‘Nomadland,’ ‘Rocks’ & ‘Promising Young Woman’ Lead 2021 BAFTA Nominations

Promising Young Woman will finally be released in the UK next month.Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut, starring Carey Mulligan, is set to premiere on Sky Cinema and NOW in April after lengthy delays due to the coronavirus pandemic.The film follows a young woman named Cassie who seeks revenge on predatory “nice guys” following a tragedy that occurred in her days at medical school.Mulligan plays Cassie, and stars opposite Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Adam Brody and

Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, which is up for five Oscars this year, will skip cinemas in the UK and debut directly on Sky Cinema. It will be released by the broadcaster on April 16, 10 days before the Oscars. The deal was made by Focus Features and Universal with Sky, all of which are owned by Comcast. The pic premiered at Sundance in 2020 and was released stateside by Focus on December 25, grossing $5.8M to date in the pandemic-hit theatrical market.

Rocks is now available to read online.Rocks follows the story of an east London teenage girl whose life changes forever after her mum walks out, leaving her to look after herself and her young brother alone.The film – which handpicked its cast of unknown female leads from secondary schools around London – won best British independent film at February’s British Independent Film Awards.Written by Claire Wilson and Theresa Ikoko, the film has since been nominated for a BAFTA for Best British Film

Naman Ramachandran Clara Amfo, Edith Bowman and Dermot O’Leary will host the EE BAFTA Film Awards, which for the first time, will take place over a weekend on April 10 and 11.Amfo, a popular BBC Radio 1 presenter, will host the awards’ opening night on April 10, and will be joined by a yet-to-be-announced panel of guests who will discuss the creative process using footage from nominated films.

EXCLUSIVE: The journey to screen of BAFTA-competing UK feature Rocks was not conventional. The film underwent an organic development process over a number of years that saw director Sarah Gavron and her team cast a group of non-actor schoolgirls and then, alongside writers Claire Wilson and Theresa Ikoko, build a screenplay based on their real-life experiences.

Another guild award is in the books, ladies and gentlemen. The Writers Guild Awards are in the rearview mirror now, with some definite Oscar implications.

Sabine Schmitz was a racing driver who was the first and, to date, only woman to win the famed 24 Hours Nürburgring race. She was also a star of TV’s “Top Gear.”Schmitz became known as the “Queen of the Nürburgring” for her familiarity with the 15.8-mile track in Western Germany.

And then there were eight. The Best Picture nominees have been widdled down to a chosen few and from a layman’s perspective, it might appear that the race to take Oscar’s most prestigious prize is surprisingly wide open.

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Letitia Wright is remembering her “big brother” and co-star Chadwick Boseman.

Five Oscar nominations this morning for Promising Young Woman place Emerald Fennell’s searing and darkly comic drama about a woman avenging her friend after a sexual assault into confirmed frontrunner status for this year’s Academy Awards.

Two months later than usual, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 93rd Oscars. The honorees were revealed by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas in a virtual broadcast which had actually become the norm for The Academy even before the pandemic began a little over a year ago.

Focus Features will release Ben Sharrock’s two-time BAFTA nominated Limbo on Friday, April 30 in limited theaters.

Is now when the fun begins? After a historic two-month pandemic-related postponement, the nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards are about to be announced. It’s been a strange campaign with no official in-person screenings, virtual Q&As, and almost every major contender already available on streaming or PVOD.

Sports Team have shared rescheduled dates for their UK and Irish headline tour – see their new live schedule below.The band were initially set to head out on the road this April in support of their debut album ‘Deep Down Happy’.Due to ongoing coronavirus restrictions, though, the dates have now been pushed back to October and November, concluding with a massive gig at London’s Brixton Academy.See the band’s newly rescheduled tour dates, which begin in Manchester on October 2, below.

Naman Ramachandran Sarah Gavron’s “Rocks” is nominated for seven BAFTAs as well as a BAFTA EE Rising Star Award for its lead Bukky Bakray.

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off of a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer, South African drama Moffie is due to release in select U.S. theaters and on digital and VOD platforms via IFC Films on April 9. Check out the new trailer above.

Annnd … action! The Directors Guild of America is out with the nominations for its 73rd annual DGA Awards for theatrical feature film and first-time feature. The guild, which unveiled its TV, commercials and documentary nominees on Monday, will announce this year’s winners during an April 10 virtual event.

2021 BAFTA Awards nominees were announced on Tuesday, presented by comedian Aisling Bea and actress Susan Wokoma live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. and were the most-nominated films of the year, with seven nominations apiece.BAFTA previously announced the all-British nominees for its Rising Star Award, including Bukky Bakray (), Conrad Khan (), Kingsley Ben-Adir (), Morfydd Clark () and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù ().The winners will be announced on Sunday, April 11, with the ceremony having been