2025 BAFTA Awards longlists revealed: ‘Emilia Pérez’ ties record with 15 mentions
Emilia Pérez and Conclave led the EE British Academy of Film and Television Arts longlist selections on Friday, the first step toward securing BAFTA Awards nominations when the list of official 2025 award contenders is revealed on Jan. 15.
Netflix’s top contender Emilia Pérez landed on 15 longlists — tying a record set by Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front two years ago and Oppenheimer last year. Among its mentions were Best Film, Best Film Not in English Language, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jacques Audiard, and four longlist nods for its quartet of actresses — with Karla Sofia Gascon hitting the lead actress longlist and co-stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz all appearing on the supporting actress longlist. The four actresses shared the Best Actress honors at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, where Emilia Pérez made its debut.
Conclave was second with 14 longlist mentions, including Best Film, Best Director for Edward Berger, Best Actor for Ralph Fiennes, Best Supporting Actress for Isabella Rossellini, and Best Supporting Actor for Stanley Tucci.
Behind Emilia Pérez and Conclave was a trio of top 2024 contenders with 11 mentions: The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, and The Substance. Wicked and Dune: Part Two each landed 10 mentions. Sean Baker’s Anora and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II received nine longlist mentions. All of those films except Gladiator II landed on the Best Film list.
Notable omissions from the longlists were seen in the Best Actress field, where presumed Oscar contender Angelina Jolie (Maria) and some of her fellow Golden Globes nominees like Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here) and Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl) missed the cut. (Anderson’s costar Jamie Lee Curtis did hit in the Best Supporting Actress field.) Other snubs included Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson), Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys), and Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown) missing the supporting actress longlist. Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain) and Sebastian Stan (A Different Man) were out on the lead actor longlist — but Stan did hit the longlist for The Apprentice, which had six overall mentions, including Best Film. (The supporting actor race included all the top contenders, including Sing Sing star Clarence Maclin.)
Best Film snubs included A Real Pain, Nickel Boys, September 5, and Sing Sing.
Other snubs of note:
— Challengers missed the score longlist.
— The Brutalist failed to secure a spot on the editing longlist.
— Maria was blanked beyond Jolie — missing the costumes and cinematography longlists.
— Nickel Boys failed to secure a position on the cinematography longlist but did hit adapted screenplay.
— September 5 was shut out.
See below for the full BAFTA longlists.
Best Film
Anora
The Apprentice
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Kneecap
The Substance
Wicked
Outstanding British Film
Back to Black
Bird
Blitz
Civil War
Conclave
Gladiator II
Hard Truths
Kneecap
Lee
Love Lies Bleeding
The Outrun
Paddington in Peru
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
We Live in Time
Wicked Little Letters
Outstanding Debut By a British Writer, Director or Producer
Bring Them Down
Grand Theft Hamlet
Hoard
Kneecap
Monkey Man
On Falling
Santosh
Sister Midnight
The Taste of Mang
The Teacher
Children’s & Family Film
Flow
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Piece By Piece
Spellbound
That Christmas
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Young Woman and the Sea
Film Not In English Language
All We Imagine as Light
Black Dog (Gou zhen)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Emilia Pérez
Flow
The Girl with the Needle
I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)
Kneecap
La Chimera
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Documentary
The Bibi Files
Black Box Diaries
Daughters
Elton John: Never Too Late
I Am: Celine Dion
Made In England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
No Other Land
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will & Harper
Animated Film
Despicable Me 4
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
That Christmas
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Director
All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia
Anora, Sean Baker
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet
Conclave, Edward Berger
Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve
Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard
La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher
Lee, Ellen Kuras
The Outrun, Nora Fingscheidt
The Substance, Coralie Fargeat
Original Screenplay
All We Imagine as Light
Anora
The Apprentice
The Brutalist
Challengers
Civil War
Heretic
Kneecap
A Real Pain
The Substance
Adapted Screenplay
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Lee
Nickel Boys
Nightbitch
The Outrun
Sing Sing
Wicked
Leading Actress
Amy Adams, Nightbitch
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Demi Moore, The Substance
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Kate Winslet, Lee
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
Marisa Abela, Back To Black
Mikey Madison, Anora
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Saoirse Ronan, The Outrun
Leading Actor
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Daniel Craig, Queer
Dev Patel, Monkey Man
Hugh Grant, Heretic
Jude Law, Firebran
Kingsley Ben Adir, Bob Marley: One Love
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan , The Apprentice
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Adriana Paz, Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Emily Watson, Small Things Like These
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Michele Austin, Hard Truths
Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Supporting Actor
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Harris Dickinson, Babygirl
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Mark Eydelshteyn, Anora
Stanley Tucci, Conclave
Yura Borisov, Anora
Casting
Anora
The Apprentice
Back To Black
Blitz
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Kneecap
Wicked
Cinematography
Anora
The Brutalist
Civil War
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
The Substance
Costume Design
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
Blitz
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked
Editing
Anora
Challengers
Civil War
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Gladiator II
Kneecap
The Substance
Make Up & Hair
The Apprentice
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
Blitz
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Joker: Folie À Deux
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked
Original Score
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
Blitz
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
The Outrun
The Substance
The Wild Robot
Production Design
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
Blitz
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked
Special Visual Effects
Alien: Romulus
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
Better Man
Civil War
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Gladiator II
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
Sound
The Brutalist
Civil War
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Gladiator II
The Substance\
Wicked
British Short Animation
Adiós
Mee and Burd
Mog’s Christmas
Plunge
Three Hares
Wander to Wonder
British Short Film
The Ban
Clodagh
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Homework
Marion
Milk
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Sister Wives
Stomach Bug
Woodlice
The BAFTA Awards organizers have frequently tinkered with their voting rules over the last few years, but the process was streamlined this year with a de-emphasis on jury selections. For Best Film longlist contenders – of which six of the 10 movies will receive final 2025 BAFTA nominations depending on the Round Two vote totals – the entire BAFTA membership voted for their favorites. For acting nominees, the top seven contenders in each corresponding category as voted by the Acting Chapter are placed on the longlist. In comparison, a jury selects the final three contenders from the actors and actresses ranked eight through 13. Directing nominees are chosen with parity: five men and five women make the longlist without jury input. If a filmmaker who identifies as non-binary is chosen or if a male-female directing duo earns a position on the longlist, an extra slot is added to accommodate.
The 2025 BAFTA Awards voting is now underway. The Phase One voting period closes on Jan. 10, and the 2025 BAFTA Awards nominations are announced on Jan. 15—two days before the 2025 Oscar nominations are revealed.