‘Conclave’ gets the most noms with 12, followed closely by ‘Emilia Pérez’ with 11, and ‘The Brutalist’ with 9.
The 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards nominations are in! With this, the awards season has gathered even more steam ahead of the race for Oscars glory.
A total of 42 films get at least one nomination after two excruciating rounds of voting by BAFTA’s global voting membership, comprising over 8,100 creatives and film industry practitioners. Round Two of the process determined the pool of nominations announced by actors Will Sharpe and Mia McKenna-Bruce from the British Academy’s headquarters in London on Wednesday, Jan. 15.
The third and final voting round opens on Jan. 22 to determine the winners, which will be unveiled by host David Tennant at the Feb. 16 ceremony in London.
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It is the most genre-diverse year ever for the BAFTA Film Awards, per The Hollywood Reporter, with nominations for horror movies Heretic and The Substance, musical (or music-inspired) films such as Wicked and A Complete Unknown, and historical epics like Blitz. Big-budget action flicks like Dune: Part Two and Gladiator II also earned nominations.
And just like any other pool of nominees from award-giving organizations, we see a couple of expected nods, but also a few welcome surprises and some heartbreaking snubs. The POST has here a rundown of who’s in and who’s out of this year’s BAFTA race.
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First, the shoo-ins
Leading the way is Conclave. Headlined by Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, the film based on the novel of the same name by Robert Harris scored 12 BAFTA nominations. Within a hair’s breadth is Emilia Pérez with 11 and The Brutalist with nine.
Conclave is nominated for best film, outstanding British film, best director for Oscar winner Edward Berger, leading actor for Fiennes, supporting actress for Isabella Rossellini, and adapted screenplay for Peter Straughan, among others. Fiennes is going up against Hugh Grant (Heretic), Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), and Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice).
The Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez sees all its three main actresses, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and Zoe Saldana, receiving performance nominations. Director Jacques Audiard bagged three nods, including for best director, adapted screenplay, and best film not in the English language. Paul Guilhaume is nominated for cinematography and Camille and Clement Ducol for their original score.
In the best leading actress race, Gascón is up against Cynthia Erivo (Wicked) in her first-ever BAFTA award nomination, Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance), and Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun).
Meanwhile, The Brutalist, which stars Brody as a Hungarian-Jewish architect immigrating to the US post-World War II, has nominations in the acting categories. Director Brady Corbet picked up his first BAFTA nod, and is also nominated, alongside his partner Mona Fastvold, for best original screenplay. Lol Crawley also scored a nomination for cinematography.
Going head-to-head in the supporting actress category are Ariana Grande (Wicked), Felicity Jones (The Brutalist), Jamie Lee Curtis (The Last Showgirl), Gomez and Saldana (Emilia Pérez), and Rossellini (Conclave).
Newcomer Yura Borisov (Anora) goes up against seasoned actors Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain), Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing), Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown), Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice), and Guy Pearce (The Brutalist) in the supporting actor category.
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Heartbreaking snubs
To the surprise of many, the blockbuster hit Wicked failed to score a nod in the best film category. Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers had it worse, as the Zendaya-headliner failed to secure a single nomination.
Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light, meanwhile, may have amassed a bevy of honors since Cannes, where it was the first film from India to compete for the Palme d’Or in 30 years, but it scored only one BAFTA nom for best film not in the English language category.
Perhaps the biggest snub goes to Denzel Washington. Despite being widely considered one of the finest actors today, a BAFTA nomination remains elusive for the Oscar-winning star of Gladiator II, where he plays the sly Macrinus.
Joining Washington in the snubbed category are Nicole Kidman, despite her daring portrayal of a CEO who enters a dominant-submissive affair with a younger man in Babygirl; and Daniel Craig, even with what many critics consider his career-defining performance in Queer.
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Pleasant surprises
To make up for the snubs, there were a slew of welcome surprises, too. There’s Hugh Grant earning a lead actor nod for his critically acclaimed role as a sinister recluse who terrorizes two missionaries in Heretic. Colman Domingo also received much love from BAFTA which gave him a lead actor nomination for his role in Sing Sing.
The Irish-language film Kneecap, meanwhile received an unexpected six nods, including for original screenplay, outstanding British film, outstanding debut, film not in the English language, casting, and editing. This is a remarkable achievement for a low-budget indie.
Despite being snubbed by the Oscars, Super/Man, a film on the legacy of actor Christopher Reeve, was included among the BAFTA documentary nominees today, together with Black Box Diaries, Daughters, No Other Land, and Will & Harper.
“The 42 films nominated today span a fantastically broad spectrum of genres with enormous breadth in creative expression; from the most intimate character pieces to epic societal commentaries via genre-bending dramas, musicals and comedies,” said Jane Millichip, CEO of BAFTA, in a statement released on the BAFTA website.
“The film industry has delivered in spades once again. We look forward to acknowledging this amazing body of work at the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards. With just over a month to go, we encourage film fans everywhere to watch as many films as possible – there really is something for everyone.”
For the full list of nominations, visit this site.
