“Conclave” leads the pack of 2025 BAFTA Film Awards nominees with 12 nods, one more than “Emilia Pérez,” who had featured in the most BAFTA long lists (15) when they were announced on January 3rd.
Mia McKenna-Bruce and Will Sharpe announced the 2025 nominees live on Wednesday in London.
The British Academy nominated “Conclave” for Best Picture, Outstanding British Film, Best Director (for Edward Berger), Lead Actor (Ralph Fiennes), Supporting Actor (Isabella Rossellini) and Adapted Screenplay (Peter Straughan). “Emilia Pérez” picked up nods for Best Picture, Director (Jacques Audiard), Lead Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón), Supporting Actress (Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña) and Adapted Screenplay (Audiard).
“The Brutalist,” meanwhile, earned nine nominations, including best picture, director (Brady Corbet) and actor (Adrien Brody), followed by seven each for “Anora,” “Dune: Part Two” and “Wicked.” Of these three, only “Anora” went through for best picture and director (Sean Baker). Coralie Fargeat took the last place in the director category, for “The Substance”. She, like Baker and Corbet, is a first-time BAFTA nominee.
Many familiar names filled out the acting categories, although Saoirse Ronan earned a lead actress nomination for “The Outrun” and Hugh Grant found a spot in the supporting actor category for “Heretic.” BAFTA once again singled out Denzel Washington, this time for his supporting turn in “Gladiator II.” The two-time Oscar winner has never been nominated for a BAFTA. Also overlooked: Nicole Kidman for “Babygirl” and Daniel Craig for “Queer.”
Following the announcement of the longlists earlier this month, which put “Emilia Pérez” in the lead with 15 spots, Audiard’s Spanish-language musical appeared poised to join “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” as films that did not in English with the most nominations: 14. But it was not to be.
BAFTA nominations are usually a reliable predictor of the Best Picture Oscar category: Since the Academy expanded from five to 10 nominees in 2009, only four of the 75 BAFTA Best Picture nominees have failed to receive Oscar nominations (they were “The Mauritanian”, ” “I, Daniel Blake”, “Carol” and “Drive”). In the 19 categories the Oscars and BAFTAs have in common, about 75% of the BAFTA nominees Oscar nominations, with a slightly lower success rate in the acting categories.
Hosted by David Tenant, the ceremony will take place on Sunday, February 16 and will be streamed on BritBox in the US and Canada.
The full list of BAFTA film nominations for 2025 is below.
BEST MOVIE
“Anora,” Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker
“The Brutalist,” TBD
“A Complete Unknown”, Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, James Mangold
“Conclave,” Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman
“Emilia Perez,” TBD
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
“Bird,” Andrea Arnold, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Lee Groombridge
“Blitz,” Steve McQueen, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Anita Overland
“Conclave,” Edward Berger, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman, Peter Straughan
“Gladiator II,” Ridley Scott, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Michael Pruss, David Scarpa, Peter Craig
“Hard Truths”, Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
“Knee Bowl,” Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling, Naoise Ó Cairrelláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, JJ Ó Dochartaigh
“Lee,” Ellen Kuras, Kate Solomon, Kate Winslet, Liz Hannah, Marion Hume, John Collee, Lem Dobbs
“Love Lies Bleeding,” Rose Glass, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman, Wereonika Tofilska
“The Outrun”, Nora Fingscheidt, Sarah Brocklehurst, Dominic Norris, Jack Lowden, Saoirse Ronan, Amy Liptrot
“Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek, Mark Burton
LEADING ACTING
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
Hugh Grant, “Heretic”
Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”
LEADING ACTOR
Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
Karla Sofia Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths”
Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Demi Moore, “The Substance”
Saoirse Ronan, “The Outrun”
SCENE TRACK
Yura Borisov, “Anora”
Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Clarence Maclin, “Sing Sing”
Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”
Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”
Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”
ENTERTAINING ACTING
Selena Gomez, “Emilia Perez”
Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Last Showgirl”
Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Perez”
DIRECTOR
“Anora,” Sean Baker
“The Brutalist”, Brady Corbett
“Conclave”, Edward Berger
“Dune: Part Two,” Denis Villeneuve
“Emilia Pérez,” Jacques Audiard
“The Subject”, Coralie Fargeat
CHILDREN & FAMILY MOVIES
“Flow,” Gints Siibalodis, Matīss Kaža
“Kensuke’s Kingdom,” Kirk Hendry, Neil Boyle, Camilla Deakin
“Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek
“The Wild Robot”, Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann
FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
“Everything we imagine as light”, Payal Kapadia, Thomas Hakim
“Emilia Pérez,” Jacques Audiard
“I’m Still Here”, Walter Salles
“Kneecap”, Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Mohammad Rasoulof, Amin Sadraei
CUSTOM SCREEN PLAY
“A Complete Unknown”, screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks
“Conclave,” screenplay by Peter Straughan
“Emilia Pérez”, screenplay by Jacques Audiard
“Nickel Boys,” screenplay by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
“Sing Sing”, screenplay by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence ‘Divine Eye’ Maclin, John ‘Divine G’ Whitfield
ORIGINAL SCREEN PLAY
“Anora”, written by Sean Baker
“The Brutalist”, written by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
“Knee Bowl,” written by Rich Peppiatt, story by Rich Peppiatt, Naoise Ó Carealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, JJ Ó Dochartaigh
“A Real Pain”, written by Jesse Eisenberg
“The Substance”, written by Coralie Fargeat
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
“Hoard,” Luna Carmoon (director, screenwriter)
“Kneecap”, Rich Peppiatt (director, screenplay)
“Monkey Man,” Dev Patel (Director)
“Santosh,” Sandhya Suri (director, script), James Bowsher (producer), Balthazar de Ganay (producer), also produced by Alan McAlex, Mike Goodridge
“Sister Midnight,” Karan Kandhari (director, script)
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted by the public)
Marisa Abel
Jharrel Jerome
David Johnson
Mike Madison
Nabhaan Rizwan
(Steve Pond contributed to this story.)
