Nominations Announced: EE British Academy Film Awards in 2025
Bafta has announced the nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2025, celebrating the very best in film of the past year. Bafta winner Will Sharpe and former EE Rising Star winner Mia McKenna-Bruce hosted the announcement via global livestream from the arts charity’s headquarters at 195 Piccadilly, London. The EE Bafta Film Awards, hosted by David Tennant, will be broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer from London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 16 February. In addition, the EE Bafta Film Awards will be available across BritBox in North America, the Nordics and Australia, as well as a host of further international broadcasters to be announced. Viewers at home will also have front row seats to the red-carpet arrivals, which will be streamed live on Bafta’s YouTube, featuring interviews with nominees and other special guests. Voting for the EE Rising Star Award is now open at ee.co.uk/BAFTA.
The EE Bafta Film Awards voting takes place over three rounds (longlisting, nominations and winners) by Bafta’s global voting membership, comprising over 8,100 creatives and film industry practitioners. CEO of Bafta Jane Millichip said, “We look forward to acknowledging this amazing body of work at the 2025 EE Bafta Film Awards. With just over a month to go, we encourage film fans everywhere to watch as many films as possible – there really is something for everyone.” Anna Higgs, the chair of Bafta film committee, added, “I’m delighted that 14 of the 24 nominees in the performance categories are receiving their first Bafta film nomination and that 12 of the nominated films are directed by women. Our Bafta voting members now have the unenviable task of selecting the winners, which will be celebrated at the 2025 EE Bafta Film Awards on 16 February.”
(Courtesy of BAFTA)
2025 EE British Academy Film Awards Nominations:
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 & 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 Mike Goodridge, Alan McAlex]
Sister Midnight - Karan Kandhari (Director, Writer)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
All We Imagine As Light
Emilia Pérez
I'm Still Here
Kneecap
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
DOCUMENTARY
Black Box Diaries
Daughters
No Other Land
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will & Harper
ANIMATED FILM
Flow
Inside Out 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM
Flow
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
DIRECTOR
Sean Baker - Anora
Brady Corbet - The Brutalist
Edward Berger - Conclave
Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two
Jacques Audiard - Emilia Pérez
Coralie Fargeat - The Substance
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Anora - Written by Sean Baker
The Brutalist - Written by Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
Kneecap - Writer Rich Peppiatt, Story by Rich Peppiatt, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, JJ Ó Dochartaigh
A Real Pain - Written by Jesse Eisenberg
The Substance - Written by Coralie Fargeat
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
A Complete Unknown - Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks
Conclave - Screenplay by Peter Straughan
Emilia Pérez - Written by Jacques Audiard
Nickel Boys - Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
Sing Sing - Screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence ‘Divine Eye’ Maclin, John ‘Divine G’ Whitfield
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
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
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
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
CASTING
Anora - Sean Baker, Samantha Quan
The Apprentice - Stephanie Gorin, Carmen Cuba
A Complete Unknown - Yesi Ramirez
Conclave - Nina Gold, Martin Ware
Kneecap - Carla Stronge
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Brutalist - Lol Crawley
Conclave - Stéphane Fontaine
Dune: Part Two - Greig Fraser
Emilia Pérez - Paul Guilhaume
Nosferatu - Jarin Blaschke
EDITING
Anora - Sean Baker
Conclave - Nick Emerson
Dune: Part Two - Joe Walker
Emilia Pérez - Juliette Welfling
Kneecap - Julian Ulrichs, Chris Gill
COSTUME DESIGN
Blitz - Jacqueline Durran
A Complete Unknown - Arianne Phillips
Conclave - Lisy Christl
Nosferatu - Linda Muir
Wicked - Paul Tazewell
MAKE UP & HAIR
Dune: Part 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
Wicked - Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Sarah Nuth
ORIGINAL SCORE
The Brutalist - Daniel Blumberg
Conclave - Volker Bertelmann
Emilia Pérez - Camille, Clément Ducol
Nosferatu - Robin Carolan
The Wild Robot - Kris Bowers
PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Brutalist - Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia
Conclave - Suzie Davies, Cynthia Sleiter
Dune: Part Two - Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau
Nosferatu - Craig Lathrop'
Wicked - Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales
SOUND
Blitz - John Casali, Paul Cotterell, James Harrison
Dune: Part Two - Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Gareth John, Richard King
Gladiator II - Stéphane Bucher, Matthew Collinge, Paul Massey Danny Sheehan
The Substance - Valérie Deloof, Victor Fleurant, Victor Praud, Stéphane Thiébaut, Emmanuelle Villard
Wicked - Robin Baynton, Simon Hayes, John Marquis, Andy Nelson, Nancy Nugent Title
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Better Man - Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs
Dune: Part Two - Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Gerd Nefzer, Rhys Salcombe
Gladiator II - Mark Bakowski, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny, Pietro Ponti
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - Erik Winquist, Rodney Burke, Paul Story, Stephen Unterfranz
Wicked - Pablo Helman, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner, Anthony Smith
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
Adiós - José Prats, Natalia Kyriacou, Bernardo Angeletti
Mog’s Christmas - Robin Shaw, Joanna Harrison, Camilla Deakin, Ruth Fielding
Wander to Wonder - Nina Gantz, Stienette Bosklopper, Simon Cartwright, Maarten Swart
BRITISH SHORT FILM
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing - Theo Panagopoulos, Marissa Keating
Marion - Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine, Marija Djikic
Milk - Miranda Stern, Ashionye Ogene
Rock, Paper, Scissors - Franz Böhm, Ivan, Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer
Stomach Bug - Matty Crawford, Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou
EE RISING STAR AWARD
Marisa Abela
Jharrel Jerome
David Jonsson
Mikey Madison
Nabhaan Rizwan
Now in its 20th year running, the EE Rising Star Award is the only award presented at the EE BAFTA Film Awards which is voted for by the public. Vote now for the EE Rising Star Award 2025.
BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) is a world-leading independent arts charity that brings the very best work in film to public attention and supports the growth of creative talent in the UK and internationally. Through its Awards ceremonies and year-round programme of learning events and initiatives (including workshops, masterclasses, scholarships, lectures and mentoring schemes in the UK, USA and Asia) BAFTA identifies and celebrates excellence, discovers, inspires and nurtures new talent, and enables learning and creative collaboration. For more, visit www.bafta.org
