BAFTA Film Awards 2022: Dune Leads With 11 Nominations, Including Best Film

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The nominees for the 2022 BAFTA Film Awards have been announced — and Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic Dune is leading the pack this year with 11 nominations.


TV presenter AJ Odudu and comedian Tom Allen unveiled the nominations for the 75th British Academy Film Awards during a live presentation on Thursday. Dune led the nominations with 11 nods across various categories, including the coveted Best Film category, which also featured Belfast, Don't Look Up, Licorice Pizza, and The Power of the Dog.

Jane Campion's western The Power of the Dog secured eight nominations in total, including a shout in the Best Director category, while Kenneth Branagh's film memoir Belfast followed closely behind with six nominations. Licorice Pizza, No Time to Die, and West Side Story also received multiple mentions, earning five nominations apiece.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Will Smith were amongst those featured in the Leading Actor category this year, with Smith receiving his first-ever BAFTA nomination for his role as the father of Serena and Venus Williams in King Richard. Meanwhile, the Leading Actress list included the likes of Tessa Thompson, Alana Haim, and Lady Gaga.


The complete list of 2022 BAFTA Film Awards nominees follows:

Best Film​

• Belfast
• Don't Look Up
• Dune
• Licorice Pizza
• The Power of the Dog

Best Director​

• Aleem Khan - After Love
• Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car
• Audrey Diwan - Happening
• Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
• Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
• Julia Ducournau - Titane

Leading Actor​

• Adeel Akhtar - Ali & Ava
• Mahershala Ali - Swan Song
• Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
• Leonardo DiCaprio - Don't Look Up
• Stephen Graham - Boiling Point
• Will Smith - King Richard

Leading Actress​

• Lady Gaga - House of Gucci
• Alana Haim - Licorice Pizza
• Emilia Jones - Coda
• Renate Reinsve- The Worst Person in the World
• Joanna Scanlan - After Love
• Tessa Thompson - Passing

Supporting Actor​

• Mike Faist - West Side Story
• Ciaran Hinds - Belfast
• Troy Kotsur - Coda
• Woody Norman - C'mon C'mon
• Jesse Plemons - The Power of the Dog
• Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog

Supporting Actress​

• Caitriona Balfe - Belfast
• Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter
• Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
• Ann Dowd - Mass
• Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard
• Ruth Negga - Passing

Best Original Screenplay​

• Being The Ricardos
• Belfast
• Don't Look Up
• King Richard
• Licorice Pizza

Best Adapted Screenplay​

• Coda
• Drive My Car
• Dune
• The Lost Daughter
• The Power of the Dog

Best Original Score​

• Being the Ricardos
• Don't Look Up
• Dune
• The French Dispatch
• The Power of the Dog

Best Cinematography​

• Dune
• Nightmare Alley
• No Time To Die
• The Power of the Dog
• The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Costume Design​

• Cruella
• Cyrano
• Dune
• The French Dispatch
• Nightmare Alley

Best Editing​

• Belfast
• Dune
• Licorice Pizza
• No Time To Die
• Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Best Production Design​

• Cyrano
• Dune
• The French Dispatch
• Nightmare Alley
• West Side Story

Best Hair and Makeup​

• Cruella
• Cyrano
• Dune
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• House of Gucci

Best Sound​

• Dune
• Last Night In Soho
• No Time To Die
• A Quiet Place Part II
• West Side Story

Best Special Visual Effects​

• Dune
• Free Guy
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife
• The Matrix Resurrections
• No Time To Die

Best Casting​

• Boiling Point
• Dune
• The Hand of God
• King Richard
• West Side Story

Outstanding British Film​

• After Love
• Ali & Ava
• Belfast
• Boiling Point
• Cyrano
• Everybody's Talking About Jamie
• House of Gucci
• Last Night in Soho
• No Time to Die
• Passing

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer​

• After Love - Aleem Khan (writer/director)
• Boiling Point - James Cummings (writer), Hester Ruoff (producer)
• The Harder They Fall - Jeymes Samuel (writer/director)
• Keyboard Fantasies - Posy Dixon (writer/director), Liv Proctor (producer)
• Passing - Rebecca Hall (writer/director)

Film not in the English Language​

• Drive My Car
• The Hand of God
• Parallel Mothers
• Petite Maman
• The Worst Person in the World

Best Documentary​

• Becoming Cousteau
• Cow
• Flee
• The Rescue
• Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Best Animated Film​

• Encanto
• Flee
• Luca
• The Mitchells vs The Machines

Best British Short Film​

• The Black Cop
• Femme
• The Palace
• Stuffed
• Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee

Best British Short Animation​

• Affairs of the Art
• Do Not Feed the Pigeons
• Night of the Living Dread

EE Rising Star (voted for by the public)​

• Ariana DeBose
• Harris Dickinson
• Lashana Lynch
• Millicent Simmonds
• Kodi Smit-McPhee

And... that's a wrap! The 75th British Academy Film Awards are set to take place at the Royal Albert Hall in London on March 13, 2022. Stay tuned to IGN for coverage of the awards.


Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

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