Yahoo Lifestyle BAFTA Awards: ‘Emilia Pérez’ and ‘Conclave’ Lead Longlists With 15 and 14 Nods Apiece
The British Academy has unveiled the results of the first round of voting across all 25 categories for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, with two very different thrillers leading the pack of longlisted features.
Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish-language music-thriller that was picked up by Netflix in Cannes, has emerged ahead of the race with slots in 15 categories, including best film, director, leading actress and three in the supporting actress list. Meanwhile “Conclave,” Focus Features’ Papal mystery-thriller from Edward Berger set within the Vatican, has 14, including best film, director and leading actor for Ralph Fiennes.
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Further down, a tight pack of films includes “The Substance,” “The Brutalist” and “A Complete Unknown” on 11 lists, “Wicked” and “Dune: Part Two” on 10 and “Anora” and “Gladiator 2” on nine. All, with the exception of “Gladiator 2,” are on the best film longlist. Ridley Scott’s epic return to the coliseum also missed out on best director and leading man, although Denzel Washington — who has never been BAFTA-nominated before — did get a supporting actor slot.
There should be cheers from Belfast, with “Kneecap” — the raucous Irish-language music biopic that’s easily among the smallest films competing in terms of budget — managing to keep up with major studio titles, landing seven longlist slots including best film. It was also a good day at the office for “The Apprentice,” which appeared in six categories, including best film and leading actor for Sebastian Stan.
Among the absences, while many might not be overly surprised that “Gladiator 2” failed to appear in most of the top categories, there’ll certainly be raised eyebrows over “Maria,” which was shut out completely (and just days before Angelina Jolie attends the Golden Globes as a leading actress nominee). There was also no space whatsoever for Pedro Almodovar’s Venice-winner “The Room Next Door” (like Jolie, Tilda Swinton has a Golden Globe best actress nomination and many might have expected that her fellow Brits would, at least, have given her a BAFTA longlist spot).
For all the last stage awards season love for “A Real Pain,” Jesse Eisenberg’s critically acclaimed comedy-drama landed just two longlist spaces (best supporting actor for Kieran Culkin and original screenplay), as did Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” (original screenplay and editing). Meanwhile, another industry crowd-pleaser, “Nickel Boys,” only managed one longlist space (adapted screenplay).
A new addition for BAFTA this year is the children’s and family film category. Unsurprisingly, there was significant overlap with animated film, with likes of “The Wild Robot,” “That Christmas” and “Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” appearing in both longlists. However, many might consider the omission of “Paddington in Peru” a surprising omission from a debut kids and family lineup that includes “Young Woman and the Sea” and “Kensuke’s Kingdom,” with the long-awaited third feature about the Peruvian bear only finding space in the outstanding British film category.
The full list of nominations will be announced on Jan. 15 (minus the BAFTA Rising Star nominees, which will be unveiled Jan. 7), with the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony taking place Feb. 16 from London’s Royal Festival Hall. “Doctor Who” star David Tennant will be returning as host.
See the full longlist below.
BEST FILM
“Anora”
“The Apprentice”
“The Brutalist”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Kneecap”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
“Back to Black”
“Bird”
“Blitz”
“Civil War”
“Conclave”
“Gladiator II”
“Hard Truths”
“Kneecap”
“Lee”
“Love Lies Bleeding”
“The Outrun”
“Paddington in Peru”
“Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“We Live in Time”
“Wicked Little Letters”
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
“Bring Them Down”
“Grand Theft Hamlet”
“Hoard”
“Kneecap”
“Monkey Man”
“On Falling”
“Santosh”
“Sister Midnight”
“The Taste of Mango”
” The Teacher”
CHILDREN’S AND FAMILY FILM
“Flow”
“Kensuke’s Kingdom”
“Piece by Piece”
“Spellbound”
“That Christmas”
“Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“The Wild Robot”
“Young Woman and the Sea”
FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
“All We Imagine as Light”
“Black Dog” (“Gou zhen”)
“The Count of Monte Cristo”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Flow”
“The Girl With the Needle”
“I’m Still Here” (“Ainda Estou Aqui”)
“Kneecap”
“La Chimera”
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
DOCUMENTARY
“The Bibi Files”
“Black Box Diaries”
“Daughters”
“Elton John: Never Too Late”
“I Am: Celine Dion”
“Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger”
“No Other Land”
“The Remarkable Life of Ibelin”
“Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story”
“Will & Harper”
ANIMATED FILM
“Despicable Me 4”
“Flow”
“Inside Out 2”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“Moana 2”
“That Christmas”
“Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“The Wild Robot”
DIRECTOR
“All We Imagine as Light,” Payal Kapadia
“Anora,” Sean Baker
“The Brutalist,” Brady Corbet
“Conclave,” Edward Berger
“Dune: Part Two,” Denis Villeneuve
“Emilia Pérez,” Jacques Audiard
“La Chimera,” Alice Rohrwacher
“Lee,” Ellen Kuras
“The Outrun,” Nora Fingscheidt
“The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“All We Imagine as Light”
“Anora”
“The Apprentice”
“The Brutalist”
“Challengers”
“Civil War”
“Heretic”
“Kneecap”
“A Real Pain”
“The Substance”
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Lee”
“Nickel Boys”
“Nightbitch”
“The Outrun”
“Sing Sing”
“Wicked”
LEADING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, “Nightbitch”
Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
Demi Moore, “The Substance”
Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”
Kate Winslet, “Lee”
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths”
Marisa Abela, “Back to Black”
Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl”
Saoirse Ronan, “The Outrun”
LEADING ACTOR
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
Daniel Craig, “Queer”
Dev Patel, “Monkey Man”
Hugh Grant, “Heretic”
Jude Law, “Firebrand”
Kingsley Ben Adir, “Bob Marley: One Love”
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”
Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Paz, “Emilia Pérez”
Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
Emily Watson, “Small Things Like These”
Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Last Showgirl”
Margaret Qualley, “The Substance”
Michele Austin, “Hard Truths”
Selena Gomez, “Emilia Pérez”
Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Clarence Maclin, “Sing Sing”
Denzel Washington, “Gladiator II”
Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”
Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”
Harris Dickinson, “Babygirl”
Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”
Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Mark Eydelshteyn, “Anora”
Stanley Tucci, “Conclave”
Yura Borisov, “Anora”
CASTING
“Anora”
“The Apprentice”
“Back to Black”
“Blitz”
“The Brutalist”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Kneecap”
“Wicked”
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“Civil War”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“The Substance”
COSTUME DESIGN
“Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice”
“Blitz”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”
EDITING
“Anora”
“Challengers”
“Civil War”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Gladiator II”
“Kneecap”
“The Substance”
MAKE-UP AND HAIR
“The Apprentice”
“Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice”
“Blitz”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Joker: Folie À Deux”
“Nosferatu”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
ORIGINAL SCORE
“Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice”
“Blitz”
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“The Outrun”
“The Substance”
“The Wild Robot”
PRODUCTION DESIGN
“Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice”
“Blitz”
“The Brutalist”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
“Alien: Romulus”
“Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice”
“Better Man”
“Civil War”
“Deadpool & Wolverine”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
“Gladiator II”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“Wicked”
SOUND
“Blitz”
“The Brutalist”
“Civil War”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Gladiator II”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
“Adiós”
“Mee and Burd”
“Mog’s Christmas”
“Plunge”
“Three Hares”
“Wander to Wonder”
BRITISH SHORT FILM
“The Ban”
“Clodagh”
“The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing”
“Homework”
“Marion”
“Milk”
“Rock, Paper, Scissors”
“Sister Wives”
“Stomach Bug”
“Woodlice”
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