Dwayne Johnson and George Clooney among big names missing out on Baftas longlist

George Clooney, Dwayne Johnson and Julia Roberts are some of the big names who will miss this year’s Bafta Film Awards, and this can often be an accurate indicator of who will win the Oscars.

Longlists published for each Bafta categoryOne Battle Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, was mentioned 16 times.

The final nominees will be announced on January 27, with six candidates in each acting category.

Clooney, Johnson and Roberts were nominated for Sunday’s Golden Globes for their films Jay Kelly, The Smashing Machine and After the Hunt.

In recent years the Bafta and Oscar awards have often closely mirrored each other’s results.

13 of the last 15 winners of the best actor award at the Baftas repeated their success at the Oscars.

10 of the last 12 people who were deemed worthy of Bafta’s best actress award were also deemed worthy of an Oscar.

Only twice this century has an actor won a best actor Oscar without a Bafta nomination: Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club in 2014 and Denzel Washington for Training Day in 2002.

Only twice in the last 21 years has a best actress won an Oscar without being nominated for a Bafta: Jessica Chastain for The Eyes of Tammy Faye in 2022 and Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side in 2010.

Clooney was praised for his starring role in Jay Kelly, and New York Magazine said his turn as the aging movie star was “arguably his best performance yet.”

But his co-star Adam Sandler made the Bafta longlist for best supporting actor, giving him his first shot at a Bafta nomination.

Johnson was heavily tipped to be in contention for the Oscars after his film The Smashing Machine, about the origins of the UFC, received a 15-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, leaving him in tears.

Julia Roberts is up for a Golden Globe win this weekend for her portrayal of the Yale Professor in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt.

The last of his three Bafta nominations was 12 years ago in August: Osage County.

KPop Demon Hunters, the pundit favorite to win best animated feature at the Oscars, was deemed ineligible for this year’s Baftas because it was released on Netflix in the UK before its release in August.

Brazilian actor Wagner Moura also missed the Portuguese-language political thriller The Secret Agent.

Pundits at Oscar predictions site Gold Derby currently see him as one of four dead certificates nominated for best actor, along with Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another) and Michael B Jordan (Sinners). The final three are all Bafta awaiting.

Bruce Springsteen’s biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere and Daniel Day-Lewis’ comeback after eight years away from acting, Anemone, are among the films that are highly praised in every category and should be completely missed.

Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal are among the acting names to have made the Bafta longlist, along with Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande and the Oppenheimer star. Cillian Murphy for Steve movie.

The long lists also give an idea of ​​which films have the general support of Bafta voters.

The stars of One Battle Another are well known, with the Bafta longlist including Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Torro and Teyana Taylor.

Films that appeared on the longlist more than once are:

• Consecutive battles: 16
• Hamnet: 14
• Sinners: 14
• Marty Supreme: 13
• Bugonia: 12
• Frankenstein: 12

It broke the UK box office record, I swear Based on the real-life story of John Davidson, who lives with Tourette syndromeIt also had a strong performance, appearing on six lists.

British folk music comedy-drama The Ballad of Wallis Island also did well, appearing in five categories, including best film and outstanding British film. Its star, Carey Mulligan, was awarded best supporting actress.

Goodbye June, Kate Winslet’s directorial debut, also made the Best British Film longlist.