The nominations for 2021 are the first to come after a major overhaul and review of the film award rules and regulations that was triggered after the 2020 #BAFTAsSoWhite controversy.
Nomadland and Rocks lead the group of BAFTA 2021 nominees on the most diverse list of nominations ever seen in the history of the British Academy, and arriving just a year after being involved in the #BaftaSoWhite controversy, generating a 7-month review and review of the voting rules and regulations.
Chloe Zhao’s favorite award season set in the American West and Sarah Gavron’s coming-of-age drama about a group of students from central London received seven nominations each, with The father, Mank, Minari and Promising young woman not far behind, with six. Excavation and The Mauritanian won five.
Among the various highlights of an extremely eclectic list of nominations – which saw a record of 50 different nominated films (against a previous record of 39) – was the category of direction in which four filmmakers were nominated, breaking the previous record (of only one ) and ending an almost male decade-long run.
Elsewhere, the performance categories – a year after being heavily criticized for being entirely white – are the most diverse in the award’s history and also mix established talent with rising stars. While the two-time BAFTA winner and Anthony Hopkins receive their seventh nomination, for The Father, the newcomer Bukky Bakray, the main star of 18 years of Rocks, wins his first (and his first film role). Bakray is among 21 of the 24 names in the performance categories that are receiving their first BAFTA nominations.
This year, the awards will take place on the weekend of April 10, April 11, with two shows broadcast virtually from the Royal Albert Hall in London. The first show celebrating the craft of cinema, the second covering the categories performance, talent and others above the line.
See the full list of nominees below
Best movie
The father
The Mauritanian
Nomadland
Promising young woman
The Chicago Trial 7
Main actress
Bukky Bakray, Rocks
Radha Blank, The forty-year-old version
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces Of Woman
Frances Mcdormand, Nomadland
Wunmi Mosaku, His house
Alfre Woodard, Clemency
Main actor
Riz Ahmed, Sound Of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Black Bottom by Ma Rainey
Adarsh Gourav, The white tiger
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
Rising Star
Bukky Bakray
Conrad Khan
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Morfydd Clark
Sope Dirisu
Excellent British film
Calm With Horses
Excavation
The father
His house
Limbo
The Mauritanian
Mogul Mowgli
Promising young woman
Rocks
Saint Maud
Notable debut by a British writer, director or producer
His house, Remi Weekes (writer / director)
Limbo, Ben Sharrock (writer / director), Irune Gurtubai (producer) [Also Produced By Angus Lamont]
Moffie, Jack Sidey (writer / producer) [Also Written By Oliver Hermanus And Produced By Eric Abraham]
Rocks, Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (writers)
Saint Maud, Rose Glass (Writer / Director), Oliver Kassman (Producer) [Also Produced By Andrea Cornwell]
Film that is not in the English language
Another round
Dear comrades!
The miserable
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Documentary
Collective
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
The dissident
My octopus teacher
The social dilemma
Animated movie
Forward
Soul
Wolfwalkers
Director
Another round, Thomas Vinterberg
Babyteeth, Shannon Murphy
Minari, Lee Isaac Chung
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao
Quo Vadis, Aida?, Jasmila Žbanić
Rocks, Sarah Gavron
Original Screenplay
Another round, Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
Mank, Jack Fincher
Promising young woman, Emerald Fennell
Rocks, Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
The Chicago Trial 7, Aaron Sorkin
Adapted Roadmap
Excavation, Moira Buffini
The father, Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
The Mauritanian, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, MB Traven
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao
The white tiger, Ramin Bahrani
Original score
Mank, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Minari, Emile Mosseri
World News, James Newton Howard
Promising young woman, Anthony Willis
Soul, Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Casting
Calm With Horses, Shaheen Baig
Judas and the Black Messiah, Alexa L. Fogel
Minari , Julia Kim
Promising young woman, Lindsay Graham Ahanonu, Mary Vernieu
Rocks, Lucy Pardee
Cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah, Sean Bobbitt
Mank, Erik Messerschmidt
The Mauritanian, Alwin H. Küchler
World News, Dariusz Wolski
Nomadland, Joshua James Richards
Editing
The father, Yorgos Lamprinos
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao
Promising young woman, Frédéric Thoraval
Sound Of Metal, Mikkel EG Nielsen
The Chicago Trial 7, Alan Baumgarten
Production design
Excavation, Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
The father, Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone
Mank, Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale
World News, David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan
Rebecca, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Costume
Ammonite, Michael O’connor
Excavation, Alice Babidge
EmmaAlexandra Byrne
Black Bottom by Ma Rainey, Ann Roth
Mank, Trish Summerville
Makeup and hair
Excavation, Jenny Shircore
Hillbilly Elegy, Patricia Dehaney, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle
Black Bottom by Ma Rainey, Matiki Anoff, Larry M. Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal
Mank, Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams
Pinocchio, Mark Coulier
Sound
Greyhound, Tbc
World News, Michael Fentum, William Miller, Mike Prestwood Smith, John Pritchett, Oliver Tarney
Nomadland, Sergio Diaz, Zach Seivers, M. Wolf Snyder
Soul, Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker
Sound Of Metal, Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés, Michelle Couttolenc
Special Visual Effects
Greyhound, Pete Bebb, Nathan Mcguinness, Sebastian Von Overheidt
The midnight sky, Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, David Watkins
Mulan, Sean Faden, Steve Ingram, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury
The Only Ivan, Santiago Colomo Martinez, Nick Davis, Greg Fisher
Principle, Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley
British short film animation
The Fire Next Time, Renaldho Pelle, Yanling Wang, Kerry Jade Kolbe
The owl and the kitten, Mole Hill, Laura Duncalf
The song of a lost boy, Daniel Quirke, Jamie Macdonald, Brid Arnstein