Bafta nominations dominated by WWI epic

Netflix's All Quiet On The Western Front leads the tract astatine this year's Bafta Film Awards, with 14 nominations.

The critically-acclaimed World War One epic is simply a caller surface adaptation of the 1928 caller by Erich Maria Remarque.

Its beardown showing makes it the archetypal movie to people 14 oregon much Bafta nods since The King's Speech successful 2011.

Elsewhere, The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All At Once get 10 nominations each, with Elvis pursuing intimately down with nine.

The 14 nods for All Quiet On The Western Front means it ties with 2001's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon arsenic the foreign-language movie with the astir nominations successful Bafta's history

Nominees successful the acting categories this twelvemonth see Cate Blanchett, Emma Thompson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Yeoh, Eddie Redmayne and Viola Davis.

Several container bureau smashes person besides been recognised successful this year's shortlist, including Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water.

However, each of the nominations scored by some films are for method prizes. In total, determination are 45 films nominated this twelvemonth crossed each categories.

There are immoderate notable absences - specified arsenic histrion Olivia Colman and manager Steven Spielberg - neither of whom made the Bafta longlist.

But immoderate omissions are thought to beryllium astatine slightest partially owed to the caller methods the British Academy uses to find nominees.

The Bafta Film Awards 2023 volition instrumentality spot connected 19 February astatine the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall successful London. The ceremony, hosted by Richard E Grant, volition aerial connected BBC One.

All Quiet On The Western Front is a brutally convulsive but wide praised adaptation of the caller of the aforesaid name. It was antecedently adapted for the surface successful 1930 and 1979.

Critics person lavished praise connected the latest version, whish is directed by Edward Berger and stars Austrian histrion Felix Kammerer.

The movie looks astatine World War One from the German perspective, done the eyes of an idealistic young worker named Paul Bäumer (Kammerer) who is confronted with the progressively barbaric realities of war.

The past non-English connection movie to triumph the Bafta for champion movie was Alfonso Cuarón's Roma successful 2019.

In the apical Bafta category, champion film, it faces contention from Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley biopic, and Todd Field's intelligence play Tár, which follows a disgraced orchestra conductor.

The different nominees see Martin McDonagh's drama The Banshees of Inisherin, which is astir 2 feuding friends successful 1920s Ireland. The movie did good astatine the caller Golden Globes.

The madcap sci-fi escapade Everything Everywhere All At Once, which follows a pistillate who hops done the multiverse exploring antithetic versions of herself, is besides successful contention.

Cate Blanchett is nominated for starring histrion for her show successful Tár - successful which she plays a renowned orchestra conductor whose vocation starts to unravel erstwhile she is accused of abuse.

The histrion has antecedently been nominated for 7 Bafta Film Awards, winning 3 times for Blue Jasmine, The Aviator and Elizabeth.

Widely seen arsenic 1 of the frontrunners for the champion histrion Oscar, Blanchett faces contention successful the class astatine the Baftas from chap awards favourite Michelle Yeoh (for Everything Everywhere All At Once).

The different nominees are Viola Davis (for The Woman King), Danielle Deadwyler (Till), Ana De Armas (Blonde), and Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande).

The starring histrion category, meanwhile, sees designation for each 3 of the Oscar frontrunners - Austin Butler (for Elvis), Brendan Fraser (The Whale) and Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin).

The different nominees successful the class are Bill Nighy (for Living), Daryl McCormack (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) and Paul Mescal (Aftersun).

Two actors wide considered arsenic Oscar fastener ins successful the supporting categories person Bafta nominations - Angela Bassett (for Wakanda Forever) and Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once).

Across each the acting categories, 40% of the nominees this twelvemonth are radical belonging to taste minorities - 10 of the 24 disposable slots.

There are immoderate notable absences successful this year's Bafta database - Hollywood giants Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans) and James Cameron (Avatar: The Way of Water) were not adjacent longlisted for champion director.

However, specified absences are thought to beryllium partially owed to the comparatively caller methods Bafta usage to compile nominations. Since 2021's ceremony, juries person been enlisted to find a definite fig of nominees successful astir categories, arsenic portion of a thrust to guarantee diversity.

The manager longlist was required to person an adjacent divided of antheral and pistillate nominees. Eight of each were longlisted earlier this month, but much than doubly the fig of men had been submitted arsenic women.

However, Spielberg is nominated successful the champion archetypal screenplay class - marking the lone information for The Fabelmans, a beardown Oscars contender.

In the acting categories, different omission from the longlists was Olivia Colman, usually an awards play favourite. However, her Empire of Light co-star, Micheal Ward, is nominated for champion supporting actor.

Women Talking, which follows abused women from an isolated Mennonite colony, and the fashionable Knives Out sequel Glass Onion, person been unopen retired wholly contempt receiving 4 longlist nominations each.

First clip nominees diagnostic heavy astatine this year's ceremony, with 14 of the 24 nominees successful the show categories receiving their archetypal ever Bafta Film nomination, including Farrell and Fraser.

Mandy Walker is nominated for champion cinematographer for her enactment connected Elvis. If she wins, she volition go the archetypal ever pistillate victor of the category.

All of the nominees successful the class for outstanding debut by a British writer, manager oregon shaper are women.

They are Charlotte Wells (for Aftersun), Georgia Oakley and Hélène Sifre (Blue Jean), Marie Lidén (Electric Malady), Katy Brand (Good Luck To You, Leo Grande) and Maia Kenworthy (Rebellion).

Meanwhile, the nominations for the EE Bafta rising prima award, which recognises promising younger talent, announced earlier this week, see Naomi Ackie, who portrayed Whitney Houston successful the caller biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

The Woman King's Sheila Atim, Peaky Blinders prima Daryl McCormack, and Sex Education stars Aimee Lou Wood and Emma Mackey are besides nominated for rising star.

The Bafta Film Awards are sandwiched betwixt the Golden Globes, which took spot past week, and the Oscars, which volition beryllium held connected 12 March, marking the decision of awards season.

Actor Richard E Grant volition big this year's ceremony, stepping into the shoes of past year's presenter Rebel Wilson.

Grant was astir precocious nominated for a Bafta himself successful 2019, for his show other Melissa McCarthy successful Can You Ever Forgive Me?