BAFTA 2021 – Nominations

Best film

• The Father
• The Mauritanian
• Nomadland
• Promising Young Woman
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Outstanding British film

• Calm With Horses
• The Dig
• The Father
• His House
• Limbo
• The Mauritanian
• Mogul Mowgli
• Promising Young Woman
• Rocks
• Saint Maud

Leading actress

• Bukky Bakray – Rocks
• Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
• Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
• Frances McDormand – Nomadland
• Wunmi Mosaku – His House
• Alfre Woodard – Clemency

Leading actor

• Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
• Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Adarsh Gourav – The White Tiger
• Sir Anthony Hopkins – The Father
• Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round
• Tahar Rahim – The Mauritanian

Supporting actress

• Niamh Algar – Calm With Horses
• Kosar Ali – Rocks
• Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah
• Ashley Madekwe – County Lines
• Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari

Supporting actor

• Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
• Barry Keoghan – Calm With Horses
• Alan Kim – Minari
• Leslie Odom Jr – One Night In Miami…
• Clarke Peters – Da 5 Bloods
• Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Director

• Another Round – Thomas Vinterberg
• Babyteeth – Shannon Murphy
• Minari – Lee Isaac Chung
• Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
• Quo Vadis, Aida? – Jasmila Žbanić
• Rocks – Sarah Gavron

EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

• Kingsley Ben-Adir
• Morfydd Clark
• Bukky Bakray
• Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
• Conrad Khan

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

• His House – Remi Weekes (writer/director)
• Limbo – Ben Sharrock (writer/director), Irune Gurtubai (producer)
• Moffie – Jack Sidey (writer/producer)
• Rocks – Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (writers)
• Saint Maud – Rose Glass (writer/director), Oliver Kassman (producer)

Film not in the English language

• Another Round
• Dear Comrades!
• Les Misérables
• Minari
• Quo Vadis, Aida?

Documentary

• Collective
• David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
• The Dissident
• My Octopus Teacher
• The Social Dilemma

Animated film

• Onward
• Soul
• Wolfwalkers

Original screenplay

• Another Round – Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
• Mank – Jack Fincher
• Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell
• Rocks – Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin

Adapted screenplay

• The Dig – Moira Buffini
• The Father – Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
• The Mauritanian – Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, MB Traven
• Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
• The White Tiger – Ramin Bahrani

Original score

• Mank – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
• Minari – Emile Mosseri
• News of the World – James Newton Howard
• Promising Young Woman – Anthony Willis
• Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Cinematography

• Judas and the Black Messiah – Sean Bobbitt
• Mank – Erik Messerschmidt
• The Mauritanian – Alwin H Küchler
• News of the World – Dariusz Wolski
• Nomadland – Joshua James Richards

Costume design

• Ammonite – Michael O’Connor
• The Dig – Alice Babidge
• Emma – Alexandra Byrne
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Ann Roth
• Mank – Trish Summerville

Editing

• The Father – Yorgos Lamprinos
• Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
• Promising Young Woman – Frédéric Thoraval
• Sound of Metal – Mikkel EG Nielsen
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten

Production design

• The Dig – Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
• The Father – Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone
• Mank – Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale
• News of the World – David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan
• Rebecca – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

Make-up and hair

• The Dig – Jenny Shircore
• Hillbilly Elegy – Patricia Dehaney, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Matiki Anoff, Larry M Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal
• Mank – Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams
• Pinocchio – Mark Coulier

Sound

• Greyhound – nominees TBC
• News of the World – Michael Fentum, William Miller, Mike Prestwood Smith, John Pritchett, Oliver Tarney
• Nomadland – Sergio Diaz, Zach Seivers, M Wolf Snyder
• Soul – Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker
• Sound of Metal – Jamie Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortes, Michelle Couttolenc

Special visual effects

• Greyhound – Pete Bebb, Nathan McGuinness, Sebastian von Overheidt
• The Midnight Sky – Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, David Watkins
• Mulan – Sean Faden, Steve Ingram, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury
• The One and Only Ivan – Santiago Colomo Martinez, Nick Davis, Greg Fisher
• Tenet – Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley

Casting

• Calm With Horses – Shaheen Baig
• Judas and the Black Messiah – Alexa L Fogel
• Minari – Julia Kim
• Promising Young Woman – Lindsay Graham Ahanonu, Mary Vernieu
• Rocks – Lucy Pardee

British short film

• Eyelash
• Lizard
• Lucky Break
• Miss Curvy
• The Present

British short animation

• The Fire Next Time
• The Owl and the Pussycat
• The Song of A Lost Boy