(19 Jan 2023)

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London, 19 January 2023
1. Wide shot; zoom Hayley Atwell and Toheeb Jimoh at announcement of BAFTA nominations, UPSOUND (English):
Atwell: "Hello, good afternoon everyone. A very warm welcome to EE BAFTA Film Awards nominations announcement 2023. I'm Hayley Atwell."
Jimoh: "And I'm Toheeb Jimoh. Hello everyone. It's a great honor to reveal this year's nominees from BAFTA's home here in London."
2. Medium shot Toheeb Jimoh announces the nominees for Outstanding British Film
3. Medium shot Hayley Atwell announces the nominees for Original Screenplay
4. Medium shot Toheeb Jimoh announces the nominees for Adapted Screenplay
5. Medium shot Hayley Atwell announces the nominees for Documentary
6. Medium shot Toheeb Jimoh announces the nominees for Film Not In The English Language
7. Medium shot Hayley Atwell announces the nominees for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
8. Medium shot Toheeb Jimoh announces the nominees for Director
9. Medium shot Hayley Atwell announces the nominees for Supporting Actor
STORYLINE:
Visceral World War I German-language drama “All Quiet on the Western Front” got a field-leading 14 nominations on Thursday (19 JANUARY 2023) for the British Academy Film Awards, with genre-bending comedies “The Banshees of Inisherin“ and “Everything Everywhere All At Once” each nominated in 10 categories.

“All Quiet,” an unflinching adaptation of a classic antiwar novel about life and death in the trenches, is up for awards including best film and best director, for Edward Berger. Its tally of nominations is the highest ever for a film not in the English language.

Martin McDonagh’s Irish tragicomedy “Banshees” has nominations including best picture, best director and best actor, for Colin Farrell.

Nominations for madcap metaverse adventure “Everything Everywhere” include nods for co-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — known jointly as “the Daniels” — and a best-actress nomination for Michelle Yeoh.

Baz Lurhmann’s flamboyant musical biopic “Elvis” is up for nine awards, including best picture.

The BAFTAs are Britain’s equivalent of Hollywood’s Academy Awards. The winners will be announced Feb. 19 at a ceremony in London.

The nominations help cement “Banshees” and “Everything Everywhere” as awards-season favorites, following momentum-building wins at the Golden Globes and multiple nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

The BAFTA best-picture nominees are “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Elvis,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and Todd Field’s symphonic psychodrama “Tár.”

The 10 nominees for outstanding British film, a separate category, include Charlotte Wells’ 1990s family drama “Aftersun,” Sam Mendes’ semi-autobiographical “Empire of Light” and Sophie Hyde’s smart sex comedy “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande."

Britain’s film academy introduced changes to increase the awards’ diversity in 2020, when no women were nominated as best director for the seventh year running and all 20 nominees in the lead and supporting performer categories were white.

The voting process was rejigged to add a “longlist” round in the voting before the selection of the final nominees that are voted on by the academy membership of several thousand industry professionals. For the best film prize, academy members choose a 15-film longlist that all members must watch before voting for the winner.


Unlike some awards, including U.K. music prizes the Brits, the BAFTAs have retained separate male and female acting categories, though that is under review.





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