The directing category was also dominated by white men, while Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins and Fences’ Denzel Washington were omitted.
In both the leading actor and actress categories, only white men and women were nominated: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Emma Stone, Meryl Streep and Natalie Portman up for Leading Actress, and Andrew Garfield, Casey, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Gosling and Viggo Mortensen for Leading Actor.
Following the 2017 Bafta Award nominations announcement – with La La Land up for eleven awards – the hashtag #BaftaSoWhite began to circulate on Twitter.
Unlike the leading actor category, both supporting actor and actress categories were much more diverse, with Dev Patel, Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris and Viola Davis all given nods.