The ultimate BAFTAs 2024 guide: Everything you need to know about how to watch, who is nominated, who is going and who is presenting

The 77th British Academy Film Awards is set to air on Sunday, with a host of big names up for prizes.

Oppenheimer has received an impressive 13 nominations while Barbie is also up for numerous gongs.

Saltburn has also been named in various categories, with actor Barry Keoghan up for Best Actor, competing with fellow Irishman Cillian Murphy, for his role in Oppenheimer.

Former Doctor Who star David Tennant is set to helm the ceremony, while a number of big name stars have been enlisted to present awards.

Here’s everything you need to know about the BAFTAs 2024… 

Who is nominated for a BAFTA this year? 

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer leads this year’s BAFTA nominations with 13 nods, including a first time nomination for star Cillian Murphy, who will go head-to-head for Best Actor with fellow Irishman Barry Keoghan, 31, (right) for Saltburn

Oppenheimer’s box office rival Barbie received just five nominations and was notably snubbed in the Best Film category

Oppenheimer looks set to sweep the board at the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards after receiving 13 nominations.

Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic about atomic bomb creator J Robert Oppenheimer dominated the main categories when nominations were announced on Thursday, with nods for Best Film and for Nolan in Best Director.

In comparison, Oppenheimer’s box office rival Barbie received just five nominations and was notably snubbed in the Best Film category.

Cillian Murphy, 47, received his first ever BAFTA nomination for his portrayal of titular character Oppenheimer and will go head-to-head with fellow Irishman Barry Keoghan, 31, for Saltburn in the Best Actor category.

They will battle it out with Bradley Cooper for Maestro, Colman Domingo for Rustin, Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers and Teo Yoo for Past Lives.

Cilian’s co-stars Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr are also nominated in the Supporting categories.

Oppenheimer, which was a box office juggernaut when it was released in cinemas last year on the same day as Barbie – sparking the Barbenheimer phenomenon – will compete for Best Film against Yorgos Lanthimos’s gothic fairytale Poor Things, which scored 11 nods and is the second most nominated film this year.

Also in the running is French courtroom drama Anatomy Of A Fall, Martin Scorsese’s western crime thriller Killers Of The Flower Moon and The Holdovers, about a cranky prep school teacher forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student.

Yorgos Lanthimos’s gothic fairytale Poor Things is the second most nominated film this year with 11 nods, including recognition for Best Film and Best Actress for Emma Stone (pictured with Mark Ruffalo)

Oppenheimer could see Nolan pick up his first ever Director BAFTA.

He faces competition from All Of Us Strangers director Andrew Haigh, Anatomy Of A Fall’s Justine Triet, The Holdovers’ Alexander Payne, Maestro’s Cooper and Jonathan Glazer for The Zone Of Interest.

Notably absent from the category is Barbie’s director Greta Gerwig, while the movie – which was the highest-grossing film of 2023 – was also snubbed for Best Film.

Under the new rules, the director longlist had equal numbers of male and female filmmakers, but there is only one woman among the six best-director nominees, Triet.

Gerwig is, however, recognised in the Original Screenplay category alongside her husband and co-writer Noah Baumbach.

Barbie star Margot Robbie is up for Best Actress and will compete in a category that notably excludes Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone, despite her awards season success so far. The Scorsese epic received nine nods in total.

The remaining Best Actress nominees are against Poor Things’ Emma Stone, Maestro’s Carey Mulligan, Anatomy Of A Fall’s Sandra Huller, The Colour Purple’s Fantasia Barrino and Rye Lane’s Vivian Oparah.

German actress Huller is also nominated in a second category, and will battle it out for Supporting Actress for The Zone Of Interest, alongside Oppenheimer’s Blunt, Saltburn’s Rosamund Pike, The Holdovers’ Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Colour Purple’s Danielle Brooks and All Of Us Strangers’ Claire Foy.

Oppenheimer could see Christopher Nolan (left, at the Golden Globe Awards) pick up his first ever Director BAFTA while notably snubbed from the category was Barbie director Greta Gerwig (pictured at the Astra Film Awards)

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon received nine nominations including Best Film and Supporting Actor for Robert De Niro. The film’s leads Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone have been snubbed in Best Actor and Best Actress

While Maestro didn’t get nominated in the Best Film category, Bradley Cooper picked up Best Director and Leading Actor while Carey Mulligan was nominated for Leading Actress. The Leonard Bernstein film received seven nominations over all

All of Us Strangers received six nominations, including Outstanding British Film and Supporting Actor for Paul Mescal (right)

Oppenheimer’s Downey Jr, will be hoping to continue his winning streak after being nominated in the Supporting Actor category. He has already won a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice award for his performance as Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Yet he faces stiff competition from first-time BAFTA nominee Jacob Elordi for Saltburn, Robert De Niro for Killers Of The Flower Moon, Ryan Gosling for Barbie, Paul Mescal for All Of Us Strangers and Dominic Sessa for The Holdovers.

Barbie has been nominated for Original Screenplay and faces competition from Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Maestro and Past Lives.

In the Adapted Screenplay category, All of Us Strangers, American Fiction, Oppenheimer, Poor Things and The Zone of Interest go up against each other.

The contenders for Outstanding British Film are All Of Us Strangers, How To Have Sex, Napoleon, The Old Oak, Poor Things, Rye Lane, Saltburn, Scrapper, Wonka and The Zone Of Interest.

In the Animated Film category, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is competing against The Boy and the Heron, Elemental and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

The EE BAFTA Rising Star Award is the one award on the night that will be voted for by the public, with previous winners including James McAvoy, Tom Hardy, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright and Tom Holland.

This year sees Phoebe Dynevor, Ayo Edebiri, Jacob Elordi, Mia Mckenna-Bruce and Sophie Wilde compete for the honour.

It was previously announced that the BAFTA Fellowship, the film academy’s highest honour, will be presented to actress Samantha Morton.

What celebrities will be at the BAFTAs this year? 

Cillian Murphy, Claire Foy and Barry Keoghan are among the BAFTA nominees who will attend the star-studded ceremony on Sunday.

Irish stars Cillian and Barry are both nominated in the Best Actor category for their turns in Oppenheimer and Saltburn respectively.

Cillian plays J Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist described as the father of the atomic bomb, in Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic, while Barry plays a student at Oxford who becomes enthralled by a wealthier classmate and pays a visit to his sprawling estate in Emerald Fennell’s viral black comedy.

The Crown star Claire is nominated for the Best Supporting Actress prize for her performance in All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh’s searing drama about grief and loneliness.

Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan will also attend the ceremony, which will feature performances by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Hannah Waddingham.

It was previously announced that Sophie would perform her 2001 hit Murder On The Dancefloor, which experienced a surge in popularity after it featured in the closing moments of Saltburn.

Ted Lasso star Hannah will also give a live musical performance, but details have not been shared.

Also in attendance will be Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, who are both nominated for their roles in Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, and Colman Domingo, who is nominated for his role in Rustin, as the man who helped Martin Luther King Jr and others organise the 1963 March on Washington.

Carey’s Best Actress rivals Margot Robbie, who is nominated for Barbie; Emma Stone, who is nominated for Poor Things; Sandra Huller, who is nominated for Anatomy Of A Fall; Fantasia Barrino, who is nominated for The Colour Purple and Vivian Oparah, recognised for British romantic comedy Rye Lane, will also be in attendance.

Margot’s Barbie director Greta Gerwig, who was snubbed in the directing category, will also attend alongside her husband and co-writer Noah Baumbach, and co-star Ryan Gosling, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

Greta and Noah are nominated for their screenplay for the film, which was the highest-grossing of 2023.

Foy’s All Of Us Strangers co-star Andrew Scott was a notable absence from the best actor contenders but will be in attendance at the ceremony as a presenter, alongside co-star Paul Mescal, who is nominated for the supporting actor prize.

Other famous faces due to present include David Beckham, Dua Lipa, Hugh Grant, Idris Elba, Cate Blanchett and Daisy Edgar Jones.

Cillian Murphy, Claire Foy and Barry Keoghan are among the BAFTA nominees who will attend the star-studded ceremony on Sunday (a staff member uses ‘heads on sticks’ to check camera blocking at the Royal Festival Hall ahead of the ceremony)

Sophie Ellie-Bextor is set to take to the stage at the 2024 BAFTAs to perform her hit single Murder On The Dance Floor, which featured in Saltburn

Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham will also give a live musical performance, but details have not been shared (pictured last month)

Who is hosting this year’s BAFTAs? 

The EE BAFTA Film Awards will be hosted by David Tennant at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday 18 February.

David has said the event will be an ‘evening of generosity and joy’ rather than stars being roasted when he hosts the show this weekend.

The Scottish actor, 52, will be helming the star-studded ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre on Sunday, where Oppenheimer will be leading the pack with 13 nominations.

Ahead of the ceremony, he told the PA news agency: ‘There are some wonderful famous examples, of course, of people making terribly near-the-knuckle comments and some very funny things that we’ve all enjoyed in previous awards ceremonies, that’s not probably my style anyway, and I know that’s not what BAFTA are going for.

‘We want to have an evening that’s a celebration and that won’t make people feel uncomfortable and won’t have people being roasted in any way, so it will hopefully be an evening of generosity and joy and a love for this industry that is one of the great success stories of this country.

‘We’re very good at the arts. There’s lots of things that we we struggle with, but the arts is something that remains one of Britain’s greatest exports, so let’s celebrate it and enjoy that and trumpet it to the world.’

David admitted he felt a bit ‘bewildered’ when he was first asked to host, but then thought: ‘What a laugh, what a lark.’

‘It just felt like an honour and a privilege to be asked to do something so august,’ he added.

‘It’s just nice to be on that side of it. It’s obviously thrilling for everyone who’s nominated and there’s so many exciting films to be celebrating, but also that’s pretty nerve-racking, I just have to stand up.’

David, who recently reunited with his Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate for the show’s 60th anniversary episodes, teased that she could make an appearance with him.

The actor revealed he was feeling ‘pretty relaxed’ ahead of the show but thinks the prospect of it will become more ‘nerve-racking’ in the lead-up to the big night.

Asked if his co-star Catherine could make an appearance alongside him at the show, he said: ‘Listen, there’s nobody I enjoy working with more than Catherine, so who knows?’

Last year the awards ceremony was hosted by Saltburn actor Richard E Grant and This Morning host Alison Hammond, and the year before by Australian actress and comedian Rebel Wilson.

This year, Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic about atomic bomb creator J Robert Oppenheimer leads the nominations with 13 nods.

The film, which was a box office juggernaut when it was released in cinemas last year on the same day as Barbie – sparking the Barbenheimer phenomenon – marks a crowning achievement for British filmmaker Nolan, who has never won the directing Bafta.

For the best film prize, Oppenheimer will compete against the gothic fairytale Poor Things, which scored 11 nods.

Notably absent from the category is Barbie, which was the highest-grossing film of 2023, with director Greta Gerwig also absent from the directing category.

Gerwig is, however, recognised in the original screenplay category alongside her husband and co-writer Noah Baumbach.

David Tennant is set to host the 2024 British Academy Film Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall on February 18. The Doctor Who star will take over the coveted spot from last year’s hosts Alison Hammond and Richard E Grant (right)

David admitted he felt a bit ‘bewildered’ when he was first asked to host, but then thought: ‘What a laugh, what a lark’ (pictured in 2023)

David, who recently reunited with his Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate for the show’s 60th anniversary episodes, teased that she could make an appearance with him  (David and Catherine seen in Doctor Who)

Who will present awards at this year’s BAFTAs?

All Of Us Strangers’ Andrew Scott was a notable absence from the best actor contenders but will be in attendance at the ceremony as a presenter, alongside co-star Paul Mescal, who is nominated for the supporting actor prize.

Other famous faces due to present include David Beckham, Dua Lipa, Hugh Grant, Idris Elba, Cate Blanchett and Daisy Edgar Jones.

All Of Us Strangers’ Andrew Scott was a notable absence from the best actor contenders but will be in attendance at the ceremony as a presenter (pictured last week)

How can I watch this year’s BAFTA’s? 

The ceremony will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 7pm.