Bafta has caught the zeitgeist with One Battle After Another, but let’s hear it for The Ballad of Wallis Island

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Combat intensifies as One Battle After Another takes 14 Bafta nominations

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he Bafta nominations list underscores the enormous award-season love being felt for Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, his subversive vampire riff on America’s black experience – though it isn’t making history in quite the same way as it is at the Oscars, having 13 Bafta nominations, one behind Paul Thomas Anderson’s league-leader One Battle After Another with 14.