BAFTA nominations 2025 | Hugh Grant gets surprise nod as Conclave leads the pack

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The 2025 BAFTA Film Awards nominations are in ā€“ hereā€™s a look at the snubs and the snub-ies.


With A Real Pain star Will Sharpe and last yearā€™s Rising Star Award winner Mia McKenna Bruce taking on hosting duties, the results are in for the films BAFTAā€™s 8,100 film awards voters consider the best of 2024.

Itā€™s a lovely afternoon for Conclave and Emilia Pérez, leading the awards with 12 and 11 nominations respectively, and a slightly less lovely afternoon for Daniel Craig (who missed out on a Best Actor nod for Queer) and Denzel Washington, who holds onto his title as a no-time BAFTA-nominee after Gladiator II failed to register with voters.

Among the biggest surprises is the addition of Hugh Grant in the Best Actor category for his creepy-man role in Heretic ā€“ together with the three nominations (Director, Original Screenplay and Best Actress for Demi Moore) for Coralie Fargeatā€™s The Substance, 2025 is already showing the horror genre much more love than previous years. Tragically, no nods for Nosferatu, though (it did come out in the UK on January 1st but, as this weekā€™s box office debut A Complete Unknown proves, this was by no means a bar to entry. Perhaps Universal didnā€™t get the DVDs dusted off in time).

Kneecap's presence in the Original Screenplay and Outstanding British Film categories, meanwhile, gives the Irish-language hip-hop biopic some well-deserved love in two races the Oscars might well overlook. High fives all round for that one, we reckon.

Hereā€™s the full list of nominees in each category:

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 and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Outstanding debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

  • Hoard
  • Kneecap
  • Monkey Man
  • Santosh
  • Sister Midnight

Children’s and family film

  • Flow
  • Kensuke’s Kingdom
  • Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
  • The Wild Robot

Film Not in the English language

  • All We Imagine as Light
  • Emilia Pérez
  • I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)
  • Kneecap
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Director

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

Original Screenplay

  • Anora
  • Kneecap
  • A Real Pain
  • The Substance
  • The Brutalist

Adapted Screenplay

  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Nickel Boys
  • Sing Sing

Leading Actress

  • Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
  • Demi Moore, The Substance
  • Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
  • Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
  • Mikey Madison, Anora
  • Saoirse Ronan, The Outrun

Leading Actor

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

Supporting Actress

  • Ariana Grande, Wicked
  • Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
  • Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl
  • Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
  • Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Supporting Actor

  • Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
  • Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
  • Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
  • Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
  • Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
  • Yura Borisov, Anora

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