Conclave, Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist lead the 2025 BAFTA Film nominations

Ralph Fiennes is nominated for the Best Leading Actor BAFTA

The papal drama Conclave – starring Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rosselini – is leading the field for next month’s BAFTA Film Awards, with 12 nominations, including Best Film, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and a Best Director.

The Spanish-language musical about a Mexican drug-lord who changes gender, Emilia Pérez, has 11 nominations, including for Karla Sofía Gascón, the first trans actress to be up for an acting BAFTA.

Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce are nominated for BAFTAs for The Brutalist

The Brutalist – about a Hungarian holocaust survivor who builds a career as an architect in the US after the War – has 9 nominations, after emerging as the Oscar front-runner at the recent Golden Globes awards.

The Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora, Dune: Part Two, the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, the musical Wicked, the vampire horror Nosferatu, the Irish language Kneecap and The body horror The Substance have all received multiple nominations.

Demi Moore – who recently won her first Golden Globe for starring in The Substance – picked up a BAFTA nomination, but there was nothing for Daniel Craig or Kate Winslet, who were both nominated at the Globes. And despite having a separate category – with ten nominees – for the Outstanding British Film of the year, one of the most uplifting British releases of 2024, the Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man, was nominated only for special effects; the singer is portrayed throughout as a chimpanzee.

The BAFTAs are one of the many film awards that are seen as an indicator of how Oscars could be distributed a month later; there is a large overlap in the voting bodies, but the BAFTAs do tend to favour British talent, despite having a number of categories reserved for homegrown films.

The awards will be handed out on 16th February to winners selected by BAFTA members from the following full list of nominees:

BEST FILM

  • A Complete Unknown
  • Anora
  • Conclave
  • Emilia Pérez
  • The Brutalist

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

BEST DIRECTOR

  • Sean Baker – Anora
  • Edward Berger – Conclave
  • Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
  • Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
  • Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
  • Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

OUTSTANDING BRITISH DEBUT

  • Luna Carmoon – Hoard
  • Rich Peppiatt – Kneecap
  • Dev Patel – Monkey Man
  • Sandhya Suri, James Bowsher, Balthazar de Ganay – Santosh
  • Karan Kandhari – Sister Midnight

LEADING ACTOR

  • Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
  • Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
  • Hugh Grant – Heretic
  • Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
  • Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice
  • Adrien Brody –  The Brutalist

LEADING ACTRESS

  • Mikey Madison – Anora
  • Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
  • Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
  • Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun
  • Demi Moore – The Substance
  • Cynthia Erivo – Wicked

SUPPORTING ACTOR

  • Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
  • Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
  • Yura Borisov – Anora
  • Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
  • Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice
  • Guy Pearce – The Brutalist

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  • Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
  • Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez
  • Zoë Saldaña – Emilia Pérez
  • Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
  • Jamie Lee Curtis – The Last Showgirl
  • Ariana Grande – Wicked

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  • Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
  • Sean Baker – Anora
  • Rich Peppiatt, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Jj Ó Dochartaigh – Kneecap
  • Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
  • Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  • James Mangold, Jay Cocks – A Complete Unknown
  • Peter Straughan – Conclave
  • Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
  • RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys
  • Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, ‘John Divine G’ Whitfield – Sing Sing

ANIMATED FILM

  • Flow
  • Inside Out 2
  • The Wild Robot
  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM

  • Flow
  • Kensuke’s Kingdom
  • The Wild Robot
  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

  • All We Imagine As Light
  • Emilia Pérez
  • I’m Still Here
  • Kneecap
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

DOCUMENTARY

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

CINEMATOGRAPHY

EDITING

  • Anora
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Kneecap

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

  • Better Man
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Gladiator II
  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
  • Wicked

SOUND

  • Blitz
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Gladiator II
  • The Substance
  • Wicked

PRODUCTION DESIGN

  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Nosferatu
  • The Brutalist
  • Wicked

COSTUME DESIGN

  • A Complete Unknown
  • Blitz
  • Conclave
  • Nosferatu
  • Wicked

MAKE UP & HAIR

  • Dune: Part Two
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Nosferatu
  • The Substance
  • Wicked

ORIGINAL SCORE

  • Conclave
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Nosferatu
  • The Brutalist
  • The Wild Robot

CASTING

  • A Complete Unknown
  • Anora
  • Conclave
  • Kneecap
  • The Apprentice

BRITISH SHORT FILM

  • Marion
  • Milk
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors
  • Stomach Bug
  • The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

  • Adiós
  • Mog’s Christmas
  • Wander to Wonder

EE  RISING STAR AWARD

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