2018 - Awards Season: BAFTA - Nominations
January 12, 2019
The BAFTA nominations were announced and The Favorite led the way with 12 nominations. Sometimes the BAFTAs are a really good indicator for who will do well on Oscar night. Other times their bias to British films is too much. I think this year will be an example of the latter and I don't think The Favourite is suddenly an Oscar favorite. That said, there’s still some things you can learn here.
The categories and nominees are...
Best Film
Outstanding British Film
Best Director
- Bradley Cooper for A Star is Born
- Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
- Yorgos Lanthimos for The Favourite
- Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman
- Paweł Pawlikowski for Cold War
- Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
- Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga, for Green Book
- Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara for The Favourite
- Janusz Glowacki and Paweł Pawlikowski for Cold War
- Adam McKay for Vice
- Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, and Eric Roth for A Star is Born
- Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty for Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Barry Jenkins for If Beale Street Could Talk
- Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, and Kevin Willmott for BlacKkKlansman
- Josh Singer for First Man
- Richard Billingham and Jacqui Davies for Ray and Liz
- Lauren Dark and Michael Pearce for Beast
- Sophie Harman and Leanne Welham for Pili
- Chris Kelly for A Cambodian Spring
- Daniel Kokotajilo for Apostasy
- Glenn Close for The Wife
- Olivia Colman for The Favourite
- Viola Davis for Widows
- Lady Gaga for A Star is Born
- Melissa McCarthy for Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Christian Bale for Vice
- Steve Coogan for Stan and Ollie
- Bradley Cooper for A Star is Born
- Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody
- Viggo Mortensen for Green Book
- Mahershala Ali for Green Book
- Timothée Chalamet for Beautiful Boy
- Adam Driver for BlacKkKlansman
- Richard E. Grant for Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Sam Rockwell for Vice
- Amy Adams for Vice
- Claire Foy for First Man
- Margot Robbie for Mary Queen of Scots
- Emma Stone for The Favourite
- Rachel Weisz for The Favourite
Best Film Not in the English Language
- Capernaum (Lebanon)
- Cold War (Poland)
- Dogman (Italy)
- Roma (Mexico)
- Shoplifters (Japan)
Best Cinematography
Best Original Music
Best Sound
Best Production Design
Best Special Visual Effects
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Black Panther
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
- First Man
- Ready Player One
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Favourite
- Mary Poppins Returns
- Mary Queen of Scots
Best Editing
Best British Short Animation
- I'm OK
- Marfa
- Roughhouse
- 73 Cows
- Bachelor, 38
- The Blue Door
- The Field
- Wale
Notes and Reactions...
- The Favourite has done well during Awards Season so far, but not this well. Its 12 nominations were nearly double the second-place films.
- Speaking of the second-place films, there was a four-way tie for second place with Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma, and A Star is Born all earning seven nominations.
- Normally when a foreign-language film does as well as Roma did, it would be practically guaranteed to win Best Foreign-language Film award. However, Cold War picked up four nominations, so it is in the hunt. Granted, Roma is the favorite, but I suspect by only a 2-1 advantage.
- There were a lot of familiar names and movies on this list. In most prestige categories, all or nearly all of the nominees previously earned guild nominations, so there are not a lot of surprises to talk about.
- Black Panther only got one nomination, for Best Visual Effects, which is the biggest snub of the night.
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