04/02/2022 - Dune and The Power of the Dog lead the pack with 11 and 8 nods, respectively, with Belfast receiving 6

In-person awards ceremonies in late winter, following a physical edition of the Berlinale… It’s beginning to look a lot like 2019, you might say (although it definitely doesn’t “feel” like it). With this return to the film industry’s typical calendar, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has unveiled the award nominations for its 2022 edition, in advance of a ceremony with a “full audience” at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 13 March, a fortnight before the Oscars.

For a yearly awards ceremony that is typically accused of over-resembling the Oscar line-up, a look at the nominations shows progress in some areas, flanked by conformity in others. Over half of the Best Film nominees are partially European, although all have English as their primary language. Following on from the organisation’s rule changes in advance of the 2021 event, the Best Director line-up has a notable presence of films that excelled at major European festivals this year and last year – namely, courtesy of Palme d’Or and Golden Lion winners Julia Ducournau and Audrey Diwan, for Titane [+see also:
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Otherwise, amassing the most nominations in notable categories, we have the likes of Dune [+see also:
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The most eye-catching snub was Joanna Hogg’s acclaimed The Souvenir: Part II [+see also:
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In the acting and below-the-line categories especially, there was less joy for European films, but The Hand of God [+see also:
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The full list of nominations is as follows:

Best Film
Belfast [+see also:
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Don’t Look Up - Adam McKay (USA)
Dune [+see also:
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Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson (USA/Canada)
The Power of the Dog [+see also:
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Outstanding British Film
After Love [+see also:
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Ali & Ava [+see also:
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Belfast - Kenneth Branagh
Boiling Point [+see also:
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Cyrano [+see also:
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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie - Jonathan Butterell (UK/USA)
House of Gucci - Ridley Scott (UK/USA/Canada)
Last Night in Soho [+see also:
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No Time to Die [+see also:
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Passing [+see also:
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Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
After Love - Aleem Khan (writer/director)
Boiling Point - James Cummings (writer), Hester Ruoff (producer)
The Harder They Fall - Jeymes Samuel (writer/director) (USA)
Keyboard Fantasies - Posy Dixon (writer/director), Liv Proctor (producer) (UK)
Passing - Rebecca Hall (writer/director)

Film Not in the English Language
Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Japan)
The Hand of God [+see also:
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Parallel Mothers [+see also:
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Petite Maman [+see also:
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The Worst Person in the World [+see also:
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Best Documentary
Becoming Cousteau - Liz Garbus (USA)
Cow [+see also:
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Flee [+see also:
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The Rescue - Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin (UK/USA)
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - Questlove (USA)

Animated Film
Encanto - Jared Bush/Byron Howard (USA)
Flee - Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Luca - Enrico Casarosa (USA)
The Mitchells vs. The Machines - Mike Rianda (USA/Hong Kong)

Best Director
Aleem Khan - After Love
Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car
Audrey Diwan - Happening [+see also:
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Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
Julia Ducournau - Titane [+see also:
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Best Leading Actress
Lady Gaga - House of Gucci
Alana Haim - Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones - CODA (USA/France/Canada)
Renate Reinsve - The Worst Person in the World
Joanna Scanlan - After Love
Tessa Thompson - Passing

Best Leading Actor
Adeel Akhtar - Ali & Ava
Mahershala Ali - Swan Song (USA)
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
Leonardo DiCaprio - Don’t Look Up
Stephen Graham - Boiling Point
Will Smith - King Richard (USA)

Best Supporting Actress
Caitríona Balfe – Belfast
Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter [+see also:
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Ariana DeBose - West Side Story (USA)
Ann Dowd - Mass (USA)
Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard
Ruth Negga - Passing

Best Supporting Actor
Mike Faist - West Side Story
Ciarán Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – CODA
Woody Norman - C’mon C’mon (USA)
Jesse Plemons - The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog

Best Original Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin - Being the Ricardos (USA)
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Adam McKay - Don’t Look Up
Zach Baylin - King Richard
Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza

Best Adapted Screenplay
Sian Heder – CODA
Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car
Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve – Dune
Maggie Gyllenhaal - The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog - The Power of the Dog

Best Cinematography
Greig Fraser – Dune
Dan Laustsen - Nightmare Alley (USA/Mexico)
Linus Sandgren - No Time to Die
Ari Wegner - The Power of the Dog
Bruno Delbonnel - The Tragedy of Macbeth (USA)

Best Casting
Carolyn McLeod - Boiling Point
Francine Mailer – Dune
Massimo Appolloni, Annamaria Sambucco - The Hand of God
Rich Delia, Avy Kaufman - King Richard
Cindy Tolan - West Side Story

Best Original Score
Daniel Pemberton - Being the Ricardos
Nicholas Britell - Don’t Look Up
Hans Zimmer – Dune
Alexandre Desplat - The French Dispatch [+see also:
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Jonny Greenwood - The Power of the Dog

Best Editing
Úna Ní Dhonghaīle – Belfast
Joe Walker – Dune
Andy Jurgensen - Licorice Pizza
Tom Cross, Elliot Graham - No Time to Die
Joshua L Pearso - Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Best Production Design
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer – Cyrano
Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos – Dune
Adam Stockhausen, Rena Deangelo - The French Dispatch
Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau - Nightmare Alley
Adam Stockhausen, Rena Deangelo - West Side Story

Best Costume Design
Jenny Beavan – Cruella (USA)
Massimo Cantini Parini – Cyrano
Robert Morgan, Jacqueline West – Dune
Milena Canonero - The French Dispatch
Luis Sequeira - Nightmare Alley

Best Make-up & Hair
Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne – Cruella
Alessandro Bertolazzi, Siân Miller – Cyrano
Love Larson, Donald Mowat – Dune
Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, Justin Raleigh - The Eyes of Tammy Faye (USA)
Frederic Aspiras, Jane Carboni, Giuliano Mariana, Sarah Nicole Tanno - House of Gucci

Best Sound
Mac Ruth, Doug Hemphill, Theo Green, Ron Bartlett – Dune
Colin Nicolson, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Dan Morgan - Last Night in Soho
James Harrison, Simon Hayes, Paul Massey, Oliver Tarney, Mark Taylor - No Time to Die
Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor, Ethan Van Der Ryn - A Quiet Place Part II (USA)
Brian Chumney, Tod Maitland, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom - West Side Story

Best Special Visual Effects
Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Gerd Nefzer – Dune
Swen Gillberg, Brian Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Daniel Sudick - Free Guy (USA)
Aharon Bourland, Sheena Duggal, Pier Lefebvre, Alessandro Ongaro - Ghostbusters: Afterlife (USA/Canada)
Tom Debenham, Hew J Evans, Dan Glass, JD Schwaim - The Matrix Resurrections (USA)
Mark Bokowski, Chris Corbould, Joel Green, Charlie Noble - No Time to Die

Best British Short Film
The Black Cop - Cherish Oteka
Femme - Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping
The Palace - Jo Prichard
Stuffed - Theo Rhys
Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee - Michael Woodward, Max Barron

Best British Short Animation
Affairs of the Art - Joanna Quinn
Do Not Feed the Pigeons - Antonin Niclass
Night of the Living Dread - Ida Melum

Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
Ariana DeBose
Harris Dickinson
Lashana Lynch
Millicent Simmons
Kodi Smit-McPhee