I’ll just say it – this awards season is not panning out the way I thought it would, nomination-wise. I knew that Angelina Jolie would have a tough sell to be a contender for her performance in Maria, but I wasn’t expecting her to get shut out of BAFTA and SAG nominations! Same with Denzel Washington’s scenery-chewing performance in Gladiator II – I never thought that Denzel would be snubbed right and left for NOMINATIONS. Exact same situation with Nicole Kidman in Babygirl – she has now been snubbed for a SAG and BAFTA nom, just like Angelina and Denzel. WTF? The BAFTAs released their “shortlists” a few weeks ago, but they released their official nominations today. The silver linings of this year’s awards season is that Conclave and Anora are getting so much love. The big BAFTA nominations:
Best Film
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia PérezLeading Actress
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Demi Moore, The Substance
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
Mikey Madison, Anora
Saoirse Ronan, The OutrunLeading Actor
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Hugh Grant, Heretic
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete UnknownSupporting Actor
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Yura Borisov, AnoraSupporting Actress
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl
Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia PérezBest Director
Sean Baker; Anora
Brady Corbet; The Brutalist
Edward Berger; Conclave
Denis Villeneuve; Dune: Part Two
Jacques Audiard; Emilia Pérez
Coralie Fargeat; The Substance
At some point, I’m going to need some heavy-duty analysis of how Yura Borisov has managed to get all of these nominations. I’m not mad about it, I just thought it would be a much harder sell to promote his (outstanding) performance. It’s also so bizarre to me that Jamie Lee Curtis now has a SAG and BAFTA nomination for a role which wasn’t on many people’s radars. What else? A bit surprised to see the BAFTA love for The Apprentice, and I’m not surprised that the BAFTAs went out of their way to recognize British actors like Hugh Grant and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. They also think Saoirse Ronan is British, don’t they? She’s Irish. She just played a Scottish character in The Outrun. Anyway, Anora and Conclave are my girls this year, which probably means that Emilia Perez is taking it.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, ‘Conclave’ stills.
