Things
Leading actor
Bradley Cooper - Maestro
Colman Domingo - Rustin
Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
Barry Keoghan - Saltburn
Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
Teo Yoo - Past Lives
Supporting actress
Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
Claire Foy - All of Us Strangers
Sandra Hüller - The Zone of Interest
Rosamund Pike - Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
Supporting actor
Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer
Jacob Elordi - Saltburn
Ryan Gosling - Barbie
Paul Mescal - All of Us Strangers
Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers
Director
All of Us Strangers - Andrew Haigh
Anatomy of a Fall - Justine Triet
The Holdovers - Alexander Payne
Maestro - Bradley Cooper
Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan
The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Blue Bag Life
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Earth Mama
How To Have Sex
Is There Anybody Out There?
Film not in the English language
20 Days In Mariupol
Anatomy of a Fall
Past Lives
Society of the Snow
The Zone of Interest
Documentary
20 Days In Mariupol
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
Still: A Michael J Fox Movie
Wham!
Animated film
The Boy and the Heron
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Original screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Maestro
Past Lives
Adapted screenplay
All of Us Strangers
American Fiction
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
EE Bafta rising star award (voted for by the public)
Phoebe Dynevor
Ayo Edebiri
Jacob Elordi
Mia Mckenna-Bruce
Sophie Wilde
Original score
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Casting
All of Us Strangers
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
How To Have Sex
Killers of the Flower Moon
Cinematography
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Costume design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Editing
Anatomy of a Fall
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Production design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Make-up and hair
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Sound
Ferrari
Maestro
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Special visual effects
The Creator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Poor Things
British short film
Festival of Slaps
Gorka
Jellyfish and Lobster
Such a Lovely Day
Yellow
British short animation
Crab Day
Visible Mending
Wild Summon