BAFTA Awards 2025 Nominations: ‘Conclave’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ Lead the Pack

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The race for cinematic glory is formally on because the BAFTA Movie Awards 2025 nominations are unveiled, celebrating a 12 months of storytelling, spectacle, and standout performances. Topping the checklist is Conclave, Edward Berger’s gripping Vatican-set mystery-thriller, with a powerful 12 nominations. Shut behind is Jacques Audiard’s daring and genre-defying Emilia Pérez, racking up 11 BAFTA nods. Each movies have set the stage for an unpredictable awards season, filled with recent faces, seasoned icons, and a few eyebrow-raising surprises.

Among the many nominees, The Brutalist holds its floor with 9 BAFTA nominations, whereas Anora, Dune: Half Two, and Depraved comply with with seven every. Nevertheless, the omission of Depraved from the coveted Greatest Movie class has sparked loads of chatter on social media, as has BAFTA’s continued snubbing of Denzel Washington, this time for his lauded efficiency in Gladiator 2.

The nominations reveal a refreshing range of expertise, with first-time BAFTA nominees akin to Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), Mikey Madison (Anora), and Jeremy Robust (The Apprentice). In the meantime, trade stalwarts like Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun), Hugh Grant (Heretic), and Jamie Lee Curtis (The Final Showgirl) have additionally secured their locations amongst this 12 months’s celebrated contenders.

The BAFTA ceremony, set to happen at London’s iconic Royal Pageant Corridor on February 16, will as soon as once more see David Tennant internet hosting what guarantees to be an unforgettable night. Beneath, we dive into the total checklist of nominations for BAFTA Awards 2025 and the tales behind the 12 months’s most talked-about movies and performances.

BEST FILM 

• “Anora” — Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker 
• “The Brutalist” 
• “A Full Unknown” — Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, James Mangold 
• “Conclave” — Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman 
• “Emilia Pérez” 

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM 

• “Fowl” — 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 
• “Exhausting Truths” — Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe 
•  “Kneecap” — Wealthy Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, 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 

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER 

•  “Hoard” — Luna Carmoon (Director, author) 
•  “Kneecap” — Wealthy Peppiatt (Director, author) 
• “Monkey Man” — Dev Patel (Director) 
• “Santosh” — Sandhya Suri (Director, author), James Bowsher (Producer), Balthazar de Ganay (Producer), additionally produced by Alan McAlex, Mike Goodridge 
• “Sister Midnight” — Karan Kandhari (Director, author) 

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 

•  “All We Think about as Gentle” — Payal Kapadia, Thomas Hakim 
•  “Emilia Pérez” — Jacques Audiard 
• “I’m Nonetheless Right here” (“Ainda Estou Aqui”) — Walter Salles 
•  “Kneecap” — Wealthy Peppiatt, Trevor Birney 
•  “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” — Mohammad Rasoulof, Amin Sadraei 

BEST DOCUMENTARY 

•  “Black Field Diaries” — Shiori Ito, Hanna Aqvilin, Eric Nyari 
•  “Daughters” — Natalie Rae, Angela Patton 
•  “No Different Land” — Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor 
•  “Tremendous/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” — Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Lizzie Gilliett, Robert Ford 
• “Will & Harper” — Josh Greenbaum, Rafael Marmor, Christopher Leggett, Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum 

BEST ANIMATED FILM 

•  “Movement” — Gints Siibalodis, Mat?ss Kaža 
•  “Inside Out 2” — Kelsey Mann, Mark Nielsen 
•  “Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” — Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek 
•  “The Wild Robotic” — Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann 

BEST CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM 

•  “Movement” — Gints Siibalodis, Mat?ss Kaža 
•  “Kensuke’s Kingdom” — Kirk Hendry, Neil Boyle, Camilla Deakin 
•  “Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” — Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek 
•  “The Wild Robotic” — Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann 

BEST DIRECTOR 

•  “Anora” — Sean Baker 
•  “The Brutalist” — Brady Corbet 
•  “Conclave” — Edward Berger 
•  “Dune: Half Two” — Denis Villeneuve 
•  “Emilia Pérez” — Jacques Audiard 
•  “The Substance” — Coralie Fargeat 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 

•  “Anora” — written by Sean Baker 
•  “The Brutalist” — written by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold 
•  “Kneecap” — written by Wealthy Peppiatt, story by Wealthy Peppiatt, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, JJ Ó Dochartaigh 
•  “A Actual Ache” — written by Jesse Eisenberg 
•  “The Substance” — written by Coralie Fargeat 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 

•  “A Full 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 

BEST LEADING ACTRESS 

• Cynthia Erivo, “Depraved”  
• Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez” 
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Exhausting Truths” 
• Mikey Madison, “Anora” 
• Demi Moore, “The Substance” 
• Saoirse Ronan, “The Outrun” 

BEST LEADING ACTOR 

•  Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist” 
• Timothée Chalamet, “A Full Unknown” 
• Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing” 
• Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave” 
• Hugh Grant, “Heretic” 
•  Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice” 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

•  Selena Gomez, “Emilia Pérez” 
•  Ariana Grande, “Depraved” 
• Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist” 
• Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Final Showgirl” 
•  Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”  
• Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez” 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 

• Yura Borisov, “Anora” 
• Kieran Culkin, “A Actual Ache” 
• Clarence Maclin, “Sing Sing” 
• Edward Norton, “A Full Unknown”  
• Man Pearce, “The Brutalist” 
• Jeremy Robust, “The Apprentice” 

BEST CASTING 

•  “Anora” — Sean Baker, Samantha Quan 
•  “The Apprentice” — Stephanie Gorin, Carmen Cuba 
•  “A Full Unknown” — Yesi Ramirez 
•  “Conclave” — Nina Gold, Martin Ware 
•  “Kneecap” — Carla Stronge 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

•  “The Brutalist” — Lol Crawley 
•  “Conclave” — Stéphane Fontaine 
• “Dune: Half Two” — Greig Fraser 
•  “Emilia Pérez” — Paul Guilhaume 
•  “Nosferatu” — Jarin Blaschke 

BEST EDITING 

•  “Anora” — Sean Baker 
•  “Conclave” — Nick Emerson 
• “Dune: Half Two” — Joe Walker 
•  “Emilia Pérez”– Juliette Welfling 
•  “Kneecap” — Julian Ulrichs, Chris Gill 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN 

•  “Blitz” — Jacqueline Durran 
•  “A Full Unknown” — Arianne Phillips 
•  “Conclave” — Lisy Christl 
•  “Nosferatu” — Linda Muir 
•  “Depraved” — Paul Tazewell 

BEST MAKE UP & HAIR 

•  “Dune: Half Two” — Love Larson, Eva Von Bahr 
•  “Emilia Pérez” — Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier, Jean-Christophe Spadaccini, Romain Marietti 
•  “Nosferatu” — David White, Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton 
• “The Substance” — Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, Frédérique Arguello, Marilyne Scarselli 
• “Depraved” — Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Sarah Nuth 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE 

•  “The Brutalist” — Daniel Blumberg 
•  “Conclave” — Volker Bertelmann 
•  “Emilia Pérez” — Camille, Clément Ducol 
•  “Nosferatu” — Robin Carolan 
•  “The Wild Robotic” —  Kris Bowers 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 

•  “The Brutalist” — Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia 
•  “Conclave” — Suzie Davies, Cynthia Sleiter 
•  “Dune: Half Two” — Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau 
•  “Nosferatu” — Craig Lathrop 
•  “Depraved” — Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales 

BEST SOUND 

•  “Blitz” — John Casali, Paul Cotterell, James Harrison 
•  “Dune: Half Two” — Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Gareth John, Richard King 
•  “Gladiator II” — Stéphane Bucher, Matthew Collinge, Paul Massey Danny Sheehan 
•  “The Substance” — Valérie Deloof, Victor Fleurant, Victor Praud, Stéphane Thiébaut, Emmanuelle Villard 
•  “Depraved” — Robin Baynton, Simon Hayes, John Marquis, Andy Nelson, Nancy Nugent Title 

BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS 

•  “Higher Man” —  Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs 
•  “Dune: Half Two” — Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Gerd Nefzer, Rhys Salcombe 
•  “Gladiator II” — Mark Bakowski, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny, Pietro Ponti 
•  “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” — Erik Winquist, Rodney Burke, Paul Story, Stephen Unterfranz 
•  “Depraved” — Pablo Helman, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner, Anthony Smith 

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION 

•  “Adiós” — José Prats, Natalia Kyriacou, Bernardo Angeletti 
•  “Mog’s Christmas” — Robin Shaw, Joanna Harrison, Camilla Deakin, Ruth Fielding 
•  “Wander to Surprise” — Nina Gantz, Stienette Bosklopper, Simon Cartwright, Maarten Swart 

BRITISH SHORT FILM 

•  “The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing” — Theo Panagopoulos, Marissa Keating 
•  “Marion” — Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine, Marija Djikic 
•  “Milk” — Miranda Stern, Ashionye Ogene 
•  “Rock, Paper, Scissors” — Franz Böhm, Ivan, Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer 
•  “Abdomen Bug” — Matty Crawford, Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou 

EE RISING STAR AWARD (Voted for by the general public) 

•  Marisa Abela 
• Jharrel Jerome 
• David Jonsson 
• Mikey Madison 
• Nabhaan Rizwan 

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