Saltburn filmed in Oxford receives 5 Bafta nominations

The Bafta 2024 nominations have been announced and Saltburn - written by Oxford educated Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell has several nominations in major categories, with Barry Keoghan battling it out for leading actor against Cillian Murphy, star of Oppenheimer.

The blackly comic film tells the tale of Oliver Quick, played by Barry Keoghan, who is, on the face of it, an awkward 18-year-old from a working-class Merseyside family who wins a scholarship to Oxford.

There, he finds himself adrift among and enraptured by a cohort of groomed, wealthy kids, born for the Oxford life he appears incongruous in.

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At Oxford, his gaze fixates especially on the effortlessly aristocratic Felix Catton, played by Euphoria heart-throb Jacob Elordi.

Felix, in turn, takes a liking to Oliver and invites him to spend the summer at his family estate, the eponymous Saltburn.

What follows is sun-soaked hedonism, perplexing dinner table etiquette, enormous wealth and sexual suspense.

Two highly-discussed scenes, involve sexual shenanigans with a bathtub and in a graveyard while the film ends with Oliver dancing through the house naked to Sophie Ellis Bextor's Murder on the Dancefloor.

Mr Keoghan, who starred in the Banshees Of Inisherin, told Entertainment Weekly that he did not use a prosthetic.

He said:  “It totally felt right. It’s ownership. This is my place. It’s full confidence in, ‘I can do what I want in this manor. I can strip to my barest and waltz around because this is mine.’ Yeah... it was fun.”

And, he said, he had to film the routine 11 times.

“I was like, ‘Let’s go again. Let’s go again.’ You kind of forget, because there’s such a comfortable environment created, and it gives you that license to go, ‘All right, this is about the story now.’”

Ms Fennell said Saltburn is like a vampire film as it explores how someone can behave when they are “completely besotted”.

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"And I hope it’s part of the classic Gothic tradition where love and hate are very, very close together," she said.

Saltburn has been nominated for Outstanding British Film, Rosamund Pike has been nominated for supporting actress and Jacob Elordi for supporting actor.

The film has also been nominated for original score.

Jacob Elordi has also been nominated for the EE Rising Star Award voted for by the public.

The awards will be hosted by David Tennant at the Royal Festival Hall on February 18 and will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.