BAFTA 2020 Film Nominations: Joker, The Irishman And OUATIH Lead Nominees

Updated on07 01 2020

In the wake of the Golden Globes, BAFTA has announced its nominees for the 2020 Film ceremony taking us into the next phase of awards season. After 1917’s big wins at the Globes on Sunday (including Best Picture and Best Director for Sam Mendes), the one-shot(ish) World War I movie received nine nominations from BAFTA – including Best Film, Director, and Outstanding British Film – but doesn’t lead the pack overall.

The film with the most nominations is Joker, with a total of 11 nods. As well as Best Film and Director, it’s up for Best Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Editing, Cinematography, and the new Casting award among others – and, of course, Joaquin Phoenix is nominated for Best Actor. Hot on its heels are The Irishman with 10 nominations – including Best Film, Director, and Supporting Actor nods for Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, but still nothing for Robert De Niro – and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, also with 10 nominations. Quentin Tarantino himself is up for Director and Original Screenplay, while the movie is recognised in Best Film, Editing, Production Design and more – plus acting nominations for Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie.

Speaking of Robbie, she’ll be competing against herself in the Supporting Actress category – as well as her turn as Sharon Tate in Hollywood, she’s also been nominated for Bombshell. Competing alongside her for Supporting Actress is Scarlett Johansson in Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi’s film receiving six nominations in total), who also finds herself in the Leading Actress running for Marriage Story.

Scarlett Johansson is nominated for both Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story

The biggest controversy with this year's set of nominees looks to be a lack of diversity, particularly in the acting categories which consist entirely of white performers – despite prominent acclaimed roles starring people of colour in the likes of The Farewell, Hustlers, The Personal History Of David Copperfield, and Us. And as with the Golden Globes, it’s another set of all-male directors this year – an admittedly impressive list including Scorsese, Tarantino, Bong Joon-Ho, Sam Mendes and Todd Phillips, but leaving the likes of Greta Gerwig, Lulu Wang, Joanna Hogg, and Marielle Heller out of the running. Gerwig’s Little Women received five nominations – with recognition for Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh’s performances – but missed out on Best Film, while Heller’s A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood is nominated only for Tom Hanks’ supporting performance.

There are some treats in there – Booksmart and Knives Out received Original Screenplay nominations, Farmageddon: A Shaun The Sheep Movie rubs shoulders with the Disney behemoths in Animated Film, and Jessie Buckley is up for Leading Actress for Wild Rose. Plus, Rocketman fared well with four nods overall, including Outstanding British Film and Taron Egerton for Leading Actor, as did twisty Korean thriller Parasite – which also received four nominations, recognised both in Film Not In The English Language and Best Film. It’s a good haul too for Syrian war documentary For Sama, up for Documentary, Outstanding British Film, Film Not In The English Language, and Outstanding British Debut.

Find out all the BAFTA Film Awards winners in just under a month, when the ceremony airs on Sunday 2 February. Read the full list of nominees below.

Best Film

1917

The Irishman

Joker

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Parasite

Outstanding British Film

1917

Bait

For Sama

Rocketman

Sorry We Missed You

The Two Popes

Director

1917 – Sam Mendes

The Irishman – Martin Scorsese

Joker – Todd Phillips

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino

Parasite – Bong Joon-Ho

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 Actor

Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood

Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes

Al Pacino – The Irishman

Joe Pesci – The Irishman

Brad Pitt – Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Leading Actress

Jessie Buckley – Wild Rose

Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story

Saoirse Ronan – Little Women

Charlize Theron – Bombshell

Renée Zellweger – Judy

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

Film Not In The English Language

The Farewell

For Sama

Pain and Glory

Parasite

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire

Adapted Screenplay

The Irishman – Steven Zaillian

Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi

Joker – Todd Phillips, Scott Silver

Little Women – Greta Gerwig

The Two Popes – Anthony McCarten

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

Documentary

American Factory

Apollo 11

Diego Maradona

For Sama

The Great Hack

Animated Film

For Sama – Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts

Maiden – Alex Holmes

Only You – Harry Wootliff

Retablo – Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio

British Short Animation

Grandad Was A Romantic

In Her Boots

The Magic Boat

British Short Film

Azaar

Goldfish

Kamali

Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You’re A Girl)

The Trap

EE Rising Star Award

Awkwafina

Kaitlyn Dever

Kelvin Harrison Jr.

Jack Lowden

Michael Ward

Fellowship

Kathleen Kennedy

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