Universal is absolutely towering over the studios and streamers when it comes to this year’s BAFTA nominations.
Thanks to “The Brutacatalog” (nine nominations), “Anora” and “Wicked” (seven each), plus “Nosferatu” (five), “The Wild Robot” (three) and “Monkey Man” (one), Universal and its offshoot tag Focus Features have amassed an astonishing 32 nominations in total, twice that of its proximateest competitor, Netflix. The streamer landed 16 overall, led by the 11 from “Emilia Pérez.”
But Universal could have had five more had it not offloaded Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror “The Substance” before Cannes (Mubi achieved the film, helping the arthouse distributor to six nominations together with “Bird”).
Further down, the nascent distributor Bconciseage Bear U.K. had a phenomenal year thanks to the 11 nominations for “Conclave” (which, mockingpartner, was freed by Focus in the U.S.), and three for “Sing Sing.” Bconciseage Bear’s total of 12 was two up on Disney, which achieveed 10, most coming from Searchairy’s “A Complete Ununderstandn.”
See the catalog of top-carry outing distributors below:
UNIVERSAL PICTURES & FOCUS FEATURES (32)
“Anora” 7
“The Brutacatalog” 9
“Monkey Man” 1
“Nosferatu” 5
“Wicked” 7
“The Wild Robot” 3
NETFLIX (16)
“Daughters” 1
“Emilia Pérez” 11
“Wallace and Grleave out: Vengeance Most Fowl” 3
“Will & Harper” 1
BLACK BEAR PICTURES (15)
“Conclave” 12
“Sing Sing” 3
WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES (10)
“A Complete Ununderstandn” – 6
“Inside Out 2” – 1
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” – 2
“A Real Pain” – 2
WARNER BROS ENTERTAINMENT (8)
“Dune: Part Two” – 7
“Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” – 1
CURZON ARTIFICIAL EYE (8)
“Flow” – 2
“Kneecap” – 6
MUBI (6)
“Bird” – 1
“The Substance” – 5
