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BAFTA’s Quirky Voting System Delivers Surprises
How BAFTA's quirky voting system delivers surprises as its hybrid process makes for an unpredictable list of nominees.
Despite its sizable total of nominations, Scorsese’s film endured the year’s two most surprising omissions: the veteran filmmaker himself was left out of the best director category, while leading lady Lily Gladstone, a critics’ favorite and Golden Globe winner, failed to make the cut for best actress. In their place, British filmmakers Andrew Haigh (for his queer heartbreaker “All of Us Strangers”) and Jonathan Glazer (for his austere Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest”) showed up despite missing the cut for best film; of the presumed jury saves, the most unexpected is multihyphenate Bradley Cooper, who made the grade for his divisive passion project “Maestro.” The exclusion of Gladstone, an Indigenous American, from the best actress list may have raised eyebrows for several reasons, though the jury most likely opted to save two Black performers in the category: “The Color Purple” star Fantasia Barrino and “Rye Lane” breakout Vivian Oparah, both of whom had been pegged as longshots for a nomination, joined Emma Stone, Carey Mulligan, Sandra Hüller and Margot Robbie, all of whose films enjoyed broader BAFTA support.
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