Bafta Film Awards nominations 2025: Conclave and Emilia Pérez lead race

Conclave, a movie a couple of gossipy and scheming group of cardinals who collect in Rome to elect a brand new Pope, leads this yr’s Bafta movie award nominations with 12 nods.

It’s adopted carefully by Netflix’s Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez, which tells the story of a Mexican cartel chief who leaves the world of crime to reside a brand new life as a transgender lady.

The frontrunners within the Bafta performing classes embody Cynthia Erivo and Demi Moore for lead actress and Adrien Brody and Timothee Chalamet for lead actor.

However Denzel Washington and Daniel Craig did not make the shortlist for Gladiator II and Queer respectively.

Hugh Grant’s nomination within the lead actor class for horror movie Heretic, and Saoirse Ronan as main actress for The Outrun, are amongst a number of the surprises.

Jamie Lee Curtis is nominated within the supporting actress class for The Final Showgirl, however the movie’s most important actress Pamela Anderson, who performs an ageing Las Vegas performer, missed out on a nomination.

The main movies within the Bafta nominations

12 nominations – Conclave

11 – Emilia Pérez

9 – The Brutalist

7 – Anora, Dune: Half Two and Depraved

6 – A Full Unknown and Kneecap

5 – Nosferatu and The Substance

One other movie tipped for fulfillment within the present awards season is Anora, which has seven Bafta nominations together with greatest movie.

It follows the whirlwind romance between a New York intercourse employee and the son of a rich Russian oligarch.

Mikey Madison is nominated as main actress and can be up for the rising star award, which is voted for by the general public.

Her co-star Yura Borisov is nominated for greatest supporting actor, and director Sean Baker has his first Bafta greatest director nomination.

Half of these nominated in the very best director class are first-time nominees and in addition embody The Brutalist’s Brady Corbet, who received the identical award on the Golden Globes.

The movie, a couple of Hungarian architect who’s employed by a rich American after World Battle Two, has 9 nods in whole and can be tipped to be a giant contender on the Oscars.

The Substance director Coralie Fargeat is one other first-time directing nominee and is the one feminine nominated within the class.

Demi Moore is nominated for greatest actress for the movie, weeks after profitable on the Golden Globes – placing her in a powerful place for the Oscars.

Conclave’s Edward Berger can be nominated for greatest director, and thanked the “fantastic crew” who helped the movie earn 12 nominations.

He had discovered “a staff of like-minded individuals who bond collectively to try for the unattainable purpose – perfection”, he mentioned.

British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s nomination in the identical class for enjoying an irritable lady scuffling with despair in Arduous Truths has boosted momentum for her to obtain an Oscar nomination.

The Bafta shortlist is commonly a powerful indicator for the Oscars, and final yr the winners of the highest six classes matched completely on the two ceremonies.

One other Oscar-tipped movie is A Full Unknown, which follows Bob Dylan’s rise to fame within the Nineteen Sixties.

It has six Bafta nominations together with greatest movie, with Timothee Chalamet and Edward Norton nominated in performing classes.

Kneepcap, which tells the story of an Irish-speaking hip-hop trio, has additionally obtained six nominations together with excellent British movie and movie not within the English language.

Blockbuster movies have faired comparatively properly within the nominations, with Dune: Half Two and Depraved every receiving seven nods.

Gladiator II has three nominations – however none are within the performing classes, with Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Washington all lacking out. Director Sir Ridley Scott was additionally neglected.

Erivo and Depraved co-star Ariana Grande have their first Bafta nominations – however Depraved missed out on a nomination for greatest movie.

Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón have all additionally obtained their first Bafta nominations, for Emilia Pérez.

For the primary time, youngsters’s and household movies have their very own devoted class on the awards.

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and The Wild Robotic are nominated alongside the variation of Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom, and Circulate, about animals who should work collectively to outlive following a flood.

The dialogue-free movie was a shock winner on the Golden Globes within the animated characteristic class.

The Bafta Movie Awards, hosted by David Tennant, will happen on 16 February at London’s Royal Competition Corridor.

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