LONDON — Hollywood stars and U.Ok. royalty are because of attend the British Academy Movie Awards on Sunday, the place German-language antiwar drama “All Quiet on the Western Entrance” leads the pack of nominees.

The visceral depiction of life and dying within the World Battle I trenches is up for 14 awards, together with finest image, whereas Irish tragicomedy “The Banshees of Inisherin“ and madcap metaverse romp “All the pieces In all places All at As soon as” have 10 nominations every.

Actor Richard E. Grant is internet hosting the televised ceremony at London’s Royal Pageant Corridor, attended by nominees together with Cate Blanchett, Ana de Armas and Colin Farrell. Friends and presenters embody Eddie Redmayne, Brian Cox, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cynthia Erivo, Julianne Moore and Lily James

Inheritor to the throne Prince William, who’s president of Britain’s movie academy, is because of attend alongside his spouse Kate, Princess of Wales. Helen Mirren is scheduled to pay tribute to William’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September. Mirren portrayed the late monarch onscreen in “The Queen” and onstage in “The Viewers.”

The awards, generally known as BAFTAs, are Britain’s equal of Hollywood’s Academy Awards and can be watched carefully for hints of who could win on the Oscars on March 12.

Final month’s BAFTA nominations announcement helped propel the somber, Netflix-backed “All Quiet” into an awards-season favourite. Its tally of nominations is a joint report for a movie not within the English language, equaling the 14 for “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” in 2001.

“All Quiet,” “Banshees” and “All the pieces In all places” are all best-picture contenders on the Oscars, the place “All the pieces In all places” has a number one 11 nominations.

Martin McDonagh’s Irish tragicomedy “Banshees” has BAFTA nominations together with finest image, finest director and finest actor, for Farrell. Nominations for “All the pieces In all places” embody nods for co-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — identified collectively as “the Daniels” — and a best-actress nomination for Michelle Yeoh.

Baz Lurhmann’s flamboyant musical biopic “Elvis” is up for 9 awards, together with finest image.

The BAFTA best-picture nominees are “All Quiet on the Western Entrance,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Elvis,” “All the pieces In all places All at As soon as” and Todd Discipline’s symphonic psychodrama “Tár.”

The ten nominees for excellent British movie, a separate class, embody Charlotte Wells’ Nineties household drama “Aftersun,” Sam Mendes’ semi-autobiographical “Empire of Mild” and Sophie Hyde’s good intercourse comedy “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.”

Britain’s movie academy launched modifications to extend the awards’ variety in 2020, when no ladies had been nominated as finest director for the seventh yr working and all 20 nominees within the lead and supporting performer classes had been white.

This yr there are 11 feminine administrators up for awards throughout all classes, together with documentary and animated movies. However simply one of many primary best-director nominees is feminine: Gina Prince-Bythewood for “The Girl King.” The opposite nominees are “All Quiet” director Edward Berger, McDonagh for “Banshees,” Kwan/Scheinert for “All the pieces In all places”, Discipline for “Tár” and Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, for “Determination to Depart.”

Main actress contenders are Yeoh; Cate Blanchett for “Tár”: Viola Davis for “The Girl King”; Danielle Deadwyler for “Until”; Ana de Armas for “Blonde” and Emma Thompson for “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.”

One of the best-actor class pits Farrell towards Austin Butler for “Elvis”; Brendan Fraser for “The Whale”; Daryl McCormack for “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Paul Mescal for “Aftersun” and Invoice Nighy for “Dwelling.”

Three-time Oscar winner Sandy Powell is ready to turn into the primary costume designer to be awarded the academy’s prime honor, the BAFTA fellowship.

The cruel world outdoors showbiz intruded on the awards when Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev, who works for investigative web site Bellingcat, mentioned he had been “banned” from the awards due to a danger to public safety. He options within the BAFTA-nominated documentary “Navalny,” about jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

The Metropolitan Police mentioned it will not remark “on the security of a person or the recommendation they could have been given.

“Nonetheless, the scenario that journalists face around the globe and the truth that some journalists face the hostile intentions of overseas states while within the U.Ok. is a actuality that we’re completely involved with,” the power mentioned in a press release.