This yr’s BAFTA nominations have been revealed, with papal thriller Conclave main the race.
Starring Ralph Fiennes as a priest liable for the choice of the subsequent Pope, the movie is up for 12 awards – together with greatest movie, greatest director, greatest actor, and greatest supporting actress for Isabella Rossellini.
Spanish-language musical Emilia Perez, which tells the story of a Mexican cartel boss who undergoes gender affirmation surgical procedure, is one other greatest movie nominee and has 11 BAFTA nods in complete – with star Karla Sofía Gascón up for greatest actress and co-stars Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez each within the operating within the supporting actress class.
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Selena Gomez as Jessi and Karla Sofia Gascon as Emilia Perez in Emilia Perez. Pic: Why Not Productions/ Netflix
The Brutalist, an epic drama starring Adrien Brody as a Hungarian architect trying to construct a life within the US after the Second World Battle, has 9 nominations – together with greatest movie and greatest actor, and supporting nods for co-stars Man Pearce and Felicity Jones.
Elsewhere there are seven nominations every for Depraved, Anora, and Dune: Half Two, six for A Full Unknown and Kneecap, and 5 for Nosferatu and The Substance.
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Rappers Kneecap star in a self-titled music biopic about their rise to fame. Pic: Curzon Movie
Within the efficiency classes, Gascon is up in opposition to Cynthia Erivo (Depraved), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Laborious Truths), Mikey Madison (Anora), Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun) and Demi Moore, whose efficiency in physique horror The Substance received her a Golden Globe earlier this month.
Fiennes and Brody’s greatest actor opponents are Timothee Chalamet, for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in A Full Unknown, together with Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Hugh Grant (Heretic) and Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice).
Kieran Culkin, one other current Golden Globe winner, makes the very best supporting actor shortlist as soon as once more for his efficiency in A Actual Ache, alongside Pearce and Yura Borisov (Anora), Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing), Edward Norton (A Full Unknown) and Jeremy Sturdy (The Apprentice).
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Demi Moore has already received a Golden Globe for her efficiency as an actress whose star is on the wane in The Substance. Pic: Mubi
Ariana Grande, who stars as Glinda reverse Erivo’s Elphaba in Depraved, and Jamie Lee Curtis, for her efficiency in The Final Showgirl, make up the very best supporting actress shortlist.
For 14 of the 24 appearing nominees – together with Culkin, Grande, Gascon, Gomez and Moore – it’s their first BAFTA movie nomination.
Erivo and Chalamet are each earlier recipients of the rising star award, which is voted for by the general public.
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Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in Depraved. Pic: Common Footage
In the very best director class, Conclave’s Edward Berger is within the operating alongside Brady Corbet, for The Brutalist, Denis Villeneuve, for Dune: Half Two, Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez, Coralie Fargeat for The Substance, and Sean Baker for Anora.
Baker additionally has nominations for greatest authentic screenplay, casting and enhancing, making him essentially the most nominated particular person this yr.
The BAFTAs additionally features a class for excellent British movie, with Conclave additionally shortlisted right here alongside movies together with Steve McQueen’s Blitz, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, and Irish-language movie Kneecap – which stars the rap trio of the identical identify in a semi-autobiographical account of their rise to fame.
In complete, there are 42 movies up for awards, spanning a variety of genres.
“The film industry has delivered in spades once again,” mentioned BAFTA chief govt Jane Millichip.
“The skills on display from creative and technical practitioners across the board are phenomenal,” added BAFTA chair Sara Putt.
Might this be essentially the most aggressive BAFTAs for years?
Katie Spencer
What do you get when you deliver a number of monks, a Mexican cartel chief and an architect collectively below one roof?
Not the world’s most area of interest fancy gown social gathering, however 2025’s BAFTA movie awards shortlist.
Jazz palms and soar scares are the order of the day. Horror is unusually nicely represented this yr, with The Substance, Heretic and Nosferatu all receiving nods, whereas musicals are additionally dominating because of Emilia Perez, Depraved and, arguably, the Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown.
Within the main actress class, it is all to play for as not one of the nominees has ever received a BAFTA. Followers of ’90s nostalgia will likely be hoping the Demi-ssaince continues after Demi Moore’s Golden Globe win final month for her efficiency in physique horror The Substance.
Hugh Grant, up for lead actor, final received that BAFTA again in 1995 for his breakthrough efficiency in 4 Weddings And A Funeral. This time round, he is within the operating for a really completely different position, as a creepy killer in Heretic. He is nominated alongside one other ’90s winner – Ralph Fiennes, who final picked up a BAFTA for supporting actor in 1994.
The nominations this yr actually showcase a various vary of genres – and with no clear frontrunners in some classes, may this be essentially the most aggressive BAFTAs we have seen shortly?
The nominees for this yr’s rising star award, which is the one BAFTA prize voted for by the general public, have already been introduced, with Marisa Abela, Jharrel Jerome, David Jonsson, Mikey Madison and Nabhaan Rizwan within the operating.
And Harry Potter star Warwick Davis has additionally been revealed because the recipient of this yr’s BAFTA fellowship, the organisation’s highest honour, for his “trailblazing work” as an actor and for his charity supporting folks with dwarfism.
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Marisa Abela is among the many rising star nominees
The BAFTA nominations come at a troublesome time for the business, with the organisers of a number of US awards ceremonies, together with the Oscars, pushing their very own bulletins again and holding extra low-key occasions as a result of wildfires in Los Angeles.
Nonetheless, the Oscars ceremony remains to be presently scheduled to go forward as deliberate on Sunday 2 March.
The BAFTA ceremony will likely be held on the Southbank Centre’s Royal Competition Corridor in London on Sunday 16 February.
