With the Oscar nominations just around the corner, BAFTA have revealed their full list of nominees for 2018.

Leading the way this year is the fantasy romance The Shape of Water, which is up for an impressive twelve awards, including the all-important Best Film category.

The film, which centres on a lonely and mute cleaner who falls in love with an Amphibian man, also has key nominations for filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Best Director), Sally Hawkins (Best Leading Actress) and Octavia Spencer (Best Supporting Actress).

Following its dominant success at the Golden Globes yesterday, the comedic drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is up for nine awards including Best Film as well as acting mentions for stars Frances McDormand (Best Leading Actress), and Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell in Best Supporting Actor.

Another contender up for nine awards is the Winston Churchill drama Darkest Hour which competes in Best Film, while Oscar favourite Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas are both nodded in Leading Actor and Supporting Actress respectively

 

Both Three Billboards and Darkest Hour are shortlisted in the Outstanding British Film line-up which also includes the political satire The Death of Stalin, romantic dramas God’s Own Country and Lady Macbeth and the family adventure sequel Paddington 2. The latter film also landed a well-deserved Supporting Actor nomination for Hugh Grant for his delightful role as cunning actor Phoenix Buchanan.

Another World War II-based film to perform well was Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, which received eight mentions (including Best Film) along with the sci-fi thriller sequel Blade Runner 2049. Though Blade Runner managed to land a Best Director nomination for Denis Villeneuve, it did miss out on a Best Film nod, which was filled by the romantic drama Call Me By Your Name.

Elsewhere, there were a couple of surprise acting mentions for Jamie Bell and Annette Bening, as the pair received nods for their work in the romantic drama Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.

Otherwise, the usual suspects bolstered their Oscar hopes with Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name), Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread), Margot Robbie (I, Tonya), Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) and Allison Janney (I, Tonya) all making the cut in their categories.

Veteran Christopher Plummer kept up his unlikely hopes of an Oscar nod with a mention in Best Supporting Actor for his performance in All the Money in the World, a role that was originally played by the recently-disgraced Kevin Spacey.

However, other big award contenders like Get Out and Lady Bird under-performed with BAFTA, while Steven Spielberg’s historical biopic The Post was completely shut out. Get Out did receive mentions for Daniel Kaluuya (Best Leading Actor) and Jordan Peele (Best Original Screenplay) while Lady Bird’s three nominees were Saoirse Ronan (Best Leading Actress), Laurie Metcalf (Best Supporting Actress) and Greta Gerwig (Best Original Screenplay).

A number of blockbusters received mentions in the technical categories with Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Beauty and the Beast, Baby Driver and War for the Planet of the Apes amongst the big films acknowledged while Pixar’s Coco competes in Best Animated Film along with Loving Vincent and My Life as a Courgette.

Oscar winning star Angelina Jolie is also in contention for a BAFTA this year, as her Netflix film First They Killed My Father is on the shortlist for Best Film Not in the English Language.

Some ‘fabulous’ news regarding this year’s awards is that renowned actress Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) is presenting the upcoming ceremony, following Stephen Fry’s decision to stand down after many years as host.

 

The EE British Academy Film Awards will take place on Sunday 18 February at the Royal Albert Hall.

The full list of nominations are below (winner predictions in blue):

BEST FILM
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
DARKEST HOUR
DUNKIRK
THE SHAPE OF WATER
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
DARKEST HOUR
THE DEATH OF STALIN
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY
LADY MACBETH
PADDINGTON 2
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

BEST DIRECTOR
Luca Guadagnino, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Martin McDonagh, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Christopher Nolan, DUNKIRK
Guillermo del Toro, THE SHAPE OF WATER
Denis Villeneuve, BLADE RUNNER 2049

 

BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Annette Bening, FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL
Sally Hawkins, THE SHAPE OF WATER
Frances McDormand, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Margot Robbie, I, TONYA
Saoirse Ronan, LADY BIRD

BEST LEADING ACTOR
Jamie Bell, FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL
Timothée Chalamet, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Daniel Day-Lewis, PHANTOM THREAD
Daniel Kaluuya, GET OUT
Gary Oldman, DARKEST HOUR

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Allison Janney, I, TONYA
Lesley Manville, PHANTOM THREAD
Laurie Metcalf, LADY BIRD
Octavia Spencer, THE SHAPE OF WATER
Kristin Scott Thomas, DARKEST HOUR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe, THE FLORIDA PROJECT
Hugh Grant, PADDINGTON 2
Woody Harrelson, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Christopher Plummer, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD
Sam Rockwell, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (James Ivory)
THE DEATH OF STALIN (Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin & David Schneider)
FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (Matt Greenhalgh)
MOLLY’S GAME (Aaron Sorkin)
PADDINGTON 2 (Simon Farnaby & Paul King)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
GET OUT (Jordan Peele)
I, TONYA (Steven Rogers)
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig)
THE SHAPE OF WATER (Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor)
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Martin McDonagh)

 

BEST EDITING
BABY DRIVER
BLADE RUNNER 2049
DUNKIRK
THE SHAPE OF WATER
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BLADE RUNNER 2049
DARKEST HOUR
DUNKIRK
THE SHAPE OF WATER
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
BLADE RUNNER 2049
DARKEST HOUR
DUNKIRK
THE SHAPE OF WATER

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
DARKEST HOUR
I, TONYA
PHANTOM THREAD
THE SHAPE OF WATER

 

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
BLADE RUNNER 2049
DARKEST HOUR
I, TONYA
VICTORIA & ABDUL
WONDER

BEST SOUND
BABY DRIVER
BLADE RUNNER 2049
DUNKIRK
THE SHAPE OF WATER
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
BLADE RUNNER 2049
DUNKIRK
THE SHAPE OF WATER
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
BLADE RUNNER 2049 (Benjamin Wallfisch & Hans Zimmer)
DUNKIRK (Hans Zimmer)
PHANTOM THREAD (Jonny Greenwood)
THE SHAPE OF WATER (Alexandre Desplat)
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Carter Burwell)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
COCO
LOVING VINCENT
MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
ELLE
FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER
THE HANDMAIDEN
LOVELESS
THE SALESMAN

BEST DOCUMENTARY
CITY OF GHOSTS
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
ICARUS
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL
JANE

BEST BRITISH SHORT FILM
AAMIR
COWBOY DAVE
A DROWNING MAN
WORK
WREN BOYS

BEST BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
HAVE HEART
MAMOON
POLES APART

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
THE GHOUL, Gareth Tunley (Writer/Director/Producer), Jack Healy Guttman & Tom Meeten (Producers)
I AM NOT A WITCH, Rungano Nyoni (Writer/Director) & Emily Morgan (Producer)
JAWBONE, Johnny Harris (Writer/Producer) & Thomas Napper (Director)
KINGDOM OF US, Lucy Cohen (Director)
LADY MACBETH, Alice Birch (Writer), William Oldroyd (Director) & Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (Producer)

EE RISING STAR AWARD
Timothée Chalamet
Daniel Kaluuya
Josh O’Connor
Florence Pugh
Tessa Thompson