Last year, 18 BAFTA winners went on to win Academy Awards
The EE BAFTA Film Awards are taking place on Sunday, with voters from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts announcing their choices for the best film achievements of 2024.
TheWrap will update the list of winners as they are announced.
Sean Baker’s “Anora” comes into the ceremony on an awards-season roll, having won at the Critics Choice Awards, Directors Guild Awards, Producers Guild Awards and Writers Guild Awards over the last nine days. At BAFTA, though, it faces a formidable competitor in European director Edward Berger’s “Conclave,” which came into the ceremony with a leading 12 nominations and comes two years after Berger’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” won seven BAFTAs, including Best Film.
The French film “Emilia Pérez” was second with 11 nominations. Its chances may well have been hurt by the exposure of racist and anti-Muslim tweets by the film’s star, Karla Sofía Gascón, but BAFTA members had been voting for a full week before her past comments were actively circulated on social media. (Voting continued for 12 days afterwards.)
Of the 19 categories that BAFTA and the Oscars have in common, about 75% of the BAFTA nominees are also nominated for Oscars. Last year, the BAFTA and Oscar winners matched in a remarkable 18 of the 19 categories, with the only disagreement coming in Best Visual Effects.
Overall, though, the BAFTA award for Best Film is not a particularly accurate predictor of the Oscar for Best Picture. Over the first 77 years of the BAFTAs, the two groups agreed 29 times, only about 38% of the time. Between 2009 and 2014, BAFTA and the Oscars matched for six years in a row – but in the 10 years since then, they have only agreed twice, on “Nomadland” in 2021 and “Oppenheimer” last year.
The ceremony is taking place at the Southbank Centre in London and is hosted by David Tennant.
Here is the full list of nominees.
