BAFTA 2021 nominations list reveals a diverse selection of actors and movies

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The BAFTA 2021 nominations have been announced, and this year's list is possibly the most diverse in the award show's history.

Nomadland and Rocks lead the way with seven nominations each, while other critically-acclaimed films including Minari, The Father, and Promising Young Woman find themselves up for six gongs.

Rocks is perhaps the biggest surprise in terms of number of nominations as, outside of film festival ceremonies and the British Independent Film Awards, it hadn't received major award recognition. Sarah Garvon's British coming-of-age drama, though, will be looking to cause a few upsets on the night in categories including Best Director and Leading Actress.

Best Film

The Father
The Mauritanian
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Outstanding British Film

Calm With Horses
The Dig
The Father
His House
Limbo
The Mauritanian
Mogul Mowgli
Promising Young Woman
Rocks
Saint Maud

Leading 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)

Leading Actor

Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger)
Sir Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Mads Mikkelsen (Another Round)
Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian)

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)

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 Director

Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)
Shannon Murphy (Babyteeth)
Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Jasmila Žbanić (Quo Vadis, Aida?)
Sarah Gavron (Rocks)

EE Rising Star (voted for by the public)

Kingsley Ben-Adir
Morfydd Clark
Bukky Bakray
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
Conrad Khan

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

Remi Weekes (His House writer/director)
Ben Sharrock (Limbo writer/director), Irune Gurtubai (Limbo producer)
Jack Sidey (Moffie writer/producer)
Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Rocks writers)
Rose Glass (Saint Maud writer/director), Oliver Kassman (Saint Maud producer)

Film not in the English Language

Another Round
Dear Comrades!
Les Misérables
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?

Best Documentary

Collective
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
The Dissident
My Octopus Teacher
The Social Dilemma

Best Animated Film

Onward
Soul
Wolfwalkers

Best Original Screenplay

Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)
Jack Fincher (Mank)
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Rocks)
Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Moira Buffini (The Dig)
Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller (The Father)
Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, MB Traven (The Mauritanian)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Ramin Bahrani (The White Tiger)

Best Original Score

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (Mank)
Emile Mosseri (Minari)
James Newton Howard (News of the World)
Anthony Willis (Promising Young Woman)
Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (Soul)

Best Cinematography

Sean Bobbitt (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Erik Messerschmidt (Mank)
Alwin H Küchler (The Mauritanian)
Dariusz Wolski (News of the World)
Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)

Best Costume Design

Michael O'Connor (Ammonite)
Alice Babidge (The Dig)
Alexandra Byrne (Emma)
Ann Roth (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
Trish Summerville (Mank)

Best Editing

Yorgos Lamprinos (The Father)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Frédéric Thoraval (Promising Young Woman)
Mikkel EG Nielsen (Sound of Metal)
Alan Baumgarten (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Best Production Design

Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald (The Dig)
Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone (The Father)
Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale (Mank)
David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan (News of the World)
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer (Rebecca)

Best Make-Up and Hair

Jenny Shircore (The Dig)
Patricia Dehaney, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle (Hillbilly Elegy)
Matiki Anoff, Larry M Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams (Mank)
Mark Coulier (Pinocchio)

Best Sound

Nominees TBC (Greyhound)
Michael Fentum, William Miller, Mike Prestwood Smith, John Pritchett, Oliver Tarney (News of the World)
Sergio Diaz, Zach Seivers, M Wolf Snyder (Nomadland)
Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker (Soul)
Jamie Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortes, Michelle Couttolenc (Sound of Metal)

Best Special Visual Effects

Pete Bebb, Nathan McGuinness, Sebastian von Overheidt (Greyhound)
Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, David Watkins (The Midnight Sky)
Sean Faden, Steve Ingram, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury (Mulan)
Santiago Colomo Martinez, Nick Davis, Greg Fisher (The One and Only Ivan)
Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley (Tenet)

Best Casting

Shaheen Baig (Calm With Horses)
Alexa L Fogel (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Julia Kim (Minari)
Lindsay Graham Ahanonu, Mary Vernieu (Promising Young Woman)
Lucy Pardee (Rocks)

Best British Short Film

Eyelash
Lizard
Lucky Break
Miss Curvy
The Present

Best British Short Animation

The Fire Next Time
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Song of A Lost Boy

Outstanding Contribution

To be announced

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