FILE PHOTO: Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh and Matt Damon attend a photograph name for “Oppenheimer” in London, Britain, July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska/File Picture
LONDON — Historic drama “Oppenheimer” leads nominations for the BAFTA Movie Awards in London this weekend, however will the film concerning the making of the atomic bomb throughout World Conflict Two, which has already picked up prizes elsewhere, be the winner on the night time?
Directed by Briton Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer,” one in all final yr’s highest-earning films, has 13 nods at Britain’s prime film honors, adopted by sex-charged gothic comedy “Poor Issues” starring Emma Stone, with 11.
“The Zone of Curiosity,” a couple of household residing subsequent to Auschwitz, has 9 nominations, and like “Poor Issues,” it’s within the operating for excellent British movie.
“As a result of it’s the BAFTAs, you do get this native love. So that you would possibly see a bit extra wins for ‘The Zone Of Curiosity’,” Digital Spy films editor Ian Sandwell instructed Reuters.
“…However I simply really feel ‘Oppenheimer’ is so robust in all of the classes that it’s going to finish up with a lot of the wins.”
“Oppenheimer” dominated the Golden Globes with 5 wins and leads nominations for subsequent month’s Academy Awards.
On the BAFTAs, it’s going to compete for finest movie alongside “Poor Issues”, “Killers of the Flower Moon”, concerning the murders of members of the Osage Nation within the Nineteen Twenties, courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Holdovers”, a comedy set in a boys’ boarding faculty.
“I feel ‘Oppenheimer’ actually for finest movie,” Tim Richards, founder and CEO of cinema operator Vue Worldwide, instructed Reuters.
“Chris Nolan is…a Brit and…with the BAFTAs, he’s actually one of the extremely revered and far cherished administrators within the enterprise and I feel he’s acquired to be in there for finest director as properly.”
Based mostly on the 2005 biography “American Prometheus” by Kai Chook and Martin J. Sherwin, “Oppenheimer” options Cillian Murphy because the American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Murphy and Stone at present lead betting odds to win the main performing classes. Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph has already picked up a number of awards for her supporting actress position in “The Holdovers” and is extensively anticipated to win once more on the BAFTAs. However will Murphy’s “Oppenheimer” solid mate and fellow Golden Globe winner Robert Downey Jr. additionally triumph for supporting actor?
“I feel (supporting actor) is the one the place it’s almost certainly we’ll get a little bit of a shock, and I feel it’ll be Paul Mescal (for ‘All of Us Strangers’),” Sandwell mentioned.
“Barbie”, the best grossing movie of 2023, has 5 nominations total, however the omission of Greta Gerwig from the director class raised some eyebrows.
“’Barbie’ was…the clear one which appears to have been handed over each by the Academy (Awards) and by BAFTA members and it’s a thriller why,” Richards mentioned.
The BAFTAs shall be held on Sunday at London’s Royal Pageant Corridor.