Cillian Murphy finally gets the nomination

With the last season of Peaky Blinders, Cillian Murphy finally gets the nomination for BAFTA TV 2023. Check out the other nominees!

After six seasons which, since 2015, have created a highly recognizable and unmistakable world in the collective imagination, for Peaky Blinders to the BAFTA TV 2023 an important recognition could come. Cillian Murphy, with the role that has made him most memorable in recent years, is in fact nominated for the award for Best Actor.

“I am Tommy Shelby”

In a June 2022 interview for Deadline, following the release of the sixth and final season, Cillian Murphy said he was extremely honored to have played the role of Thomas Shelby for almost a decade, and that thinking about it still hard to believe. The greatest praise of him, on that occasion, he addressed to Steven Knightthe author of Peaky Blinderswhich he defined as “a genius writer” because since the beginning of the show, he had already written 36 hours of television, which is all six seasons.

Cillian Murphy since the first season he has conquered the role of undisputed star of Peaky Blinders, managing to create an in-depth interpretation of what is, without a doubt, a complex and tormented character. He is the head of a family of gangsters in Birmingham, and about this he said (read the full interview): “I think when you do a gangster show, you’re always aware of the big gangster movies, America of course. There is a very narrow corridor and you inevitably come across these stories as you go. I think ours differs a lot because of the British setting and the British culture, and the working class story is obviously a big deal. And then if you make a family saga – this goes back to Shakespeare – there’s always the transition of power and how people want to hold power and get power.

The BAFTA TV nominations 2023

Cillian Murphy’s first nomination at the BAFTA TV Awards dates back to 2007, when he was nominated for the award for Best Rising Star (won that year by Eva Green, The Golden Compass). This year it will be him the flag of Peaky Blinders in what are the British equivalent of the Emmys. The show, in fact, concluded in 2022 with the sixth season, has not received any other nominations. This year could be HIS year, not just for the BAFTAs but also for Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan: Cillian Murphy will, in fact, be the protagonist of the biopic.

Next to him in the list for the Best Actor award: Ben Wishaw (This is going to hurt), Chaske Spencer (The English), Gary Oldman (Slow Horses), Martin Freeman (The Responder), Taron Egerton (Black Bird).

The BAFTA TV nominations 2023

The favorites for this edition of the BAFTA TV Awards, which will be held on May 14th, are This Is Going to Hurt(nominated among the miniseries) e The Responder (among drama series).

Drama TV series

The titles nominated for the award for Best Drama TV Series are: Bad Sister, The Responder, Sheerwood, Somewhere Boy.

International Series

Nominees for Best International Show: The Bear, Dahmer, Oussekine, Pachinko, The White Lotus

Best Actress at BAFTA TV 2023

The names in the list for this award are: Billie Piper (I Hate Suzie Too)Imelda Staunton (The Crown), Kate Winslet (I Am Ruth), Maxine PeakeAnne), Sarah Lancashire (Julia), Vicky McClure (Without Sin)

Miniseries

For the Miniseries category, the nominees are: A Spy Among Friends, Mood, This Is Going to Hurt.

Other names worth noting include: Daniel Radcliffe nominee for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story), also his first BAFTA TV Award nomination.

Follow this link to consult all the nominations of the numerous categories of the next ones BAFTA TV 2023 and wait with us for May 14th to celebrate (hopefully) with Cillian Murphy, Tommy Shelby and all the Peaky Blinders.

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