Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet continues its triumphant run through awards season, with 11 nominations, including best film, for the 2026 Bafta Awards. That breaks the record for a title directed by a woman.
Jessie Buckley, from Co Kerry, lands in best actress for her role as a grieving Agnes Shakespeare and will proceed to the ceremony next month as strong favourite.
Her costar Paul Mescal, unexpectedly left out of last week’s Oscar nominations, safely secures a berth in best supporting actor. The Co Kildare actor’s omission from the American awards was probably the biggest surprise in the big categories.
There is Irish success elsewhere in the list read out by David Jonsson and Aimee Lou Wood at the headquarters of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, in the West End of London.
Myrid Carten’s searing documentary A Want in Her, about the author’s return to Ireland to reconnect with her troubled mother, is mentioned in outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer.
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