2016 - Awards Season: BAFTA - Nominations
January 11, 2017
The BAFTA nominations were announced and it should come as no surprise what film lead the way... La La Land with 11 nominations, Nocturnal Animals and Arrival are tied for second with nine nominations a piece.
The categories and nominees are...
Best Film
Outstanding British Film
- American Honey
- Denial
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- I, Daniel Blake
- Notes on Blindness
- Under the Shadow
- Damien Chazelle for La La Land
- Tom Ford for Nocturnal Animals
- Ken Loach for I, Daniel Blake
- Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea
- Arrival
- Damien Chazelle for La La Land
- Berry Jenkins and Tarell McCraney for Moonlight
- Paul Laverty for I, Daniel Blake
- Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea
- Taylor Sheridan for Hell or High Water
- Luke Davies for Lion
- Tom Ford for Nocturnal Animals
- Eric Heisserer for Arrival
- Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan for Hacksaw Ridge
- Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder for Hidden Figures
- The Girl with all the Gifts: Mike Carey (Writer) and Camille Gatin (Producer)
- The Hard Stop: George Amponsah (Writer/Director/Producer) and Dionne Walker (Writer/Producer)
- Notes on Blindness: Pete Middleton (Writer/Director/Producer); James Spinney (Writer/Director); and Jo-Jo Ellison (Producer)
- The Pass: John Donnelly (Writer) and Ben A. Williams (Director)
- Under the Shadow: Babak Anvari (Writer/Director); Emily Leo (Producer); Oliver Roskill (Producer); and Lucan Toh (Producer)
- Amy Adams for Arrival
- Emily Blunt for The Girl on the Train
- Natalie Portman for Jackie
- Emma Stone for La La Land
- Meryl Streep for Florence Foster Jenkins
- Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea
- Andrew Garfield for Hacksaw Ridge
- Ryan Gosling for La La Land
- Jake Gyllenhaal for Nocturnal Animals
- Viggo Mortensen for Captain Fantastic
- Mahershala Ali for Moonlight
- Jeff Bridges in Hell or High Water
- Hugh Grant for Florence Foster Jenkins
- Dev Patel for Lion
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson for Nocturnal Animals
- Viola Davis for Fences
- Naomie Harris for Moonlight
- Nicole Kidman for Lion
- Hayley Squires for I, Daniel Blake
- Michelle Williams for Manchester by the Sea
Best Film Not in the English Language
Best Animated Film
Best Cinematography
- Greig Fraser for Lion
- Seamus McGarvey for Nocturnal Animals
- Giles Nuttgens for Hell or High Water
- Linus Sandgren for La La Land
- Bradford Young for Arrival
- Justin Hurwitz for La La Land
- Jóhann Jóhannsson for Arrival
- Abel Korzeniowski for Nocturnal Animals
- Mica Levi for Jackie
- Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka for Lion
Best Production Design
Best Special Visual Effects
- Arrival
- Doctor Strange
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- The Jungle Book
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Best Makeup and Hair
Best Editing
Best British Short Animation
- The Alan Dimension
- A Love Story
- Tough
- Consumed
- Home
- Mouth of Hell
- The Party
- Standby
Notes and Reactions...
- There’s a good news / bad news situation here. There are not a lot of surprises as most of the films earning the most nominations also earned a ton of previous nominations. On the one hand, this means I was able to cut and paste a lot of the list. On the other hand, this means I don’t have a lot to talk about.
- La La Land has been dominating the early Awards Season, so picking up 11 nominations isn’t a shock. The only issue going forward is potential backlash. Arrival did better than usual, but that’s because this is the first set of awards with plenty of technical categories it could clean up on. Finally, Nocturnal Animals did better than its reviews suggest. A Tomatometer Score of 72% positive just isn’t award-worthy. Then again, it’s earned plenty of previous nominations.
- If I, Daniel Blake doesn’t win Best British Film, I will be stunned, as it picked up more other high prestige nominations than any other British film this year. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them also earned four other nods, but most were technical in nature.
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