The actors are nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actor for his performances in 'The reborn' and 'Mars', respectively.
The actor Eddie Redmayne could take home the BAFTA for Best Actor for the second consecutive year after winning the same award in 2015 for her role in 'The theory of everything'. On this occasion, Redmayne has been nominated for his portrayal of the transgender artist Lili Elbe . Although you will not lack competence to take the coveted award, since in the same category are nominated Leonardo DiCaprio for "The reborn ', Matt Damon for 'Mars', Michael Fassbender for 'Steve Jobs' and Bryan Cranston by 'Trumbo'.
The big favorite to win the BAFTA for Best Actress are Cate Blanchett for her portrayal of a wealthy society woman in New York in the 50s who falls for a young saleswoman. This category is also nominated the co-star Redmayne in 'The Danish Girl', Alicia Vikander and veteran Maggie Smith for her work in "The Lady in the Van 'and young Brie Larson and Saoirse Ronan for his performances in 'Room' and 'Brooklyn' respectively.
Interestingly, Vikander has also received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her work playing a robot in 'Ex Machina' category in which it will compete with Jennifer Jason Leigh for her role in 'The odious eight ", Julie Walters for 'Brooklyn ', Rooney Mara for 'Carol' and Kate Winslet for 'Steve Jobs'.
In the category of Best Supporting Actor , the nominees are Idris Elba for 'Beasts Of No Nation', Benicio del Toro for 'Sicario', Christian Bale for 'big bet', Mark Ruffalo on 'Spotlight' and Mark Rylance for ' The bridge of the spies'.
2016 could be the year in which the filmmaker Ridley Scott finally manages to win his first BAFTA for his work on 'Mars', although this will have to be imposed on other film greats such as Steven Spielberg 'the bridge of the spies' - Adam McKay -'La big bet ', Todd Haynes -'Carol'- and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 'the renacido'- in the category of Best Director .
'The bridge of the spies' and 'Carol' lead the nominations for the awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Friday- you -anunciadas today with nine mentions each, followed by 'The reborn' with eight. The ceremony will take place on February 14 at the Royal Opera House in London.