Lauren Turner
BBC News

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The Bafta Films Awards is the last major film organisation to reveal its shortlist this awards season... but it's by no means the least.

Here are five key things we learnt from today's Bafta nominations reveal:

1) One Battle After Another leads the field

There have been a whopping 14 Bafta nominations for the thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Vampire horror Sinners, which topped the Oscar nominations last week, follows close behind with 13.

2) History-making Hamnet

No other film directed by a woman has received as many nominations in Baftas history, which is quite the achievement.

That's perhaps just slightly tarnished though by the fact filmmaker Chloé Zhao is the only woman on the shortlist for best director this year, despite five being on the longlist.

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3) The Ballad of Wallis Island gets its flowers

Our culture editor Katie Razzall says the three nods for this feelgood comedy drama are "richly deserved" - with other fans including Richard Curtis, who's said it's "one of the greatest British films of all time".

4) Baftas love for stars snubbed by Oscars

Paul Mescal missed out on a best supporting actor nomination for the Oscars. But he's made up for that today by making the Baftas shortlist, for his portrayal of William Shakespeare in Hamnet.

Meanwhile, Chase Infiniti, who'd been tipped to get a best actress for One Battle After Another, also gets nominated.

5) Leo joins Hollywood greats with seven career nominations

Leonardo DiCaprio is in good company as he hits seven Bafta nominations in the leading actor category - tying the all-time record with Michael Caine, Daniel Day-Lewis, Peter Finch, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Lemmon and Laurence Olivier.

We're now wrapping up this live page. The Bafta Film Awards will take place on 22 February at London's Royal Festival Hall. Until then, you can continue reading with our latest story.

Leonardo DiCaprio-led revolutionary caper One Battle After Another is at the front of the pack, with 14 nominations in total for this year's Bafta Film Awards.

It's closely followed by director Ryan Coogler's vampire drama Sinners, with 13. Hamnet and Marty Supreme are next, each with 11 nominations.

• You can read the full list of nominations in our story

Lauren Turner
BBC News

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There is a great showing from a constellation of Bafta's rising stars this year, with six former or current nominees up for awards in the acting categories.

They are: Robert Aramayo, Jessie Buckley, Timothée Chalamet, Jacob Elordi, Chase Infiniti and Carey Mulligan.

The nominees for this year’s EE rising star award were announced on 14 January as Archie Madekwe, Chase Infiniti, Miles Caton, Posy Sterling and Aramayo. It’s the only award voted for by the British public.

Three former and current Bafta breakthroughs also get nominations this year: Buckley, Infiniti and Akinola Davies Jr.

Tom Brook
Talking Movies presenter

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I think there's a bit of an interesting story here that it's easy to miss, and that is Sentimental Value. That film got nine Oscar nominations last week, and it got eight today.

I think we've got to pay attention to the ascendancy of European cinema.

What's interesting is that, both with Bafta and the Academy Awards, voters have recognised European cinema like never before.

Sentimental Value is a small Norwegian film, a family drama. It has great people in it, like Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning.

Lauren Turner
BBC News

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Here’s a fun little fact - every acting category this year includes one person who has previously won the award, one who has been nominated and one who’s a first-time nominee.

So, for example, in the leading actress category there is debut nominee Chase Infiniti, former nominee Kate Hudson and former winner Emma Stone.

It’s the same for best supporting actress, leading actor and best supporting actor.

Ian Youngs
Culture reporter

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Half of the six nominees for best supporting actress are British - the highest of any acting category.

They include Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners, following her Oscar nomination last week.

She’s joined by two established names - Carey Mulligan (The Ballad of Wallis Island) and Emily Watson (Hamnet).

The category also includes Sweden’s Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value), Odessa A’zion (Marty Supreme) and fellow US rising star Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another).

Teyana will probably be the one to beat, but Wunmi could provide a home win, nine years after she won a Bafta TV award for Damilola, Our Loved Boy.

Lauren Turner
Culture reporter

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It was one of the most-anticipated releases of 2025 but Wicked: For Good has only picked up two nominations, in the costume design and make-up and hair categories.

Cynthia Erivo had made the Baftas longlist for leading actress with her portrayal of Elphaba Thropp, but doesn’t appear on the shortlist of six.

She was nominated in the same category last year for the first Wicked film.

And there’s no nod for Ariana Grande either, for best supporting actress, after she was named in the longlist for that category.

Only one female director makes shortlistpublished at 12:37 GMT

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Katie Razzall
Culture editor

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Hamnet has broken a record today as the most nominated film directed by a woman in Bafta history.

A well-deserved nominations haul for a British film that is doing well at the box office.

But the record can’t mask the wider issue that - aside from Zhao - no other female director made it on to the shortlist.

In recent years, Bafta has tried to address the gender imbalances, particularly prevalent in the directing category, by ensuring equality on the 10-strong longlist, with five male and five female directors chosen.

But for the second time in two years, Bafta voters opted to oust four of the five female directors in favour of five men and one woman making the shortlist.

Ian Youngs
Culture reporter

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Every year, there’s one star who sweeps the same prize at every ceremony in Hollywood’s award season.

This year, that unstoppable force is Jessie Buckley.

And she’ll surely be even more unstoppable here given that Baftas voters have given more love overall to her film, Hamnet, than the Oscars did last week.

The acclaim coming her way is fully deserved – her performance as William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes (aka Anne) is a remarkable portrait of motherhood and grief.

Also giving fine performances, but probably along for the ride in the best actress category, are Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Emma Stone (Bugonia), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value) – and Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another), who receives some justice after being shut out of the Oscar race.

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Following closely behind One Battle After Another, with 13 nominations, is Ryan Coogler’s period vampire film Sinners.

It’s up for:

• Best film
• Director
• Original screenplay
• Leading actor
• Supporting actress
• Casting
• Cinematography
• Editing
• Original score
• Costume design
• Make-up & hair
• Production design
• Sound

Ian Youngs
Culture reporter

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Paul Mescal was left out of the Oscar nominations for his role as William Shakespeare in Hamnet, but Bafta voters have shown him some love, including him in the best supporting actor race.

It comes five years after he won his only Bafta, for his breakthrough role in TV’s Normal People.

The Irish actor will be a pretty long shot to win the award this year, but the race is quite wide open, as well as being very international.

Mescal faces competition from Australia’s Jacob Elordi (for playing the monster in Frankenstein), Sweden’s Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value), Hollywood star Sean Penn (One Battle After Another), Puerto Rico’s Benicio Del Toro (also One Battle After Another), and there’s a welcome spot for Scottish veteran Peter Mullan (I Swear).

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As we've just reported, One Battle After Another is leading the Bafta nominees with 14 nominations in total.

Here’s every award it has been nominated for:

• Best film
• Director
• Adapted screenplay
• Leading actor
• Leading actress
• Supporting actress
• Supporting actor
• Supporting actor
• Casting
• Cinematography
• Editing
• Original score
• Production design
• Sound

Lauren Turner
Culture reporter

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With his nomination for leading actor for One Battle After Another, DiCaprio has now received seven in that category in his career - tying the all-time Bafta record.

And he’s in good company.

The others to have all received a lucky seven nominations are Michael Caine, Daniel Day-Lewis, Peter Finch, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Lemmon and Laurence Olivier.

A trio of nominations for The Ballad of Wallis Islandpublished at 12:22 GMT

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Katie Razzall
Culture editor

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The three Bafta nominations, including for outstanding British film, for The Ballad of Wallis Island are richly deserved in my view.

Carey Mulligan is up for best supporting actress for her role as one half of a long-split folk music duo who are brought back together by a wealthy, Lottery-winning uber-fan played - hilariously, as only he can be - by Tim Key.

Key and the other star, Tom Basden are also nominated for best adapted screenplay. This is exactly the kind of British comedy drama that should be recognised here in the UK.

It grew out of a short film, Bafta-nominated in 2008, into a project that was shelved at various times before finally becoming a word-of-mouth hit. An insight into the trials and tribulations that often go into making a movie.

It pulls an emotional punch. Richard Curtis has even called it “one of the greatest British films of all time” - quite the accolade.

We've just heard the Bafta film nominations, here's a look back at which films are leading the pack.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s thriller One Battle After Another leads the way overall, just ahead of vampire horror Sinners – a reversal of the order when the Oscar nominations were announced last week.

Hamnet is the top British film, and has performed a bit better than it did with the Oscar voters.

• One Battle After Another - 14 nominations
• Sinners – 13
• Hamnet – 11
• Marty Supreme – 11
• Frankenstein – 8
• Sentimental Value – 8

Lauren Turner
Culture reporter

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The film tells a story steeped in history - and now Hamnet has also made it, becoming the most-nominated film by a female director since the Baftas begun.

Filmmaker Chloé Zhao, who previously won best director at the Baftas and Oscars in 2021 for Nomadland, was at the helm for the film telling the story of Shakespeare’s wife Agnes and how grief transformed both of their lives.

It picks up 11 nominations for the Baftas, including best film, outstanding British film, director, leading actress (Jessie Buckley), supporting actor (Paul Mescal) and supporting actress (Emily Watson).

If there was an award for film most likely to make us cry, we’re pretty sure it would have picked up a nomination for that too.

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One Battle After Another leads the pack with 14 Bafta Film Award nominations.

Sinners - which made history with 16 Oscar nominations - follows closely behind with 13 nominations.

We'll bring you a full breakdown shortly.

These 10 films are nominated in the outstanding British film category:

• 28 Years Later
• The Ballad Of Wallis Island
• Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
• Die My Love
• H Is For Hawk
• Hamnet
• I Swear
• Mr Burton
• Pillion
• Steve

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The five nominees in the best film category are:

• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners

Nominated for the best director prize, we have:

• Yorgos Lanthimos; Bugonia
• Chloé Zhao; Hamnet
• Josh Safdie; Marty Supreme
• Paul Thomas Anderson; One Battle After Another
• Joachim Trier; Sentimental Value
• Ryan Coogler; Sinners