Timothée Chalamet’s awards-season run hit a snag at the BAFTA Film Awards on Feb. 22, when Marty Supreme went home empty-handed despite 11 nominations, a shutout that tied a long-standing BAFTA record for most losses by a single film in one night.
The film’s most visible miss came in leading actor, where Chalamet lost to Robert Aramayo for I Swear, one of the ceremony’s headline surprises. Marty Supreme had entered the night positioned to convert in at least a few categories, with nominations that signaled wide support across the ballot. Instead, it struck out across the board, joining Women in Love (1969) and Finding Neverland (2004) as the only films to land 11 nominations and win zero BAFTAs.
The optics land at an awkward moment for a campaign that has leaned on scale: Josh Safdie earned four personal nominations tied to the project, and the film has already secured nine Oscar nominations, according to reporting published after nominations morning. BAFTA history, though, cuts both ways. The two prior record-tying films still managed to win a single Oscar each in their years, and recent seasons have shown that a rough BAFTA night can coexist with Academy success.
The BAFTA result also arrives after weeks of scrutiny around Safdie and the film’s awards push. A January report framed the campaign as navigating outside noise tied to allegations about a prior production and questions about timing that some strategists described as campaign-adjacent turbulence, while representatives cited in that piece declined comment. None of that explains the BAFTA ballot, yet it forms part of the backdrop as voters move through the final stretch.
For Chalamet, the path forward now looks narrower and clearer: win enough late, industry-facing support to reassert momentum, while the film tries to convert its broad nomination strength into trophies where BAFTA did not.
