We’re just hours away from the announcement of the nominations for the 74th British Academy Film Awards, so it’s time to predict how they may fall this year. In the midst of overhauling their voting/nominating process and diversifying their membership ranks, last year’s BAFTA nominations included numerous shocks and snubs, particularly in the acting categories. In response to those wild nomination selections, BAFTA has made some minor changes this year.
While Best Film is still a popular vote from all members and most categories will still be decided by a small jury, the two performers in the acting categories with the highest number of votes will automatically receive a nomination and the remaining four nominations will be decided by a jury. That makes predicting two of the six nominees relatively easy and the other four open to all sorts of possibilities.
Last year, the BAFTA juries seemed completely uninterested in predicting the Oscar race and their nominations were an interesting mix of celebrating British cinema and honouring some of the major players in the broader awards season spectrum. Will they follow the same path this year or head back to playing the Oscar game?
The nominations will be announced on February 3 at 12pm GMT / 7am ET / 4am PT. Full predictions list below.
BEST FILM
Belfast
Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
After Love
Ali & Ava
Belfast
Benediction
Boiling Point
Cyrano
House Of Gucci
Last Night In Soho
No Time To Die
Passing
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
After Love
Boiling Point
Censor
The Harder They Fall
Passing
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Drive My Car
The Hand of God
A Hero
Petite Maman
The Worst Person in the World
DOCUMENTARY
Becoming Cousteau
Flee
The Rescue
The Sparks Brothers
The Velvet Underground
ANIMATED FILM
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
DIRECTOR
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Aleem Khan – After Love
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
Denis Villeneuve – Dune
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
After Love
Being the Ricardos
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Licorice Pizza
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CODA
Drive My Car
The Lost Daughter
Passing
The Power of the Dog
LEADING ACTRESS
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Lady Gaga – House of Gucci
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World
Joanna Scanlan – After Love
Tessa Thompson – Passing
LEADING ACTOR
Adeel Akhtar – Ali & Ava
Daniel Craig – No Time to Die
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick…BOOM!
Stephen Graham – Boiling Point
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Caitríona Balfe – Belfast
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Kathryn Hunter – The Tragedy of Macbeth
Ruth Negga – Passing
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bradley Cooper – Licorice Pizza
Mike Faist – West Side Story
Ciarán Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – CODA
Jared Leto – House of Gucci
Kodi Smit–McPhee – The Power of the Dog
CASTING
After Love
CODA
Don’t Look Up
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Belfast
Dune
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
House of Gucci
West Side Story
EDITING
Belfast
Dune
Last Night in Soho
No Time to Die
West Side Story
MAKE UP & HAIR
Cruella
Dune
The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
ORIGINAL SCORE
Don’t Look Up
Dune
The French Dispatch
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dune
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune
Free Guy
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
SOUND
Belfast
Dune
Last Night in Soho
No Time to Die
West Side Story
