2025 BAFTA Awards nominations: ‘Conclave,’ ‘Emilia Perez’ lead the way

On Wednesday, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced its 78th annual BAFTA Awards nominees. Expected contenders Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, and Emilia Pérez were nominated for Best Film. See the complete list of nominees below.

Conclave led all films with 12 nominations, including bids for Best Film, Best British Film, Best Director for Edward Berger, Best Adapted Screenplay for Peter Straughan, Best Actor for Ralph Fiennes, and Best Supporting Actress for Isabella Rossellini. It’s the second time BAFTA voters have widely embraced a Berger feature in three years after giving All Quiet on the Western Front 14 nominations in 2023.

In second, just behind the nominations leader, was Emilia Pérez. Netflix’s top contender landed 11 BAFTA Award nominations, including Best Film, Best Film Not in English Language, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jacques Audiard, Best Actress for Karla Sofia Gascon, and Best Supporting Actress for Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana.

Other notable nomination totals included The Brutalist with nine, Anora with seven (plus a Rising Star nomination for star Mikey Madison), Dune: Part Two with seven, Wicked with seven, A Complete Unknown with six, Kneecap with six (a BAFTA Awards record for a debut feature), and The Substance with five.

Notable snubs on Wednesday included Denzel Washington for Gladiator II (the acclaimed two-time Oscar winner has never been nominated for a BAFTA Award), Daniel Craig for Queer, and Margaret Qualley for The Substance.

The nominations announcement came as Hollywood is reeling over the destructive and deadly Los Angeles wildfires that have left thousands without homes, including such prominent Hollywood figures as Billy Crystal, Jeff Bridges, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Adam Brody, Anna Faris, Mel Gibson, and Miles Teller. Due to the wildfires, the awards season calendar has also been impacted. Several events and nomination announcements — including the Producers Guild Awards and Writers Guild Awards nominations, both of which are delayed — have been postponed or canceled outright. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has also adjusted its plans for the 97th annual Oscars, delaying the 2025 Oscar nominations announcement to Jan. 23 and extending Oscars nomination voting until this Friday at 5 p.m. PT.

The 2025 BAFTA Awards take place on Feb. 16. Before the nominations announcement on Wednesday, BAFTA announced its nominees for the Rising Star Award, which is voted on by the public. This year’s contenders include Marisa Abela (Back to Black), Jharrel Jerome (Unstoppable), David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus), Mikey Madison (Anora), and Nabhaan Rizwan (In Camera). 

Check out the 2025 BAFTA Awards nominees below.

Best Film

Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez

Outstanding British Film

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

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

Hoard
Kneecap
Monkey Man
Santosh
Sister Midnight

Children’s & Family Film

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

Film Not in English Language

All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)
Kneecap
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Documentary

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

Animated Film

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

Director

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

Original Screenplay

Anora
The Brutalist
Kneecap
A Real Pain
The Substance

Adapted Screenplay

A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing

Leading Actress

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

Leading Actor

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

Supporting Actress

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

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

Casting

Anora
The Apprentice
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Kneecap

Cinematography

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu

Costume Design

Blitz
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Nosferatu
Wicked

Editing

Anora
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Kneecap

Make Up & Hair

Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

Original Score

The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Wild Robot

Production Design

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked

Special Visual Effects

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

Sound

British Short Animation

Adiós
Mog’s Christmas
Wander to Wonder

British Short Film

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

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 on the longlist. 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 selected or if a male-female directing duo earns a position on the longlist, an extra slot is added to accommodate.

The nominations are decided by Chapter voting and no longer include jury selections.