‘Conclave’, ‘Emilia Perez’ lead Bafta 2025 nominations | News

Edward Berger’s Conclave and Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez lead the movies nominated for the 2025 Bafta Movie Awards, with 12 and 11 nominations respectively.

Papal drama Conclave is nominated for awards together with finest movie, excellent British movie, director, main actor for Ralph Fiennes and supporting actress for Isabella Rossellini.

Mexico-set musical Emilia Perez is up for finest movie, director, main actress for Karla Sofia Gascon and supporting actress for each Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana.

Scroll down for the complete listing of nominations

Forty-two movies are nominated throughout the 23 function classes, with 9 nominations for Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist together with finest movie, director, main actor for Adrien Brody and supporting nods for Man Pearce and Felicity Jones.

Blockbusters Depraved and Dune: Half Two every scored seven nominations, with Depraved stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande recognised in main and supporting actress respectively. Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora can also be within the operating for seven prizes – with Baker himself nominated for 5 of them, the second-most nominations for a person in a single yr in Bafta historical past.

Amongst UK movies alongside Conclave, Wealthy Peppiatt’s Kneecap, in regards to the Irish-language rap group, has six nominations, with Peppiatt included in 4 of these. Coralie Fargeat’s physique horror The Substance is up for 5 awards, with Fargeat the one lady nominated in director and unique screenplay; whereas Steve McQueen’s Second World Battle function Blitz has three nominations.

Common has probably the most nominations by distributor, with 32 unfold evenly throughout six movies together with The Brutalist, Depraved and Anora. Three nods for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl are among the many 16 nominations for Netflix; whereas Black Bear is boosted into third place by Conclave plus three for Sing Sing, for 15.

“The trade struggles for gender steadiness”

With no clear frontrunner within the nominations, Anna Higgs, chair of the Bafta movie committee, mentioned she is worked up by the breadth of nominations. “I’m all the time eager to see a number of several types of range, together with round style, so not simply the standard drama and awards-bait film, and the members have knocked that out of the park this yr. We’ve bought thrillers, musicals, sci-fi, biopics, horror and comedy, all within the high 10 most-nominated movies.”

Whereas range of style has actually been achieved, there are just a few notable gaps in different types of illustration. UK filmmakers are lacking from the most effective movie and finest director classes.

“Probably the most nominated movie is Conclave, which is a British movie,” mentioned Higgs. “Clearly, it’s not a British director [Germany-born Edward Berger], nevertheless it’s a [UK] originated story, it’s funded by British massive gamers [the UK’s House Productions produces alongside FilmNation Entertainment and Indian Paintbrush out of the US], a author [Peter Straughan], [based on] a best-selling Robert Harris novel. It’s truly a really British film in a number of methods.”

The illustration for feminine administrators, screenwriters and girls in some craft classes can also be restricted, with no feminine director in finest movie, finest animated or household movie, and solely French filmmaker Fargeat nominated for finest director forThe Substance.

“The trade struggles for gender steadiness, is the best model of a solution to that,” mentioned Higgs. “After we look throughout the classes of all of the movies that had been submitted, it’s a couple of quarter of movies that had been submitted are directed by ladies. It’s not a stage taking part in discipline from the beginning.”

Jury and longlist interventions have gone some option to enhancing illustration, and they’re right here to remain, mentioned Higgs. “We now have interventions to verify we now have some stage of balances as we come by way of these classes – the work is just not performed.

“I want we didn’t should have these jury interventions, however as long as we now have to have them, we’ll have them. We now have to iterate them and make them stronger yearly. Two days after the movie awards, we sit down, we overview.”

Higgs pointed to extra sturdy feminine illustration in documentary, excellent British movie and excellent British debut classes.

There may be appreciable crossover between the youngsters’s and household movie class and the animated movie class, with three out of 4 movies within the animated movie class additionally within the kids’s and household movie nominations – Stream, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and The Wild Robotic. All 4 movies within the kids’s and household class are animations. 

Higgs underlined it’s the first yr of the youngsters’s and household movie class and that its impression can be reviewed. “It’s all the time attention-grabbing to see how classes evolve yr on yr. It’s as much as the distributors that submit the work to the class,” she mentioned. “It’s all the time a course of that we overview and iterate to ensure that the class is match for function.”

The movie awards ceremony is broadcast as-live within the UK by the BBC. Higgs famous the presence of very well-known names within the nominations together with Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez and Timothée Chalamet, who Bafta hopes will stroll the crimson carpet and appeal to viewers.

“These individuals have [followings the size of] small nations that comply with them on social media,” mentioned Higgs. “Individuals may come to the Baftas as a result of they need to watch Selena Gomez stroll the crimson carpet, however they discover out about one thing like Anora or Kneecap, and that highlight will get shared extra extensively.”

The Bafta Movie Awards ceremony will happen on February 16 on the Southbank Centre’s Royal Competition Corridor in London, with UK actor David Tennant presenting for the second time.

This yr’s beforehand introduced Bafta rising star nominees are Marisa Abela, Jharrel Jerome, David Jonsson, Mikey Madison and Nabhaan Rizwan. Warwick Davis will obtain the Bafta Fellowship.

Bafta mentioned the award for excellent contribution to British cinema shall be introduced shortly.

The ultimate, third spherical of voting opens tomorrow (January 16) to find out the winners.

Full listing of nominations

Finest Movie

• Anora – Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker
• The Brutalist – TBC
• A Full Unknown – Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, James Mangold
• Conclave – Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman
• Emilia Pérez – TBC

Excellent British Movie

• Chicken – Andrea Arnold, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Lee Groombridge
• Blitz – Steve Mcqueen, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Anita Overland
• Conclave – Edward Berger, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman, Peter Straughan
• Gladiator II – Ridley Scott, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Michael Pruss, David Scarpa, Peter Craig
• Exhausting Truths – Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
• Kneecap – Wealthy Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Jj Ó Dochartaigh
• Lee – Ellen Kuras, Kate Solomon, Kate Winslet, Liz Hannah, Marion Hume, John Collee, Lem Dobbs
• Love Lies Bleeding – Rose Glass, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman, Wereonika Tofilska
• The Outrun – Nora Fingscheidt, Sarah Brocklehurst, Dominic Norris, Jack Lowden, Saoirse Ronan, Amy Liptrot
• Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek, Mark Burton

Excellent Debut By A British Author, Director Or Producer

• Hoard – Luna Carmoon (Director, Author)
• Kneecap – Wealthy Peppiatt (Director, Author)
• Monkey Man – Dev Patel (Director)
• Santosh – Sandhya Suri (Director, Author), James Bowsher (Producer), Balthazar De Ganay (Producer) [also produced By Alan Mcalex, Mike Goodridge]
• Sister Midnight – Karan Kandhari (Director, Author)

Movie Not In The English Language

• All We Think about As Mild – Payal Kapadia, Thomas Hakim
• Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard, Tbd
• I’m Nonetheless Right here – Walter Salles, Tbd
• Kneecap – Wealthy Peppiatt, Trevor Birney
• The Seed Of The Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof, Amin Sadraei

Documentary

• Black Field Diaries – Shiori Ito, Hanna Aqvilin, Eric Nyari
• Daughters – Natalie Rae, Angela Patton,
• No Different Land – Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor
• Tremendous/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Lizzie Gilliett, Robert Ford
• Will & Harper – Josh Greenbaum, Rafael Marmor, Christopher Leggett, Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum

Animated Movie

• Stream – Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža
• Inside Out 2 – Kelsey Mann, Mark Nielsen
• Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek
• The Wild Robotic – Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann

Youngsters’s & Household Movie

• Stream – Gints Siibalodis, Matīss Kaža
• Kensuke’s Kingdom – Kirk Hendry, Neil Boyle, Camilla Deakin
• Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek
• The Wild Robotic – Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann

Director

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

Authentic Screenplay

• Anora – Sean Baker
• The Brutalist – Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
• Kneecap – Wealthy Peppiatt, story By Wealthy Peppiatt, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, Jj Ó Dochartaigh
• A Actual Ache – Jesse Eisenberg
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat

Tailored Screenplay

• A Full Unknown – James Mangold, Jay Cocks
• Conclave – Peter Straughan
• Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard
• Nickel Boys – Ramell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
• Sing Sing – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, story By Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence ‘Divine Eye’ Maclin, John ‘Divine G’ Whitfield

Main Actress

• Cynthia Erivo – Depraved
• Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Exhausting Truths
• Mikey Madison – Anora
• Demi Moore – The Substance
• Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun

Main Actor

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

Supporting Actress

• Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez
• Ariana Grande – Depraved
• Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
• Jamie Lee Curtis – The Final Showgirl
• Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
• Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Supporting Actor

• Yura Borisov – Anora
• Kieran Culkin – A Actual Ache
• Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
• Edward Norton – A Full Unknown
• Man Pearce – The Brutalist
• Jeremy Robust – The Apprentice

Casting

• Anora – Sean Baker, Samantha Quan
• The Apprentice – Stephanie Gorin, Carmen Cuba
• A Full Unknown – Yesi Ramirez
• Conclave – Nina Gold, Martin Ware
• Kneecap – Carla Stronge

Cinematography

• The Brutalist – Lol Crawley
• Conclave – Stéphane Fontaine
• Dune: Half Two – Greig Fraser
• Emilia Pérez – Paul Guilhaume
• Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke

Modifying

• Anora – Sean Baker
• Conclave – Nick Emerson
• Dune: Half Two – Joe Walker
• Emilia Pérez – Juliette Welfling
• Kneecap – Julian Ulrichs, Chris Gill

Costume Design

• Blitz – Jacqueline Durran
• A Full Unknown – Arianne Phillips
• Conclave – Lisy Christl
• Nosferatu – Linda Muir
• Depraved – Paul Tazewell

Make Up & Hair

• Dune: Half Two – Love Larson, Eva Von Bahr
• Emilia Pérez – Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier, Jean-Christophe Spadaccini, Romain Marietti
• Nosferatu – David White, Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton
• The Substance – Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, Frédérique Arguello, Marilyne Scarselli
• Depraved – Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Sarah Nuth

Authentic Rating