BARBIE has been snubbed for the Best Film category at next month’s Baftas — despite being the highest grossing movie of 2023.
The flick, which made £1.1billion, only received five nominations as the contenders were announced today.
That was well behind atomic bomb biopic Oppenheimer, which led the way with 13, including a Leading Actor nod for Cillian Murphy.
Greta Gerwig, 40, who helmed Barbie, failed to gain a nomination in the director category. But its star Margot Robbie, 33, was recognised in the Leading Actress competition.
She will up against Emma Stone for Poor Things and Maestro’s Carey Mulligan among others.
Poor Things, about a woman who is brought back to life and then runs off with a lawyer, is the second most nominated film for the event, with 11.
Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half-hour Western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon and historical drama The Zone Of Interest each have nine.
Anatomy Of A Fall, The Holdovers and Maestro each have seven, All Of Us Strangers has six, and Saltburn ties with Barbie with five nominations.
Barry Keoghan for Saltburn and Bradley Cooper, who starred and directed Maestro, are among the other contenders for Leading Actor.
In the supporting actor and actress categories, there were also nods for Paul Mescal, Ryan Gosling, Robert De Niro, Claire Foy, Rosamund Pike and Emily Blunt.
The ceremony will take place at London’s Royal Festival Hall on February 18, hosted by Doctor Who star David Tennant.
However, Bafta faced a backlash after Kate Beckinsale slammed the organisation.
The actress criticised them for saying they “could not guarantee” her late step-father Roy Battersby, who previously received a Bafta lifetime achievement award, would be part of the In Memoriam segment after his death last week at the age of 87.
In a post on Instagram, she said uncertainty about the inclusion of the British TV director “has broken my heart all over again”.
