Nomadland and Rocks lead the pack of nominees for the BAFTA 2021 awards in the most diverse nominations list ever seen in the British Academy’s history, and coming just a year after it was embroiled in the #BaftaSoWhite controversy, sparking a 7-month review and overhaul of the voting rules and regulations.
Chloe Zhao’s awards season favourite set in the American West and Sarah Gavron’s coming-of-age drama about a group of inner city London schoolgirls both landed seven nominations each, with The Father, Mank, Minari and Promising Young Woman not far behind with six.
The Dig and The Mauritanian earned five. Among several major highlights from a hugely eclectic list of nominations —which saw a record 50 different film nominated (up from a.
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