Seen as the main harbinger of what to expect on Oscar nomination morning (Tuesday, January 24, to be exact), the nominations for the 2023 BAFTA EE Film Awards were announced and “All Quiet on the Western Front” won. from Netflix. even more steam as a major awards threat, with an impressive total of 14 nominations. The film equals Ang Lee’s 2001 “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” for the most nominated non-English language film in BAFTA history.
Other films that did well in overall nominations include “The Banshees of Insiherin” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (10 each), “Elvis” (9 nominations) and “Tar” (5 nominations), but possibly The most surprising inclusion was that the two leads of the critically acclaimed independent film “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” (Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack) earned lead actress and actor nominations, respectively.
Among the notable slights is the absence of American favorites “The Fabelmans” and “Top Gun: Maverick” in the best picture, directing or acting categories in favor of their British and European counterparts, although “Fabelmans” director Steven Spielberg is visible in the original. screenplay category with co-author Tony Kushner.
Actors Hayley Atwell and Toheeb Jimoh announced the nominations via live broadcast from BAFTA 195 Piccadilly in London.
The first-time nominees represent 14 of the 24 nominees in acting categories, including Oscar hopefuls Ana De Armas (“Blonde”), Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) Austin Butler (“Elvis”) , Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”); Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”); Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”) and Ke Huy Quan (“Everything, Everywhere, Everything at Once”).
The BAFTAs will take place on Sunday 19 February in the UK and will be hosted by Oscar nominee Richard E. Grant (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”).
Below is a full list of the EE BAFTA Film Awards nominees:
THE BEST MOVIE
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Malte Grunert
THE BANSHES OF INISHERIN Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
ELVIS Gail Berman, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang
TÁR Todd Field, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
AFTER THE SUN Charlotte Wells, Producer(s) TBC
THE BANSHES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin
BRIAN AND CHARLES Jim Archer, Rupert Majendie, David Earl, Chris Hayward
EMPIRE OF LIGHT Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris
GOOD LUCK, BIG LEO Sophie Hyde, Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski, Katy Brand
LIVE Oliver Hermanus, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Kazuo Ishiguro
MATILDA FROM ROALD DAHL THE MUSICAL Matthew Warchus, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jon Finn, Luke Kelly, Dennis Kelly
WATCH THEM RUN Tom George, Gina Carter, Damian Jones, Mark Chappell
THE SWIMMERS Sally El Hosaini, Producer(s) TBC, Jack Thorne
THE WONDER Sebastián Lelio, Ed Guiney, Juliette Howell, Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Alice Birch, Emma Donoghue
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
AFTER THE SUN Charlotte Wells (Writer/Director)
BLUE JEAN Georgia Oakley (Writer/Director), Hélène Sifre (Producer)
ELECTRICAL ILLNESS Marie Lidén (Director)
GOOD LUCK, BIG LEO Katy Brand (Writer)
REBELLION Maia Kenworthy (Director)
FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Malte Grunert
ARGENTINA, 1985 Santiago Mitre, Producer(s) To be confirmed
BOUQUET Marie Kreutzer
DECISION TO LEAVE Park Chan-wook, Ko Dae-seok
THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad, Cleona Ní Chrualaoí
DOCUMENTARY FILM
ALL THAT BREATHES Shaunak Sen, Teddy Leifer, Aman Mann
ALL BEAUTY AND SPILL Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, John Lyons
FIRE OF LOVE Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, Ina Fichman
MOONAGE DAYDREAM Brett Morgan
NAVALÍA Daniel Roher, Diane Becker, Shane Boris, Melanie Miller, Odessa Rae
ANIMATED FILM
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley
MARCEL THE SHELL IN SHOES ON Dean Fleisher Camp, Andrew Goldman, Elisabeth Holm, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey
PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH Joel Crawford, Mark Swift
TURNING RED Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins
DIRECTOR
ALL QUIET ON THE WEST FRONT Edward Berger
THE BANSHES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh
DECISION TO LEAVE Park Chan-wook
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
TAR Todd Field
THE WOMAN KING Gina Prince-Bythewood
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE BANSHES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
THE FABELMANS Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg
TAR Todd Field
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund
ADAPTED SCRIPT
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell
LIVE Kazuo Ishiguro
THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad
SHE SAID Rebecca Lenkiewicz
THE WHALE Samuel D. Hunter
PRINCIPAL ACTRESS
CATE BLANCHETT Tar
VIOLA DAVIS The Woman King
DANIELLE DEADWYLER Until
ANA DE ARMAS Blonde
EMMA THOMPSON Good luck to you Big Leo
MICHELLE YEOH Everything everywhere at once
MAIN ACTOR
AUSTIN BUTLERLevis
COLIN FARRELL The Banshees of Inisherin
BRENDAN FRASER The Whale
DARYL McCORMACK Good luck to you Big Leo
PAUL MESCAL Aftersun
BILL NIGHTY Life
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
ANGELA BASSETT Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
HONG CHAU The Whale
KERRY CONDON The Banshees of Inisherin
DOLLY DE LEON Triangle of Sadness
JAMIE LEE CURTIS Everything everywhere at the same time
CAREY MULLIGAN She said
SECONDARY ACTOR
BRENDAN GLEESON The Banshees of Inisherin
BARRY KEOGHAN The Banshees of Inisherin
KE HUY QUAN Everything everywhere at once
EDDIE REDMAYNE The Good Nurse
ALBRECHT SCHUCH All Quiet on the Western Front
MICHEAL WARD Empire of Light
ORIGINAL SCORE
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Volker Bertelmann
BABYLON Justin Hurwitz
THE BANSHES OF INISHERIN Carter Burwell
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE EVERYTHING AT ONCE Son Lux
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Alexandre Desplat
FOUNDRY
AFTER THE SUN Lucy Pardee
ALL QUIET ON THE WEST FRONT Simone Bär
ELVIS Nikki Barrett, Denise Chamian
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE EVERYTHING AT ONCE Sarah Halley Finn
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Pauline Hansson
CINEMATOGRAPHY
ALL QUIET ON THE WEST FRONT James Friend
THE BATMAN Greig Fraser
Elvis Mandy Walker
EMPIRE OF LIGHT Roger Deakins
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Claudio Miranda
EDITION
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Sven Budelmann
THE BANSHES OF INISHERIN Mikkel EG Nielsen
ELVIS Jonathan Redmond, Matt Villa
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AT ONCE Paul Rogers
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Eddie Hamilton
PRODUCTION DESIGN
ALL QUIET ON THE WEST FRONT Christian M. Goldbreck, Ernestine Hipper
BABYLON Florence Martin, Anthony Carlino
THE BATMAN James Chinlund, Lee Sandales
ELVIS Catherine Martin Karen Murphy Bev Dunn
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Curt Enderle, Guy Davis
COSTUME DESIGN
ALL QUIET ON THE WEST FRONT Lisy Christl
AMSTERDAM JR Hawkbaker, Albert Wolsky
BABYLON Maria Zofres
ELVIS Catherine Martin
MS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS Jenny Beavan
MAKE UP AND HAIRSTYLE
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Heike Merker
THE BATMAN Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, Zoe Tahir
ELVIS Jason Baird, Mark Coulier, Louise Coulston, Shane Thomas
MATILDA FROM ROALD DAHL THE MUSICAL Naomi Donne, Barrie Gower, Sharon Martin
THE WHALE Anne Marie Bradley, Judy Chin, Adrien Morot
SOUND
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Lars Ginzsel, Frank Kruse, Viktor Prášil, Markus Stemler
AVATAR: THE WATERWAY Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Julian Howarth, Gary Summers, Gwendoyln Yates Whittle
ELVIS Michael Keller, David Lee, Andy Nelson, Wayne Pashley
TÁR Deb Adair, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley, Steve Single, Roland Winke
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Chris Burdon, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Mark Taylor, Mark Weingarten
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Markus Frank, Kamil Jafar, Viktor Müller, Frank Petzoid
AVATAR: THE WATERWAY Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon
THE BATMAN Russell Earl, Dan Lemmon, Anders Langlands, Dominic Tuohy
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE AT ONCE Benjamin Brewer, Ethan Feldbau, Jonathan Kombrinck, Zak Stoltz
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Seth Hill, Scott R. Fisher, Bryan Litson, Ryan Tudhope
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy, Cara Speller, Hannah Minghella
MIDDLE GUARD John Stevenson, Aiesha Penwarden, Giles Healy
YOUR MOUNTAIN IS WAITING Hannah Jacobs, Zoe Muslim, Harriet Gillian
BRITISH SHORT FILM
THE BALLAD OF OLIVE MORRIS Alex Kayode-Kay
BAZIGAGA Jo Ingabire Moys, Stephanie Charmail
THE GIRL ON THE BUS Jessica Henwick, Louise Palmkvist Hansen
ADRIFTING Jacob Lee
AN IRISH GOODBYE Tom Berkeley, Ross White
EE RISING STAR AWARD
AIMEE LOU WOOD
DARYL McCORMACK
EMMA MACKEY
NAOMI ACKIE
SHEILA ATIM