BAFTA 2025 WINNERS
Conclave and The Brutalist are the big BAFTA winners.
Two years after sweeping the awards with his remake of All Quiet On The Western Front, Edward Berger returned to the BAFTA stage as his papal thriller became the night’s big winner with four awards: Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Outstanding British Film, and Best Film.
Its star and previous BAFTA-winner Ralph Fiennes missed out on a first for Best Actor In A Leading Role, which instead went to Adrien Brody for The Brutalist. Conclave may have won the biggest prize, but the honours were largely shared with Brady Corbet’s epic immigration drama, which also claimed best Director, Cinematography, and Original Score.
Brody is now the firm favourite to take home Best Actor at the Academy Awards in two weeks’ time, as he was named winner ahead of Colman Domingo, Hugh Grant, Sebastian Stan, and Timothée Chalamet. It’s something of a surprise that the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown couldn’t turn its crowd-pleasing success or six nominations into a win and went home empty handed.
Kieran Culkin on the other hand was a rather expected winner as the A Real Pain co-star won for Supporting Actor. Director, writer, and co-star Jesse Eisenberg returned to the stage – after surprisingly, not least of all to himself, winning for his Original Screenplay – to collect the award on the behalf of his absent co-star.
The surprises continued into the Best Actress category as Anora star and EE Rising Star Award runner-up Mikey Madison claimed the honour ahead of Karla Sofía Gascón, Marianne Jean-Baptise, Saoirse Ronan, Cynthia Erivo, and award frontrunner Demi Moore.
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning romantic drama also won for Casting and was among many double winners on the night. Colombian cartel musical drama Emilia Pérez won best Film Not In The English Language and Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña, Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl beat the likes of Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot to be named best Animated Film and also became the inaugural winner of the new best Children’s & Family Film category, and Dune: Part Two won Sound and Special Visual Effects.
It was an emotional evening that saw Warwick Davis bring many to tears with an impassioned speech and tribute to his late wife on receipt of his BAFTA Fellowship, special recognition for the fantastic charity MediCinema, and a heartfelt piano performance from Jeff Goldblum for a moving In Memorium segment.
