Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," a film depicting the development of the atomic bomb, leads this year's BAFTA nominations with 13 nods. Competing for best film alongside "Oppenheimer" are "Killers of the Flower Moon," "Poor Things," "Anatomy of a Fall," and "The Holdovers." "Poor Things" follows closely behind "Oppenheimer" with 11 nominations.
In the best director category, Nolan, Triet and Payne were nominated alongside Bradley Cooper for “Maestro,” his biopic of Leonard Bernstein; Jonathan Glazer for “The Zone of Interest,” a movie about day-to-day life at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust; and Andrew Haigh for “All of Us Strangers,” an acclaimed British film about a lonely gay writer.
Greta Gerwig's blockbuster "Barbie," centered around the doll's self-discovery journey, missed out on nominations for best movie or best director. However, Margot Robbie, the film's lead actress, earned a nomination for best lead actress. Robbie will contend for the prize alongside other notable actresses such as Emma Stone ("Poor Things"), Carey Mulligan ("Maestro"), and Fantasia Barrino ("The Color Purple").
Lily Gladstone, who this month became the first Indigenous person to win a Golden Globe for best actress for her performance in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” was not nominated for a BAFTA.