BAFTA today announces the nominations for the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards, celebrating the very best in film over the past year. A total of 42 films received nominations today. View the full list of nominations HERE.
The ten films with the most nominations are:
12 nominations for Conclave
11 nominations for Emilia Pérez
Nine nominations for The Brutalist
Seven nominations for Anora, Dune: Part Two and Wicked
Six nominations for A Complete Unknown and Kneecap
Five nominations for Nosferatu and The Substance
The following films also nominated include:
Three nominations for The Apprentice, Blitz, Gladiator II, Sing Sing, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and The Wild Robot
Two nominations for Flow, Hard Truths, The Outrun and A Real Pain
One nomination for each of the following: All We Imagine As Light, Better Man, Bird, Black Box Diaries, Daughters, Heretic, Hoard, I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui), Inside Out 2, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Last Showgirl, Lee, Love Lies Bleeding, Monkey Man, Nickel Boys, No Other Land, Santosh, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Sister Midnight, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story and Will & Harper
The following British shorts were nominated: Adiós, The Flowers Stand Silently Witnessing, Marion, Milk, Mog’s Christmas, Rock Paper Scissors, Stomach Bug and Wander To Wonder
14 out of 24 nominees in the performance categories have received their first BAFTA Film nomination, including Yura Borisov (Anora), Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), Isabella Rossellini (Conclave), Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) and Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice).
Two former EE Rising Stars are nominated: Cynthia Erivo (2019), and Timothée Chalamet (2018).
In the Best Director category, three of the six are first-time Director nominees (and nominees for Original Screenplay): Sean Baker (Anora) (who has the most nominations this year, with five), Brady Corbet (The Brutalist) and Coralie Fargeat (The Substance).
BAFTA Breakthroughs are well represented: Luna Carmoon, (Director/Writer, Hoard), Natalie Rae and Angela Patton (Directors, Daughters) are Breakthrough participants from 2024 and Sarah Brocklehurst (Producer, The Outrun), Rose Glass (Director/Screenwriter, Love Lies Bleeding) and Oliver Kassman Producer, Love Lies Bleeding) are Breakthrough participants from 2019.
Jane Millichip, CEO of BAFTA, said: “The 42 films nominated today span a fantastically broad spectrum of genres with enormous breadth in creative expression; from the most intimate character pieces to epic societal commentaries via genre-bending dramas, musicals and comedies. The film industry has delivered in spades once again. 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. And, depending where in the world you live, please tune in on 16 February to BBC One, iPlayer, BritBox, and many other platforms worldwide.”
Sara Putt, Chair of BAFTA, said: “From a total of 235 films entered, we are delighted to announce 42 extraordinary and creatively ambitious films that have been nominated. The skills on display from creative and technical practitioners across the board are phenomenal. I look forward to celebrating the many talented people in front of and behind the camera at the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 ceremony on 16 February.”
Anna Higgs, Chair of BAFTA Film Committee, added: “Congratulations to all the 42 films nominated today. The selection of films is an incredible showcase of the very best in creative talent working in filmmaking today in Britain and globally. 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.”
The nominees for the EE Rising Star Award were announced on 7 January as Marisa Abela, Jharrel Jerome, David Jonsson, Mikey Madison, and Nabhaan Rizwan. It is the only award voted for by the British public and it is presented annually to a performer who has demonstrated exceptional talent early in their careers. Voting is now open at ee.co.uk/bafta.
Actors Mia McKenna-Bruce and Will Sharpe announced the nominations via a live broadcast from BAFTA 195 Piccadilly in London earlier today.
The EE BAFTA Film Awards ceremony will once again be held at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in central London, and broadcast on Sunday 16 February 2025 on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK, stream on BritBox International in North America, and be available on BritBox on demand in the Nordics and Australia.
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. Latest demographic information on BAFTA’s membership is here.
BAFTA announced the longlists of films and talent (culmination of Round One voting which began on 6 December 2024 to 30 December 2024), here.
Round Two voting determines the nominations, unveiled today.
The final, third voting round opens next Wednesday, 22 January, to determine the winners.
Round Three is voted for by the full film-voting BAFTA membership, and its opt-in chapters or juries.
More information can be found here on BAFTA’s voting processes.
