A surprising BAFTA nomination list
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 11:39AM by Nathaniel R
Nomadland and Rocks lead the nominations at the BAFTA Film Awards this year with 7 nominations each. The Father, Mank, Minari, and Promising Young Woman were right on their heels with 6 nominations each (though Mank and Minari both missed key top categories). After years of criticism over BAFTA's lack of diversity they made 120 rule changes (!) and, coupled with a strong year for films from and starring ethnic minorities or women, two thirds of the acting nominations went to people of color and the majority of the directing nominations went to women.
We've outlined the complex changes they made around the Best Director category (which created quite a surprising result) but in general it's easiest to think of what BAFTA did as adding what amounts to Oscar's International Feature "Executive Committee" to the longlist process in multiple categories to keep an eye on diversity and fix any glaring ommissions before the final nominations vote.
Oscar voters turn in their nomination ballots tomorrow (if they haven't already) so this won't be influential per se but it's still interesting. Especially since the nominations are so very different than what the Oscars will end up being (due to different eligibility lists and now different rules, too)...
FILM
- The Father
- The Mauritanian
- Nomadland
- Promising Young Woman
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
This is a good get for The Father and no it wasn't a given. You can't always trust BAFTA to care about homegrown films, since they've been quite invested in being a "precursor" for the past decade plus. But this year they have looked inward more and more British films are peppered throughout the main categories.
BRITISH FILM
- Calm With Horses
- The Dig
- The Father
- His House
- Limbo
- The Mauritanian
- Mogul Mowgli
- Promising Young Woman
- Rocks
- Saint Maud
40% percent of the nominees here are not eligible at the Oscars (due to lack of US distribution or no paperwork submitted). Calm with Horses, Limbo, Mogul Mowgli (starring Riz Ahmed) and Rocks can't be nominated at the parallel Oscars. Curiously Saint Maud which played US festivals in 2019 and was never released the following year in the US is eligible at the Oscars. Turns out it arrived on VOD very recently two calendar years after its festival bow in time for the extended eligibility period, so it's nominated for 2020. CONFUSING. It's stretched across three years of cinema but that happens sometimes with the complexities of distribution for indies.
LEAD ACTRESS
BAFTA went their own way with Best Actress, nominating two women that aren't eligible at the Oscars (Bakray and Woodard) and one whose film has no profile in the states (Wunmi Mosaku of Lovecraft Country fame). It's a shocker to see Woodard nominated here a year after her failed Oscar bid. Usually when a film misses Oscar and isn't eligible for BAFTA at the same time they ignore it the next year. But we're happy since she was a nominee here last season and anything that gets BAFTA to focus on what the British year in cinema was like instead of what's happening across the ocean is great news.
The shocking omission here is Carey Mulligan since Promising Young Woman had six nominations.
LEADING ACTOR
- Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal
- Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Adarsh Gourav - The White Tiger
- Sir Anthony Hopkins - The Father
- Mads Mikkelsen - Another Round
- Tahar Rahim - The Mauritanian
Gourav follows up his surprise Spirit nomination with a BAFTA nomination and Rahim his surprise Globe nomination with a BAFTA nomination. We're thrilled to see Mads Mikkelsen honored since American critics and precursors have ignored him despite loving the film that rests so heavily on his gifts (he's on our ballot).
Gary Oldman and Steven Yeun might have reasonably hoped to be here so that is a tough break for them.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Niamh Algar - Calm With Horses
- Kosar Ali - Rocks
- Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
- Dominique Fishback - Judas and the Black Messiah
- Ashley Madekwe - County Lines
- Youn Yuh-Jung - Minari
Three of these women aren't eligible at Oscars (Algar, Ali, Madekwe) so among the potential Oscar contenders this is amazing news for Dominique Fishback (who we've long suspected was on the cusp of a surprise Oscar nom). Though Bakalova and Youn are, in some ways, not typical Oscar candidates at this point if they aren't named on the 15th it's going to count as a "snub" (the word is often overused but it would probably work in this circumstance).
Very surprising to see Olivia Colman missing, though, since they obviously loved The Father. And given Jodie Foster's Globe win AND The Mauritanian nabbing a Best Film nomination (when there are only 5 slots) it's also shocking that Foster wasn't nominated.
SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Daniel Kaluuya - Judas and the Black Messiah
- Barry Keoghan - Calm With Horses
- Alan Kim - Minari
- Leslie Odom Jr - One Night In Miami...
- Clarke Peters - Da 5 Bloods
- Paul Raci - Sound of Metal
It's a shock (to put it mildly) to see Clarke Peters named for Da 5 Bloods when Delroy Lindo didn't make Best Actor and has hogged the lion's share of the accolades for that movie. But it's nice to see someone beyond Boseman recognized for that film since that honor always felt weirdly redundant and overly generous given that he's worthy in Ma Rainey and was obviously going to be justly rewarded for it.
Still, at least half of this list is leading roles but what are you gonna do? We've long since lost that battle to reward supporting players in their own category. But anyway... YAY, Paul Raci! We're still worried Oscar won't come through but this is a good honor.
After Alan S Kim's nomination here and his Critics Choice Young Performer win back-to-back, it's tempting to think he has a shot at the Oscar nod. If he were a little girl he'd probably be a lock but Oscar voters are less welcoming to little boys, historically speaking.
DIRECTOR
- Another Round - Thomas Vinterberg
- Babyteeth - Shannon Murphy
- Minari - Lee Isaac Chung
- Nomadland - Chloé Zhao
- Quo Vadis, Aida? - Jasmila Žbanić
- Rocks - Sarah Gavron
A very different director lineup than we've been seeing which is wonderful. And four of the six nominees are women. But not the same women that keep getting honored in the US so that's a twist! LOVE the Shannon Murphy mention but it's still shocking since her film wasn't nominated anywhere else. It's also quite bizarre (not that we're complaining -- he's on our own ballot) to see Lee Isaac Chung nominated when Minari didn't make their finalist list for Best Film.
It's worth noting, though, that BAFTA really worked to insure this kind of a result would happen. The rule changes around Best Director were intricate. First the directing branch of BAFTA had to come up with an gender balanced list of 16 contenders. Then a separate special jury added four more directors, which also had to be gender balanced. Then a separate nominating jury voted on the 20 contenders to determine the six nominees.
men who made the long list but didn't land the nomination: Bahrani (White Tiger), Fincher (Mank), Greengrass (News of the World), MacDonald (Mauritanian), Nolan (Tenet), Sorkin (Chicago 7), Stone (The Dig), Zeller (The Father)
women who made the long list but didn't land the nomination: Blank (40 Year Old Version), Fennell (Promising Young Woman), Glass (Saint Maud), Green (The Assistant), King (One Night in Miami)
and... a male/female directing duo that didn't land the nomination: Ehrlich & Reed (My Octopus Teacher)
EE RISING STAR AWARD
- Kingsley Ben-Adir
- Morfydd Clark
- Bukky Bakray
- Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
- Conrad Khan
This award is voted on by the public.
DEBUT FROM BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR, OR PRODUCER
- His House - Remi Weekes (writer/director)
- Limbo - Ben Sharrock (writer/director), Irune Gurtubai (producer)
- Moffie - Jack Sidey (writer/producer)
- Rocks - Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (writers)
- Saint Maud - Rose Glass (writer/director), Oliver Kassman (producer)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- Another Round (Denmark)
- Dear Comrades! (Russia)
- Les Misérables (France)
- Minari (US)
- Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
As with the Globes, Minari was shoved off to this category. At least here it makes more sense since these are British awards so it hardly matters that Minari is an all-American triumph since it's still not in English. The other major difference from the Globes is that Minari was actually eligible for the top category (Best Film) but just didn't make the long list...that's quite strange, really, when you consider how many nominations it did snag in the end! Of these five international nominees only Another Round made the finalist list for Best Film though it didn't land the nomination.
DOCUMENTARY
- Collective
- David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
- The Dissident
- My Octopus Teacher
- The Social Dilemma
Collective and My Octopus Teacher are finalists for the Oscar nomination in this category... though we don't expect both to land the nomination.
ANIMATED FILM
- Onward
- Soul
- Wolfwalkers
Only three nominees and it's the three most high profile films in the category. BAFTA didn't dig deep here since even on their "longlist" they listed only six titles (Over the Moon, Willoughbys, and Croods 2 also made the cut) and no films that weren't in English made the finals.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Another Round - Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg
- Mank - Jack Fincher
- Promising Young Woman - Emerald Fennell
- Rocks - Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Aaron Sorkin
A very different list than we'll see at Oscar (which is always nice to say because there's no point in dozens of groups if they all agree!). Love the Another Round citation.
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- The Dig - Moira Buffini
- The Father - Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
- The Mauritanian - Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, MB Traven
- Nomadland - Chloé Zhao
- The White Tiger - Ramin Bahrani
Another surprising list!
ORIGINAL SCORE
All of these except Promising Young Woman made the Oscar finals. We'll see if they can snag the nomination because there are several other biggies like Tenet, Chicago 7, and Da 5 Bloods as distinct possibilities, too
CINEMATOGRAPHY
- Judas and the Black Messiah - Sean Bobbitt
- Mank - Erik Messerschmidt
- The Mauritanian - Alwin H Küchler
- News of the World - Dariusz Wolski
- Nomadland - Joshua James Richards
Surprise! Judas (just discussed) and Mauritanian both show up. This year in particular, blame COVID-19, it paid to show up very very late in the eligibility period. Oscar's cinematography competition feels pretty wide open beyond Nomadland and Mank (which feel like the only sure things). With Minari, Tenet, News of the World, First Cow, Judas, I'm Thinking of Ending Things and more lying in wait.
COSTUME DESIGN
- Ammonite - Michael O'Connor
- The Dig - Alice Babidge
- Emma - Alexandra Byrne
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ann Roth
- Mank - Trish Summerville
The Dig has to count as a surprise but we continue to be disappointed that so few awards group notice contemporary design. Would have been nice to see more mentions of Eurovision and Promising Young Woman this season.
EDITING
- The Father - Yorgos Lamprinos
- Nomadland - Chloé Zhao
- Promising Young Woman - Frédéric Thoraval
- Sound of Metal - Mikkel EG Nielsen
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Alan Baumgarten
We're thrilled that the disorienting editing of The Father keps landing nominations and we hope to see it in the Oscar list, too. Sound of Metal is making a late surge in this category, too.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
- The Dig - Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
- The Father - Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone
- Mank - Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale
- News of the World - David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan
- Rebecca - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
They went a bit Netflix crazy here with three nominations, two of them unexpected (The Dig, Rebecca). We don't think Oscar's list will look like this given the abundant other possibilities like Tenet, Mulan, Emma, Ma Rainey, Midnight Sky, David Copperfield...
MAKEUP AND HAIR
- The Dig - Jenny Shircore
- Hillbilly Elegy - Patricia Dehaney, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Matiki Anoff, Larry M Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal
- Mank - Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams
- Pinocchio - Mark Coulier
BAFTA sure liked The Dig! It's the only one of these titles that is not eligible for the parallel Osar category since it didn't make the finals.
SOUND
- Greyhound - nominees TBC
- News of the World - Michael Fentum, William Miller, Mike Prestwood Smith, John Pritchett, Oliver Tarney
- Nomadland - Sergio Diaz, Zach Seivers, M Wolf Snyder
- Soul - Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker
- Sound of Metal - Jamie Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortes, Michelle Couttolenc
Nobody seems to like Greyhound so two nominations is pretty good!
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
- Greyhound - Pete Bebb, Nathan McGuinness, Sebastian von Overheidt
- The Midnight Sky - Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, David Watkins
- Mulan - Sean Faden, Steve Ingram, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury
- The One and Only Ivan - Santiago Colomo Martinez, Nick Davis, Greg Fisher
- Tenet - Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley
Of these only Greyhound did not make the Oscar finals for vfx.
CASTING
- Calm With Horses - Shaheen Baig
- Judas and the Black Messiah - Alexa L Fogel
- Minari - Julia Kim
- Promising Young Woman - Lindsay Graham Ahanonu, Mary Vernieu
- Rocks - Lucy Pardee
Oscar doesn't have this category so we enjoy seeing their nominees. We agree that Minari is a super choice though our own list looks very different (though we have different eligibility list since the majority of these weren't 2020 releases in the US)
BRITISH SHORT FILM
- Eyelash
- Lizard
- Lucky Break
- Miss Curvy
- The Present
The Present is also eligible for the Oscar and we think it has a good shot.
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
- The Fire Next Time
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- The Song of A Lost Boy
Alfre Woodard, BAFTA, His House, Rocks, Saint Maud, The Dig
Reader Comments (106)
This is incredible. Sad for Mulligan, but can’t be mad at that line up.
Supporting Actress is EVERYTHING.
This year is chaotic, and also the most exciting year I can remember.
More of this is future BAFTA please!!!!
It's funny: upping the diversity quotient means that the four acting categories and Best Director have more people of color and women than ever before, respectively, BUT now none of those categories include more than three (or two) nominees who are actually British (or Irish); in the case of director, only one, in fact.
Craziness all around! It'd be amazing if those nominations were done by entire voting body.
Not only no Mulligan but also no Colman!!!!!
@Working stiff-isn't it heavy think about the world in this terms?
Very impressed by these nominations. And I'm super happy for Radha Blank! And she was just cited at the DGA as well! I know the Oscars will likely ignore her and her amazing film entirely, but she has GOT to be dancing on cloud 9 today.
I'm starting to love this chaotic awards season.
This is exactly what I expect from any award association, diferent names from diferent movie titles what translates to diferent proposes that gives the real richnes to films.
Is a little dissapointing the constant complains that expect the same names be repeated here and there and pointing what names should/could be nominated to the Oscar.
I guess the mixed feelings I'm struggling to articulate are that I wish we could have had these nominations (plus inclusion of Carey M for actress!) without so much heavy tinkering with the rules. I know, that's a fantasy.
It just saddens me a little that that's what it takes, if only because it gives cheap ammunition to the people yelling about forced wokeness, affirmative action, etc.
@César Gaytán-Today being an Internet User means complaining. It's frustrating
Very exciting list. So glad that we won't see week after week the same ppl giving speeches.
I'm all about diversity but this is just... a mess.
Mulligan needs to win SAG but I feel that prize is going to McDormand.
The Forty-Year-Old Version is unbereable.
For the BAFTA noms it's key watching the bigger picture (The categories which the general membership votes. Acting and Directing are per Jury).
-Great showing for "The Mauritanian" (Beyond the Foster snub). Getting Adapted and Picture shows something suspected. The film is loved by overseas audiences. Rahim and Foster can surprise
-Mank got a bad night. No Picture and Director and even underperforming at techs.
-Interesting the only supporting actress with all precursors is Bakalova and great she survived a Jury type of voting. Good for her Oscar chances.
-Ammonite is just DOA. Not even in hometown cared.
Zhao is locked in director and our Oscar acting winners are...
Chadwick Boseman
Frances McDormand
Daniel Kaluuya
Glenn Close
Really surprised Hopkins made it here. Perhaps voters just forgot he's a white old European man.
@John D SCREAMING
I LOVE @John D ' s comment.
The only positive thing is Another Round's overperformance.
They forgot that you can be inclusive and also have good taste.
For all those people falling over themselves to praise BAFTA, pull yourselves together. Likewise to those in those comments insinuating that any criticism of this new process is racist in and of itself. This is not diversity - this is a totally self-serving attempt by BAFTA to make themselves look as non-racist as possible.
It completely masks the problem that still exists at the heart of BAFTA and the film community as a whole - just take a look at the wider nominations. BAFTA should be about real diversity - not a box ticking exercise to not 'let's make sure we only have 2 white nominees per category'.
The positive outcome of this is that it gives exposure to a lot of BAME performers whose work wouldn't have been recognised, but at the expense of actually listening to the 7000 members. Therefore, what's the point of the whole exercise? It's a total slap in the face to these BAME performers that they know they got their nomination because BAFTA wanted positive press.
Has there ever been anyone as obsessed with Glenn Close fans as @Sam? LOL.
Hahahaha
Thank you @JohnD, that shit just made me laugh out loud in a room full of strangers.
I just love how banana-pants these nominations are...
It's enough of a reminder of when the BAFTAs only had like 4 nominees per category and actively gave the awards to British people. Pretty sure that stopped after the year Titanic lost all 10 BAFTAs it was nominated for, haha.
Sigh... Those were the salad days...
The Glenn Close's snub really hurts her chances considering the fact that BAFTA is one of the few groups that own her. I tought her perofmance was a bit one note, but when I saw the end credits' shots of real Mamaw, I have to agree she was spot-on on that portrayal. And of course it would be nice to see her finally win, even for the one note performance.
moviefilm -- how does it hurt Glenn? She doesn't need it because she's done so well this season and most of the oscar ballots would have been turned in by now.
Well, I did crack a joke in comments not long ago about Alfre--and I love that they did it! This isn't a perfect solution that BAFTA came up with, but it *did* result in fascinating number of categories. And a juried selection list, frankly, is not different from Cannes or Venice or Berlin (assuming, of course, that the jury itself has been selected wisely and has discernment). I'm with any of the commentators here who appreciate that this nomination list gives us new things to watch.
@Working stiff, compared to the past few years, having 2-3 Brits or Irish actors in the category is a big improvement over the past few years. This year, even in places where brits aren't the nominees, they're in British films and films that deal with themes relevant to the country today.
@John D
Actually, Anthony Hopkins is an African-American who has "passed" as a white Jewish man for most of his adult life. Didn't you see The Human Stain?
@ Joe G
Right after I posted that, I thought about the over-Americanness (or under-Britness) of some recent BAFTA lists.
Well Oscar night will be very exciting in the two actress categories.
Well, Oracle gave a good reason to mock the delusional Glenndistas. She can be snubbed this Mnday and still predicting her for write-in votes LOL.
@Rafaello SCREAMING
Love these nominations because they represent a deliberate move away from Oscar prognostication. Plus, they give me a few films to seek out. (Never heard of Rocks before today.) More, please.
I don't really like this. Award shows are about tabulating consensus from large voting pools, not expressing whatever quirky tastes a tiny jury comes in with, that's what critics organizations are for. Would be interested in seeing who could have won if the actual British Academy were allowed to decide who was nominated for the British Academy Awards.
BAFTA TV have used this system (except they have juries for both nominations and winners) for about 12 years and their line-ups are always fabulous - never a bad or weak performance cited.
I’m all here for BAFTA Film moving in the same superior direction - for everyone complaining about Carey, watch all 6 nominees and then tell me who is the filler robbing her of a nomination?
*Spoiler - all are excellent, no filler exists here*
These are some of the worst nominations BAFTA has generated in decades. Burn them, ignore them, trash them, take your pick. None of this changes how fucking racist they continue to be and will always be. Completely irrelevant governing body now.
Much prefer these nominations over what they would’ve given us normally. BAFTA shouldn’t just be about Oscar predictions and acting as unofficial advertising for the one big British film each year. Quibbles around the papering over of BAFTA issues aside (it’s strange that many on these committees aren’t just BAFTA members, but okay) they do a hell of a better job advocating for film than just another cut and paste job listing the same seven or eight movies.
@ kermit_the_frog
YMMV.
To answer your question, one could say McDormand or Kirby...
Working Stiff - apologies, I wasn’t as clear as I wanted to be - lots of people will rank Carey higher than Frances or Vanessa or all the other nominees on their personal ballots... my (badly made) point was that every one of those nominees was clearly a passion pick for somebody on that jury... and I’ll take that any day over coat-tail nominees or simply “fine” work coasting to the line-up because of a small fortune spent on FYC adverts... the days of BAFTA mediocrity (which is exactly why the full membership can’t be trusted to select the nominees) are finally behind us.
LMFAO this is the most absurd list of nominees ever and I am here for it. Bring on the mess. Award season this year is actually a breath of fresh air.
But how on Earth Carrie missed out?!!
Does anyone know why are we getting six nominees instead of five? Is it permanent?
George Carlin was right about political correctness. It's just another form of facism.
Fuckin' hell. I would've thought after the last ten years, we'd be smart enough to use "fascism' with somewhat more nuance, but nope BAFTA = fascist. It's a MOVIE AWARD SHOW. Get your head out of you arse and grow some bloody perspective ffs.
Thanks @Glenn Dunks
How "fair" was past BAFTAs and other awards where people are nominated off of ability to schmooze , studios with lots of money for ads, cast parties for critics etc, Even on this site we are honest that the best reviewed films have to scramble for attention (see First Cow etc).
This fake meritocracy and acceptance of white mediocrity (Chicago 7 sailing through because it offends no one and is "universal"i is way more problematic than anything BAFTA is doing.
Thanks, GD. It needed to be said.
Unfortunately have to repeat because of somebody who's Mother is a ho. Ahem...
Zhao is locked in director and our Oscar acting winners are...
Chadwick Boseman
Frances McDormand
Daniel Kaluuya
Glenn Close
If you are one of the people lamenting about the nomination process here, take issue with the fact that their 7000 members are so homogeneous, leaving this as their only option while they work to diversify their membership. Criticize the institution. Stop denigrating the artists.
What a joy to read an award show's list of nominees and discover new films and artists. If only every year and every category could be as exciting as both of the actress categories are this year.
Mixed bag. I’m not denigrating the artists nominated - like others have said, I’m thrilled to discover these new names and films nominated. But this seems like BAFTA is putting a bandaid over a gashing, bloody wound..
It’s so apparent which categories were nominated by committee and which weren’t. The tech nominees are pretty predictable.
This isn’t a democratic process though.
How on earth do you nominate Promising Young Woman for so many awards and snub Carey and Emerald? Really? Bullshit.
A lot of this is just - bizarre. But at least this awards season isn’t boring!
Weather new Bafta voting is good thing depends what basis good for awards ceremony is considered. Is it about knowing the real opinions of as much people as possible who work in the industry, highlight films and people who would not otherwise get attention so people will watch them and promote careers or for Oscar prediction. Because this clearly isn’t the first or last for many categories. But the middle one in a way is more important for relevance of awards ceremonies and to help people.
However most important thing ought to be if these are really the best possible nominees in terms of quality. I don’t know since there is so many films I haven’t seen. So it’s hard to judge if this was good idea or not. Even though I like that awards and nominated aren’t given just to same people, so many people are going to be happy. Unlike if someone like Mulligan was awarded everywhere she might not care of them all. And now some new people have always that Bafta nom to promote them with when trying to get work.
Really!!! No Carey Mulligan and BAFTA wants to be taken seriously. Disgraceful.
Hey let's not take this too negatively. The Actor line-up is great! Carey (I LOVE her and PYM) is already a BAFTA winner in Lead ("An Education") as is Colman ("The Favourite")
I do not think this has any impact on the AMPAS! Also I do NOT think McDormand is winning a Third Oscar!!!
Whoever wins the SAG (it will probably be Viola or Carey is probably the Oscar winner... I am thinking as of now Carey may have the slight upper edge with the LAFCA, NYFC AND Critics Choice)...
Possibly, Kirby wins BAFTA, or Woodard?
Supp Actress is anyone's to take... let's wait for the Oscar nominees!
Disappointed with the negative comments. I love these nominations! Fresh and exciting. Also, in my opinion Mulligan wasn’t that good in Promising Young Woman....that character never gelled for me and it felt more like a concept than a flesh and blood human (and I liked the film). Frances and Vanessa (and Viola) are leagues better...also really not a fan of her crusade to get that gay film critic fired. I find it really tacky when actors go after critics (also Brie Larson)....it’s part of the job!
Fair with Mulligan's omission. Way over-rated!