2021 BAFTA Film Awards Nominees – Full List

The nominees for the 2021 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) were announced today, 9th March 2021, with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) voting on the best of cinema from the past 12 months.

In a series of announcements made by Susan Wokoma and Aisling Bea via YouTube, the British Academy announced the first candidates of its new era, with Nomadland following its successful Golden Globes run with nominations in the Best Film and Best Director categories, and Netflix’s British Independent Film Awards winning drama Rocks picking up nominations in both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress as well as being included amongst the increased number of 10 nominees for Best British Film.

In 2020, BAFTA received a lot of criticism for nominating an all-male selection in its Best Director category for the 7th year running, and for selecting exclusively white nominees across its acting categories. In response, BAFTA made a number of voting and structural changes to their film awards in an attempt to combat any lack of diversity amongst its nominees in the future, introducing over 100 new rules and parameters, including the prerequisite that 50% of its longlist for Best Director now has to be made up of women (10 of 20) and that each of its acting category shortlists must now be made up of 6 nominees instead of the usual 5.

In 2021, 4 of the 6 nominees for Best Director are women, whilst 16 of the 24 nominees across the acting categories are people of colour, indicating that the new rules and parameters were successful in bringing new perspectives to the academy.

The winners of the 2021 BAFTAs will be announced in a ceremony held without a live audience on Sunday 11th April 2021.

The Nominees for the 74th British Academy Film Awards:

BEST FILM
The Father
The Mauritanian
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Calm with Horses
The Dig
The Father
His House
Limbo
The Mauritanian
Mogul Mowgli
Promising Young Woman
Rocks
Saint Maud

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Another Round
Dear Comrades!
Les Misérables
Minari
Quo Vadis, Aida?

DOCUMENTARY
Collective
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
The Dissident
My Octopus Teacher
The Social Dilemma

ANIMATED FILM
Onward
Soul
Wolfwalkers

DIRECTOR
Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)
Shannon Murphy (Babyteeth)
Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Jasmila Žbanić (Quo Vadis, Aida?)
Sarah Gavron (Rocks)

LEADING ACTRESS
Bukky Bakray (Rocks)
Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version)
Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)
Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Wunmi Mosaku (His House)
Alfre Woodard (Clemency)

CASTING
Calm with Horses
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Rocks

LEADING ACTOR
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger)
Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Mads Mikkelsen (Another Round)
Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Niamh Algar (Calm with Horses)
Kosar Ali (Rocks)
Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Dominique Fishback (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Ashley Madekwe (County Lines)
Yuh-jung Youn (Minari)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Barry Keoghan (Calm with Horses)
Alan Kim (Minari)
Leslie Odom, Jr. (One Night in Miami)
Clarke Peters (Da 5 Bloods)
Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm (Another Round)
Jack Fincher (Mank)
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Rocks)
Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Moira Buffini (The Dig)
Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton (The Father)
M.B. Traven, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani (The Mauritanian)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Ramin Bahrami (The White Tiger)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
The Mauritanian
News of the World
Nomadland

PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Dig
The Father
Mank
News of the World
Rebecca

COSTUME DESIGN
Ammonite
The Dig
Emma.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank

MAKE UP & HAIR
The Dig
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Pinocchio

EDITING
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

ORIGINAL SCORE
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Promising Young Woman
Soul

SOUND
Greyhound
News of the World
Nomadland
Soul
Sound of Metal

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Greyhound
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
The Fire Next Time
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Song of a Lost Boy

BRITISH SHORT FILM
Eyelash
Lizard
Lucky Break
Miss Curvy
The Present

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Remi Weekes (His House)
Ben Sharrock, Irune Gurtubai (Limbo)
Jack Sidey (Moffie)
Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Rocks)
Rose Glass, Oliver Kassman (Saint Maud)

EE RISING STAR AWARD
Bukky Bakray
Conrad Khan
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Morfydd Clark
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BAFTA will announce the BAFTA Fellowship Award and Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema award at the ceremony itself.