It’s that time of year again where we celebrate the best in the film industry including the greatest in British Films as the BAFTAs have been announced. At an early morning event, Sophie Turner and Dominic Cooper announced the latest awards that, again, brim excitement and just a little smudge of predictability.

In no surprise La La Land is the big heavyweights in the British Film Awards this year, scooping up a whopping 11 awards. But surprisingly, Nocturnal Animals and Arrival meets the second spot with Manchester by the Sea in third. Moonlight has a great collection of nominations too which is happily making all the correct waves. I Daniel Blake has also scooped up several nominations.

We’re shocked to see Emily Blunt in the Best Actress category for The Girl on the Train which, sadly, replaces Isabelle Huppert who misses out on a Best Actress nod due to the delay in the release of Elle. Dev Patel is surreally nominated for Best Supporting Actor despite leading Lion and Jeff Bridges is nominated for the same award where it should’ve been Ben Foster in Hell or High Water. 

Laika is battling THREE Disney films in Best Animation with Kubo & The Two Strings and we hope, finally, it beats out but the success of Zootopia tells us otherwise.

However, this is a fine, if somewhat expected collection of nominations following from the American nominations.

What do you think?

Here are the full list of nominations:

Best Film 

Arrival 
I, Daniel Blake 
La La Land 
Manchester by the Sea 
Moonlight

Best British Film 

Under the Shadow 
I Daniel Blake
American Honey 
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 
Notes on Blindness 
Denial

Best Supporting Actress

Hayley Squires – I Daniel Blake
Naomie Harris – Moonlight
Viola Davis – Fences
Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea
Nicole Kidman – Lion

Best Supporting Actor 

Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Hugh Grant – Florence Foster Jenkins
Aaron Taylor-Johnson – Nocturnal Animals
Dev Patel – Lion
Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water

Best Leading Actress 

Emma Stone – La La Land 
Emily Blunt – The Girl on the Train 
Amy Adams – Arrival 
Natalie Portman – Jackie
Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins

Best Leading Actor 

Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea 
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nocturnal Animals 
Ryan Gosling – La La Land 
Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic 

Outstading Debut by British Writer, Director, or Producer

Mike Carey & Camille Gatin – The Girl With All The Gifts
George Amponsah & Dionne Walker – The Hard Stop 
Peter Middleton, James Spinney, and Jo-Jo Ellison – Notes on Blindness 
John Donnelly & Ben A. WIlliams – The Pass
Babak Anvari, Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, and Lucan Toh – Under the Shadow 

Film Not in the English Language  

Dheepan 
Julieta 
Mustang 
Son of Saul 
Toni Erdmann

Documentary 

13th 
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years 
The Eagle Huntress 
Notes on Blindness 
Weiner 

Animated Film 

Finding Dory 
Kubo and the Two Strings 
Moana 
Zootropolis 

Director 

Denis Villeneuve – Arrival
Ken Loach – I, Daniel Blake
Damien Chazelle – La La Land
Kenneth Longergan – Manchester by the Sea
Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals 

Original Screenplay

Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water 
Paul Laverty – I, Daniel Blake 
Damien Chazelle – La La Land 
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
Barry Jenkins – Moonlight 

Adapted Screenplay 

Eric Heisserer – Arrival 
Robert Schenkkan & Andrew Knight – Hacksaw Ridge
Theodore Melfi & Allison Schroeder – Hidden Figures 
Luke Davies – Lion 
Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals

Best Original Music 

Jjohan Johannsson – Arrival 
Mica Levi – Jackie 
Justin Hurwitz – La La Land 
Dustin O’Halloran, Huschka – Lion 
Abel Korzeniowski – Nocturnal Animals

Cinematography 

Bradford Young – Arrival
Giles Nuttgens – Hell or High Water 
Linus Sandgren – La La Land
Greig Fraser – Lion 
Seamus McGarvey – Nocturnal Animals 

Editing 

Joe Walker – Arrival 
John Gilbert – Hacksaw Ridge 
Tom Cross – La La Land
Jennifer Lame – Manchester by the Sea 
Joan Sobel – Nocturnal Animals

Production Design 

John Bush & Charles Wood – Doctor Strange 
Stuart Craig & Anna Pinnock – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 
Jess Gonchor & Nancy Haigh – Hail, Caeser! 
Sandy REynoldss-Wasco & David Wasco – Arrival 
Shane Valentino & Meg Everist – Nocturnal Animals

Costume Design 

Joanna Johnston – Allied 
Colleen Atwood – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Consolata Boyle – Florence Foster Jenkins
Madeline Fontaine – Jackie 
Mary Zophres – La La land 

Make Up & Hair 

Jeremy Woodhead – Doctor Strange 
J. Roy Helland & Daniel Phillips – Florence Foster Jenkins 
Shame Thomas – Hacksaw Ridge 
Donald Mowat & Yolanda Toussieng – Nocturnal Animals 
TBA – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 

Sound 

Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariepy Strobl, Sylvain Bellemare – Arrival
Mike Prestwood Smith, Dror Mohar, Wylie Stateman, David Wyman – Deepwater Horizon
Niv Adiri, Glenn Freemantle, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Ian Tapp – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Peter Grace, Robert Mackenzie, Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright – Hacksaw Ridge 
Mildren Iatrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee, Steve A. Marrow, Andy Nelson – La La Land

Special Visual Effects 

Louis Morin – Arrival 
Richard Bluff, Stephane Ceretti, Paul Corbould, Jonathon Fawkner – Doctor Strange 
Tim Burke, Pablo Grillo, Christian Manz, David Watkins – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 
Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez – The Jungle Book 
Neil Corbould, Hal Hickel, Mohen Leo, John Knoll, Nigel Summer – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 

British Short Animation

The Alan Dimension
A Love Story
Tough

Best Short Film

Consumed 
Home 
Mouth of Hell 
The Party 
Standby 

The EE Rising Star Award 

Tom Holland
Ruth Negga
Lucas Hedges
Laia Costa
Anya Taylor-Joy

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EE British Academy Film Awards airs live on February 12th