‘La La Land’ leads race for UK film awards
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THE perky, pastel-hued jazz musical “La La Land” quick-stepped into an awards-season lead yesterday, gaining 11 nominations for the British Academy Film Awards, the UK equivalent of the Oscars.
The sweet-tempered Ryan Gosling-Emma Stone romance is up for best picture, director, actor and actress at the British awards, which are considered a strong indicator of likely success at Hollywood’s prize-giving next month.
The nominations add to the musical’s momentum after it won seven prizes at the Golden Globes on Sunday.
Philosophical sci-fi yarn “Arrival” and psychological thriller “Nocturnal Animals” have nine nominations each for the UK prizes, known as BAFTAs.
The contenders were announced at the British academy’s London headquarters by actors Dominic Cooper and Sophie Turner.
Best-picture nominees are “La La Land,” “Arrival,” welfare-state drama “I, Daniel Blake,” Miami coming-of-age story “Moonlight,” and soul-baring domestic drama “Manchester by the Sea.”
Best-actor nominees are Andrew Garfield for “Hacksaw Ridge,” Casey Affleck for “Manchester by the Sea,” Jake Gyllenhaal for “Nocturnal Animals,” Gosling for “La La Land” and Viggo Mortensen for “Captain Fantastic.”
Best-actress contenders are Amy Adams for “Arrival,” Emily Blunt for “The Girl on the Train,” Stone for “La La Land,” Meryl Streep for “Florence Foster Jenkins” and Natalie Portman for “Jackie.”
Among supporting actor and actress nominees are Jeff Bridges for “Hell or High Water,” Viola Davis for “Fences” and Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel for “Lion.”
London-born Patel said it was an honor to be recognized in his home city. “My family is literally freaking out right now,” he said.
Also up for best supporting actor is Hugh Grant for his role as minor actor St. Clair Bayfield, partner of Streep’s tone-deaf opera singer, in “Florence Foster Jenkins.”
“This is so kind of BAFTA, and I feel very pleased both for myself and for St. Clair Bayfield, neither of us having been exactly awards-season habitues,” Grant said.
Winners will be announced on February 12, two weeks before the Oscars.
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