BRITISH heritage cinema led the field in this year's BAFTA film nominations, announced this week, with The Madness Of King George landing 14 nominations and Sense And Sensibility receiving 12.
Both are up for the best award along with Babe and The Usual Suspects, and King George is also in the running for best British film with Land And Freedom, Carrington and Trainspotting.
The best director nominees are Mel Gibson (Braveheart), Michael Radford (Il Postino), Ang Lee (Sense And Sensibility) and Nicholas Hytner (King George).
Although the awards are for movies released in Britain during 1995, anomalies abound with the inclusion of some films not released till this year, including Sense And Sensibility, Trainspotting, Seven, and even Nixon and Mighty Aphrodite which have yet to open in Britain.
Nicole Kidman (To Die For), who missed out on an Oscar nomination, is up for best actress along with Helen Mirren (King George), Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas) and Emma Thompson (Sense And Sensibility), while the best supporting actress nominees are Joan Allen (Nixon), Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and both Elizabeth Spriggs and Kate Winslet for Sense And Sensibility.
Nominated for best actor are Nigel Hawthorne (King George), Jonathan Pryce (Carrington), Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas) and the late Massimo Troisi (Il Postino); and up for best supporting actor are Martin Landau (Ed Wood), Tim Roth (Rob Roy), Alan Rickman (Sense And Sensibility) and Ian Holm (King George).
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