BAFTA nominations: Sandhya Suri’s ‘The Field’ makes shortlist – and other notable nominations

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) announced which films and talent are up for awards…

SANDHYA SURI’S ‘The Field’ has been nominated for a BAFTA in the short film category.

It has already has one high profile award – the best short film at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018, winning $10,000.

It also played at the London Film Festival a month later.

Suri’s 19-minute film covers rare territory – the emotions of an Indian female farm worker who is having an affair. It is a UK-French production.

The Freddie Mercury biopic, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ directed by Bryan Singer and starring US (Egyptian origin) Rami Malek, scored well getting six.

Malek who was awarded a Golden Globe on Sunday (January 6) appears in the best leading actor category.

Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ has five nominations – the tale about a black cop impersonating a white KKK follower premiered at the Cannes Film Festival (and acv covered its Red Carpet entrance there) last year and the film has been commercially successful too.

Peter Farrelly’s ‘Green Book’, a film about a black pianist hiring a white driver to chauffeur him to concerts in the segregated south of the US in the 1960s, has got four nominations.

Mahershala Ali, who appears in ‘Green Book’ is among the nominees for best supporting actor; while Viola Davis is recognised in the leading actress category for her role in Steve McQueen’s opening London Film Festival ‘Widows’.

Elsewhere on the diversity front, Lakeith Stanfield, the star of breakout hit, ‘Sorry to bother you’ gets a nomination in the EE Rising Star category – in which the public can vote. So too does Letitia Wright, one of the stars of ‘Black Panther‘.

More generally, Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘The Favourite’ leads the way with nominations in 12 categories, while Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’ and Damian Chazelle’s ‘First Man’ gets seven; ‘Vice’, starring Brit Christian Bale and made by Adam McKay, has six.

Another film that scored well with four nominations is Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘Cold War’, which is a BFI-funded feature as is Lynne Ramsay’s ‘You were never really here’ in the outstanding British film category; and Michael Pearce’s film set in Jersey, ‘Beast’ also gets a nod in the same category. Pearce is also a nominee in the outstanding British writer/director/producer debut category. In this section, two other BFI backed projects appear, ‘Apostosy’ by Daniel Kokotajlo and ‘Ray & Liz’ by Richard Billingham.

The 72nd Baftas will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on February 10 and be hosted by TV star Joanna Lumley.

Full list

Best Film
BLACKkKLANSMAN Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele
THE FAVOURITE Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday
GREEN BOOK Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler
ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez
A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Bill Gerber, Lynette Howell Taylor

Best Director 
BLACKkKLANSMAN Spike Lee
COLD WAR Pawel Pawlikowski
THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos
ROMA Alfonso Cuarón
A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper

Supporting Actress
AMY ADAMS Vice
CLAIRE FOY First Man
EMMA STONE The Favourite
MARGOT ROBBIE Mary Queen of Scots
RACHEL WEISZ The Favourite

Supporting Actor
ADAM DRIVER BlacKkKlansman
MAHERSHALA ALI Green Book
RICHARD E. GRANT Can You Ever Forgive Me?
SAM ROCKWELL Vice
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET Beautiful Boy

Leading Actress
GLENN CLOSE The Wife
LADY GAGA A Star Is Born
MELISSA McCARTHY Can You Ever Forgive Me?
OLIVIA COLMAN The Favourite
VIOLA DAVIS Widows

Leading Actor
BRADLEY COOPER A Star Is Born
CHRISTIAN BALE Vice
RAMI MALEK Bohemian Rhapsody
STEVE COOGAN Stan & Ollie
VIGGO MORTENSEN Green Book

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
APOSTASY Daniel Kokotajlo (Writer/Director)
BEAST Michael Pearce (Writer/Director), Lauren Dark (Producer)
A CAMBODIAN SPRING Chris Kelly (Writer/Director/Producer)
PILI Leanne Welham (Writer/Director), Sophie Harman (Producer)
RAY & LIZ Richard Billingham (Writer/Director), Jacqui Davies (Producer)

EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
BARRY KEOGHAN
CYNTHIA ERIVO
JESSIE BUCKLEY
LAKEITH STANFIELD
LETITIA WRIGHT

Original Screenplay
COLD WAR Janusz Glowacki, Pawel Pawlikowski
THE FAVOURITE Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
GREEN BOOK Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga
ROMA Alfonso Cuarón
VICE Adam McKay

Adapted Screenplay
BLACKkKLANSMAN Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty
FIRST MAN Josh Singer
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Barry Jenkins
A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, Eric Roth

Cinematography
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Newton Thomas Sigel
COLD WAR Lukasz Zal
THE FAVOURITE Robbie Ryan
FIRST MAN Linus Sandgren
ROMA Alfonso Cuarón

Editing
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Ottman
THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Mavropsaridis
FIRST MAN Tom Cross
ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough
VICE Hank Corwin

Film not in the English language
CAPERNAUM Nadine Labaki, Khaled Mouzanar
COLD WAR Paweł Pawlikowski, Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska
DOGMAN Matteo Garrone, Jeremy Thomas
ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez
SHOPLIFTERS Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kaoru Matsuzaki

Original Music
BLACKkKLANSMAN Terence Blanchard
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Nicholas Britell
ISLE OF DOGS Alexandre Desplat
MARY POPPINS RETURNS Marc Shaiman
A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson

Production Design
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock
THE FAVOURITE Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
FIRST MAN Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas
MARY POPPINS RETURNS John Myhre, Gordon Sim
ROMA Eugenio Caballero, Ba´rbara Enri´quez

Costume Design
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Mary Zophres
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Julian Day
THE FAVOURITE Sandy Powell
MARY POPPINS RETURNS Sandy Powell
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Alexandra Byrne

Make up & Hair
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Mark Coulier, Jan Sewell
THE FAVOURITE Nadia Stacey
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Jenny Shircore
STAN & OLLIE Mark Coulier, Jeremy Woodhead
VICE Nominees TBC

Sound
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey, John Warhurst
FIRST MAN Mary H. Ellis, Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT Gilbert Lake, James H. Mather, Christopher Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith
A QUIET PLACE Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Procter, Ethan Van der Ryn
A STAR IS BORN Steve Morrow, Alan Robert Murray, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic

Special Visual Effects
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Kelly Port, Dan Sudick
BLACK PANTHER Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, Dan Sudick
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD Tim Burke, Andy Kind, Christian Manz, David Watkins
FIRST MAN Ian Hunter, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, J.D. Schwalm
READY PLAYER ONE Matthew E. Butler, Grady Cofer, Roger Guyett, David Shirk

British Short Film
73 COWS Alex Lockwood
BACHELOR, 38 Angela Clarke
THE BLUE DOOR Ben Clark, Megan Pugh, Paul Taylor
THE FIELD Sandhya Suri, Balthazar de Ganay
WALE Barnaby Blackburn, Sophie Alexander, Catherine Slater, Edward Speleers

British Short Animation
I’M OK Elizabeth Hobbs, Abigail Addison, Jelena Popovic
MARFA Gary McLeod, Myles McLeod
ROUGHHOUSE Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boomh

http://www.bafta.org/film/awards/ee-british-academy-film-awards-nominees-winners-2019#best-film