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BAFTA on ‘Barbie’ Best Film Nomination Snub: ‘There’s No Such Thing as Expected’
'Barbie' landed five BAFTA Film Awards nominations, falling short in the best film and director categories.
While the film’s five BAFTA nominations (including leading actress, supporting actor and original screenplay) is, of course, still a tally to be very proud of, the figure is likely to have caught many awards-watchers off guard. This is an area that BAFTA sought to improve with the major overhaul of its voting process in 2020 (following a year where zero female directors were nominated), which added the Longlist stage that included an intervention to ensure gender parity. But she points to huge positives elsewhere, including four women directors in the outstanding British films category: Molly Manning Walker (“How to Have Sex”), Raine Allen Miller (“Rye Lane”), Emerald Fennell (“Saltburn”) and Charlotte Regan (“Scrapper”).
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