BAFTA 2025 NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
This year’s BAFTA nominations set up a battle between Conclave, Emilia Perez, and The Brutalist.
Following incredible triumph two years ago with All Quiet On The Western Front, director Edward Berger is eyeing up the chance to become not only a two-time BAFTA-winner, but a two-time BAFTA-sweeper as Conclave leads the way with a whopping twelve nominations. The film depicting the duplicitous scheming behind the scenes of the selection of a new pope receives nominations for Leading Actor for Ralph Fiennes, Supporting Actress for Isabella Rossellini, and the three major honours: Director, Outstanding British Film, and Best Film.
Running in a very close second is Emilia Pérez, the Mexican cartel musical, with eleven nominations across the categories. It’s made a bit of BAFTA history, too, as Leading Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans actress to receive a BAFTA nomination.
Also in competition for Leading Actress are Cynthia Erivo, Marianne Jean-Baptise, Miky Madison, Demi Moore, and Saoirse Ronan. Two Supporting Actresses from Emilia Pérez go head-to-head as Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña are both nominated alongside Ariana Grande, Jamie Lee Curtis, and The Brutalist’s Felicity Jones.
There’s a trio of acting nominations for The Brutalist as Guy Pearce is up for Supporting Actor and Adrien Brody for Leading Actor. The three-and-a-half-hour epic that tells the story of a Polish architect hoping to rebuild his life in New York after surviving the Holocaust earns a total of nine nominations.
There’s disappointment for Denzel Washington who’s incredibly still never been nominated for a BAFTA and is a surprise omission from the Supporting Actor category with Yura Borisov, Kieran Culkin, Clarence Maclin, Edward Norton, and Jeremy Strong completing that category. Meanwhile, it’s Timothée Chalamet, Colman Domingo, Hugh Grant, and Sebastian Stan also in competition for Leading Actor.
In the first new category in five years, Flow, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, and The Wild Robot compete to be the winner of the inaugural Children’s And Family Film BAFTA.
David Tennant will return as the host of this year’s awards ceremony at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 16 February.
