Get ready for the Bafta Film Awards with our guide to the top 12 nominated movies – and how to watch them at home
BARBIE
★★★★12
Five nominations, including leading actress for Margot Robbie and best original screenplay. Available to rent* , and coming soon to Now Cinema Surreal, sassy and very, very pink, this infectious take on the world’s most famous doll is a wildly inventive ride. Margot Robbie plays the original Barbie, who parties every day in Barbieland until a visit to the real world delivers a rude awakening. Joining her is buff beau Ken (Ryan Gosling), who is soon educated about the patriarchy. Directed by Greta Gerwig, Barbie is filled with charming musical numbers, comic cameos and striking design. It’s also a blockbuster that smuggles in conversations about body image, female empowerment and the battle of the sexes.
PINK PRINCESS
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2 KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
★★★★★15
Nine nominations, including best film. Available on Apple TV+ Martin Scorsese’s epic crime drama set in 1920s Oklahoma tells the true story of how Osage Native Americans became a target after the discovery of oil on their tribal lands made them extremely wealthy. The focus falls on First World War veteran Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), his rancher uncle (Robert De Niro) and his Osage wife (Golden Globe winner Lily Gladstone, above with DiCaprio). Despite the film’s long running time, Robbie Robertson’s pounding score lends it a terrifying urgency.
3 OPPENHEIMER
★★★★★15
13 nominations, including best film and leading actor for Cillian Murphy. Available to rent, and coming soon to Now Cinema The physicist who oversaw America’s race to develop the atom bomb before the Nazis is the beating heart of director Christopher Nolan’s spectacular depiction of worldchanging history. Cillian Murphy gives a stunning performance as J Robert Oppenheimer, dubbed “the father of the atomic bomb”, and he’s supported by an awesome array of talent, including Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh (as the women in his life), Robert Downey Jr, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. The three-hour running time and scientific jargon demand patience, but Nolan’s marriage of visuals and sound design is dazzling.
4 SALTBURN
★★★★15
Five nominations, including outstanding British film. Available on Amazon Prime Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to her incendiary and Oscarwinning Promising Young Woman is a spectacularly spiky thriller. A variant on Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley, it sees awkward Oxford student Oliver (Barry Keoghan) invited to stay at the titular home of good-looking Felix (Jacob Elordi) for the summer, where
