Historical drama “Oppenheimer” leads nominations for the BAFTA Film Awards in London this weekend, however will the film in regards to the making of the atomic bomb throughout World War Two, which has already picked up prizes elsewhere, be the winner on the evening?

Directed by Briton Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”, certainly one of final yr’s highest-earning films, has 13 nods at Britain’s high film honours, adopted by sex-charged gothic comedy “Poor Things” starring Emma Stone, with 11. “The Zone of Interest”, a few household residing subsequent to Auschwitz, has 9 nominations, and like “Poor Things”, it’s within the operating for excellent British movie.

“Because it is the BAFTAs, you do get this local love. So you might see a bit more wins for ‘The Zone Of Interest’,” Digital Spy movies editor Ian Sandwell told Reuters. “…But I just feel ‘Oppenheimer’ is so strong in all the categories that it’s going to end up with most of the wins.”

“Oppenheimer” dominated the Golden Globes with 5 wins and leads nominations for subsequent month’s Academy Awards. At the BAFTAs, it’ll compete for greatest movie alongside “Poor Things”, “Killers of the Flower Moon”, in regards to the murders of members of the Osage Nation within the Nineteen Twenties, courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Holdovers”, a comedy set in a boys’ boarding college.

“I believe ‘Oppenheimer’ definitely for greatest movie,” Tim Richards, founder and CEO of cinema operator Vue International, told Reuters. “Chris Nolan is…a Brit and…with the BAFTAs, he is definitely one of the crucial extremely revered and far cherished administrators within the enterprise and I believe he is acquired to be in there for greatest director as effectively.”

Based on the 2005 biography “American Prometheus” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, “Oppenheimer” features Cillian Murphy as the American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Murphy and Stone currently lead betting odds to win the leading acting categories. Da’Vine Joy Randolph has already picked up several awards for her supporting actress role in “The Holdovers” and is widely expected to win again at the BAFTAs. But will Murphy’s “Oppenheimer” cast mate and fellow Golden Globe winner Robert Downey Jr. also triumph for supporting actor?

“I think (supporting actor) is the one where it’s most likely we’ll get a bit of a surprise, and I think it’ll be Paul Mescal (for ‘All of Us Strangers’),” Sandwell stated. “Barbie”, the best grossing movie of 2023, has 5 nominations total, however the omission of Greta Gerwig from the director class raised some eyebrows.

“’Barbie’ was…the clear one which appears to have been handed over each by the Academy (Awards) and by BAFTA members and it is a thriller why,” Richards stated. The BAFTAs might be held on Sunday at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

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