Bafta has announced the five actors nominated for the 2023 Rising Star Award.

The nominees for this year’s Bafta Rising Star Award are

1. Jacob Elordi of Saltburn and Priscilla
2. Phoebe Dyenvor of Fair Play and Bridgerton
3. Ayo Edebiri of The Bear and Bottoms.
4. Mia McKenna-Bruce from How to Have Sex .
5. Sophie Wilde from Talk to Me.

According to Bafta, all five have captivated the attention of both the general public and the cinema industry during the previous year.

The candidates were unveiled during a ceremony at London’s Savoy Hotel by actor Stephen Graham. Dynevor, McKenna-Bruce, and Wilde were there and took part in a discussion with presenter Ali Plumb; Elordi and Edebiri were unable to attend owing to filming obligations.

Jane Millichip, CEO of the Baftas, is entering her second Film Awards, also gave a short speech on this occasion.

Nominees are not chosen for a single performance, however they have often won praise for one role in the previous year.

The entire list of Bafta nominees will be unveiled on Thursday, January 18; the winners will be announced on Sunday, February 18 at the Bafta Film Awards.

Emma Mackey, star of Emily and Barbie and a 2019 Screen Star of Tomorrow, earned the award last year.

On Sunday, The Bear co-star Ayo Edebiri won a Golden Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy TV series, and her acceptance speech drew cheers from the crowd as well as an outpouring of admiration on social media and in the media for doing something that far too few people do. After thanking her coworkers at “The Bear,” whom she described as her family, and then her actual family, Edebiri singled out “all of my agents’ and managers’ assistants.” She went on to say: “Thank you for answering my crazy, crazy emails!” It was a rare recognition of people who are often overlooked, and every entrepreneur and business leader should take heed.

It was also particularly appropriate given that her character in The Bear is an amazing chef in her own right, working in relative obscurity to support Carmy, the show’s superstar chef.

Award winners typically deliver carefully crafted comments in which they thank a small group of people. Edeberi, nearly quivering with enthusiasm, had plainly made no preparations. What she said was spontaneous and genuine, including her endearingly honest closing:  “If I forgot to thank you, I’m sorry. Unless you were mean or or something.”

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