In what could possibly be a prophecy for the way forward for this yr’s Academy Awards, Dune: Part 1 has conquered this yr’s nominations for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards like a possible Kwisatz Haderach may conquer concern, aka the Mind-Killer. The sci-fi epic will likely be featured in 11 classes, greater than some other 2021 movie.

Of course, a few of these classes are ones the place CG-heavy sci-fi epics have a tendency to search out themselves (i.e. the technical ones), but it surely’s nonetheless a really spectacular exhibiting for what could be very a lot half a film about colonialism, house witches, Oscar Isaac’s magnificent beard, and big-ass worms. Dune was nominated for Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Casting, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Costume Design, Make-up and Hair, Sound, and Special Visual Effects.

Of the opposite movies you come to io9 to examine, Daniel Craig’s ultimate outing as James Bond, No Time to Die, amassed 5 nominations within the Outstanding British Film, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, and Special Visual Effects classes. The apocalyptic comedy Don’t Look Up will likely be a contender within the Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Original Score classes, together with Leonardo DiCaprio as Best Actor. Edgar Wright’s time-bending suspense movie Last Night in Soho additionally managed to make it to the Oustanding British Film checklist, in addition to Sound. Blade-to be Mahershala Ali was nominated as a possible Best Actor for his position within the Apple TV sci-fi film Swan Song, a movie wherein his character orders a clone of himself to consolation his household after he passes away from a terminal sickness.

The different nominees within the Best Visual Effects went to Free Guy, The Matrix: Resurrections, and A Quiet Place: Part II. In the Best Animated Film class, Pixar’s Luca, Walt Disney Animation’s Encanto, and Netflix’s The Mitchells Vs. the Machines are three of the one 4 nominees within the class. The different: acclaimed Danish documentary Flee, about Afghani refugee Amin Nawabi, who tells his husband-to-be about his escape to Denmark; Flee, unsurprisingly, was additionally nominated for Best Documentary. Finally, my beloved Cruella obtained Best Costume Design and Best Make-up and Hair, as is simply and correct.

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