The 2025 BAFTA Awards: see the nominees
Guy Pearce is the only Australian up for an award, recognised for his mesmerising turn in The Brutalist.
Conclave, Edward Berger’s smart thriller about choosing a new pope, is the leader of this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards, known as the BAFTAs.
The film scooped 12 nominations, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Lead Actor for Ralph Fiennes. It’s hardly surprising that Conclave has emerged as a BAFTAs darling. Berger’s last film, All Quiet on the Western Front, garnered 14 nominations and won seven awards in 2023.
Guy Pearce is the only Australian up for an award, he’ll compete for Best Supporting Actor for his mesmerising turn in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, up for nine awards including best film.
Also competing for the top film prize are James Mangold’s Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown (6 nominations), Emilia Perez (11 nominations), and Anora (7 nominations).
But the real surprise? Kneecap. This sweary and sweaty semi-fictionalised comedy about the Belfast rap trio of the same name, told partially in the Irish language and largely overlooked by American awards shows, earned six nominations.
The 2025 BAFTA Awards will take place on February 16.
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, Luna Carmoon (director, writer)
Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt (director, writer)
Monkey Man, Dev Patel (director)
Santosh, Sandhya Suri (director, writer), James Bowsher (producer), Balthazar De Ganay (producer) [also produced by Alan McAlex, Mike Goodridge]
Sister Midnight, Karan Kandhari (director, writer)
Best film not in the English language
All We Imagine As Light
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Kneecap
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
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
Best children’s & family film
Flow
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Best director
Anora, Sean Baker
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet
Conclave, Edward Berger
Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve
Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard
The Substance, Coralie Fargeat
Best original screenplay
Anora
The Brutalist
Kneecap
A Real Pain
The Substance
Best adapted screenplay
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
Best 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
Best leading actor
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Hugh Grant, Heretic
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best supporting actress
Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Best 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
Best casting
Anora
The Apprentice
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Kneecap
Best cinematography
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
Best editing
Anora
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Kneecap
Best costume design
Blitz
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Nosferatu
Wicked
Best make up & hair
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked
Best original score
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Wild Robot
Best production design
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked
Best sound
Blitz
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
The Substance
Wicked
Best special visual effects
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
Best 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
Rising Star award (voted for by the public)
Marisa Abela
Jharrel Jerome
David Jonsson
Mikey Madison
Nabhaan Rizwan