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Oppenheimer beats Barbie as Bafta nominations announced

Christopher Nolan looks set to win his first Bafta as atomic biopic bags 13 nominations compared to Barbie’s five – while Lily Gladstone and Andrew Scott are overlooked

Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’s steampunk feminist fantasy, came in second place on Thursday with 11 nominations, including nods for best film and adapted screenplay, and for Emma Stone’s leading performance, although her co-stars Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe were not mentioned. While Greta Gerwig’s DayGlo satire eventually triumphed over Oppenheimer at the box office, taking $1.4bn and breaking multiple records, Nolan’s film looks likely to enter the billion dollar club imminently off the back of awards season rereleases (it’s currently on $953m). Earlier this week, culture secretary Lucy Frazer praised the production, which was largely shot in Leavesden Studios, saying “before it was exported to all corners of the world and became the biggest selling film of 2023, Barbie was made and recorded in Hertfordshire – not Hollywood.”

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