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by Jeff Beck
Jan 7, 2020

Nominations for the 2020 BAFTA Awards


Joker

Earlier this morning, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced their nominations for 2020, with lots of surprises and major disappointments to be found. For starters, I don't think anyone would have guessed that "Joker," would be leading the pack with an insane 11 nominations that includes Best Film, Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, and Editing. It was followed closely by "The Irishman" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywoood" with ten each.

Unfortunately the unexpected love for "Joker" came at a cost, leaving Noah Baumbach's brilliant "Marriage Story" out of its rightful place in the Best Film category. Sadly this leaves only one great film up for the big prize: Sir Sam Mendes' stunning World War I epic "1917." I suppose it has a shot of winning, especially after its surprise victory at the Golden Globes, but you also have to consider that it's up for Outstanding British Film as well, and they could easily just give it that instead, while another film receives Best Film.

There were other surprising omissions (Jennifer Lopez for "Hustlers" and Lupita Nyong'o for "Us" to name a couple), but certainly nothing to top that "Marriage Story" snub. At this point, it really seems like any of the films could walk away with the top prize (though I have a very hard time believing that they'd actually give "Joker" Best Film). We'll just have to wait until the awards are handed out on February 2nd to find out who the big winners will be, so be sure to check back then to see how it all goes down.

In the meantime, please see below for a complete list of this morning's BAFTA nominations:

BEST FILM

  • 1917 Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren

  • THE IRISHMAN Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff

  • JOKER Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Emma Tillinger Koskoff

  • ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino

  • PARASITE Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

  • 1917 Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Krysty Wilson-Cairns

  • BAIT Mark Jenkin, Kate Byers, Linn Waite

  • FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts

  • ROCKETMAN Dexter Fletcher, Adam Bohling, David Furnish, David Reid, Matthew Vaughn, Lee Hall

  • SORRY WE MISSED YOU Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty

  • THE TWO POPES Fernando Meirelles, Jonathan Eirich, Dan Lin, Tracey Seaward, Anthony McCarten

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

  • BAIT Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers)

  • FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab (Director/Producer), Edward Watts (Director)

  • MAIDEN Alex Holmes (Director)

  • ONLY YOU Harry Wootliff (Writer/Director)

  • RETABLO Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (Writer/Director)1

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

  • THE FAREWELL Lulu Wang, Daniele Melia

  • FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts

  • PAIN AND GLORY Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar

  • PARASITE Bong Joon-ho

  • PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Céline Sciamma, Bénédicte Couvreur

DOCUMENTARY

  • AMERICAN FACTORY Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert

  • APOLLO 11 Todd Douglas Miller

  • DIEGO MARADONA Asif Kapadia

  • FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts

  • THE GREAT HACK Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim

ANIMATED FILM

  • FROZEN 2 Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho

  • KLAUS Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh

  • A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON Will Becher, Richard Phelan, Paul Kewley

  • TOY STORY 4 Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen

DIRECTOR

  • 1917 Sam Mendes

  • THE IRISHMAN Martin Scorsese

  • JOKER Todd Phillips

  • ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Quentin Tarantino

  • PARASITE Bong Joon-ho

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  • BOOKSMART Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman

  • KNIVES OUT Rian Johnson

  • MARRIAGE STORY Noah Baumbach

  • ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Quentin Tarantino

  • PARASITE Han Jin Won, Bong Joon-ho

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  • THE IRISHMAN Steven Zaillian

  • JOJO RABBIT Taika Waititi

  • JOKER Todd Phillips, Scott Silver

  • LITTLE WOMEN Greta Gerwig

  • THE TWO POPES Anthony McCarten

LEADING ACTRESS

  • JESSIE BUCKLEY Wild Rose

  • SCARLETT JOHANSSON Marriage Story

  • SAOIRSE RONAN Little Women

  • CHARLIZE THERON Bombshell

  • RENÉE ZELLWEGER Judy

LEADING ACTOR

  • LEONARDO DICAPRIO Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood

  • ADAM DRIVER Marriage Story

  • TARON EGERTON Rocketman

  • JOAQUIN PHOENIX Joker

  • JONATHAN PRYCE The Two Popes

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  • LAURA DERN Marriage Story

  • SCARLETT JOHANSSON Jojo Rabbit

  • FLORENCE PUGH Little Women

  • MARGOT ROBBIE Bombshell

  • MARGOT ROBBIE Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

SUPPORTING ACTOR

  • TOM HANKS A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

  • ANTHONY HOPKINS The Two Popes

  • AL PACINO The Irishman

  • JOE PESCI The Irishman

  • BRAD PITT Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

ORIGINAL SCORE

  • 1917 Thomas Newman

  • JOJO RABBIT Michael Giacchino

  • JOKER Hildur Guđnadóttir

  • LITTLE WOMEN Alexandre Desplat

  • STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER John Williams

CASTING

  • JOKER Shayna Markowitz

  • MARRIAGE STORY Douglas Aibel, Francine Maisler

  • ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Victoria Thomas

  • THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD Sarah Crowe

  • THE TWO POPES Nina Gold

CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • 1917 Roger Deakins

  • THE IRISHMAN Rodrigo Prieto

  • JOKER Lawrence Sher

  • LE MANS ’66 Phedon Papamichael

  • THE LIGHTHOUSE Jarin Blaschke

EDITING

  • THE IRISHMAN Thelma Schoonmaker

  • JOJO RABBIT Tom Eagles

  • JOKER Jeff Groth

  • LE MANS ’66 Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker

  • ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Fred Raskin

PRODUCTION DESIGN

  • 1917 Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales

  • THE IRISHMAN Bob Shaw, Regina Graves

  • JOJO RABBIT Ra Vincent, Nora Sopková

  • JOKER Mark Friedberg, Kris Moran

  • ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh

COSTUME DESIGN

  • THE IRISHMAN Christopher Peterson, Sandy Powell

  • JOJO RABBIT Mayes C. Rubeo

  • JUDY Jany Temime

  • LITTLE WOMEN Jacqueline Durran

  • ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Arianne Phillips

MAKE UP & HAIR

  • 1917 Naomi Donne

  • BOMBSHELL Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan

  • JOKER Kay Georgiou, Nicki Ledermann

  • JUDY Jeremy Woodhead

  • ROCKETMAN Lizzie Yianni Georgiou

SOUND

  • 1917 Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson

  • JOKER Tod Maitland, Alan Robert Murray, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic

  • LE MANS ’66 David Giammarco, Paul Massey, Steven A. Morrow, Donald Sylvester

  • ROCKETMAN Matthew Collinge, John Hayes, Mike Prestwood Smith, Danny Sheehan

  • STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

  • 1917 Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy

  • AVENGERS: ENDGAME Dan Deleeuw, Dan Sudick

  • THE IRISHMAN Leandro Estebecorena, Stephane Grabli, Pablo Helman

  • THE LION KING Andrew R. Jones, Robert Legato, Elliot Newman, Adam Valdez

  • STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Neal Scanlan, Dominic Tuohy

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

  • GRANDAD WAS A ROMANTIC. Maryam Mohajer

  • IN HER BOOTS Kathrin Steinbacher

  • THE MAGIC BOAT Naaman Azhari, Lilia Laurel

BRITISH SHORT FILM

  • AZAAR Myriam Raja, Nathanael Baring

  • GOLDFISH Hector Dockrill, Harri Kamalanathan, Benedict Turnbull, Laura Dockrill

  • KAMALI Sasha Rainbow, Rosalind Croad

  • LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL) Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva

  • THE TRAP Lena Headey, Anthony Fitzgerald

EE RISING STAR AWARD

  • AWKWAFINA

  • KAITLYN DEVER

  • KELVIN HARRISON JR.

  • JACK LOWDEN

  • MICHEAL WARD

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