The longlists for this year's BAFTAs were announced on Thursday and Ramin Bahrani's recently-released film The White Tiger, starring Priyanka Chopra, Adarsh Gourav and Rajkummar Rao, made it to several categories, including the Best Film, Best Actor and Best Director. Priyanka Chopra is on the Best Supporting Actress longlist for her role in The White Tiger while Adarsh Gourav made it to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' longlist for the Best Actor for his performance in Ramin Bahrani's film. Apart from the Best Film and the Best Director longlists, The White Tiger is also selected for the Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Editing.
Giving a major shout-out to her cousin Priyanka Chopra, actress Parineeti Chopra tweeted this on Thursday evening: "Ladies and gentlemen MEET MY BAFTA LONGLIST SISTER! Can't wait for this to happen!"
In The White Tiger, Priyanka Chopra and Rajkummar Rao play the roles of a rich married couple, who have been living with their family in India after returning from the US for their business. Adarsh Gourav plays the role of their poor driver named Balram Halwai, who, after an accident, rebels and becomes a master of his own.
The White Tiger is director Ramin Bahrani's adaptation of Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning debut novel of the same name.
After a few rounds of voting, the final list of nominations for BAFTAs will be announced on March 9. The BAFTA Awards will take place on April 11. It usually takes place before April but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As per BAFTA, 122 performances for the Best Actor category were submitted for consideration and out of the 15 performances that have made it to the longlist, only six will be nominated.
Check out some of the longlists here:
Best Film
Another Round
Da 5 Bloods
The Dig
The Father
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Mank
The Mauritanian
News of the World
Nomadland
One Night In Miami...
Promising Young Woman
Soul
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The White Tiger
Director
Another Round
The Assistant
Babyteeth
The Dig
The Father
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Mank
The Mauritanian
Minari
My Octopus Teacher
News of the World
Nomadland
One Night In Miami...
Promising Young Woman
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Rocks
Saint Maud
Tenet
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The White Tiger
Leading Actress
Amy Adams, Hillbilly Elegy
Bukky Bakray, Rocks
Radha Blank, The Forty-Year-Old Version
Jessie Buckley, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Morfydd Clark, Saint Maud
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Julia Garner, The Assistant
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
Sophia Loren, The Life Ahead
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Wunmi Mosaku, His House
Kate Winslet, Ammonite
Alfre Woodard, Clemency
Zendaya, Malcolm & Marie
Leading Actor
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Kingsley Ben-Adir, One Night In Miami...
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ralph Fiennes, The Dig
Adarsh Gourav, The White Tiger
Tom Hanks, News of the World
Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Cosmo Jarvis, Calm With Horses
Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round
Gary Oldman, Mank
Tahar Rahim, The Mauritanian
LaKeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah
John David Washington, Malcolm & Marie
Steven Yeun, Minari
Supporting Actress
Niamh Algar, Calm With Horses
Kosar Ali, Rocks
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Ellen Burstyn, Pieces of a Woman
Priyanka Chopra Jonas, The White Tiger
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman, The Father
Jennifer Ehle, Saint Maud
Dominique Fishback, Judas and the Black Messiah
Jodie Foster, The Mauritanian
Ashley Madekwe, County Lines
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Saoirse Ronan, Ammonite
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
Helena Zengel, News of the World
Supporting Actor
Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
Bo Burnham, Promising Young Woman
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Mauritanian
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Barry Keoghan, Calm With Horses
Alan Kim, Minari
Frank Langella, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night In Miami...
Clarke Peters, Da 5 Bloods
Eddie Redmayne, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Mark Rylance, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
David Strathairn, Nomadland
Stanley Tucci, Supernova
Outstanding British Film
Ammonite
Calm With Horses
County Lines
The Courier
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
The Dig
Emma.
The Father
Herself
His House
Limbo
The Mauritanian
Misbehaviour
Mogul Mowgli
Promising Young Woman
Radioactive
Rebecca
Rocks
Saint Maud
Supernova
Documentary
All In: The Fight For Democracy
Athlete A
Beastie Boys Story
Becoming
Billie
Collective
Crip Camp
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
Dick Johnson is Dead
The Dissident
I Am Greta
MLK/FBI
My Octopus Teacher
The Social Dilemma
The Truffle Hunters Round Two voting, to determine the nominations in the member-voted categories, will open between Friday 19 February and Monday 1 March 2021.