On-screen couple Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander have both been nominated for Baftas for their roles in transgender movie The Danish Girl.
The nominations were announced today by TV personality Stephen Fry and actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw at Bafta’s central London headquarters in Piccadilly.
Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander of The Danish Girl (Yui Mok/PA)
Eddie will go up against Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Fassbender, Matt Damon and Bryan Cranston in the leading actor award category, while Alicia will face competition from Cate Blanchett, Brie Larson, Dame Maggie Smith and Saoirse Ronan in the leading actress category.
He is also an early favourite to secure an Oscar nomination for his role in The Danish Girl as Lili Elbe, one of the first known transgender women to receive sex reassignment surgery. He has already been nominated for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for the movie.
The London-born actor will be hoping to reprise his success at last year’s British Academy Film Awards, which saw him winning the best actor gong for his role as Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything.
Alicia has also been nominated in the supporting actress category for her role in Ex Machina.
Cate has been widely praised by critics for her role in Carol, an adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel which documents the love story between Cate’s character, a wealthy, married socialite and Rooney Mara’s character, a young woman working in a department store.
Cate Blanchett in Carol (StudioCanal)
The films leading the nominations with a total of nine nods each are Bridge Of Spies and Carol. Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been nominated in four categories.
British director Sir Ridley Scott will be hoping for his first Bafta win in the director category after being nominated for The Martian.
He will be up against Steven Spielberg (Bridge Of Spies), Adam McKay (The Big Short), Todd Haynes (Carol) and Alejandro G. Inarritu (The Revenant).
The Baftas, which are seen as a good indicator of who will achieve Oscar success, will be handed out on Sunday, February 14, at a star-studded ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House.
Eddie Redmayne is up for leading actor for the second year in a row for The Danish Girl at the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2016.
Among the highlights, Bridge Of Spies and Carol each receive nine nominations, The Revenant has eight categories, and Mad Max: Fury Road has seven
Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander from The Danish Girl (Yui Mok/PA)
Here are the nominations in full.
Leading actor
Leading Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Fassbender, Eddie Redmayne, Matt Damon and Bryan Cranston #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/TmTMKRB97v
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) January 8, 2016
Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs
Matt Damon – The Martian
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Leading actress
Leading Actress: Brie Larson, Cate Blanchett, Maggie Smith, Saoirse Ronan and Alicia Vikander #EEBAFTAs pic.twitter.com/kzqdpI6SLv
— BAFTA (@BAFTA) January 8, 2016
Brie Larson – Room
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn
Cate Blanchett – Carol
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
Maggie Smith – Lady In The Van
Supporting actress
Kate Winslet (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs
Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina
Rooney Mara – Carol
Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Julie Walters – Brooklyn
Supporting actor
Idris Elba (STR/AP)
Idris Elba – Beasts Of No Nation
Benicio Del Toro – Sicario
Christian Bale – The Big Short
Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight
Mark Rylance – Bridge Of Spies
Best film
The Revenant
The Big Short
Bridge Of Spies
Carol
Spotlight
Outstanding British film
Amy
45 Years
Brooklyn
The Danish Girl
Ex Machina
The Lobster
Director
Steven Spielberg (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
Steven Spielberg – Bridge Of Spies
Adam McKay – The Big Short
Todd Haynes – Carol
Ridley Scott – The Martian
Alejandro G Inarritu – The Revenant
Film not in the English language
Theeb
The Assassin
Force Majeure
Timbuktu
Wild Tales
Documentary
Amy
Cartel Land
He Named Me Malala
Listen To Me Marlon
Sherpa
Animated film
Inside Out
Minions
Shaun The Sheep
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Alex Garland (Director) – Ex Machina
Debbie Tucker Green (Writer/Director) – Second Coming
NajiI Abu Nowar (Writer/Director) Rupert Lloyd (Producer) – Theeb
Sean McAllister (Director/Producer), Elhum Shakerifar (Producer) – A Syrian Love Story
Stephen Fingleton (Writer/Director) – The Survivalist
Original screenplay
Bridge of Spies – Matthew Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Ex Machina – Alex Garland
The Hateful Eight – Quentin Tarantino
Inside Out – Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve
Spotlight – Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer
Adapted screenplay
The Big Short – Adam McKay, Charles Randolph
Brooklyn – Nick Hornby
Carol – Phyllis Nagy
Room – Emma Donoghue
Steve Jobs – Aaron Sorkin
Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road – Margaret Sixel
The Big Short – Hank Corwin
Bridge of Spies – Michael Kahn
The Martian – Pietro Scalia
The Revenant – Stephen Mirrione
Production design
The Martian – Arthur Max, Celia Bobak
Bridge of Spies – Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo
Carol – Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler
Mad Max: Fury Road – Colin Gibson, Lisa Thompson
Star War: The Force Awakens – Rick Carter, Darren Gilford, Lee Sandales
Costume design
Lily James as Cinderella (Disney/Jonathan Olley)
Cinderella – Sandy Powell
Brooklyn – Odile Dicks-Mireaux
Carol – Sandy Powell
The Danish Girl – Paco Delgado
Mad Max: Fury Road – Jenny Beavan
Make Up & hair
The Revenant – Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman, Robert Pandini
Brooklyn – Morna Ferguson, Lorraine Glynn
Carol – Jerry DeCarlo, Patricia Regan
The Danish Girl – Jan Sewell
Mad Max: Fury Road – Lesley Vanderwalt, Damian Martin
Sound
Daisy Ridley as Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (LucasFilm)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Matthew Wood, Stuart Wilson
Bridge of Spies – Drew Kunin, Richard Hymns, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom
Mad Max: Fury Road – Scott Hecker, Chris Jenkins, Mark Mangini, Ben Osmo, Gregg Rudloff, David White
The Martian – Paul Massey, Mac Ruth, Oliver Tarney, Mark Taylor
The Revenant – Lon Bender, Chris Duesterdiek, Martin Hernandez, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor, Randy Thom
Special visual effects
Ant-Man – Jake Morrison, Greg Steele, Dan Sudick, Alex Wuttke
Ex Machina – Mark Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, Andrew Whitehurst
Mad Max: Fury Road – Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver, Tom Wood, Andy Williams
The Martian – Chris Lawrence, Tim Ledbury, Richard Stammers, Steven Warner
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Neal Scanlan
The EE British Academy Film Awards take place on February 14 in London.
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