La La Land has received the most nominations
for the British Academy Film Awards with 11
nods.
The Hollywood musical, out in the UK on Friday,
is up for best film, while stars Ryan Gosling and
Emma Stone are up for best actor and actress.
British actors Emily Blunt, Andrew Garfield and
Hugh Grant are also in line for acting awards.
Philosophical sci-fi film Arrival and Tom Ford's
dark drama Nocturnal Animals have nine
nominations apiece.
The 2017 Bafta Film Awards will be held at the
Royal Albert Hall in London on 12 February.
Bafta nominations in full
Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake is up for both the best
film and best British film awards.
The welfare state drama receives an additional
nod for its screenplay while Hayley Squires, who
plays a single mother in the film, is up for best
supporting actress.
"As if @BAFTA think it's a good idea to put me in
the same room as Ryan Gosling," tweeted the
London-born actress, adding that she was "very
grateful for the recognition".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn welcomed I, Daniel
Blake's five nominations, congratulating Loach -
who is up for best director - and "everyone
involved in the brilliant film".
Arrival, La La Land and I, Daniel Blake are joined
in the best film category by Manchester by the
Sea and Moonlight.
Other titles in contention for the outstanding
British film award include Harry Potter spin-off
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which
has five nominations in all.
Meryl Streep joins Blunt and Stone in the leading
actress category, where she is nominated for her
role in Florence Foster Jenkins.
Her 15th Bafta nomination puts her on an equal
footing with Dame Judi Dench, who previously
held the record for most Bafta film nominations.
The US actress made headlines at the Golden
Globes on Sunday with a speech in which she
criticised US President-elect Donald Trump.
Mr Trump responded by claiming the three-time
Oscar-winner and two-time Bafta recipient was
"overrated".
Amy Adams and Natalie Portman complete the
best actress contenders list, having been
nominated for Arrival and Jackie respectively.
Gosling and Hacksaw Ridge star Garfield compete
with Casey Affleck, Jake Gyllenhaal and Viggo
Mortensen for the best actor award.
The latter trio are respectively nominated for
Manchester by the Sea, Nocturnal Animals and
Captain Fantastic respectively.
Films with most nominations
La La Land 11
Arrival 9
Nocturnal Animals 9
Manchester by the Sea 6
Grant, who appears with Streep in Florence Foster
Jenkins, is joined in the supporting actor category
by fellow Britons Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Dev
Patel.
Taylor-Johnson is nominated for his Golden
Globe-winning turn in Nocturnal Animals, while
Slumdog Millionaire star Patel is shortlisted for
Lion.
"This Bafta nomination today truly means so
much to me" said Patel in a statement. "My
family is literally freaking out right now!"
"It's always nice to feel love from your
hometown," said Taylor-Johnson, adding he was
"genuinely humbled" by the "fantastic honour".
"Can't wait to celebrate back in good ole Blighty!"
continued the 26-year-old, who is married to the
British artist formerly known as Sam Taylor-
Wood.
British actress Naomie Harris is also shortlisted
for the supporting actress award for her work in
independent film Moonlight.
Viola Davis, Nicole Kidman and Michelle Williams
receive nominations in that category as well for
Fences, Lion and Manchester by the Sea.
La La Land was the big winner at last weekend's
Golden Globes, receiving every one of the seven
awards for which it was nominated.
Its director, Damien Chazelle, is Bafta-shortlisted
in both the director and original screenplay
categories.
Kenneth Lonergan and Tom Ford also receive dual
director and screenplay nods for Manchester by
the Sea and Nocturnal Animals respectively.
Arrival's Denis Villeneuve joins Chazelle, Ford,
Loach and Lonergan in the best director category.
Loach's nomination comes 50 years on from the
Bafta TV award he received in 1967 for Cathy
Come Home.
The 80-year-old film-maker received the
organisation's Michael Balcon Award in 1994 and
a Bafta Fellowship in 2006.
The Disney studio dominates the animated film
category, scoring three of the four nominations
with Finding Dory, Moana and Zootropolis.
Kubo and the Two Strings is the only nominee
not to have been made by the so-called "House
of Mouse" and its subsidiary Pixar.
Zootropolis co-director Rich Moore tweeted his
thanks for his film's nomination, adding: "We will
see you in London!"
Kubo director Travis Knight, meanwhile, said he
was "thrilled and thankful" to be recognised for a
film he said had been "a wholehearted labour of
love".
Others to have tweeted reactions to the
nominations include actor Russell Tovey, who
said it was " huge" that his drama The Pass was
shortlisted.
The Pass, in which Tovey plays a closeted gay
footballer, receives a nomination in the
outstanding debut by a British writer, director or
producer category for its writer John Donnelly and
director, Ben A Williams.
'Exciting year for film'
This year's nominations were announced by
Dominic Cooper and Game of Thrones star Sophie
Turner at Bafta's central London HQ.
Cooper said he could understand why people
were "raving" about La La Land, praising its
"gorgeous, skilful performances".
Amanda Berry, chief executive of the British
Academy of Film and Television Arts, said it had
been "a really exciting year for film".
"The range of films is quite extraordinary," she
told BBC Breakfast. "That's what makes this
year's nominations so intriguing and interesting."
Bookmaker Coral makes La La Land 1-5 favourite
to be named best film and tips Chazelle to be
crowned best director.
It also predicts Casey Affleck will win best actor
for Manchester by the Sea and that Stone will
beat Portman to the best actress prize.
The nominations follow last week's unveiling of
the five actors in contention for this year's Rising
Star prize .
A public vote will decide whether Laia Costa,
Lucas Hedges, Tom Holland, Ruth Negga or Anya
Taylor-Joy receive the award.
