Stars arrive for Britain's BAFTA movie awards
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Paul Sandle
LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Stars walked the red carpet at the BAFTA awards on Sunday, where "One Battle After Another", "Sinners" and "Hamnet" are the favourites to walk away with the biggest prizes at Britain's top movie honours.
Action-packed dark comedy "One Battle After Another", directed by U.S. filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, leads the field with 14 nominations, followed by vampire thriller "Sinners", which has received the most nods for next month's Oscars.
But "Hamnet", a tear-jerker about Shakespeare, his wife Agnes and the death of their son, is the bookmakers' favourite to win best film, given its British credentials.
Directed by previous Oscar winner Chloe Zhao and based on the novel by Maggie O'Farrell, the film is nominated for 11 BAFTAs, and its star Jessie Buckley is a shoo-in for the best actress award, according to bookmakers.
Emily Watson, who is nominated as best supporting actress for "Hamnet", said there had been a "sense of magic" on the set that Zhao had "miraculously" transferred to the screen.
"She did it, I don't know how she did it, but she did it," she told Reuters on the red carpet.
Leading actor is harder to call, with Timothee Chalamet, star of "Marty Supreme", vying with Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael B. Jordan for their respective performances in "One Battle After Another" and "Sinners".
Ian Sandwell, movies editor at Digital Spy, said Chalamet had been picking up awards, including a Golden Globe, in the run-up to the BAFTAs for the table-tennis movie "Marty Supreme".
"It would be his first (BAFTA), so it probably will happen," he said.
The 79th British Academy Film Awards will be held in London on Sunday evening, hosted by Scottish actor, TV presenter and director Alan Cumming.
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