Fifteen films have been selected for the Bafta 2022 Documentary longlist. These include five films that feature in the 15-film Documentary Feature ‘shortlist’ of the Academy Awards: Billie Eilish – The World’s A Little Blurry, Flee, The Rescue, Summer of Soul (pictured) and The Velvet Underground.
Elsewhere, Flee is additionally listed both in the Animated Film and Film Not in English Language categories while Summer of Soul appears in the Best Editing longlist. The Swedish The Most Beautiful Boy In The World is also listed in non-English Language category while the Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer category welcomes Dying To Divorce and Keyboard Fantasies.
The second round of voting opens on January 14, and closes January 27, with nominations to be announced February 3. The third round of voting is scheduled to take place February 9 to March 8. The Bafta ceremony will take place on March 13.
Documentary
- 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible by Torquil Jones
- Becoming Cousteau by Liz Garbus
- Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry by R. J. Cutler
- Cow by Andrea Arnold
- Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
- Jfk Revisited: Through The Looking Glass by Oliver Stone
- Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story by Laura Fairrie
- The Lost Leonardo by Andreas Koefoed
- The Most Beautiful Boy In The World by Kristian Petri, Kristina Lindström
- The Real Charlie Chaplin by James Spinney, Peter Middleton
- The Rescue by Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
- The Sparks Brothers by Edgar Wright
- Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) by Questlove
- Tina by T. J. Martin, Daniel Lindsay
- The Velvet Underground by Todd Haynes
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
- Dying To Divorce by Chloe Fairweather
- Keyboard Fantasies by Posy Dixon
Film Not in English language
- Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
- The Most Beautiful Boy In The World by Kristian Petri, Kristina Lindström
Animated Film
- Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Best Editing
- Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) by Questlove
