BAFTA Film Awards 2025 nominations: 'Conclave' and 'Emilia Perez' lead with most nods

The 2025 BAFTA nominations announcement on Wednesday featured notable films, along with a few surprises and snubs. The awards ceremony will be held on February 16, 2025 at London's Royal Festival Hall.

While Hollywood continues to grapple with the devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires since last week, with some organisations like the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Producer Guild of America postponing their announcements, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards decided to move ahead with the announcement of this year's nominees.

While Edward Berger's Conclave led with 12 nominations, Jacques Audiard's Emelia Perez followed closely wth 11 nods.

Other remarkable films like The Brutalist got nominated in 9 categories while Anora, Wicked, Dune: Part 2, A Complete Unknown and Kneecap secured 7 nominations each.

Here is the complete list of nominees:

BEST LEADING ACTOR
Adrien Brody - The Brutalist
Timothee Chalamet - A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
Hugh Grant - Heretic
Sebastian Stan - The Apprentice

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

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

BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo - Wicked
Karla Sofia Gascon - Emilia Perez
Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Hard Truths
Mikey Madison - Anora
Demi Moore - The Substance
Saoirse Ronan - The Outrun

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Selena Gomez - Emilia Perez
Ariana Grande - Wicked
Felicity Jones - The Brutalist
Jamie Lee Curtis - The Last Showgirl
Isabella Rossellini - Conclave
Zoe Saldana - Emilia Perez

BEST FILM
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Perez

BEST DIRECTOR
Anora - Sean Baker
The Brutalist - Brady Corbet
Conclave - Edward Berger
Dune: Part Two - Denis Villeneuve
Emilia Perez - Jacques Audiard
The Substance - Coralie Fargeat

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Bird
Blitz
Conclave
Gladiator II
Hard Truths
Kneecap
Lee
Love Lies Bleeding
The Outrun
Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Anora - Sean Baker
The Brutalist - Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
Kneecap - Rich Peppiatt, Naoise O Caireallain, Liam Og O Hannaidh, JJ O Dochartaigh
A Real Pain - Jesse Eisenberg
The Substance - Coralie Fargeat

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
A Complete Unknown - James Mangold and Jay Cocks
Conclave - Peter Straughan
Emilia Perez - Jacques Audiard
Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
Sing Sing - Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence 'Divine Eye' Maclin, John 'Divine G' Whitfield

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Hoard - Luna Carmoon (director/ writer)
Kneecap - Rich Peppiatt (director, writer)
Monkey Man - Dev Patel (director)
Santosh - Sandhya Suri (director, writer), James Bowsher (producer), Balthazar de Ganay (producer)
Sister Midnight - Karan Kandhari (director, writer)

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
All We Imagine As Light
Emilia Perez
I'm Still Here
Kneecap
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Black Box Diaries
Daughters
No Other Land
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will & Harper

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Flow
Inside Out 2
Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

BEST CHILDREN'S & FAMILY FILM
Flow
Kensuke's Kingdom
Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

BEST EDITING
Anora
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
Kneecap

BEST CASTING
Anora - Sean Baker, Samantha Quan
The Apprentice - Stephanie Gorin, Carmen Cuba
A Complete Unknown - Yesi Ramirez
Conclave - Nina Gold, Martin Ware
Kneecap - Carla Stronge

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Brutalist - Lol Crawley
Conclave - Stephanie Fontaine
Dune: Part Two - Greig Fraser
Emilia Perez - Paul Guilhaume
Nosferatu - Jarin Blaschke

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked

BEST SOUND
Blitz
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
The Substance
Wicked

BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes
Wicked

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Blitz
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Nosferatu
Wicked

BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Perez
Nosferatu
The Wild Robot

BEST BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
Adios
Mog's Christmas
Wander To Wonder

BEST BRITISH SHORT FILM
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Marion
Milk
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Stomach Bug

EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
Marisa Abela
Jharrel Jerome
David Jonsson
Mikey Madison
Nabhaan Rizwan

In the top six categories, critics consider Wicked's Jon M. Chu to be snubbed for Best Director as well as Daniel Craig, who earned a SAG Award nomination for his leading role in Queer but went without a nod in BAFTA's Best Leading Actor category.

Meanwhile the biggest surprises included Selena Gomez, Clarence Macklin and Guy Pearce who got a nod at the BAFTAs after missing out on SAG nominations.