Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan lead Irish nominations at Baftas
Barry Keoghan and Cillian Murphy
Actors Cillian Murphy, Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan are among the Irish stars nominated for Bafta Awards.
Murphy was nominated for his role as the titular in Christopher Nolan’s film about the father of the atomic bomb. It is his first Bafta nomination.
Murphy received a best actor nod at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last week and he won his first Golden Globe earlier this month for the role. The Cork actor is hotly tipped to win an Oscar in March.
Murphy’s co-stars Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr are also nominated for supporting prizes, while Nolan has scored a best director nod and the drama is recognised in the best film category.
Keoghan was nominated for his role as Oliver Quick in the black comedy , where he plays a working-class student drawn into the world of a rich aristocrat.
Keoghan and Murphy are up against Bradley Cooper for , Colman Domingo for , Paul Giamatti for and Two Yoo for .
Last year Keoghan won a Bafta award for best supporting actor for his role as Dominic in Martin McDonagh’s .
Andrew Scott missed out on a nomination for his role in , but his co-star Paul Mescal was nominated for best supporting actor in the same film.
Dublin producer Medb Riordan is nominated for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer along with Savanah Leaf, Shirley O'Connor for .
Yorgos Lanthimos’s offbeat film is produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, and picked up a number of nominations including cinematography for Irish cinematographer Robbie Ryan, leading actress for star Emma Stone, and best film.
"We are delighted with these nominations from Bafta, which build on the recent success of the film at the Golden Globes, and recognise the amazing work of our incredible cast, led By Emma Stone, our brilliant screenwriter Tony McNamara and the artistry and talent of our amazing heads of department," said Element Pictures producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, who also paid tribute to "our brilliant Element Pictures colleagues in Dublin and London who have been integral to the development and production of the film."
leads the nominations with 13 nods, followed by 11 for , both of which are nominated for the best film prize. Also in the running is French courtroom drama , Martin Scorsese’s western crime thriller and , about a cranky prep school teacher forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student.
Notably absent from the category is , which was the highest-grossing film of 2023, with director Greta Gerwig also absent from the directing category.
Gerwig is, however, recognised in the original screenplay alongside her husband and co-writer Noah Baumbach.
The best actress prize sees star Margot Robbie compete against star Emma Stone, Carey Mulligan for , Sandra Huller for , Fantasia Barrino for and Vivian Oparah for romantic comedy .
German actress Huller is also nominated in a second category, picking up a supporting actress nod for , alongside ’s Blunt, Rosamund Pike for , Da’Vine Joy Randolph for , Danielle Brooks for and Claire Foy for .
Downey Jr, who has already won a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice award for his performance as Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission in , will compete against Paul Mescal for , Robert De Niro for , Jacob Elordi for , Ryan Gosling for , and Dominic Sessa for for the supporting actor prize.
The nominations were announced by Kingsley Ben-Adir and Naomi Ackie and the award ceremony will take place at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London on 18 February, presented by actor David Tennant. It will be broadcast on BBC One.
- Additional reporting by PA.
