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Barbie hit with shock snub as blockbuster gets just five noms for 2024 Baftas while big screen rival Oppenheimer gets 13
Greta Gerwig, who helmed Barbie, failed to gain a nomination in the director category
BARBIE has been snubbed for the Best Film category at next month’s Baftas — despite being the highest-grossing movie of 2023.
The fantasy, which made £1.1billion, received just five nominations as the contenders were announced today.
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It was well behind atomic bomb biopic Oppenheimer, which led the way with 13, including a Leading Actor nod for Cillian Murphy.
Barbie creator Greta Gerwig failed to gain a nomination in the director category. But its star, Margot Robbie, was recognised in the Leading Actress competition.
She will be up against Emma Stone, for Poor Things, and Maestro’s Carey Mulligan among others.
Poor Things, about the sexual awakening of a woman who is brought back to life, is the second-most nominated film for the event, with 11.
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Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half-hour Western crime drama Killers Of The Flower Moon and historical drama The Zone Of Interest each have nine.
Anatomy Of A Fall, The Holdovers and Maestro each have seven, All Of Us Strangers has six, and Saltburn ties with Barbie with five nominations.
Barry Keoghan for Saltburn and Bradley Cooper, who starred in and directed Maestro, are among the other contenders for Leading Actor.
In the supporting actor and actress categories, there were also nods for Paul Mescal, Ryan Gosling, Robert De Niro, Claire Foy, Rosamund Pike and Emily Blunt.
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The ceremony, hosted by David Tennant, takes place at London’s Royal Festival Hall on February 18
However, Bafta was accused of insensitivity by grieving actress Kate Beckinsale, 50.
She said it initially refused to guarantee her TV director step–father, Roy Battersby, a Bafta lifetime achievement recipient who died last week aged 87, would be in the night’s In Memoriam segment.
She raged in an online post: “That has broken my heart all over again. I am paralysed, sick and sickened and I will honour him and his work every day of my life.”
Bafta later confirmed it would include the A Touch Of Frost director.
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