BAFTA 2024 Nominations: 'One Battle After Another' Leads

In the race to the BAFTA, to be held on February 22 in London, 'One Battle After Another' leads with 14 nominations. Close behind are 'The Sinners' with 13, as well as 'Hamnet' and 'Marty Supreme' with 11 each; 'Frankenstein' and 'Sentimental Valor' with eight each; or 'Uncontrollable' and 'Bugonia' with five. Under this premise, the queen category of the awards, Best Film, 'One Battle After Another' will face 'The Sinners', 'Hamnet', 'Marty Supreme' and 'Sentimental Valor'; which also repeat in the Best Director category including Yorgos Lanthimos for 'Bugonia'. The film 'One Battle After Another', by American director Paul Thomas Anderson, positioned itself this Tuesday with 14 nominations as the favorite for the 79th edition of the BAFTA awards, the most important in British cinema, where the Spanish 'Sirat', by Óliver Laxe, also achieved a nomination. Latin American representation was also completed with the nomination of Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in 'One Battle After Another', which will opt for its second golden mask in its record, having obtained it in 2001 for 'Traffic'. Brazil, 'Sirat' and Del Toro, in the running. The film by Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho will also compete for the award for Best Non-English Language Film alongside the Spanish 'Sirat', by Franco-Galician director Óliver Laxe, as well as with 'Sentimental Valor', by Joachim Trier; 'The Voice of Hind', by Kaouther Ben Hania, and 'A Simple Accident', by Jafar Panahi. Timothée Chalamet ('Marty Supreme') positions himself as the favorite in the bets to achieve the golden mask in the Best Actor category, where he will face Leonardo DiCaprio ('One Battle After Another'); Ethan Hawke ('Blue Moon'), Jesse Plemons ('Bugonia'), Michael B. Jordan ('The Sinners') and Robert Aramayo, for 'Uncontrollable'. In the Best Actress award, Irish Jessie Buckley has, barring a major surprise, the most votes to win the award, but will face tough competition: Rose Byrne ('If I Could, I'd Kick You'), Kate Hudson ('Song Sung Blue'), Chase Infiniti ('One Battle After Another'), Renate Reinsve ('Sentimental Valor') and Emma Stone ('Bugonia'). Three nominations were received for 'The Ballad of the Island', 'Pillion' and 'F1', while 'Wicked: Part II', 'Zootropolis 2' and the Brazilian 'The Secret Agent' got two, the latter in both the Best Original Screenplay and Best Non-English Language Film categories. A list dominated by 'excellence'. Of the 220 films initially submitted to the BAFTA, only 46 have managed to get a nomination this Tuesday, in a list that, in Putt's opinion, has put 'excellence' as the main criterion for selection. Similarly, Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa will fight to win the award in the Best Documentary category, after receiving a nomination for 'Apocalypse in the Tropics', focused on how the evangelical movement that paved the way for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro. 'Sirat', directed and written by Laxe, continues to accumulate international recognition, recently achieving two nominations for the upcoming Oscars, with a story that delves into the Moroccan desert to follow the desperate search of a father, Luis (Sergi López), and his youngest son, Esteban (Bruno Núñez), to find Mar, his daughter and older sister, who disappeared months ago at an illegal rave in the mountains. Del Toro will compete in the same category with his co-star Sean Penn, as well as Australian actor of Basque roots Jacob Elordi ('Frankenstein'), Paul Mescal ('Hamnet'), Peter Mullan ('Uncontrollable') and Stellan Skarsgård ('Sentimental Valor'). The president of the Film and Television Academy, Sara Putt, praised the Franco-Galician director's film in statements to EFE: 'Sirat' is an excellent film. It is a challenging film, it is very different and I think that is what makes it memorable and exciting. British actors Aimee Lou Wood ('The White Lotus') and David Jonsson ('Industry') were in charge of announcing the nominations at a ceremony held this Tuesday at the BAFTA headquarters, in central London. Congratulations to all those involved'. The gala for the 79th edition of the BAFTA awards, to be presented for the first time by Scottish actor and presenter Alan Cumming, will take place on February 22 at the Royal Festival Hall in the British capital.