La Land has received the most nominations for the British Academy Film Awards with 11 nods.
The Hollywood musical, out in the UK on Friday, is up for best film, while stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are up for best actor and actress.
British actors Andrew Garfield, Emily Blunt and Hugh Grant are also in line for acting awards.
Philosophical sci-fi film Arrival and Tom Ford’s dark drama Nocturnal Animals have nine nominations apiece.
The 2017 Bafta Film Awards will be held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 12 February.
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake is up for both the best film and best British film awards.
The welfare state drama receives an additional nod for its screenplay while Hayley Squires, who plays a single mother in the film, is up for best supporting actress.
«As if @BAFTA think it’s a good idea to put me in the same room as Ryan Gosling,» tweeted the London-born actress, adding that she was «very grateful for the recognition».
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn welcomed I. Daniel Blake’s four nominations, congratulating Loach and «everyone involved in the brilliant film».
Arrival, La Land and I, Daniel Blake are joined in the best film category by Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight.
Other titles in contention for the outstanding British film award include Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which has five nominations in all.
Meryl Streep joins Blunt and Stone in the leading actress category, where she is nominated for her role in Florence Foster Jenkins.
Her 15th Bafta nomination puts her on an equal footing with Dame Judi Dench, who previously held the record for most Bafta film nominations.
The US actress made headlines at the Golden Globes on Sunday with a speech in which she criticised US President-elect Donald Trump.
Mr Trump responded by claiming the three-time Oscar-winner and two-time Bafta recipient was «overrated».
Amy Adams and Natalie Portman complete the best actress contenders list, having been nominated for Arrival and Jackie respectively.
Gosling and Hacksaw Ridge star Garfield compete with Casey Affleck, Jake Gyllenhaal and Viggo Mortensen for the best actor award.
The latter trio are respectively nominated for Manchester by the Sea, Nocturnal Animals and Captain Fantastic respectively.
Grant, who appears with Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins, is joined in the supporting actor category by fellow Britons Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Dev Patel.
Taylor-Johnson is nominated for his Golden Globe-winning turn in Nocturnal Animals, while Slumdog Millionaire star Patel is shortlisted for Lion.
«This Bafta nomination today truly means so much to me» said Patel in a statement. «My family is literally freaking out right now! »
«It’s always nice to feel love from your hometown,» said Taylor-Johnson, adding he was «genuinely humbled» by the «fantastic honour».
«Can’t wait to celebrate back in good ole Blighty! » continued the 26-year-old, who is married to the British artist formerly known as Sam Taylor-Wood.
British actress Naomie Harris is also shortlisted for the supporting actress award for her work in independent film Moonlight.
Viola Davis, Nicole Kidman and Michelle Williams receive nominations in that category as well for Fences, Lion and Manchester by the Sea.
La La Land was the big winner at last weekend’s Golden Globes, receiving every one of the seven awards for which it was nominated.
Its director, Damien Chazelle, is Bafta-shortlisted in both the director and original screenplay categories.
Kenneth Lonergan and Tom Ford also receive dual director and screenplay nods for Manchester by the Sea and Nocturnal Animals respectively.
Arrival’s Denis Villeneuve joins Chazelle, Ford, Loach and Lonergan in the best director category.
Loach’s nomination comes 50 years on from the Bafta TV award he received in 1967 for Cathy Come Home.
The 80-year-old film-maker received the organisation’s Michael Balcon Award in 1994 and a Bafta Fellowship in 2006.
The Disney studio dominates the animated film category, scoring three of the four nominations with Finding Dory, Moana and Zootropolis.
Kubo and the Two Strings is the only nominee not to have been made by the so-called «House of Mouse» and its subsidiary Pixar.
Zootropolis co-director Rich Moore tweeted his thanks for his film’s nomination, adding: «We will see you in London! »
Kubo director Travis Knight, meanwhile, said he was «thrilled and thankful» to be recognised for a film he said had been «a wholehearted labour of love».
The nominations follow last week’s unveiling of the five actors in contention for this year’s Rising Star prize .
A public vote will decide whether Laia Costa, Lucas Hedges, Tom Holland, Ruth Negga or Anya Taylor-Joy receive the award.
This year’s nominations were announced by Dominic Cooper and Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner at Bafta’s central London HQ.
Cooper said he could understand why people were «raving» about La Land, praising its «gorgeous, skilful performances».
Amanda Berry, chief executive of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, said it had been «a really exciting year for film».
«The range of films is quite extraordinary,» she told BBC Breakfast. «That’s what makes this year’s nominations so intriguing and interesting. »
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Clare Hollingworth was the war correspondent who broke the news that German troops were poised to invade Poland at the start of World War Two.
She went on to report on conflicts across the world but it was that moment that defined her career.
She was by no means the first female war reporter, but her depth of technical, tactical and strategic insight set her apart.
And, even as she approached her 11th decade, she still kept her passport by her bed in case she should be called to another assignment.
Clare Hollingworth was born in Leicester on 10 October 1911 and spent most of her childhood on a farm. What should have been idyllic years were overshadowed by World War One.
«I remember the German bombers flying over the farm we lived in to bomb Loughborough,» she reminisced. «And the next day we got Polly the pony and took the trap into Loughborough to see the damage they had done. »
She had set her heart on a writing career early on, much to the exasperation of her mother.
«She didn’t believe anything journalists wrote and thought they were only fit for the tradesmen’s entrance. »
After school she attended a domestic science college in Leicester, which instilled in her a lifelong hatred of housework.
More interesting to her by far were the battlefield tours that her father arranged to sites as diverse as Naseby, Poitiers and Agincourt.
Eschewing the prospect of life as a country squire’s wife, Hollingworth became a secretary at the League of Nations Union before studying at London University’s School of Slavonic Studies and the University of Zagreb.
In 1936 she married a fellow League of Nations worker, Vandeleur Robinson, but soon found herself in Warsaw, distributing aid to refugees who had fled from the Sudetenland, the Czech territory occupied by the Nazis in 1938.
She had written the occasional article for the New Statesman and, on a brief visit to London in August 1939, she was signed up by the editor of the Daily Telegraph, Arthur Wilson, who was impressed by her experience in Poland.
In this period of heightened tension, the border between Poland and Germany was sealed to all but diplomatic vehicles. After borrowing a car from the British consul in Katowice and proudly displaying the union jack, she drove through the exclusion zone and into Germany.
While driving back to Poland, having bought wine, torches and as much film as possible, she passed through a valley in which huge hessian screens had been erected.
As the wind blew one of the screens back, it revealed thousands of troops, together with tanks and artillery, all facing the Polish border.
Her report featured on the front page of the Daily Telegraph on 29 August, 1939. Less than a week after becoming a full-time journalist, she had scooped one of the biggest stories of the 20th Century.
Three days later, Hollingworth saw the German tanks rolling into Poland. But when she phoned the secretary at the British Embassy in Warsaw, he told her it could not be true as negotiations between Britain and Germany were still continuing.
«So I hung the telephone receiver out of the window,» Hollingworth later recalled, «So he could listen to the Germans invading. »
Working on her own, often behind enemy lines, with nothing more than a toothbrush and a typewriter, she witnessed the collapse of Poland before moving to Bucharest, where she realised that her marriage was over.
«I thought that for me — and in a different kind of way for him — my career was more important than trying to rush back home,» she reflected later.
Hollingworth spent a busy war in Turkey, Greece and Cairo. When Montgomery — who could not stomach the idea of a woman reporting from the front — captured Tripoli in 1943, he ordered her to return to Cairo.
She decided to attach herself to Eisenhower’s forces, then in Algiers.
Though diminutive and bespectacled, Hollingworth was as tough as nails. She learned how to fly and made a number of parachute jumps.
During the latter part of the war, she reported from Palestine, Iraq and Persia, where she interviewed the young Shah.
After the war, Hollingworth, by now working for the Observer and the Economist, married Geoffrey Hoare, the Times’s Middle East correspondent.
The couple were just 300 yards from Jerusalem’s King David Hotel when it was bombed in 1946, killing 91 British troops.
The attack left her with a hatred of the man behind the attack, the Irgun leader Menachem Begin, who eventually became prime minister of Israel and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
«I would not shake a hand with so much blood on it,» she explained.
In 1963 Hollingworth was working for the Guardian in Beirut when Kim Philby, a correspondent for the Observer, disappeared.
She was convinced that he was the fabled «third man» in a British spy ring that already included Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.
After some detective work, she discovered that Philby had left on a Soviet ship bound for Odessa and filed copy to that effect with the Guardian.
But this second huge scoop was spiked by the paper’s editor, Alastair Hetherington, who feared a libel suit.
Three months later, the Guardian ran the story, tucked away on an inside page. The following day the Daily Express splashed it on the front page, prompting the government to admit that Philby had, indeed, defected to the Soviet Union.
Hollingworth reported on the Algerian crisis and the Vietnam War. She was one of the first journalists to predict that American military muscle would not prevail and that a stalemate was inevitable.
She made a special effort to speak to Vietnamese civilians, away from the watching eyes of the US PR people, to ensure she accurately captured the views of those who were suffering the most.
Hoare died in 1966, and Hollingworth, who had become the Telegraph’s first Beijing correspondent in 1973, retired to Hong Kong in 1981.
She spent her final years in the former colony and was a daily fixture at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, venerated by her colleagues.
Although she lost her sight later in life, Clare Hollingworth, a true journalist’s journalist, retained an acute interest in world affairs right to the end.
She was once asked where she would want to go if the phone rang with a new assignment.
«I would look through the papers,» she said, «And say, ‘Where’s the most dangerous place to go?’, because it always makes a good story. «

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Carrie Fisher’s death certificate has confirmed that the Star Wars actor and Hollywood screenwriter died of a heart attack, but says more tests are needed to find out what caused it.
The Los Angeles County death certificate, obtained by The Associated Press news agency, states under the «cause of death» heading: «Cardiac arrest/deferred. »
The «deferred» designation indicates that further investigation is needed, usually in the form of toxicology tests that can take several weeks to complete.
Fisher (60) who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, suffered the heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles on December 23 and died on December 27 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre.
Her mother, Singin’ In The Rain star Debbie Reynolds (84) died a day later.
The death certificate lists Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourd as the notifying party and gives Fisher’s occupation as «writer».

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The Cinema Audio Society has announced nominations for excellence in sound mixing in film and television categories.
Film contenders include “ Doctor Strange ,” “ Hacksaw Ridge ,” “ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ,” “Kubo and the Two Strings” and “O. J.: Made in America.”
On the TV side, series like “ Game of Thrones ,” “Mr. Robot,” “ Westworld ” and “Black-ish” were recognized, along with miniseries such as “The Night Manager” and “The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”
Full list of nominees below. Winners will be announced at the 53rd annual CAS Awards on Saturday, Feb. 18.
Oscars: ‘Rogue One,’ ‘Hacksaw Ridge,’ ‘13 Hours’ Mix It Up in Sound Categories
MOTION PICTURE — LIVE ACTION
“Doctor Strange”
Production Mixer: John Midgley, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Tom Johnson
Re-recording Mixer: Juan Peralta
Scoring Mixer: Peter Cobbin
ADR Mixer: Doc Kane, CAS
Foley Mixer: Scott Curtis
“Hacksaw Ridge”
Production Mixer: Peter Grace
Re-recording Mixer: Kevin O’Connell, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Andy Wright
Re-recording Mixer: Robert Mackenzie
Scoring Mixer: Daniel Kresco
ADR Mixer: Diego Ruiz
Foley Mixer: Alex Francis
“La La Land”
Production Mixer: Steven Morrow, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Andy Nelson, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Ai-Ling Lee
Scoring Mixer: Nicholai Baxter
ADR Mixer: David Betancourt
Foley Mixer: James Ashwill
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”
Production Mixer: Stuart Wilson
Re-recording Mixer: Christopher Scarabosio
Re-recording Mixer: David Parker
Scoring Mixer: Joel Iwataki
ADR Mixer: Nick Cray
Foley Mixer: Frank Rinella
“Sully”
Production Mixer: Jose Antonio Garcia
Re-recording Mixer: John Reitz
Re-recording Mixer: Tom Ozanich
Scoring Mixer: Bobby Fernandez
ADR Mixer: Thomas J. O’Connell
Foley Mixer: James Ashwill
MOTION PICTURE — ANIMATED
“Finding Dory”
Original Dialogue Mixer: Doc Kane, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Nathan Nance
Re-recording Mixer: Michael Semanick, CAS
Scoring Mixer: Thomas Vicari, CAS
Foley Mixer: Scott Curtis
“Kubo and the Two Strings”
Original Dialogue Mixer: Carlos Sotolongo
Re-recording Mixer: Tim Chau
Re-recording Mixer: Tim LeBlanc
Scoring Mixer: Nick Wollage
Foley Mixer: Darrin Mann
“Moana”
Original Dialogue Mixer: Paul McGrath
Re-recording Mixer: David E. Fluhr, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Gabriel Guy, CAS
Scoring Mixer: David Boucher
Foley Mixer: Scott Curtis
“The Secret Life of Pets”
Original Dialogue Mixer: Carlos Sotolongo
Re-recording Mixer: Gary A. Rizzo, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: David Accord
Scoring Mixer: Frank Wolf
Foley Mixer: Jason Butler
“Zootopia”
Original Dialogue Mixer: Paul McGrath
Re-recording Mixer: David E. Fluhr, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Gabriel Guy, CAS
Scoring Mixer: Joel Iwataki
Foley Mixer: Scott Curtis
MOTION PICTURE — DOCUMENTARY
“13th”
Re-recording Mixer: Jeffrey Perkins
“Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words”
Re-recording Mixer: Mark Fragstein
Re-recording Mixer: Marvin Keil
Re-recording Mixer: Armelle Mahé
“Gleason”
Re-recording Mixer: Mark A. Rozett, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: James Scullion
“O. J.: Made in America”
Re-recording Mixer: Keith Hodne
Re-recording Mixer: Eric Di Stefano
“The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble”
Production Mixer: Dimitri Tisseyre
Production Mixer: Dennis Hamlin
Re-recording Mixer: Peter Horner
TELEVISION MOVIE or MINI-SERIES
“11.22.63” — “The Rabbit Hole”
Production Mixer: John J. Thomson
Re-recording Mixer: Pete Elia, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Kevin Roache, CAS
ADR Mixer: Judah Getz
Foley Mixer: Brett Voss, CAS
“Black Mirror” — “San Junipero”
Production Mixer: Adrian Bell
Re-recording Mixer: Martin Jensen
Foley Mixer: Philip Clements
ADR Mixer: Rory de Carteret
“Sherlock” — “The Abominable Bride”
Production Mixer: John Mooney, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Howard Bargoroff
Scoring Mixer: Nick Wollage
ADR Mixer: Peter Gleaves, CAS
Foley Mixer: Jamie Talbutt
“The Night Manager” — “Episode 1”
Production Mixer: Aitor Berenguer
Re-recording Mixer: Howard Bargroff
“The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story”
Production Mixer: John Bauman
Re-recording Mixer: Joe Earle, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Doug Andham, CAS
ADR Mixer: Judah Getz
Foley Mixer: John Guentner
TELEVISION SERIES – 1 HOUR
“Better Call Saul” — “Klick”
Production Mixer: Phillip W. Palmer, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Larry B. Benjamin, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Kevin Valentine
ADR Mixer: Matt Hovland
Foley Mixer: David Michael Torres
“Game of Thrones” — “Battle of the Bastards”
Production Mixer: Ronan Hill, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Onnalee Blank, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Mathew Waters, CAS
ADR Mixer: Richard Dyer, CAS
Foley Mixer: Brett Voss, CAS
“Mr. Robot” — “eps2.8_h1dden-pr0cess.axx”
Production Mixer: William Sarokin, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: John W. Cook II, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Bill Freesh, CAS
ADR Mixer: Beaux Nyguard
Foley Mixer: Mike Marino
“Stranger Things” — “Episode 7: The Bath Tub”
Production Mixer: Chris Durfy, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Joe Barnett
Re-recording Mixer: Adam Jenkins
ADR Mixer: Judah Getz
Foley Mixer: John Guentner
“Westworld” — “The Original”
Production Mixer: John Pritchett, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Keith Rogers, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Scott Weber
ADR Mixer: Mark Kondracki
Foley Mixer: Geordy Sincavage
TELEVISION SERIES – 1/2 HOUR
“Black-ish” — “God”
Production Mixer: Tom N. Stasinis, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Peter J. Nusbaum, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Whitney Purple
“Modern Family” — “The Storm”
Production Mixer: Stephen A. Tibbo, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Dean Okrand, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Brian R. Harman, CAS
“Silicon Valley” — “Daily Active Users”
Production Mixer: Benjamin A. Patrick, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Elmo Ponsdomenech
Re-recording Mixer: Todd Beckett
“Transparent” — “Exciting and New”
Production Mixer: Sam Hamer, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Andy D’addario
Re-recording Mixer: Gary Gegan
“Veep” — “Congressional Ball”
Production Mixer: William MacPherson, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: John W. Cook II, CAS
Re-recording Mixer: Bill Freesh, CAS
TELEVISION NON-FICTION, VARIETY or MUSIC SERIES or SPECIALS
“Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” — “Hanoi”
Re-Recording Mixer — Benny Mouthon, CAS
“Deadliest Catch” — “The Widowmaker, Part 1”
Re-Recording Mixer — Bob Bronow, CAS
“Grease Live!”
Production Mixer: J. Mark King
Music Mixer: Bill Dawes
Playback and SFX Mixer: Eric Johnston
Protools Playback Music Mixer: Pablo Mungula
“Mars” — “Novo Mundo”
Re-Recording Mixer: Christopher Barnett, CAS
Re-Recording Mixer: Roy Waldspurger
Foley Mixer: Jason Butler
“We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World”
Re-Recording Mixer: Rich Cutler

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