Six BAFTA nominations for Branagh's Belfast

They're going to need a bigger mantlepiece for all this silverware 🏆

Author: Emma DicksonPublished 3rd Feb 2022
Last updated 3rd Feb 2022

The 2022 BAFTA nominations were announced today and Sir Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical film on his childhood spent in Belfast was awarded six nominations 👏

Catriona Balfe, who plays ‘Ma’, will take on Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter), Ariana Debose (West Side Story), Ann Dowd (Mass), Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard) and Ruth Negga (Passing) in the Best Supporting Actress category.

Meanwhile Ciaran Hinds is also nominated in the Supporting Actor category, alongside Mike Faist (West Side Story), Troy Kotsur (Coda), Woody Norman (C'mon C'mon), Jesse Plemons (The Power Of The Dog) and Kodi Smit-Mcphee (The Power Of The Dog).

Sadly Jamie Dornan and Sir Kenneth Branagh missed out on individual nominations, but the film is still up for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Original Screenplay, and Editing.

Australian actress Rebel Wilson will host the awards ceremony, celebrating its 75th anniversary, on Sunday 13th March, at London's Royal Albert Hall.

It won't be long until Hollywood's most glamorous event in the calendar, The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars. Nominations will be revealed on Tuesday 8th February, ahead of the red carpet celebration on Sunday 27 March.

We've got our fingers crossed 'our wee film' brings home the gold!

Check out the full list of nominations for the 2022 BAFTAs 👇

  • Best Film

Belfast

Don’t Look Up

Dune

Licorice Pizza

The Power of the Dog

  • Outstanding British film

After Love

Ali & Ava

Belfast

Boiling Point

Cyrano

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

House of Gucci

Last Night in Soho

No Time to Die

Passing

  • Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

After Love – Aleem Khan (writer/director)

Boiling Point – James Cummings (writer), Hester Ruoff (producer) also written by Philip Barantini and produced by Bart Ruspoli

The Harder They Fall – Jeymes Samuel (writer/director) also written by Boaz Yakin

Keyboard Fantasies – Posy Dixon (writer/director), Liv Proctor (producer)

Passing – Rebecca Hall (writer/director)

  • Best film not in the English language

Drive My Car

The Hand of God

Parallel Mothers

Petite Maman

The Worst Person in the World

  • Best documentary

Becoming Cousteau

Cow

Flee

The Rescue

Summer of Soul

  • Best animated film

Encanto

Flee

Luca

The Mitchells vs the Machines

  • Best director

Aleem Khan (After Love)

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)

Audrey Diwan (Happening)

Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)

Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Julia Ducournau (Titane)

  • Best original screenplay

Aaron Sorkin (Being the Ricardos)

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up)

Zach Baylin (King Richard)

Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)

  • Best adapted screenplay

Sian Heder (Coda)

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)

Denis Villeneuve (Dune)

Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)

Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

  • Best actress

Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)

Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)

Emilia Jones (Coda)

Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World)

Joanna Scanlan (After Love)

Tessa Thompson (Passing)

  • Best actor

Adeel Akhtar (Ali & Ava)

Mahershala Ali (Swan Song)

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)

Leonardo DiCaprio (Don’t Look Up)

Stephen Graham (Boiling Point)

Will Smith (King Richard)

  • Best supporting actress

Caitríona Balfe (Belfast)

Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)

Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)

Ann Dowd (Mass)

Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Ruth Negga (Passing)

  • Best supporting actor

Mike Faist (West Side Story)

Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)

Troy Kotsur (Coda)

Woody Norman (C’mon C’mon)

Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)

Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

  • Best original score

Being the Ricardos

Don’t Look Up

Dune

The French Dispatch

The Power of the Dog

  • Best casting

Boiling Point

Dune

The Hand of God

King Richard

West Side Story

  • Best cinematography

Dune

Nightmare Alley

No Time to Die

The Power of the Dog

The Tragedy of Macbeth

  • Best editing

Belfast

Dune

Licorice Pizza

No Time to Die

Summer of Soul

  • Best production design

Cyrano

Dune

The French Dispatch

Nightmare Alley

West Side Story

  • Best costume design

Cruella

Cyrano

Dune

The French Dispatch

Nightmare Alley

  • Best makeup and hair

Cruella

Cyrano

Dune

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

House of Gucci

  • Best sound

Dune

Last Night in Soho

No Time to Die

A Quiet Place Part II

West Side Story

  • Best special visual effects

Dune

Free Guy

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

The Matrix Resurrections

No Time to Die

  • Best British short animation

Affairs of the Art

Do Not Feed the Pigeons

Night of the Living Dread

  • Best British short film

The Black Cop

Femme

The Palace

Stuffed

Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee

  • Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

Ariana DeBose

Harris Dickinson

Lashana Lynch

Millicent Simmonds

Kodi Smit-McPhee

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