BAFTA nominations 2020: ‘This looks stubbornly limited’ Fans RAGE as Greta Gerwig and Jennifer Lopez are snubbed for Best Director and Best Actress nods
- The BAFTAs will take place on February 2 at Royal Albert Hall and air on BBC One
- The star-studded ceremony will this year be hosted by Graham Norton, who has taken over the role from veteran Joanna Lumley
- Joker is this year’s frontrunners with a whopping 11 nominations, while The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follow on behind with 10
- Fans were enraged when a host of favourites missed out on gongs
Film fans were left raging when Little Women director Greta Gerwig and Hustlers actress Jennifer Lopez were snubbed for BAFTA nods on Tuesday morning.
The nominations for the 73rd British Academy Film Awards have been announced ahead of the ceremony on February 2 at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
A furious fan wrote: ‘Come on @BAFTA, you can do better than this’, after the duo were snubbed for Best Director and Best Actress respectively, while Marriage Story’s lack of recognition was also riling fans.
Shock: Film fans were left raging when Little Women director Greta Gerwig and Hustlers actress Jennifer Lopez were snubbed for BAFTA nods on Tuesday morning
Joker is this year’s frontrunners with a whopping 11 nominations, while The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follow on behind with 10.
The supervillain drama, starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Todd Phillips, looks set to dominate on the night as the front runner, and will compete for Best Film alongside 1917, The Irishman, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood and Parasite.
As well as Little Women’s lack of director nod, fans were also displeased at the fact the movie did not feature in the Best Film category.
Speaking of J.Lo’s absence, fans penned: ‘Wtf where’s jlo ????????????… When Margot Robbie and Scarlett Johansson each get two noms, over names like Lupita Nyong’o, Jennifer Lopez, Awkwafina and Cynthia Erivo…
Shocker: The nominations for the 73rd British Academy Film Awards have been announced ahead of the ceremony on February 2 at London ‘s Royal Albert Hall
Shocker: Jennifer absence was causing outrage on social media
‘Or talent in British films like Marianne Jean-Baptiste or BIFA winner Ruthxjiah Bellenea — it makes BAFTA look almost stubbornly limited.’
On Greta’s lack of the big nod, Twitter users penned: ‘Umm so the BAFTA’s are a little bit of a mess this year imo… These BAFTA noms suck so hard where are Noah, Greta and Rian in the best director category??…
‘Why Todd Phillips when you could literally have Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach or Lulu Wang?! Jeez… Where’s Greta?… thought i could trust the bafta’s but they didn’t nominate greta for best director or little women for best picture…
‘#BAFTA No Greta Gerwig for Best Director or Little Women for Best Film.’
Fuming: Fans seemed to think Greta was most deserving of the director nod
Marriage Story was a hot topic, with many fans believing the movie was overlooked.
Fans soon flooded the microblogging site to pen: ‘Fair play, For me I’d put marriage story over the joker… just gonna assume yous didn’t even see Marriage Story or Little Women if you thought Joker was better directed… marriage story really got robbed from the bafta nominations huh…?
Greta’s snub comes after she candidly discussed her fears over directing Hollywood heavyweight Meryl Streep in Little Women.
Shocker: Marriage Story was a hot topic, with many fans believing the movie was overlooked
Fury: Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver are the stars of Marriage Story
The Lady Bird star 36, said she was left ‘terrified’ at the prospect of directing the three-time Oscar winner, 70, but the experience of working with the Hollywood icon who played Aunt March, ‘forced her to be better.’
She said: ‘Oh, I was terrified as a director, because what am I going to say to her? She’s so smart and she knows more about how films are made than anyone.
‘There were a couple of lines I wrote to get a character from A to B, inelegantly, and you know when Meryl asks, “Now why do I say that?” you’d better have a f*****g good answer.
Frontrunner: The nominations for the 73rd British Academy Film Awards have been announced ahead of the ceremony on February 2 at London ‘s Royal Albert Hall. Joker is this year’s frontrunners with a whopping 11 nominations
Upsetting: Greta’s snub comes after she candidly discussed her fears over directing Hollywood heavyweight Meryl Streep in Little Women
‘It’s intimidating, but it forces you to be better. Unfortunately, it’s uncomfortable to get better, because it means you have to look like an idiot in front of her. But she’s fabulous.’
Discussing the process behind turning Little Women into a film, she added: ‘It made me cry, both while I was writing it and then making it. Now I have no feelings left. Little Women feels as personal as anything I’ll ever make.
‘Everyone who works with me can attest to this – I go into a zone where I don’t wash or return calls and I go feral. I can go into hyperfocus as well as becoming more scattered. I like things that have a great deal of pressure and a lot of deadlines, because I need it.’
Greta made her solo directorial debut in 2017 with the acclaimed Lady Bird, which she also wrote.
BAFTAs 2020: THE NOMINATIONS
BEST FILM
1917 Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren
THE IRISHMAN Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
JOKER Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae
Joker has earned the most nods with 11 nominations
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
1917 Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
BAIT Mark Jenkin, Kate Byers, Linn Waite
FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
ROCKETMAN Dexter Fletcher, Adam Bohling, David Furnish, David Reid, Matthew Vaughn, Lee Hall
SORRY WE MISSED YOU Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty
THE TWO POPES Fernando Meirelles, Jonathan Eirich, Dan Lin, Tracey Seaward, Anthony McCarten
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
BAIT Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers)
FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab (Director/Producer), Edward Watts (Director)
MAIDEN Alex Holmes (Director)
ONLY YOU Harry Wootliff (Writer/Director)
RETABLO Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (Writer/Director)*
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE FAREWELL Lulu Wang, Daniele Melia
FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
PAIN AND GLORY Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
PARASITE Bong Joon-ho
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Céline Sciamma, Bénédicte Couvreur
DOCUMENTARY
AMERICAN FACTORY Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
APOLLO 11 Todd Douglas Miller
DIEGO MARADONA Asif Kapadia
FOR SAMA Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
THE GREAT HACK Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim
Frozen 2 earns a nomination for Animated Film
ANIMATED FILM
FROZEN 2 Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho
KLAUS Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh
A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON Will Becher, Richard Phelan, Paul Kewley
TOY STORY 4 Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen
DIRECTOR
1917 Sam Mendes
THE IRISHMAN Martin Scorsese
JOKER Todd Phillips
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE Bong Joon-ho
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BOOKSMART Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman
KNIVES OUT Rian Johnson
MARRIAGE STORY Noah Baumbach
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE Han Jin Won, Bong Joon-ho,
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood has earned 10 nods
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
THE IRISHMAN Steven Zaillian
JOJO RABBIT Taika Waititi
JOKER Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
LITTLE WOMEN Greta Gerwig
THE TWO POPES Anthony McCarten
LEADING ACTRESS
JESSIE BUCKLEY Wild Rose
SCARLETT JOHANSSON Marriage Story
SAOIRSE RONAN Little Women
CHARLIZE THERON Bombshell
RENÉE ZELLWEGER Judy
Saoirse Ronan has earned a leading actress nod for Little Women
LEADING ACTOR
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
ADAM DRIVER Marriage Story
TARON EGERTON Rocketman
JOAQUIN PHOENIX Joker
JONATHAN PRYCE The Two Popes
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
LAURA DERN Marriage Story
SCARLETT JOHANSSON Jojo Rabbit
FLORENCE PUGH Little Women
MARGOT ROBBIE Bombshell
MARGOT ROBBIE Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
SUPPORTING ACTOR
TOM HANKS A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
ANTHONY HOPKINS The Two Popes
AL PACINO The Irishman
JOE PESCI The Irishman
BRAD PITT Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
ORIGINAL SCORE
1917 Thomas Newman
JOJO RABBIT Michael Giacchino
JOKER Hildur Guđnadóttir
LITTLE WOMEN Alexandre Desplat
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER John Williams
JoJo Rabbit has received six nominations in total
CASTING
JOKER Shayna Markowitz
MARRIAGE STORY Douglas Aibel, Francine Maisler
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Victoria Thomas
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD Sarah Crowe
THE TWO POPES Nina Gold
CINEMATOGRAPHY
1917 Roger Deakins
THE IRISHMAN Rodrigo Prieto
JOKER Lawrence Sher
LE MANS ’66 Phedon Papamichael
THE LIGHTHOUSE Jarin Blaschke
Netflix hit The Irishman has 10 nominations
EDITING
THE IRISHMAN Thelma Schoonmaker
JOJO RABBIT Tom Eagles
JOKER Jeff Groth
LE MANS ’66 Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Fred Raskin
PRODUCTION DESIGN
1917 Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales
THE IRISHMAN Bob Shaw, Regina Graves
JOJO RABBIT Ra Vincent, Nora Sopková
JOKER Mark Friedberg, Kris Moran
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh
COSTUME DESIGN
THE IRISHMAN Christopher Peterson, Sandy Powell
JOJO RABBIT Mayes C. Rubeo
JUDY Jany Temime
LITTLE WOMEN Jacqueline Durran
ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Arianne Phillips
Sam Mendes’ movie 1917 has received nine nominations
MAKE UP & HAIR
1917 Naomi Donne
BOMBSHELL Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan
JOKER Kay Georgiou, Nicki Ledermann
JUDY Jeremy Woodhead
ROCKETMAN Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
SOUND
1917 Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson
JOKER Tod Maitland, Alan Robert Murray, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic
LE MANS ’66 David Giammarco, Paul Massey, Steven A. Morrow, Donald Sylvester
ROCKETMAN Matthew Collinge, John Hayes, Mike Prestwood Smith, Danny Sheehan
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
1917 Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy
AVENGERS: ENDGAME Dan Deleeuw, Dan Sudick
THE IRISHMAN Leandro Estebecorena, Stephane Grabli, Pablo Helman
THE LION KING Andrew R. Jones, Robert Legato, Elliot Newman, Adam Valdez
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Neal Scanlan, Dominic Tuohy
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
GRANDAD WAS A ROMANTIC. Maryam Mohajer
IN HER BOOTS Kathrin Steinbacher
THE MAGIC BOAT Naaman Azhari, Lilia Laurel
BRITISH SHORT FILM
AZAAR Myriam Raja, Nathanael Baring
GOLDFISH Hector Dockrill, Harri Kamalanathan, Benedict Turnbull, Laura Dockrill
KAMALI Sasha Rainbow, Rosalind Croad
LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL) Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva
THE TRAP Lena Headey, Anthony Fitzgerald
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
AWKWAFINA
JACK LOWDEN
KAITLYN DEVER
KELVIN HARRISON JR.
MICHEAL WARD
Producer Kathleen Kennedy will be granted the BAFTA Fellowship Award.
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