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Joker leads the Bafta film nominations with 11, But there is criticism that the acting nominees are all white.

the Joker from Martin Scorsese with The Irishman , and Quentin Tarantino 's Once Upon A Time is followed. In Hollywood, the 10 nominations each.

Scarlett Johansson and Margot Robbie are up for two acting awards each.

But no female Directors you nominated for the seventh year in a row. Bafta boss Amanda Berry said she was "very disappointed" by the lack of diversity.

Joaquin Phoenix tells the favorites for best actor for his role in "the Joker, The Origin story of Batman's nemesis, and some of the critics and the audience.

It has been 11 years since Heath Ledger posthumously was with a Bafta Award for playing the same character in The Dark Knight.

the Joker Director Todd Phillips said: "Recently, as Joaquin and I were in the United Kingdom, the love that we felt for the Joker was palpable, and I just want to thank my British colleagues for the connection with the movie at the cellular level. "

the Phoenix will be played in the competition, Taron Egerton , Sir Elton John in Rocketman, as Well as Leonardo Dicaprio for Once Upon A Time . Adam Driver for the marriage, the story and Jonathan Pryce for The Two popes.

Margot Robbie is about to burst against himself in The Best actress in a supporting role category for their roles, the bomb, and Once Upon A Time .

this category also includes Scarlett Johansson for Jojo Rabbit , while also for The Best actress for her role opposite driver in Netflix, the divorce-drama history.

The Other best actress nominees are Renee Zellweger for playing Judy Garland in Judy, Jessie Buckley for Wild Rose , Charlize Theron for the bomb, and Saoirse Ronan for the Small Women .

But there is no room for Small, Women -film-maker", " Greta Gerwig - or other Women - in the category of best Director.

Said on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that the acting list "seems to be answered very Bafta CEO Berry white,": "I'm totally with you. This is how I felt when I for the first Time in The List .

"That's not disrespectful to everybody who was nominated, because it's an incredibly strong list this year.

"If we see in the directing category, where, I hoped, would be at least one female Director, that's an incredibly strong list is, if you have people like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino and Sam Mendes , the several nominations in The Past . "

Gerwig was nominated for best adapted screenplay pick-up, however.

The actor, you missed a few, including The British star Cynthia Erivo , who was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in "Harriet, a biopic about Harriet Tubman 's escape from slavery.

The lists drew strong criticism on Social Media with #BaftasSoWhite trending. Director Rapman, whose controversial film Blue history has been overlooked, wrote except in the category of Rising Star : "The lack of black faces is ridiculous. "

Bafta Deputy Chairman Krishnendu Majumdar said of the lack of female nominees in the category of best Director is an "industry wide problem" and Bafta-Award was "difficult, something to make it" camps, with measures such as High.

Marc Samuelson , chair of the Bafta film committee, said the theme was "annoying".

He added: "We can't the industry doing anything to promote anything that we can do, and to push and inspire and try to help people at the lower end. "

U-film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, told Bbc News that the lack of a nomination for Gerwig was "a real gap", while the main spectacle-would categories Erivo, The farewell to star Awkwafina , and Us actress Lupita Nyong'o.

identify:"Certainly, if The List of The Actors came, and it was wall to wall white faces for this year, it was very disappointing the" Ivan-Zadeh said.

"Margot Robbie and Scarlett Johansson are two nominations each, also you had done - But it felt exactly how you could. with space, maybe the glow to The Other , and a variety of And it is not that the services are there. "

in the Last year, Bafta introduced new criteria to encourage the two awards ", a better presentation and increased inclusivity in The British industry".

you said, the would films nominated for The Best British film and best British debut unless it meets at least two of the four "diversity standards", the on-screen talent, stories, creative leadership, training, and underserved target groups.

This year for The Best British film category Rocketman Graf, Sam Mendes 's World was A drama in 1917 , and The Two popes, with Jonathan Pryce and Sir Anthony Hopkins as a pair of popes.

The BFI, the on the published of the supervision of the diversity standards and the scheme, no details of what the criteria that each film are met, But confirmed all the films nominated in the two categories, the criteria of diversity. These criteria do not cover all of the excellent acting and directing.

Awkwafina - who won the Golden Globe on Sunday - was nominated alongside the fight with My Family , Jack Lowden , book smart is Kaitlyn Dever , waves, actor, Kelvin Harrison, Jr, and Blue-and-Story-star Michael Ward .

the municipality has said that his nomination was a confirmation of the film, After the controversy about his appearances.

After seven police officers, a disruption in Star City in Birmingham in November, were injured, where there are already reports of young people with machetes.

the winners and nominees in most categories are chosen by the 6.700 Bafta members, industry professionals and creatives around The World .

"In many areas, our members are as diverse as the industry," a Bafta-statement. "But the diversity is still a Problem to be urgently addressed, in order to work in the industry and Bafta continues to hard to more equal opportunities for under-represented groups through all of our activities. "

The award ceremony will take place at the 2. February in The Royal Albert Hall in London, hosted by Graham Norton .

has This year seen the introduction of a category for best Casting Director - the Baftas' first new category for More Than two Decades After a campaign last year that the arm of the film industry.

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