Bafta Awards: Irish production The Favourite dominates nominations

Awards season is now well and truly in full swing. Just days after the Golden Globes offered upsets with Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book, Bafta have announced its nominees for 2019.

With 12 nominations, The Favourite is some way ahead of its nearest rivals A Star is Born, First Man, Roma, and controversial Globes winner Bohemian Rhapsody - each landing 7 nominations.

The news comes as a further feather in the cap for Element Pictures, the Irish production company. The Favourite marks the third collaboration between Element Pictures and its director, Yorgos Lanthimos following The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Colman, already a three time Bafta winner, receives a nomination for Best Actress. Her co-stars Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are both in the running for Best Supporting Actress.

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga also score Bafta success this morning. They pick up nods for Best Actor and Actress. Cooper receives Film, Directing, Adapted Screenplay and Original music nominations for his work on A Star Is Born. Gaga gets a second nod for Original Music. The film was largely snubbed at the Globes but it did take home the top prizes at the prestigious National Board of Review Awards last night.

After a triumphant Golden Globes, there’s also a chance for Bohemian Rhapsody to secure further success. It is nominated for Best British Film and Actor for Rami Malek along with several nods in the technical categories.

In further good news for Irish talent, Dubliner Barry Keoghan and Kerry’s Jessie Buckley are in the running for the Bafta Rising star award.

The full list of nominations:

Best Film

• BlacKkKlansman
• The Favourite
• Green Book
• Roma
• A Star Is Born

Outstanding British Film

• Beast
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• McQueen
• Stan & Ollie
• You Were Never Really Here

Best Director

• Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman
• Paweł Pawlikowski - Cold War
• Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite
• Alfonso Cuaron - Roma
• Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born

Best Leading Actor

• Bradley Cooper
• Christian Bale
• Rami Malek
• Steve Coogan
• Viggo Mortensen

Best Leading Actress

• Glenn Close
• Lady Gaga
• Melissa McCarthy
• Olivia Colman
• Viola Davis

Best Supporting Actor

• Adam Driver
• Mahershala Ali
• Richard E. Grant
• Sam Rockwell
• Timothée Chalamet

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams
• Claire Foy
• Emma Stone
• Margot Robbie
• Rachel Weisz

Best Adapted Screenplay

• BlacKkKlansman
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• First Man
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• A Star Is Born

Original Screenplay

• Cold War
• The Favourite
• Green Book
• Roma
• Vice

Best Animated Film

• Incredibles 2
• Isle of Dogs
• Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

Best Cinematography

• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Cold War
• The Favourite
• First Man
• Roma

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

• Apostasy
• Beast
• A Cambodian Spring
• Pili
• Ray & Liz

Film Not in the English Language

• Capernaum
• Cold War
• Dogman
• Roma
• Shoplifters

Best Documentary

• Free Solo
• McQueen
• RBG
• They Shall Not Grow Old
• Three Identical Strangers

Best Original Music

• BlacKkKlansman
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Isle of Dogs
• Mary Poppins Returns
• A Star Is Born

Editing

• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• First Man
• Roma
• Vice

Production Design

• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• The Favourite
• First Man
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Roma

Costume Design

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Mary Queen of Scots

Make Up & Hair

• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• Mary Queen of Scots
• Stan & Ollie Vice

Sound

• Bohemian Rhapsody
• First Man
• Mission: Impossible - Fallout
• A Quiet Place
• A Star Is Born

Special Visual Effects

• Avengers: Infinity War
• Black Panther
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• First Man
• Ready Player One

British short film

• 73 Cows
• Bachelor
• The Blue Door
• The Field
• Wale

British short animation

• I’m OK
• Marfa
• Roughhouse

Bafta Rising Star (voted for by the public)

• Jessie Buckley
• Cynthia Erivo
• Barry Keoghan
• Lakeith Stanfield
• Letitia Wright

Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema

• Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen​