Baftas 2023 - Tom Cruise's Top Gun snubbed as Brendan Fraser leads nominees
The EE Bafta Film Awards 2023 nominations have been announced, with stars like Emma Thompson, Brendan Fraser, Colin Farrell and Austin Butler all in the running to take home a prestigious award next month.
Tom Cruise's blockbuster Top Gun sequel hasn't been recognised in any of the categories much to the disappointment of many, with one film fan writing: "I guess the voters just don’t get that this movie literally got everyone back in theaters and saved the business they work in."
This year’s BAFTAs, which will take place in London on 19 February, will be presented by Richard E Grant and This Morning star Alison Hammond, three weeks before the Oscars over in America.
The nominations were unveiled in a live stream on Bafta’s website on Thursday by actors Hayley Atwell, best known for playing Agent Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Ted Lasso’s Toheeb Jimoh.
All Quiet on the Western Front lead the way with a whopping 10 nominations, with Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Banshees of Inisherin picking up 10 nods each. Baz Luhrmann's Elvis appears in nine categories.
Emily Atack and Frankie Bridge lead glamour in daring frocks at pre-BAFTAs partyBAFTA's full list of nominations being announced follow the academy confirming this year's Rising Star nominees, with two stars from Sex Education in the running to be presented with the major honour.
Aimee Lou Wood and Emma Mackey, who play friends Aimee and Maeve in the Netflix seres, were among the nominees announced on Wednesday.
Naomie Ackie (Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody), The Woman King’s Sheila Atim and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’s Daryl McCormack make up the rest of the nominees.
Here are the full list of nominations for the 2023 BAFTAs:
BEST FILM
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Malte Grunert
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
ELVIS Gail Berman, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang
TÁR Todd Field, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan
BAFTA hopeful Colin Farrell says animals had 'connection' with him on movie setDIRECTOR
EDWARD BERGER, All Quiet on the Western Front
MARTIN McDONAGH, The Banshees of Inisherin
PARK CHAN-WOOK, Decision to Leave
DANIEL KWAN, DANIEL SCHEINERT, Everything Everywhere All At Once
TODD FIELD, Tár
GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD, The Woman King
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
CHARLOTTE WELLS, Aftersun
GEORGIA OAKLEY, HÉLÈNE SIFRE, Blue Jean
MARIE LIDÉN, Electric Malady
KATY BRAND, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
MAIA KENWORTHY, Rebellion
FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Malte Grunert
ARGENTINA, 1985 Santiago Mitre, Producer(s) TBC
CORSAGE Marie Kreutzer
DECISION TO LEAVE Park Chan-wook, Ko Dae-seok
THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad, Cleona Ní Chrualaoí
DOCUMENTARY
ALL THAT BREATHES Shaunak Sen, Teddy Leifer, Aman Mann
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, John Lyons
FIRE OF LOVE Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, Ina Fichman
MOONAGE DAYDREAM Brett Morgan
NAVALNY Daniel Roher, Diane Becker, Shane Boris, Melanie Miller, Odessa Rae
ANIMATED FILM
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON Dean Fleisher Camp, Andrew Goldman, Elisabeth Holm, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey
PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH Joel Crawford, Mark Swift
TURNING RED Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
THE FABELMANS
TÁR
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell
LIVING Kazuo Ishiguro
THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad
SHE SAID Rebecca Lenkiewicz
THE WHALE Samuel D. Hunter
LEADING ACTRESS
CATE BLANCHETT Tár
VIOLA DAVIS The Woman King
DANIELLE DEADWYLER Till
ANA DE ARMAS Blonde
EMMA THOMPSON Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
MICHELLE YEOH Everything Everywhere All At Once
LEADING ACTOR
AUSTIN BUTLER Elvis
COLIN FARRELL The Banshees of Inisherin
BRENDAN FRASER The Whale
DARYL McCORMACK Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
PAUL MESCAL Aftersun
BILL NIGHY Living
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
ANGELA BASSETT Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
HONG CHAU The Whale
KERRY CONDON The Banshees of Inisherin
DOLLY DE LEON Triangle of Sadness
JAMIE LEE CURTIS Everything Everywhere All At Once
CAREY MULLIGAN She Said
SUPPORTING ACTOR
BRENDAN GLEESON, The Banshees of Inisherin
BARRY KEOGHAN, The Banshees of Inisherin
KE HUY QUAN, Everything Everywhere All At Once
EDDIE REDMAYNE, The Good Nurse
ALBRECHT SCHUCH, All Quiet on the Western Front
MICHEAL WARD, Empire of Light
Jane Millichip, chief executive of BAFTA, said: "The EE Bafta Film Awards are a celebration of the full spectrum of craft and creativity that go into filmmaking.
"We extend our warmest congratulations to the 215 people nominated today who represent 45 extraordinary films, spanning a vast range of narrative styles, genres and perspectives.
"We are proud of the role our awards play in inspiring the public and future filmmakers around the world, and we look forward to celebrating all the nominees and their films at the ceremony next month.”
It was announced on Tuesday that Sex Education’s Emma Mackey and Aimee Lou Wood, Naomi Ackie, who recently portrayed Whitney Houston in Sony’s musical biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, The Woman King’s Sheila Atim and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’s McCormack have all been nominated for the EE Rising Star Award.
The category is the only one at the Bafta film awards which is voted for by the public and previous winners include Lashana Lynch, Bukky Bakray, John Boyega, James McAvoy, Kristen Stewart and Tom Hardy.
Actors Hayley Atwell and Toheeb Jimoh announced the nominations via a live broadcast from Bafta 195 Piccadilly in London.
The 2023 Baftas ceremony will be held at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall and broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on February 19.