Crip Camp by James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham, nominated for Best Documentary
The following documentaries are longlisted for the 2021 EE British Academy Film Awards. The new Round One longlisting was introduced following the BAFTA 2020 Review, with the aim of levelling the playing field and ensuring more films are fully considered for nominations.
Round Two voting, to determine the nominations in the member-voted categories, will open Friday 19 February. The nominations will be announced 9 March 2021.
Round Three voting, to determine the winners, will be open 25 March to 7 April. The EE British Academy Film Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday 11 April 2021.
Best Documentary 5 films to be nominated from the following longlist:
All In: The Fight For Democracy by Lisa Cortés, Liz Garbus
Athlete A by Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Beastie Boys Story by Spike Jonze
Becoming by Nadia Hallgren
Billie James Erskine
Collective by Alexander Nanau
Crip Camp by James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet by Jonathan Hughes, Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey (plus Outstanding British Film and Best Original Score nominations)
Dick Johnson is Dead by Kirsten Johnson
The Dissident Bryan Fogel
I Am Greta by Nathan Grossman
MLK/FBI by Sam Pollard
My Octopus Teacher by James Reed, Pippa Ehrlich (plus Best Director nomination)
The Social Dilemma by Jeff Orlowski
The Truffle Hunters by Gregory Kershaw, Michael Dweck
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. Twelve films are longlisted, from which five will be nominated. The three docs in the longlist are:
Being A Human Person by Fred Scott
The Reason I Jump by Jerry Rothwell
White Riot by Rubika Shah
Best Film not in English Language. Fifteen films are longlisted from which five will be nominated. The three docs in the longlist are:
Collective by Alexander Nanau
The Mole Agent by Maite Alberdi
The Painter and the Thief by Benjamin Ree
The Truffle Hunters by Gregory Kershaw, Michael Dweck
BAFTA Chief Executive Amanda Berry OBE said: “The film industry has had an incredibly difficult year and I would like to thank the distributors for working with us to ensure films were made available for members to watch on BAFTA View. Following the 2020 Review, we introduced over 120 wide-ranging changes across the organisation, including a new Film Awards Round One to allow longlisting. The addition of this new round was to ensure that more films were seen during the initial voting process. Before voting in the next round, which will deliver the nominations, members are asked to watch all films in the categories they vote in to ensure every film is given full and proper consideration.”
