If you had BAFTA on your BINGO card for being utterly useless this year, you may have just won all the marbles. The Mauritanian surprises with a Best Film nomination, but nothing for Directing. Meanwhile, Promising Young Woman gets in to the small Best Film slate while getting left off for directing and acting. These nominations are completely atypical and even more British than usual. They might as well move themselves back after the Academy Awards if they are going to be this incompetent in their predictive capabilities.

Nominations Tallies

(7) Nomadland, Rocks
(6) The Father, Mank, Minari, Promising Young Woman
(5) The Dig, The Mauritanian
(4) Another Round, Calm With Horses, Judas and the Black Messiah, News of the World, Sound of Metal
(3) His House, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Soul, The Trial of the Chicago 7

The Nominations

Best Film

The Father
The Mauritanian
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Animated Film

Onward
Soul
Wolfwalkers

Best Director

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Sarah Gavron – Rocks
Shannon Murphy – Babyteeth
Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round
Jasmila Žbanić – Quo Vadis, Aida?
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Adarsh Gourav – The White Tiger
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round
Tahar Rahim – The Mauritanian

Best Actress

Bukky Bakray – Rocks
Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Wunmi Mosaku – His House
Alfre Woodard – Clemency

Best Supporting Actor

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Barry Keoghan – Calm With Horses
Alan Kim – Minari
Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night In Miami
Clarke Peters – Da 5 Bloods
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress

Niamh Algar – Calm With Horses
Kosar Ali – Rocks
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah
Ashley Madekwe – County Lines
Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari

Best Original Screenplay

Another Round
Mank
Promising Young Woman
Rocks
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Dig
The Father
The Mauritanian
Nomadland
The White Tiger

Best Original Score

Mank
Minari
News of the World
Promising Young Woman
Soul

Best Editing

The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Cinematography

Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
The Mauritanian
News of the World
Nomadland

Best Production Design

The Dig
The Father
Mank
News of the World
Rebecca

Best Costume Design

Ammonite
The Dig
Emma.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank

Best Makeup & Hair

The Dig
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Pinocchio

Best Sound

Greyhound
News of the World
Nomadland
Soul
Sound of Metal

Best Special Visual Effects

Greyhound
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet

Best Film Not in the English Language

Another Round
Dear Comrades!
Les Misérables
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?

Best Documentary

Collective
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
The Dissident
My Octopus Teacher
The Social Dilemma

Best Casting

Calm With Horses
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Rocks

Best British Film

Calm With Horses
The Dig
The Father
His House
The Mauritanian
Mogul Mowgli
Promising Young Woman
Rocks
Saint Maud

Best British Short Animation

The Fire Next Time
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Song of A Lost Boy

Best British Short Film

Eyelash
Lizard
Lucky Break
Miss Curvy
The Present

Outstanding British Debut

His House
Limbo
Moffie
Rocks
Saint Maud

British Academy of Film & Television Arts Data

Year Founded: 1947
First Awards: 1959 (62)