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Todd Phillips' Joker will land this Sunday as a favorite, with eleven nominations, at the 73rd edition of the British Bafta film awards, a high-flying film event in which the Spanish Pedro Almodóvar will compete as best non-English film with Pain and Gloria

The Royal Albert Hall also comes another Spanish production, Klaus , from the Spanish director Sergio Pablos, who is nominated for best animated film, and a few days ago swept away the Annie Awards, the Oscars of animation.

Another Latin production, The Two Popes , directed by the Brazilian Fernando Meirelles , will also be present in London, competing in the categories of best British film, best actor and best adapted screenplay.

The eleven Joker nominations are closely followed by The Irishman , by Martin Scorsese , and Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood ( Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood ), by Tarantino , with ten nominations each a. 1917 , by Sam Mendes , and Jojo Rabbit , by Taika Waititi , opt respectively to nine and six awards.

Phillips will also compete for the golden mask for the best film with Scorsese and Tarantino, in a duel that will be repeated within a week at the Oscars gala , where the three will see their faces again to get the statuette for best film . On this occasion, the three films will have to measure forces with Parasitos , the acclaimed black comedy by South Korean Bong Joon-ho, and 1917 , the war tape of English director Sam Mendes, who already surprised a month ago at the Golden Globes, where he won the awards for the best dramatic film and the best director.

These five same directors ( Mendes, Scorsese, Phillips, Tarantino and Joon-ho ) repeat Bafta nominations for best direction, a category in which no woman nominated appears.

The organization of the Bafta awards - delivered one month after the Golden Globes and considered the prelude to the Oscars - has received harsh criticism from inside and outside the sector in the face of this lack of diversity, which has also extended to the interpretative categories, where there is no person who is not white.

In this line, in the section for best actor, Leonardo Dicaprio ( Once upon a time in Hollywood ), Adam Driver ( Story of a marriage ), Joaquin Phoenix ( Joker ), Taron Egerton ( Rocketman ) and Jonathan Pryce ( The Two Popes ) compete .

In the category for best actress, the nominees are Scarlett Johansson ( Story of a marriage ), Saorise Ronan ( Little Women ), Charlize Theron ( Bombshell ), Renée Zellweger ( Judy ) and Jessie Buckley ( Wild Rose ).

More racial and gender diversity was seen among the nominees in the category of best revelation interpreter in which Awkwafina ( The Farewell ), Kelvin Harrison ( Waves ), Micheal Ward ( Blue story ), Kaitlyn Dever ( Booksmart ) and Jack Lowden ( Fighting with my Family ).

As for the films nominated for best non-English speaking film, Pain and Glory by Pedro Almodóvar faces South Korean Parasitos , the British-Syrian For Sama (Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts), the American The Farewell (Lulu Wang ) and the French Portrait of a woman on fire ( Portrait of a Lady On Fire ) (Céline Sciamma).

The three Baftas of Almodóvar

The manchego has already won three golden masks in this same category in previous editions: The skin I inhabit (2012), Talk to her (2003) and All about my mother (2000).

For his part, Sam Mendes favorite part in the section for best British film for the exercise of technical skill he does in 1917, a story that was born from the stories of his grandfather, Alfred Hubert Mendes, about the First World War.

His rivals: Bait by Mark Jenkin, For Sama de Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, Rocketman by Dexter Fletcher, Sorry we missed you by Ken Loach and Los dos Papas , by Fernando Meirelles.

Among the best animated films this year are the aforementioned Klaus, Frozen 2, Toy Story 4 and A Shaun the Sheep movie: Farmageddon , while Diego Maradona, Apollo 11, American factory, For Sama and The great hack compete in the category of best documentary film.

At the moment, the only guaranteed prize of this 73 edition will be the honorary Bafta that will be received by Andy Serkis , director and British actor recognized for playing Gollum in the trilogies of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit .

The gala, presented by the Irish Graham Norton, will be held at the Royal Albert Hall in London , a regular location since 2017, when it was moved from the Royal Opera House, in the West End of London.

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