'La La Land' leads the pack for Bafta film awards
Damien Chazelle's idyllic romantic tale has 11 selections, including best film, best performing artist for Ryan Gosling and best on-screen character for Emma Stone, reports AFP.
Chazelle, Gosling and Stone are altogether expected at the function alongside a grip of stars including Amy Adams, Casey Affleck, Emily Blunt and Nicole Kidman.
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling will likewise be there as the turn off film "Fabulous Beasts and Where to Find Them" is assigned for Outstanding British Film.
Science fiction film "Entry" and mental thriller "Nighttime Animals", both featuring Adams, come next in the assignment positions with nine each.
"Manchester by the Sea" is in fourth place with six assignments, including best performer for Affleck.
Veteran leftwing chief Ken Loach's "I, Daniel Blake" - a lumpy dramatization around one man's battle against Britain's social welfare framework - stands out for British movies with five designations.
Loach, who made a narrative about the restriction Labor gathering's pioneer Jeremy Corbyn a year ago, first won a Bafta for TV dramatization generation in 1967.
Meryl Streep is selected for best performing artist for "Florence Foster Jenkins", a tragi-comic drama about a well off US socialite and novice soprano from the nineteenth century derided for her loathsome singing.
Streep's searing judgment of then president-elect Donald Trump at the Golden Globes a month ago stood out as truly newsworthy.
Trump hit back saying she was "misrepresented".
This is Streep's fifteenth Bafta selection, which puts her on a standard with past record-holder Judi Dench.
English performing artist Hugh Grant, whose last selection and honor was in 1995 for "Four Weddings and a Funeral", additionally gets a supporting on-screen character gesture for his part as Streep's significant other and director in the film.
"The scope of movies is very remarkable," Amanda Berry, CEO of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, told the BBC.
"That is the thing that makes the current year's selections so fascinating and intriguing," she said.
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