Following the longlist announcement earlier this month, final nominees for the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards were announced during a livestream hosted by Naomi Ackie and Kingsley Ben-Adir. By the numbers: Oppenheimer received the most nominations with 13, followed by Poor Things with 11, while Killers of the Flower Moon and The Zone of Interest each received nine.
The four features nominated for the Animated Film award are:
- The Boy and the Heron (Studio Ghibli) — Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (Aardman/Netflix) — Sam Fell, Leyla Hobart, Steve Pegram
- Elemental (Pixar/Disney) — Peter Sohn, Denise Ream
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures Animation) — Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Avi Arad, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal, Christina Steinberg
Unfortunately, not all of the out-of-category animated contenders were left off the final nominations lists, with only Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse breaking the live-action ceiling for a nomination for Original Score — the Sony Pictures Animation pic had also been under consideration for the Special Visual Effects prize. Left off were Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, which was longlisted for Outstanding British Film, and The Boy and the Heron, which had a shot at Film Not in the English Language.
The five nominees for Special Visual Effects are:
- The Creator — Jonathan Bullock, Charmaine Chan, Ian Comley, Jay Cooper
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — Theo Bialek, Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One — Neil Corbould, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland, Alex Wuttke
- Napoleon — Henry Badgett, Neil Corbould, Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet
- Poor Things — Simon Hughes
And the three films nominated for British Short Animation are:
- Crab Day — Ross Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek, Aleksandra Sykulak
- Visible Mending — Samantha Moore, Tilley Bancroft
- Wild Summon — Karni Arieli, Saul Freed, Jay Woolley
Winners will be unveiled on Sunday, February 18 at a ceremony, hosted by David Tennant. Viewers can tune in on BBC One and iPlayer in the U.K. and around the world, including on BritBox in North America.
