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Over the Moon and The Willoughbys, both of which have fallen out of the race. So has the sixth longlisted film, Dreamworks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age. In recent years, Disney hasn’t dominated this category as decisively as at the Oscars or Golden Globes: it has won the BAFTA in two of the last six years. But this is the first time since 2014 that it has accounted for the majority of the nominees, and Soul, fresh from winning at the Globes, goes into this award as the favorite. The...

Rocks, and The Father lead this year’s nominations, with two women—Chloé Zhao and Sarah Gavron—nabbing seven nominations each. Four women total earned nods for directing compared to last year’s all-male directing nominees, and in a reversal from last year’s entirely white acting nominees, 16 of 2021s 24 nominated actors are from underrepresented groups. Advertisement Deadline, the changes come as the result of a seven-month review process (HFPA better be taking some copious notes), ...