Conclave, Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist lead the nominations at the 2025 BAFTAs.
The nominations for the ceremony, hosted once again by David Tennant, dropped on Wednesday ahead of the event, which will take place on Sunday, February 16, at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
2024 Rising star award winner Mia McKenna-Bruce and Will Sharpe were on hand to announce the honour and revealed that 42 films have secured nominations. Leading the charge is Conclave, earning an impressive 12 nods, including Best Director, Best Film, and Outstanding British Film.
Close behind is Emilia Pérez with 11 nominations, spanning Best Director, Best Film, and Film Not in the English Language. The Brutalist rounds out the top contenders, earning nine nominations, including Best Director and Best Film.
Emilia Pérez made history with Karla Sofía Gascón becoming the first trans actress ever nominated at the BAFTA Film Awards. Other first time film performance nominees in the leading actress category include British star Cynthia Erivo for musical The Wizard Of Oz prequel Wicked, Mikey Madison for playing a stripper who falls for a Russian oligarch’s son in Anora, and Hollywood actress Demi Moore for body horror The Substance.
Also competing in this category is British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste for comedy drama Hard Truths and Saoirse Ronan for The Outrun, the film based on the 2016 memoir of journalist Amy Liptrot about struggles with alcoholism, revitalising her awards campaign after missing out on other major nominations.
In the supporting actress section is US pop singer Ariana Grande for playing Glinda the good witch, an early friend to green-skinned misunderstood witch Elphaba (Erivo) in Wicked.
Also nominated is English actress Felicity Jones for portraying Brody’s wife in The Brutalist and Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis for The Last Showgirl, which sees Baywatch star Pamela Anderson portray a showgirl who needs to find a new path after her show closes abruptly after three decades.
While the supporting actor category features two former Succession stars, Kieran Culkin for playing a cousin to Jesse Eisenberg who goes on a trip to retrace his Jewish grandmother’s past in Poland in A Real Pain and Jeremy Strong for playing former Trump mentor Roy Cohn in The Apprentice.
They were nominated alongside Russian actor Yura Borisov for Anora, American actors Clarence Maclin for Sing Sing and Edward Norton for A Complete Unknown and Australian star Guy Pearce for The Brutalist.
Absent from the supporting actor category is Denzel Washington for his role in Gladiator II, Ridley Scott's sequel to the 2000 epic.
For the best film prize, the nomination frontrunner Conclave will compete against Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown and Emilia Perez.
Also getting a run of nominations are Anora, science fiction film Dune: Part Two starring Chalamet as a son of a prominent family who leads a rebellion against a space empire and Wicked, who are all on seven total nods, and biopic A Complete Unknown and comedy drama Kneecap with six nominations.
There are also five nominations for Nosferatu, based on the 1922 horror of the same name that was slated for destruction after a copyright case was made by Irish writer and Dracula author Bram Stoker’s family, and The Substance – which sees Moore portray a TV fitness instructor who seeks to become young again with mysterious injections after being fired from her job.
Best films nominees include Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, and Emilia Perez, as most of these movies also compete in the best director category.
The directors who have been nominated for the first time in the directing category include Sean Baker for Anora, Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance, while also getting nods are Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two, and Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez.
The outstanding British film category is again packed full of nominations with blockbuster Gladiator II getting one of its three nods, while it competes against BBC Christmas hit Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, which sees the return of evil penguin Feathers McGraw from Oscar winning short The Wrong Trousers, The Outrun, Kneecap, and Sir Steve McQueen’s World War II movie Blitz, starring Ronan.
The other nods include Lee, starring Kate Winslet as a female journalist covering the Second World War on the front line, romantic thriller Love Lies Bleeding about a bodybuilder and reclusive gym manager falling in love, Barry Keoghan-fronted family drama Bird, and Hard Truths, which sees Jean-Baptiste as a working-class woman struggling with anger issues.
BAFTA FILM AWARDS 2025 NOMINATIONS IN FULL:
Best Film
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Leading Actress
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Demi Moore, The Substance
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
Mikey Madison, Anora
Saoirse Ronan, The Outrun
Leading Actor
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Hugh Grant, Heretic
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Supporting Actor
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Yura Borisov, Anora
Supporting Actress
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl
Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Best Director
Sean Baker; Anora
Brady Corbet; The Brutalist
Edward Berger; Conclave
Denis Villeneuve; Dune: Part Two
Jacques Audiard; Emilia Pérez
Coralie Fargeat; The Substance
Outstanding British Film
Bird
Blitz
Conclave
Gladiator II
Hard Truths
Kneecap
Lee
Love Lies Bleeding
The Outrun
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Children's and Family Film
Flow
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Best Film not in the English Language
All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)
Kneecap
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Best Adapted Screenplay
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
Best Original Screenplay
Anora
The Brutalist
Kneecap
A Real Pain
The Substance
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Luna Carmoon, Hoard
Rich Peppiatt, Kneecap
Dev Patel, Monkey Man
Sandhya Suri, James Bowsher, Balthazar De Ganay, Santosh
Karan Kandhari, Sister Midnight
Rising Star Award
Marisa Abela
Jharrel Jerome
David Jonsson
Mikey Madison
Nabhaan Rizwan
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
British short animation
Adiós
Mog’s Christmas
Wander to Wonder
Best British Short Film
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Marion
Milk
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Stomach Bug
Casting
Anora
The Apprentice
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Kneecap
Editing
Anora
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Kneecap
Costume Design
Blitz
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Nosferatu
Wicked
Make Up & Hair
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked
Original Score
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Wild Robot
Best Production Design
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked
Sound
Blitz
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
The Substance
Wicked
Best Cinematography
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
Best Special Visual Effects
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
The EE Bafta film awards takes place at London’s Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, February 16. The event will be broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer.
