Bafta Awards 2022: Stars prepare to return for live awards

The Bafta Film Awards came later, returning to full face-to-face ceremonies. Last year's event was subdued, with many nominees showing up via Zoom amid strict Covid-19 restrictions. But the stars will return to the Royal Albert Hall this year for a ceremony hosted by comics actress Rebel Wilson.

The science-fiction saga Dune topped the nominations, followed by the intense western The Power of the Dog and Sir Kenneth Branagh's autobiographical Belfast.

The Bafta Film Awards take place on the same day as the Critics' Choice Awards in Los Angeles. So the nominated stars both have to choose which ceremony they want to attend. The Critics' Choice Awards are not traditionally as prestigious as Bafta, but its location may make it a more attractive option for nominees in the United States.

Bafta Film Awards: Best Nomination

Read the complete list of nominations here.

Dune won the top Best Film category and technical categories such as cinematography, visual effects, costume design, and hair and makeup. Other nominations for Best Picture include Belfast, Leonardo DiCaprio's disaster satire Don't Look Up, and comedy-adult drama Sweet Pizza. Nominations for The Power of the Dog include Best Picture, Best Director for Jane Campion, and Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch. The British actor will star opposite DiCaprio and King Richard Will Smith and another Brit, Stephen Graham, who has been nominated for the role of a pressure cooker in Boiling Point.

Among the Best Actress nominees are Lady Gaga of the House of Gucci, fellow musicians Alana Chaim, Tessa Thompson for Passing, and Emilia Jones - daughter of Welsh TV presenter Aled - for Coda.

Ariana Debouz, who made the Best Supporting Actress list, was nominated for Rising Star Bafta.

In the Best Supporting Actor category, 11-year-old British student Woody Norman was nominated for Come, Come on - a radio journalist, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who takes his energetic nephew on a trip.

They also include Kiaran Hinds for Belfast, Jesse Plemons, and Cody Smith-McPhee, both for The Power of the Dog.

Jesse Buckley, who played the younger version of Olivia Coleman's character in The Lost Daughter, joins King Richard's Aunjanue Ellis, Belfast's Catriona Balf, West Side Story's Ariana DeBois, and Ruth Care for the Passing List of Best Supporting Actresses. Notable omissions in the nominations include Coleman; Kristen Stewart, who played Princess Diana in Spencer; and Sir Kenneth, nominated for screenwriter but failed to win Best Director.

There will be no scholarships or other lifetime achievement awards after last year's winner, Noel Clark, accused multiple women of sexual harassment following his win. Clark said he "deeply regrets" some of his actions but vehemently denies any sexual misconduct.