LONDON, March 13 (Reuters) – The British Academy Movie Awards returned as a glitzy in-person occasion on Sunday, with stars together with Woman Gaga and Benedict Cumberbatch strolling the pink carpet at London’s Royal Albert Corridor.
Australian actress and comic Insurgent Wilson will host this 12 months’s ceremony, often known as the BAFTAs (British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts), following a digital occasion final 12 months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Science fiction epic “Dune”, a mammoth adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel, leads nominations with 11 nods, primarily within the artistic and technical classes.
Darkish Western “The Energy of the Canine” follows with eight nominations and “Belfast”, Kenneth Brannagh’s semi-autobiographical black and white comedy drama set on the onset of Northern Eire’s three a long time of battle, has six.
All three will compete with coming-of-age story “Licorice Pizza” and “Do not Look Up”, a humorous warning about local weather change, for the highest prize of the night time, finest movie.
Singer Shirley Bassey will open the present, performing a James Bond film theme in honour of the movie franchise’s sixtieth anniversary.
Not all nominees are current, with “The Energy of the Canine” director Jane Campion and Will Smith, within the working for main actor for enjoying the daddy of tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams in “King Richard”, amongst these absent.
Nominees for main actress are Woman Gaga (“Home of Gucci”), Alana Haim (“Licorice Pizza”), Emilia Jones (“CODA”), Renate Reinsve (“The Worst Individual within the World”), Joanna Scanlan (“After Love”) and Tessa Thompson (“Passing”).
Main actor nominees additionally embrace Cumberbatch (“The Energy of the Canine”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“Do not Look Up”), Adeel Akhtar (“Ali & Ava”), Mahershala Ali (“Swan Music”) and Stephen Graham (“Boiling Level”).
Half of the perfect director nominees this 12 months are girls: Campion for “The Energy of the Canine”, Audrey Diwan for “Occurring”, a French drama about unlawful abortion within the Nineteen Sixties, and Julia Ducournau for physique horror “Titane”.
Aleem Khan (“After Love”), Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (“Drive My Automotive”) and Paul Thomas Anderson (“Licorice Pizza”) full the listing.
Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Modifying by Susan Fenton
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