Bafta 2019 nominations announced: ‘The Favourite’ leads with 12 nominations

Bafta Film Awards 2019 has announced nominations with Yorgos Lanthimos's ‘The Favourite’ dominating the race for this year's edition.   

Offbeat period drama ‘The Favourite’ starring Olivia Colman, who won a Golden Globe for playing Queen Anne, has scored 12 nods at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards. The film is said to be the one to beat at this year's ceremony.

‘The Favourite’ is some way ahead of its nearest Bafta rivals ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘Roma’, ‘A Star is Born’ and ‘First Man’ which have seven nominations each.  

The awards ceremony will take place on February 10, 2019 at the Royal Albert Hall, with Joanna Lumley hosting for a second year running.

The full list of nominations up for a gong, which were announced on January 9 in London, is outlined below.

Best film

• BlackkKlansman
• The Favourite
• Green Book
• Roma
• A Star Is Born

Outstanding British film

• Beast
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• McQueen
• Stan & Ollie
• You Were Never Really Here

Leading actor

• Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born
• Christian Bale - Vice
• Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody
• Steve Coogan - Stan & Ollie
• Viggo Mortensen - Green Book

Leading actress

• Glenn Close - The Wife
• Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born
• Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Olivia Colman - The Favourite
• Viola Davis - Widows

Supporting actor

• Amy Adams - Vice
• Claire Foy - First Man
• Emma Stone - The Favourite
• Margot Robbie - Mary Queen of Scots
• Rachel Weisz - The Favourite

Director

• Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman
• Paweł Pawlikowski - Cold War
• Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite
• Alfonso Cuaron - Roma
• Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born

EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

• Jessie Buckley
• Cynthia Erivo
• Barry Keoghan
• Lakeith Stanfield
• Letitia Wright

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

• Apostasy - Daniel Kokotajlo (writer/director)
• Beast - Michael Pearce (writer/director), Lauren Dark (producer)
• A Cambodian Spring - Chris Kelly (writer/director/producer)
• Pili - Leanne Welham (writer/director), Sophie Harman (producer)
• Ray & Liz - Richard Billingham (writer/director), Jacqui Davies (producer)

Best film not in the English language

• Capernaum
• Cold War
• Dogman
• Roma
• Shoplifters

Best documentary

• Free Solo
• McQueen
• RBG
• They Shall Not Grow Old
• Three Identical Strangers

Best animated film

• Incredibles 2
• Isle of Dogs
• Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

Original screenplay

• Cold War
• The Favourite
• Green Book
• Roma
• Vice

Adapted screenplay

• BlacKkKlansman
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• First Man
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• A Star Is Born

Original music

• BlackkKlansman
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Isle of Dogs
• Mary Poppins Returns
• A Star Is Born

Cinematography

• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Cold War
• The Favourite
• First Man
• Roma

Costume design

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Mary Queen of Scots

Editing

• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• First Man
• Roma
• Vice

Production design

• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• The Favourite
• First Man
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Roma

Make-up and hair

• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• Mary Queen of Scots
• Stan & Ollie
• Vice

Sound

• Bohemian Rhapsody
• First Man
• Mission: Impossible - Fallout
• A Quiet Place
• A Star Is Born

Special visual effects

• Avengers: Infinity War
• Black Panther
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• First Man
• Ready Player One

British short film

• 73 Cows
• Bachelor
• The Blue Door
• The Field
• Wale

British short animation

• I'm OK
• Marfa
• Roughhouse

Outstanding contribution to British cinema

• Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen

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