2022 EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Nominees
On Feburary 3rd, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced the nominees for the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards, commomerating the best films released in the past year.
48 feature films received nominations for the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards. Leading the nominees is Dune: Part One with eleven nominations, followed by The Power of the Dog with eight nominations, Belfast with six, Licorice Pizza, No Time to Die, and West Side Story with five each, After Love, Boiling Point, Cyrano, Don’t Look Up, Passing, and King Richard with four, CODA, Drive My Car, The French Dispatch, House of Gucci, and Nightmare Alley with three, Ali & Ava, Being the Ricardos, Cruella, Flee, The Hand of God, Last Night in Soho, The Lost Daughter, Summer of Soul and The Worst Person in the World with two, twenty-two films with single nominations.
Along with feature films, the following British short films were nominated: Affairs of the Art, The Black Cop, Do Not Feed the Pigeons, Femme, Night of the Living Dread, The Palace, Stuffed, and Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee.
Without further ado, here are the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) nominees. Any film I’ve reviewed will have a link alongside it, as is standard with my nominees and winners lists.
Best Film
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
Outstanding British Film
After Love
Ali & Ava
Belfast
Boiling Point
Cyrano
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
Last Night in Soho
No Time to Die
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
After Love - Aleem Khan (writer/director)
Boiling Point - James Cummings (writer), Hester Ruoff (producer) [also written by Philip Barantini and produced by Bart Ruspoli]
The Harder They Fall - Jeymes Samuel (writer/director) [Also written by Boaz Yakin]
Keyboard Fantasies - Posy Dixon (writer/director), Liv Proctor (producer)
Passing - Rebecca Hall (writer/director)
Film Not in the English Language
Drive My Car
The Hand of God
Parallel Mothers
Petite Maman
The Worst Person in the World
Documentary
Becoming Costeau
Cow
Flee
The Rescue
Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Animated Film
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs the Machines
Director
After Love - Aleem Khan
Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Happening - Audrey Diwan
Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson
Original Screenplay
Being the Ricardos - Aaron Sorkin
Belfast - Kenneth Branagh
Don’t Look Up - Adam McKay
King Richard - Zach Baylin
Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson
Adapted Screenplay
CODA - Siân Heder
Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Dune: Part One - Denis Villeneuve
The Lost Daughter - Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion
Leading Actress
Lady Gaga - House of Gucci
Alana Haim - Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones - CODA
Renate Reinsve - The Worst Person in the World
Joanna Scanlan - After Love
Leading Actor
Adeel Akhtar - Ali & Ava
Mahershala Ali - Swan Song
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
Leonardo DiCaprio - Don’t Look Up
Stephen Graham - Boiling Point
Will Smith - King Richard
Supporting Actress
Caitríona Balfe - Belfast
Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
Ann Dowd - Mass
Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard
Ruth Negga - Passing
Supporting Actor
Mike Faist - West Side Story
Ciarán Hinds - Belfast
Troy Kotsur - CODA
Woody Norman - C’mon C’mon
Jesse Plemons - The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog
Original Score
Being the Ricardos - Daniel Pemberton
Don’t Look Up - Nicholas Britell
Dune: Part One - Hans Zimmer
The French Dispatch - Alexandre Desplat
The Power of the Dog - Jonny Greenwood
Casting
Boiling Point - Carolyn McLeod
Dune: Part One - Francine Maisler
The Hand of God - Massimo Appolloni, Annamaria Sambucco
King Richard - Rich Delia, Avy Kaufman
West Side Story - Cindy Tolan
Cinematography
Dune: Part One - Greig Fraser
Nightmare Alley - Dan Laustsen
No Time to Die - Linus Sandgren
The Power of the Dog - Ari Wegner
The Tragedy of Macbeth - Bruno Delbonnel
Editing
Belfast - Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
Dune: Part One - Joe Walker
Licorice Pizza - Andy Jurgensen
No Time to Die - Tom Cross, Elliot Graham
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - Joshua L. Pearson
Production Design
Cyrano - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Dune: Part One - Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos
The French Dispatch - Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo
Nightmare Alley - Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau
West Side Story - Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo
Costume Design
Cruella - Jenny Beavan
Cyrano - Massimo Cantini Parrini
Dune: Part One - Robert Morgan, Jacqueline West
The French Dispatch - Milena Canonero
Nightmare ALley - Luis Sequeira
Make Up & Hair
Cruella - Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne
Cyrano - Alessandro Bertolazzi, Siân Miller
Dune: Part One - Love Larson, Donald Mowat
The Eyes of Tammy Faye - Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, Justin Raleigh
House of Gucci - Frederic Aspiras, Jane Carboni, Giuliano Mariana, Sarah Nicole Tanno
Sound
Dune: Part One - Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Doug Hemphill, Theo Green, Ron Bartlett
Last Night in Soho - Colin Nicolson, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Dan Morgan
No Time to Die - James Harrison, Simon Hayes, Paul Massey, Oliver Tarney, Mark Taylor
A Quiet Place Part II - Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor, Ethan Van Der Ryn
West Side Story - Brian Chumney, Tod Maitland, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom
Special Visual Effects
Dune: Part One - Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Gerd Nefzer
Free Guy - Swen Gillberg, Brian Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Daniel Sudick
Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Aharon Bourland, Sheena Duggal, Pier Lefebvre, Alessandro Ongaro
The Matrix Resurrections - Tom Debenham, Hew J Evans, Dan Glass, J. D. Schwaim
No Time to Die - Mark Bokowski, Chris Corbould, Joel Green, Charlie Noble
British Short Animation
Affairs of the Art - Joanna Quinn, Les Mills
Do Not Feed the Pigeons - Jordi Morera
Night of the Living Dread - Ida Melum, Danielle Goff, Laura Jayne Tunbridge, Hannah Kelso
British Short Film
The Black Cop - Cherish Oteka
Femme - Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Sam Ritzenberg, Hayley Williams
The Palace - Jo Prichard
Stuffed - Theo Rhys, Joss Holden-Rea
Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee - Michael Woodward, Max Barron, Daniel Wheldon
EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
Ariana DeBose
Harris Dickinson
Lashana Lynch
Millicent Simmonds
Kodi Smit-McPhee
What do you think of the nominees? What have you seen? What haven't you seen? What do you think got snubbed? Let me know in the comments below or any of my social media platforms!
Until next time!
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