The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA announced the nominees in key categories for the upcoming 72nd edition of the award show, which is often dubbed as the British Oscars. The Hollywood award season recently started with the Golden Globe awards, which concluded over the weekend where Bohemian Rhapsody, film on Queen and its frontman Freddie Mercury's meteoric rise in the music industry, baffled everyone by winning the coveted Best Film (Drama) prize. It defeated this season's favourite A Star Is Born headlined by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (also the film's director). For BAFTA, Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star Is Born will compete in seven categories along with First Man and Roma.
However, Yorgos Lanthimos' period piece, The Favourite, leads nomination with 12 nods including Best Film, Outstanding British Film and Best Director. Olivia Colman is also nominated for Leading Actress for her role as Queen Anne, and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are both nominated for Supporting Actress.
Lady Gaga will compete with Olivia Colman in Best Actress category for her role in A Star Is Born, which is also nominated in Best Actor, Best Director, Original Music and Best Film categories. At the Globes, Lady Gaga picked the Best Original Song award.
Here are nominations in key categories:
BEST FILM
Blackkklansman
The Favourite
Roma
A Star Is Born
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Beast
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
McQueen
Stan & Ollie
You Were Never Really Here
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Daniel Kokotajlo, Apostasy
Michael Pearce (Writer/Director) and Lauren Dark (Producer), Beast
Chris Kelly, A Cambodian Spring
Leanne Welham (Writer/Director) and Sophie Harman (Producer), Pili
Richard Billingham (Writer/Director) and Jacqui Davies (Producer) Ray & Liz
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Capernaum
Cold War
Dogman
Roma
Shoplifters
DOCUMENTARY
Free solo
Mcqueen
RBG
They Shall Not Grow Old
Three Identical Strangers
ANIMATED FILM
Incredibles 2
Isle Of Dogs
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
DIRECTOR
Spike Lee, Blackkklansman
Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Cold War
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
Vice
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Blackkklansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born
LEADING ACTRESS
Glenn Close, The Wife
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Melissa Mccarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Viola Davis, Widows
LEADING ACTOR
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Christian Bale, Vice
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Steve Coogan, Stan & Ollie
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, Vice
Claire Foy, First Man
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Margot Robbie, Mary Queen of Scots
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice
Timothee Chalamet, Beautiful Boy
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Terence Blanchard, Blackkklansman
Nicholas Britell, If Beale Street Could Talk
Alexandre Desplat, Isle Of Dogs
Marc Shaiman, Mary Poppins Returns
Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson, A Star Is Born
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Newton Thomas Sigel, Bohemian Rhapsody
Lukasz Zal, Cold War
Robbie Ryan, The Favourite
Linus Sandgren, First Man
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
EDITING
John Ottman, Bohemian Rhapsody
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, The Favourite
Tom Cross, First Man
Alfonso Cuaron, Adam Gough, Roma
Hank Corwin, Vice
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
Elizabeth Hobbs, Abigail Addison, Jelena Popovic - I'm OK
Gary McLeod, Myles McLeod - Marfa
Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boom - Roughhouse
BRITISH SHORT FILM
Alex Lockwood, 73 Cows
38 Angela Clarke, Bachelor
Ben Clark, Megan Pugh, Paul Taylor, The Blue Door
Sandhya Suri, Balthazar de Ganay, The Field
Barnaby Blackburn, Sophie Alexander, Catherine Slater, Edward Speleers, Wale
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
Barry Keoghan
Cynthia Erivo
Jessie Buckley
Lakeith Stanfield
Letitia Wright
BAFTA awards ceremony will take place on February 10 at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
