BAFTA Upends its Voting System, Results in Most Diverse Nominees Ever

Okay, so, a couple things here. One, after years of criticism, BAFTA completely upended its voting system, and now the acting and directing nominees are picked by committees of 12 people, some of whom are not BAFTA members, which seemed to have the desired result of finally landing a group of diverse nominees, the most diverse in BAFTA history. But second, there are many movies and names on this list that I’ve never heard of, and that will not result in corresponding Oscar nominations for most (Carey Mulligan wasn’t nominated!). So, I think from now on we’re going to have to look at the BAFTA’s as being more like what they used to be before the mid-2000’s- entirely separate from Oscar precursors. Except for maybe the Best Film category (which obviously looks like the frontrunners in awards season overall), this is a list that achieved the desired result at the expense of having anything to do with predicting the Oscars…which is maybe a good thing? The Brits should do their own thing, shouldn’t they? If anything it ought to be a celebration of purely British film anyway, right? The Oscar nominees are next Monday, and this year it’s more likely to be entirely its own list of stuff than any time in many years previously.

2021 BAFTA NOMINEES

BEST PICTURE

• The Father

• The Mauritanian

• Nomadland

• Promising Young Woman

• The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST DIRECTOR

• Another Round – Thomas Vinterberg

• Babyteeth – Shannon Murphy

• Minari – Lee Isaac Chung

• Nomadland – Chloé Zhao

• Quo Vadis, Aida? – Jasmila Žbanić

• Rocks – Sarah Gavron

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 CASTING

• Calm With Horses

• Judas and the Black Messiah

• Minari

• Promising Young Woman

• Rocks

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Judas and the Black Messiah

• Mank

• The Mauritanian

• News of the World

• Nomadland

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Ammonite

• The Dig

• Emma

• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

• Mank

BEST FILM EDITING

• The Father

• Nomadland

• Promising Young Woman

• Sound of Metal

• The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST MAKE UP & HAIR

• The Dig

• Hillbilly Elegy

• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

• Mank

• Pinocchio

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Mank

• Minari

• News of the World

• Promising Young Woman

• Soul

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• The Dig

• The Father

• Mank

• News of the World

• Rebecca

BEST SOUND

• Greyhound

• News of the World

• Nomadland

• Soul

• Sound of Metal

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• Greyhound

• The Midnight Sky

• Mulan

• The One and Only Ivan

• Tenet

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Onward

• Soul

• Wolfwalkers

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• Collective

• David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet

• The Dissident

• My Octopus Teacher

• The Social Dilemma

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

• Another Round

• Dear Comrades!

• Les Misérables

• Minari

• Quo Vadis, Aida?

BEST BRITISH FILM

• Calm With Horses

• The Dig

• The Father

• His House

• Limbo

• The Mauritanian

• Mogul Mowgli

• Promising Young Woman

• Rocks

• Saint Maud

The British film Rocks was showered with nominations today, after having come out in 2019