‘Oppenheimer’ emerges as BAFTA favourite

Movie ‘Oppenheimer’Christopher Nolan, this Thursday is set as the favorite for the next release Bafta awards from the British Academy, earning 13 nominations, including picture, director and actor.

After her, the British took 11th place ‘Poor people’Yorgos Lanthimos, while the author’s latest work Martin ScorseseThe ‘flower moon killers’ and hauntings ‘Zone of interest’Jonathan Glazer, received nine nominations each for the awards, which will be presented on February 18

The French woman remained with seven nominations “Anatomy of a Fall”Justine Triet, Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ and Alexander Payne’s ‘The Holdovers’.

‘Oppenheimer’ aims to repeat the great victory he achieved in the last edition Golden Globeswhere he won five awards, including those of drama film, director or actor.

He will be present mostly at the BAFTAs categoriesas a film, director, screenplay, actor (Cillian Murphy), supporting actress (Emily Blunt), or supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.), with a slew of others occasions in those of a technical nature, such as photography, editing or costumes.

If the Globes were presented as a duel between two great sensations screen last year, ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Barbie‘, on this occasion of the event mattel doll They fare worse, competing in just five categories, including original screenplay and actress.

Another winner of the Golden Globes, where he won the best comedy and the best actress, “Les Miserables” will have as many as eleven opportunities to win the BAFTA and repeat the success of Emma Stone at the head of the cast.

‘Les Miserables’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ will compete for best picture with ‘Anatomy of the Fall’, ‘The Holdovers’ and ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’. However, neither Lanthimos nor Scorsese will be able to win the statuette for the best director, for which names such as e.g. Andrew Haighthe director of the film ‘All of us strangers’, which had six nominations.

Despite being one of the most acclaimed British directors in recent years, Nolan will be trying to land his first BAFTAbecause until now he had never succeeded in being a prophet in his own country.

The non-English speaking category is very competitive, where Spanish ‘Snow company‘, Juan Antonio Bayona, will face heavyweights like ‘Anatomy of a Fall‘, ‘The Zone of Interest’, was filmed by an American in the Korean ‘Past Lives’ or the Ukrainian documentary ’20 days in Mariupol’.

Margot Robbie will want revenge on a few nominations her ‘Barbie’ with a statuette for the best actress, where she will compete with the aforementioned Stone and perhaps the German Sandra Hüller, who excels in her role in ‘Anatomy of the Fall’.

Meanwhile, Blunt is the favorite for supporting actress, alongside Da’Vine Joy Randolph or, again, Sandra Hüller, this time for ‘The Zone of Interest’.

In animated films, the latest work of the Japanese studio Ghibli “The Boy and the Heron” will meet Pixar, ‘Elementary’the latest Spiderman sequel, ‘Across the Spider-verse’, and the local Aardman, ‘Chicken Run: The Dawn of the Nugget‘.