UPDATE, WRITETHRU: A trio of films that debuted at the Venice Film Festival leads the pack of nominees for the 70th BAFTA Film Awards which were announced in London this morning. The British Academy swooned for the Damien Chazelle-directed La La Land which opened the Lido festival and has been twirling through awards season ever since — on Sunday it took a record seven Golden Globe wins. It has 11 BAFTA mentions, including Best Film, Best Director, Leading Actor and Leading Actress. Lionsgate’s contemporary ode to old Hollywood played the London Film Festival in October, but doesn’t open in the UK until Friday — today’s nods should be a boon to the distrib’s box office this weekend. Lionsgate scored a record 18 nominations across four titles. (See full list of nominees below.)

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Denis Villeneuve’s lyrical sci-fi title Arrival follows La La with nine noms, also including Best Picture, Director and Actress for Amy Adams. The highly-praised pic has been in the awards conversation since descending on Venice and has also had a super solid run, crossing $150M worldwide in early January.

Arrival was the subject of a splashy Cannes deal in 2014 when Paramount plunked down $20M for U.S. and Canada rights. EOne is releasing in the UK. Similarly, Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, which also turned up in nine BAFTA races (and also stars Adams), was picked up by Focus in another $20M Cannes deal the following year. Nocturnal won the Grand Jury Prize in Venice and on Sunday, Aaron Taylor-Johnson surprised with a Globe win for Supporting Actor. He’s nominated today along with Leading Actor Jake Gyllenhaal and Ford in Director and Adapted Screenplay, among others. Colin Firth won the Leading Actor BAFTA for Ford’s 2009 debut, A Single Man.

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Nocturnal is not in the Best Picture race, however. Rounding out that category are Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea; Ken Loach’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake; and Barry Jenkins’ Globe winner Moonlight, all independent films. Manchester has six overall nominations; Moonlight has four.

Loach’s I, Daniel Blake — also nominated in the Outstanding British Film category — has five nods. It has been 50 years since Loach’s first BAFTA nomination in 1967. Also with five are Warner Bros’ return to the Wizarding World, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them; The Weinstein Co’s Lion and Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge.

Gibson, however, is conspicuously absent from the directing category with his major and lauded return behind the camera. Also notably absent is Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating passion project Silence, which was shut out. Denzel Washington’s Fences scored just one mention, for presumed Oscar-frontrunner Viola Davis. But double Oscar-winner Washington, who has never been nominated for a BAFTA — although he won an Excellence in Film prize from BAFTA LA’s Britannia Awards — is a no-show here. (One note re Isabelle Huppert not being in the Leading Actress category: Elle was not eligible this year for BAFTA, which also explains why it is not amongst the Foreign Language nominees.)

Manchester By The Sea, which is released by Amazon/Roadside in the U.S. and Studiocanal in the UK, sees Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams earn nods for Leading Actor and Supporting Actress respectively while Lonergan is nominated for both Director and Original Screenplay. The film has grossed $33.8M in the U.S. since its November 18 release and is set for a January 13 release in the UK.

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In addition to Best Film and Outstanding British Film, Loach’s I, Daniel Blake has nods for Best Director, Original Screenplay and Supporting Actress for Hayley Squires. EOne releases Daniel Blake in the UK, which centers on an elderly carpenter faced with challenging Britain’s broken bureaucracy, and the film has been a hit on its home turf and in France, where it has taken $3.8M and $6.4M respectively.

Hell Or High Water, released in the UK by Studiocanal, received three nominations including Supporting Actor for Jeff Bridges, Original Screenplay and Cinematography.

The highest-grossing film in Britain in 2016, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which was made in the UK, has two mentions.

Some other films which got love this morning include Captain Fantastic, which earned a Leading Actor nomination for Viggo Mortensen; Pathé’s Florence Foster Jenkins, which earned Donald Trump fave Meryl Streep a nod for Leading Actress (her 15th nomination) as well as Hugh Grant for Supporting Actor and a Make Up and Hair nom; and The Girl On The Train, which earned a Leading Actress nomination for its star Emily Blunt.

BAFTA Chief Exec Amanda Berry this morning told Deadline she is “thrilled by the nominations. Mainly because there is such a wide range of nominated films and a diverse range of subject matter… which signals a strong year.”

In the acting races are previous nominees for the EE BAFTA Rising Star Award including Andrew Garfield, Blunt and Taylor-Johnson. “These are people we recognized earlier in their careers, so to see them nominated now is terrific,” says Berry.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts made some rule tweaks over the summer, including expanding the Animated Film category. It has traditionally been limited to three films, but the option is now there to increase that to five if the level of entries is sufficient. This year, four films made the cut: Finding Dory, Kubo And The Two Strings, Moana and Zootopia (or Zootropolis as it’s known in the UK).

The BAFTAs take place on February 12 at the Royal Albert Hall in London and will be hosted by Stephen Fry.

The nominees are:

BEST FILM

ARRIVAL Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, David Linde, Aaron Ryder

I, DANIEL BLAKE Rebecca O’Brien

LA LA LAND Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward, Kevin J. Walsh

MOONLIGHT Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

AMERICAN HONEY Andrea Arnold, Lars Knudsen, Pouya Shahbazian, Jay Van Hoy

DENIAL Mick Jackson, Gary Foster, Russ Krasnoff, David Hare

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM David Yates, J.K. Rowling, David Heyman, Steve Kloves, Lionel Wigram

I, DANIEL BLAKE Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty

NOTES ON BLINDNESS Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison

UNDER THE SHADOW Babak Anvari, Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan Toh

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

The Girl With All the Gifts: MIKE CAREY (Writer), CAMILLE GATIN (Producer)

The Hard Stop: GEORGE AMPONSAH (Writer/Director/Producer), DIONNE WALKER (Writer/Producer)

Notes on Blindness: PETER MIDDLETON (Writer/Director/Producer), JAMES SPINNEY (Writer/Director), JO-JO ELLISON (Producer)

The Pass: JOHN DONNELLY (Writer), BEN A. WILLIAMS (Director)

Under the Shadow: BABAK ANVARI (Writer/Director), EMILY LEO, OLIVER ROSKILL, LUCAN TOH (Producers)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

DHEEPAN Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux

JULIETA Pedro Almodóvar

MUSTANG Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Charles Gillibert

SON OF SAUL László Nemes, Gábor Sipos

TONI ERDMANN Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski

DOCUMENTARY

13th Ava DuVernay

THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK- THE TOURING YEARS Ron Howard

THE EAGLE HUNTRESS Otto Bell, Stacey Reiss

NOTES ON BLINDNESS Peter Middleton, James Spinney

WEINER Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg

ANIMATED FILM

FINDING DORY Andrew Stanton

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS Travis Knight

MOANA Ron Clements, John Musker

ZOOTROPOLIS Byron Howard, Rich Moore

DIRECTOR

ARRIVAL Denis Villeneuve

I, DANIEL BLAKE Ken Loach

LA LA LAND Damien Chazelle

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Kenneth Lonergan

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Tom Ford

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

HELL OR HIGH WATER Taylor Sheridan

I, DANIEL BLAKE Paul Laverty

LA LA LAND Damien Chazelle

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Kenneth Lonergan

MOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

ARRIVAL Eric Heisserer

HACKSAW RIDGE Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight

HIDDEN FIGURES Theodore Melfi, Allison Schroeder

LION Luke Davies

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Tom Ford

LEADING ACTOR

ANDREW GARFIELD Hacksaw Ridge

CASEY AFFLECK Manchester by the Sea

JAKE GYLLENHAAL Nocturnal Animals

RYAN GOSLING La La Land

VIGGO MORTENSEN Captain Fantastic

LEADING ACTRESS

AMY ADAMS Arrival

EMILY BLUNT The Girl on the Train

EMMA STONE La La Land

MERYL STREEP Florence Foster Jenkins

NATALIE PORTMAN Jackie

SUPPORTING ACTOR

AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON Nocturnal Animals

DEV PATEL Lion

HUGH GRANT Florence Foster Jenkins

JEFF BRIDGES Hell or High Water

MAHERSHALA ALI Moonlight

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

HAYLEY SQUIRES I, Daniel Blake

MICHELLE WILLIAMS Manchester by the Sea

NAOMIE HARRIS Moonlight

NICOLE KIDMAN Lion

VIOLA DAVIS Fences

ORIGINAL MUSIC

ARRIVAL Jóhann Jóhannsson

JACKIE Mica Levi

LA LA LAND Justin Hurwitz

LION Dustin O’Halloran, Hauschka

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Abel Korzeniowski

CINEMATOGRAPHY

ARRIVAL Bradford Young

HELL OR HIGH WATER Giles Nuttgens

LA LA LAND Linus Sandgren

LION Greig Fraser

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Seamus McGarvey

EDITING

ARRIVAL Joe Walker

HACKSAW RIDGE John Gilbert

LA LA LAND Tom Cross

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Jennifer Lame

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Joan Sobel

PRODUCTION DESIGN

DOCTOR STRANGE John Bush, Charles Wood

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock

HAIL, CAESAR! Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

LA LA LAND Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, David Wasco

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Shane Valentino, Meg Everist

COSTUME DESIGN

ALLIED Joanna Johnston

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Colleen Atwood

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS Consolata Boyle

JACKIE Madeline Fontaine

LA LA LAND Mary Zophres

MAKE UP & HAIR

DOCTOR STRANGE Jeremy Woodhead

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS J. Roy Helland, Daniel Phillips

HACKSAW RIDGE Shane Thomas

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Donald Mowat, Yolanda Toussieng

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Nominees tbc

SOUND

ARRIVAL Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Sylvain Bellemare

DEEPWATER HORIZON Mike Prestwood Smith, Dror Mohar, Wylie Stateman, David Wyman

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Niv Adiri, Glenn Freemantle, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Ian Tapp

HACKSAW RIDGE Peter Grace, Robert Mackenzie, Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright

LA LA LAND Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee, Steve A. Morrow, Andy Nelson

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

ARRIVAL Louis Morin

DOCTOR STRANGE Richard Bluff, Stephane Ceretti, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Tim Burke, Pablo Grillo, Christian Manz, David Watkins

THE JUNGLE BOOK Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Neil Corbould, Hal Hickel, Mohen Leo, John Knoll, Nigel Sumner

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

THE ALAN DIMENSION Jac Clinch, Jonathan Harbottle, Millie Marsh

A LOVE STORY Khaled Gad, Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara, Elena Ruscombe-King

TOUGH Jennifer Zheng

BRITISH SHORT FILM

CONSUMED Richard John Seymour

HOME Shpat Deda, Afolabi Kuti, Daniel Mulloy, Scott O’Donnell

MOUTH OF HELL Bart Gavigan, Samir Mehanovic, Ailie Smith, Michael Wilson

THE PARTY Farah Abushwesha, Emmet Fleming, Andrea Harkin, Conor MacNeill

STANDBY Charlotte Regan, Jack Hannon

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by public)

TOM HOLLAND

RUTH NEGGA

LUCAS HEDGES

LAIA COSTA

ANYA TAYLOR-JOY