Baftas

Best filmWill win OppenheimerShould win Poor ThingsShoulda been a contender GodlandBest directorWill win Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of InterestShould win Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of InterestShoulda been a contender Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower MoonOutstanding debut by a British writer, director or producerWill win Molly Manning Walker for How to Have SexShould win Molly Manning Walker for How to Have SexShoulda been a contender Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping for FemmeBest British filmWill win The Zone…

When the #Barbenheimer hashtag emerged last summer, encouraging filmgoers to watch two radically different blockbusters as a double bill, Christopher Nolan’s epic study of atom bomb pioneer J Robert Oppenheimer appeared almost as an afterthought to the frothy, comedic doll-centred Barbie, its seriousness and three-hour length weighing it down. The box office battle – Barbie’s $1.4bn worldwide revenue convincingly defeating Oppenheimer’s $959.9m – appeared conclusive. But as the awards season nears its climax, Oppenheimer…

Baftas 2024: Best British film nominees you need to watch | Binge WatchGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe Baftas 2024 are almost here, with the biggest film stars in the world set to attend.In the next few days, Hollywood actors, including Emma Stone, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, will make their way to London for the ceremony, which is taking place at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday (18 February).The winners…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe 77th annual British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the Baftas, are only days away. Taking place on Sunday (18 February) at London’s Royal Festival Hall, the ceremony will be hosted by Doctor Who star David Tennant, with Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham set to perform.The prizes – officially titled the EE Bafta Film Awards – are Britain’s equivalent of Hollywood’s Academy…

With Bafta buzz in the air, we look at some of the standout British films that have topped the critics’ lists this awards season.Is Emerald Fennell’s divisive Saltburn worthy of the hype? Will Yorgos Lanthimos’s surreal farce Poor Things bag the top prize? Why did Andrew Scott miss out on a Best Actor nomination?Join Annabel Nugent and Jacob Stolworthy as they run through their predictions for who’s set to sweep up, and who will be snubbed at this year’s Baftas.Get the latest film and TV news and reviews with Binge Watch…

The viral hit from 2001 has experienced a major resurgence since it appeared in the 2023 Emerald Fennell film Saltburn The 2024 BAFTA Awards isn’t exactly the proper place to recreate Barry Keoghan’s freewheeling naked dance scene in Emerald Fennell’s film Saltburn. But Sophie Ellis-Bextor will deliver a far more appropriate performance of her 2001 hit “Murder on the Dancefloor,” which is currently experiencing a major resurgence thanks to the movie, at the 2024 BAFTA Awards. “We are excited…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIt was a very Bafta list of nominees. If you’re someone who keeps a close eye on the intricacies of awards season – either through professional obligation, or some kind of deep-rooted cinephilic sickness – then by now, you’ve probably got a feel for the foibles and idiosyncrasies of the various awards bodies. The Golden Globes, for instance, like to plump for glamour. The Baftas tend…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAtom-bomb epic Oppenheimer leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with nominations in 13 categories including Best FilmGothic fantasia Poor Things received 11 nominations on the list announced Thursday (18 January), while historical epic Killers of the Flower Moon and Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest had nine each.Other leading contenders include French courtroom drama…

As Samuel Goldwyn apocryphally remarked in 1945: “This A-bomb – it’s dynamite!!” With 13 Bafta nominations, Christopher Nolan’s mighty historical bio-epic Oppenheimer continues its triumphal march through awards season. It stars Cillian Murphy as the wartime inventor of nuclear weaponry J Robert Oppenheimer, galvanised by America’s race to get the bomb before the Nazis, transfixed by the dark ecstasy of the successful Trinity test in the New Mexico desert, then agonised with his postwar burden of guilt and horror. The…

Christopher Nolan, arguably the most commercially and critically successful British director in decades, looks set to secure his first Bafta victory next month, after his latest film, Oppenheimer, was nominated in 13 categories.The film is up for best film, director, adapted screenplay, leading actor for Cillian Murphy, supporting actress for Emily Blunt, supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr, cinematography, editing, costume design, makeup and hair, original score, production design, and sound – but it was overlooked in…