“Nomadland,” “The Father,” “The Mauritanian,” “Promising Young Woman” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” have been nominated as one of the best movies of 2020 on the EE British Academy Film Awards, which have been introduced on Tuesday in London.
The nominations have been closely weighted towards indie movies and homegrown British productions, and can seemingly bear solely a passing resemblance to subsequent week’s Academy Award nominations. They clearly confirmed the affect of final fall’s overhaul of the BAFTA voting course of, a transfer that was designed to extend the range of its alternatives.
Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” and Sarah Gavron’s “Rocks” led all movies with seven nominations, with “Nomadland” the one movie to be nominated within the Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and appearing classes. Zhao was certainly one of 4 feminine directing nominees alongside Shannon Murphy for “Babyteeth,” Jasmila Zbanic for “Quo Vadis, Aida?” and Sarah Gavron for “Rocks.” Those three grew to become the primary ladies nominated within the class since Kathryn Bigelow in 2012, after solely seven had acquired nominations in BAFTA’s 73-year historical past.
Other directing nominees have been Thomas Vinterberg for “Another Round” and Lee Isaac Chung for “Minari,” each of whose movies have been nominated within the Best Film Not within the English Language class. The directing slate neglected various formidable contenders, together with David Fincher for “Mank,” Aaron Sorkin for “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Paul Greengrass for “News of the World,” Regina King for “One Night in Miami” and Emerald Fennell for “Promising Young Woman.”
The appearing classes have been additionally notable for who wasn’t nominated. In Best Actress, the nominees included Bukky Bakray for “Rocks,” Radha Blank for “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” Wunmi Mosaku for “His House” and Alfre Woodard for “Clemency,” however didn’t embody two of the Oscar entrance runners, Carey Mulligan for “Promising Young Woman” or Viola Davis for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
Best Actor included Adarsh Gourav for “The White Tiger,” Mads Mikkelsen for “Another Round” and Tahar Rahim for “The Mauritanian,” however not Gary Oldman for “Mank.” And notable contenders within the supporting classes who have been bypassed included Ellen Burstyn for “Pieces of a Woman,” Olivia Colman for “The Father,” Amanda Seyfried for “Mank” and Sacha Baron Cohen for “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”
Among the appearing favorites who did make the reduce with BAFTA have been Vanessa Kirby for “Pieces of a Woman,” Frances McDormand for “Nomadland,” Riz Ahmed for “Sound of Metal,” Chadwick Boseman for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Anthony Hopkins for “The Father,” Maria Bakalova for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” Daniel Kaluuya for “Judas and the Black Messiah” and Leslie Odom Jr. for “One Night in Miami.”
First-time nominees account for 21 of the 24 appearing nominees and 4 of the six directing nominees.
“The Father,” “Mank,” “Minari” and “Promising Young Woman” completed simply behind “Nomadland” and “Rocks” with six nominations every, whereas “The Dig” and “The Mauritanian” acquired 5. “Another Round,” “Calm With Horses,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “News of the World” and “Sound of Metal” every acquired 4.
In most classes, voters from particular BAFTA chapters chosen the nominees from a shortlist of 10-20 movies with the assistance of juries. In some classes, together with Best Director and the appearing classes, a jury additionally chosen the nominees. Voters have been required to see all of the movies on the longlist earlier than voting in a class, with the variety of nominees expanded from 5 to 6 within the appearing and directing classes and from 5 to 10 within the Outstanding British Film class.
The use of juries in some classes however not others led to some curious disconnects within the nominations. Shannon Murphy, for…
