BAFTAs 2023: All Quiet On The Western Front leads the nominations – Where Irish Talent Shines Too | Ents & Arts News

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German-language war epic All Quiet On The Western Front leads this year’s BAFTA race – while Irish talent also shines in the acting categories.

All Quiet On The Western Front, based on the 1929 novel about World War I, won 14 awards including Best Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Not in the English Language, and Big Movie – Best Picture. It joins Crouching Tiger’s Hidden Dragon as the most nominated joint foreign film in the awards’ history.

Dark comedy The Banshees of Inisherin and sci-fi comedy Everything Everywhere all follow in the running for the BAFTAs with 10 nods each, while Elvis Presley biopic Elvis has nine, and Tarr, starring Cate Blanchett as the composer And conductor, Lydia Tarr, has five. The five most nominated also make up the entire list of Best Picture nominations.

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Photo: Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in Elvis. Pic: Warner Bros

In acting categories, six Irish stars have won awards: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon, for The Banshees Of Inisherin’; Paul Mescal, Aftersun. and Daryl McCormack — also a previously announced Rising Star nominee — for Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.

Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande), Bill Nighy (Living), Carey Mulligan (She Said Said), Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse) and Michelle Ward (Empire of Light) make up the British stars in the running in the acting categories, while the other stars Those who have received nods include Viola Davis (The King’s Woman), Danielle Deadwiller (Even), and Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere, Every Time).

BAFTA debut and only one women’s shortlist

Nominees make big debuts this year, with 14 of the 24 nominees in the performance categories making their BAFTA debuts – including Ana de Armas (Blonde), Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Austin Butler (Elvis), Brendan Fraser (The Whale) and Ke Huy Quan (Everything, Everywhere, at Once), plus Farrell and Mescal.

Elsewhere, blockbusters such as The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way Of Water also received a number of nominations in technical categories, with nominees for Outstanding British Film Empire Of Light, The Swimmers and See How They Run, along with Aftersun. , The Banshees Of Inisherin’, Living and Good Luck To You, Leo Grandi.

Photo: Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack in Good Luck To You, Leo Grande. Pic: Lionsgate/Nick Wall

In the Best Director category, four of the six nominees — Gina Prince-Bythewood (The King’s Woman), Todd Field (Tarr), Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere at Once), and Edward Berger (All Quiet On The Western) are up for grabs. front) – were shortlisted for the first time. They face Martin McDonagh (The Banshees Of Inisherin) and Park Chan-wook (Decision To Leave).

While only one female director is nominated, the first category, Outstanding—Recognition for Writing, Directing, or Production—is made up entirely of nominees, including Aftersun writer-director Charlotte Wells, and Good Luck To You, Leo Grande writer Katy Brand.

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The nominees for the Rising Star Award, the only award voted for by the public, have already been revealed, such as Amy Lou Wood, Emma Mackie, Naomi Ackie, Sheila Atem, and McCormack.

In total, some 215 nominees represent 45 films, from independent debuts to blockbusters, that have been voted for by 7,500 BAFTA voters.

A uniquely British perspective

Photo: (L to R) Sophie Kaur as Olga Myetkyna and Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tarr in Tarr. Pic: Florian Hoffmeister / Focus Features

BAFTA President Krishnendu Majumdar said the group of nominated films offered a “uniquely British perspective on this year’s best films from around the world”.

After controversy over a lack of diversity in previous years, Anna Higgs, chair of the organisation’s film committee, said the 2023 nominations show BAFTA’s “continued work for equal opportunity continues to have a positive impact”.

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She continued, “I am delighted to see the all-women list in our Outstanding category for the first time, as well as the many first-time nominees across the board.”

The BAFTA Film Awards will take place on Sunday 19 February at the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre, with actor Richard E Grant hosting the ceremony and presenter Alison Hammond hosting a new all-region section.

BAFTA initially said All Quiet On The Western Front became the most nominated foreign language film of all time, but it was later corrected as 2000’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon also received 14 nominations.

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