{"id":266191,"date":"2026-01-27T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266191\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:38:07","slug":"buckley-and-mescal-tipped-for-bafta-nods-for-hamnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/266191\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckley and Mescal tipped for BAFTA nods for Hamnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar frontrunner Jessie Buckley is expected to receive a nod for the Best Actress BAFTA when the nominations are announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Buckley has proved unbeatable through awards season so far for her performance as Shakespeare&#8217;s wife Agnes Hathaway \u2013 historically known as Anne \u2013 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/movie-reviews\/2026\/0109\/1551816-hamnet-shakespeare-in-love-and-grief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hamnet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2026\/0122\/1554591-jessie-buckley-honoured-by-oscar-nomination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">been nominated for an Oscar<\/a> and secured a string of trophies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2026\/0112\/1552589-it-was-jessie-buckleys-night-at-the-golden-globes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">including a Golden Globe<\/a> and Critics\u2019 Choice award.<\/p>\n<p>Watch: Alan Corr chats to Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal<\/p>\n<p alt=\"Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal talk to RT\u00c9 Entertainment\" data-embed=\"comcast-player\" data-guid=\"epic-mpx-manual-29960\" data-id=\"CwmuF2KWmGoK\">\n<p>Paul Mescal is still tipped to be nominated for the Best Supporting Actor prize for his turn as the Bard, even though he was snubbed by the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>The big-screen adaptation of Maggie O\u2019Farrell\u2019s award-winning novel about the family life of William Shakespeare and the death of his young son is also likely to be nominated in the Best Film and Outstanding British Film categories.<\/p>\n<p>Sinners, Ryan Coogler\u2019s historical crime drama turned horror film, is also likely to score a string of nominations.<\/p>\n<p>The film, starring Michael B Jordan as twins, recently made history by becoming the first film to score 16 Oscar nods.<\/p>\n<p>The BAFTA nominations will be announced by Aimee Lou Wood and David Jonsson at 12pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar frontrunner Jessie Buckley is expected to receive a nod for the Best Actress BAFTA when the nominations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-266191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}