BAFTA race heats up as 'One Battle After Another' and 'Sinners' dominate

The awards-season standoff between One Battle After Another and Sinners intensified as the two films led the BAFTA Film Award nominations. Both Warner Bros. releases surged ahead, cementing their status as the major contenders heading into the U.K.’s top film honors.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s political epic One Battle After Another tops the field with 14 nominations, while Ryan Coogler’s genre-bending historical horror Sinners follows closely behind with 13.

Record-setting runs for Anderson and Coogler

With 14 mentions, One Battle After Another sits just two nominations shy of BAFTA’s all-time record, previously set by Gandhi, and matches the tallies achieved by All Quiet on the Western Front, Atonement, The King’s Speech and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Anderson’s film landed across the board, including best film, director, acting and multiple craft categories.

Sinners, meanwhile, made BAFTA history of its own. Its 13 nominations represent the highest total ever for a film directed by a Black filmmaker at the organization. The film also marks a milestone moment for Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan, both of whom earned their first BAFTA nominations this year.

'Hamnet' and 'Marty Supreme' close behind

Just beneath the frontrunners, Hamnet and Marty Supreme tied with 11 nominations apiece. Timothée Chalamet returned to the leading actor race for a second consecutive year for Marty Supreme, while Hamnet emerged as the strongest U.K.-backed contender overall.

Directed by Chloé Zhao, Hamnet now holds the record for the most BAFTA nominations ever received by a film from a female director. Zhao is also the sole woman nominated in the director category this year. Josh Safdie, like Coogler, scored his first BAFTA directing nomination for Marty Supreme.

The BAFTA Film Awards will be held on 22 February at London’s Royal Festival Hall. Alan Cumming is set to host the ceremony.

Here's the full list of nominees:

Best Film

• Hamnet — Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes

• Marty Supreme — Timothée Chalamet, Anthony Katagas, Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie

• One Battle After Another — Adam Somner, Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson

• Sentimental Value — Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar

• Sinners — Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler

Director

• Yorgos Lanthimos — Bugonia

• Chloé Zhao — Hamnet

• Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme

• Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another

• Joachim Trier — Sentimental Value

• Ryan Coogler — Sinners

Leading Actress

• Jessie Buckley — Hamnet

• Rose Byrne — If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

• Kate Hudson — Song Sung Blue

• Chase Infiniti — One Battle After Another

• Renate Reinsve — Sentimental Value

• Emma Stone — Bugonia

Leading Actor

• Robert Aramayo — I Swear

• Timothée Chalamet — Marty Supreme

• Leonardo DiCaprio — One Battle After Another

• Ethan Hawke — Blue Moon

• Michael B. Jordan — Sinners

• Jesse Plemons — Bugonia

Supporting Actress

• Odessa A’zion — Marty Supreme

• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas — Sentimental Value

• Wunmi Mosaku — Sinners

• Carey Mulligan — The Ballad of Wallis Island

• Teyana Taylor — One Battle After Another

• Emily Watson — Hamnet

Supporting Actor

• Benicio del Toro — One Battle After Another

• Jacob Elordi — Frankenstein

• Paul Mescal — Hamnet

• Peter Mullan — I Swear

• Sean Penn — One Battle After Another

• Stellan Skarsgård — Sentimental Value

Outstanding British Film

• 28 Years Later

• The Ballad of Wallis Island

• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

• Die My Love

• H Is for Hawk

• Hamnet

• I Swear

• Mr. Burton

• Pillion

• Steve

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

• The Ceremony

• My Father’s Shadow

• Pillion

• A Want in Her

• Wasteman

Adapted Screenplay

• The Ballad of Wallis Island

• Bugonia

• Hamnet

• One Battle After Another

• Pillion

Original Screenplay

• I Swear

• Marty Supreme

• The Secret Agent

• Sentimental Value

• Sinners

Children’s & Family Film

• Arco

• Boong

• Lilo & Stitch

• Zootropolis 2

Film Not in the English Language

• It Was Just an Accident

• The Secret Agent

• Sentimental Value

• Sirât

• The Voice of Hind Rajab

Costume Design

• Frankenstein

• Hamnet

• Marty Supreme

• Sinners

• Wicked: For Good

Special Visual Effects

• Avatar: Fire and Ash

• F1

• Frankenstein

• How to Train Your Dragon

• The Lost Bus

Documentary

• 2,000 Meters to Andriivka

• Apocalypse in the Tropics

• Cover-Up

• Mr. Nobody Against Putin

• The Perfect Neighbor

Animated Film

• Elio

• Little Amélie

• Zootropolis 2

Casting

• I Swear

• Marty Supreme

• One Battle After Another

• Sentimental Value

• Sinners

Cinematography

• Frankenstein

• Marty Supreme

• One Battle After Another

• Sinners

• Train Dreams

Editing

• F1

• A House of Dynamite

• Marty Supreme

• One Battle After Another

• Sinners

Makeup & Hair

• Frankenstein

• Hamnet

• Marty Supreme

• Sinners

• Wicked: For Good

Original Score

• Bugonia

• Frankenstein

• Hamnet

• One Battle After Another

• Sinners

Production Design

• Frankenstein

• Hamnet

• Marty Supreme

• One Battle After Another

• Sinners

Sound

• F1

• Frankenstein

• One Battle After Another

• Sinners

• Warfare

British Short Animation

• Cardboard

• Solstice

• Two Black Boys in Paradise

British Short Film

• Magid/Zafar

• Nostalgie

• Terence

• This Is Endometriosis

• Welcome Home Freckles

EE Rising Star Award (public vote)

• Robert Aramayo

• Miles Caton

• Chase Infiniti

• Archie Madekwe

• Posy Sterling