# 78th British Academy Film Awards

The 78th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, was a ceremony held on 16 February 2025, honouring films of any nationality that were screened in British cinemas in 2024.
The BAFTA longlists were unveiled on 3 January 2025. The Rising Star nominees, which is the only category voted for by the British public, were unveiled on 7 January 2025, with the final nominations for all other categories announced on 15 January 2025 by previous BAFTA award winners Mia McKenna-Bruce and Will Sharpe.
Spanish-language French musical crime film Emilia Pérez had fifteen nods in the longlists, followed by Conclave with fourteen; Conclave received the most nominations with twelve, followed by Emilia Pérez with eleven and The Brutalist with nine. The Brutalist and Conclave ultimately won the most awards with four each.

## Winners and nominees
### BAFTA Fellowship

The BAFTA Fellowship recipient was announced on 10 January 2025.
* Warwick Davis

### Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

The Outstanding Contribution Award recipient was announced on 6 February 2025.
* MediCinema

### Awards

The main awards, including EE Rising Star, were announced at the ceremony on 16 February 2025.
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
| Best Film Conclave – Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, and Michael A. Jackman Anora – Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, and Sean Baker The Brutalist – Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim, and Brady Corbet A Complete Unknown – Alex Heineman, Fred Berger, and James Mangold Emilia Pérez – Pascal Caucheteux and Jacques Audiard | Best Director Brady Corbet – The Brutalist Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez Sean Baker – Anora Edward Berger – Conclave Coralie Fargeat – The Substance Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two |
| Best Actor in a Leading Role Adrien Brody – The Brutalist as László Tóth Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown as Bob Dylan Colman Domingo – Sing Sing as John "Divine G" Whitfield Ralph Fiennes – Conclave as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence Hugh Grant – Heretic as Mr. Reed Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice as Donald Trump | Best Actress in a Leading Role Mikey Madison – Anora as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva Cynthia Erivo – Wicked as Elphaba Thropp Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez as Emilia Pérez / Juan "Manitas" Del Monte Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths as Pansy Deacon Demi Moore – The Substance as Elisabeth Sparkle Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun as Rona |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain as Benji Kaplan Yura Borisov – Anora as Igor Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing as Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown as Pete Seeger Guy Pearce – The Brutalist as Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr. Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice as Roy Cohn | Best Actress in a Supporting Role Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez as Rita Mora Castro Jamie Lee Curtis – The Last Showgirl as Annette Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez as Jessi Del Monte Ariana Grande – Wicked as Galinda "Glinda" Upland Felicity Jones – The Brutalist as Erzsébet Tóth Isabella Rossellini – Conclave as Sister Agnes |
| Best Original Screenplay Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain Sean Baker – Anora Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat – The Substance Rich Peppiatt, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, and JJ Ó Dochartaigh – Kneecap | Best Adapted Screenplay Peter Straughan – Conclave Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, and John "Divine G" Whitfield – Sing Sing James Mangold and Jay Cocks – A Complete Unknown |
| Best Animated Film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, and Richard Beek Flow – Gints Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža Inside Out 2 – Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen The Wild Robot – Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann | Best Documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Lizzie Gillett, and Robert Ford Black Box Diaries – Shiori Itō, Eric Nyari, and Hanna Aqvilin Daughters – Natalie Rae, Angela Patton, Lisa Mazzotta, Justin Benoliel, James Cunningham, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, and Laura Choi Raycroft No Other Land – Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor Will & Harper – Josh Greenbaum, Rafael Marmor, Christopher Leggett, Will Ferrell, and Jessica Elbaum |
| Best Film Not in the English Language Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard and Pascal Caucheteux All We Imagine as Light – Payal Kapadia and Thomas Hakim I'm Still Here – Walter Salles, Maria Carlota Bruno, and Rodrigo Teixeira Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, and Jack Tarling The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof and Amin Sadraei | Best Casting Anora – Sean Baker and Samantha Quan The Apprentice – Stephanie Gorin and Carmen Cuba A Complete Unknown – Yesi Ramirez Conclave – Nina Gold and Martin Ware Kneecap – Carla Stronge |
| Best Cinematography The Brutalist – Lol Crawley Conclave – Stéphane Fontaine Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser Emilia Pérez – Paul Guilhaume Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke | Best Costume Design Wicked – Paul Tazewell Blitz – Jacqueline Durran A Complete Unknown – Arianne Phillips Conclave – Lisy Christl Nosferatu – Linda Muir |
| Best Editing Conclave – Nick Emerson Anora – Sean Baker Dune: Part Two – Joe Walker Emilia Pérez – Juliette Welfling Kneecap – Julian Ulrichs and Chris Gill | Best Make Up & Hair The Substance – Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, Frédérique Arguello, and Marilyne Scarselli Dune: Part Two – Love Larson and Eva von Bahr Emilia Pérez – Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier, Jean-Christophe Spadaccini, and Romain Marietti Nosferatu – David White, Traci Loader, and Suzanne Stokes-Munton Wicked – Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Sarah Nuth, and Johanna Nielsen |
| Best Original Score The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg Conclave – Volker Bertelmann Emilia Pérez – Camille and Clément Ducol Nosferatu – Robin Carolan The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers | Best Production Design Wicked – Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales The Brutalist – Judy Becker and Patricia Cuccia Conclave – Suzie Davies and Cynthia Sleiter Dune: Part Two – Patrice Vermette and Shane Vieau Nosferatu – Craig Lathrop and Beatrice Brentnerová |
| Best Sound Dune: Part Two – Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Gareth John, and Richard King Blitz – John Casali, Paul Cotterell, and James Harrison Gladiator II – Stéphane Bucher, Matthew Collinge, Paul Massey, and Danny Sheehan The Substance – Valérie Deloof, Victor Fleurant, Victor Praud, Stéphane Thiébaut, and Emmanuelle Villard Wicked – Robin Baynton, Simon Hayes, John Marquis, Andy Nelson, and Nancy Nugent Title | Best Special Visual Effects Dune: Part Two – Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Gerd Nefzer, and Rhys Salcombe Better Man – Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, and Peter Stubbs Gladiator II – Mark Bakowski, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny, and Pietro Ponti Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – Erik Winquist, Rodney Burke, Paul Story, and Stephen Unterfranz Wicked – Pablo Helman, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner, and Anthony Smith |
| Outstanding British Film Conclave – Edward Berger, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman, and Peter Straughan Bird – Andrea Arnold, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, and Lee Groombridge Blitz – Steve McQueen, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Anita Overland Gladiator II – Ridley Scott, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Michael Pruss, David Scarpa, and Peter Craig Hard Truths – Mike Leigh and Georgina Lowe Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, and JJ Ó Dochartaigh Lee – Ellen Kuras, Kate Solomon, Kate Winslet, Liz Hannah, Marion Hume, John Collee, and Lem Dobbs Love Lies Bleeding – Rose Glass, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman, and Weronika Tofilska The Outrun – Nora Fingscheidt, Sarah Brocklehurst, Dominic Norris, Jack Lowden, Saoirse Ronan, and Amy Liptrot Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek, and Mark Burton | Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt (Director, Writer) Hoard – Luna Carmoon (Director, Writer) Monkey Man – Dev Patel (Director) Santosh – Sandhya Suri (Director, Writer), James Bowsher (Producer), and Balthazar de Ganay (Producer) Sister Midnight – Karan Kandhari (Director, Writer) |
| Best British Short Animation Wander to Wonder – Nina Gantz, Stienette Bosklopper, Simon Cartwright, and Maarten Swart Adiós – José Prats, Natalia Kyriacou, and Bernardo Angeletti Mog's Christmas – Robin Shaw, Joanna Harrison, Camilla Deakin, and Ruth Fielding | Best British Short Film Rock, Paper, Scissors – Franz Böhm, Ivan, and Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing – Theo Panagopoulos and Marissa Keating Marion – Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine, and Marija Djikic Milk – Miranda Stern and Ashionye Ogene Stomach Bug – Matty Crawford and Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou |
| Best Children's & Family Film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, and Richard Beek Flow – Gints Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža Kensuke's Kingdom – Kirk Hendry, Neil Boyle, and Camilla Deakin The Wild Robot – Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann | EE Rising Star Award David Jonsson Marisa Abela Jharrel Jerome Mikey Madison Nabhaan Rizwan |

## Ceremony information

The ceremony took place at the Royal Festival Hall within London's Southbank Centre on 16 February 2025, hosted by David Tennant for the second year in a row. BAFTA digital channels broadcast pre- and post-ceremony content; the ceremony was broadcast as deferred live, with an approximately one-hour delay, on BBC One in the United Kingdom and on various BritBox platforms internationally. In his introduction to the ceremony, Tennant performed "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers before his monologue full of dad jokes—his scripted gags were of a similar tone throughout. Though the ceremony overran significantly, editing kept the broadcast ceremony to a "brisk" two hours.
The Best Children's & Family Film was awarded for the first time in 2025, having been announced in 2023 as the first new category since the introduction of Best Casting in 2020; during the ceremony, Deadline Hollywood suggested there was "a little too much overlap" between it and the Best Animated Film category. Other changes to the awards for 2025 include the introduction of new requirements for nomination to the Best Film and Outstanding British Film categories.
* 78th British Academy Film Awards held in London
The nominees in 2025 made it the most genre-diverse ceremony, with horror and musicals well-represented among more traditional award ceremony genres. In terms of individual nominees, Anora filmmaker Sean Baker earned the second-most nominations for an individual at a single ceremony with five (Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Casting, and Best Editing) and filmmaker Rich Peppiatt became the most-nominated debut director at the BAFTAs with four personal nominations for Kneecap.
During the technical awards, the ceremony sound cut out as Best Sound was presented, though this was fixed for broadcast. Multiple winners were noted for their lack of acceptance speech preparation and the endearingly rambling comments they made instead, including Nick Park (for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl) and Jesse Eisenberg (for A Real Pain). Ahead of the acting and other major awards being announced, Take That performed their song "Greatest Day", which featured prominently in nominee Anora. Two awards later, the first of two montages of other awards to not receive as-live broadcasts was shown; this included Emilia Pérez winning Best Film Not in the English Language, the clip notably cutting out director Jacques Audiard paying tribute to controversial star Karla Sofía Gascón in his speech. Winners considered surprising were David Jonsson for the EE Rising Star Award and Mikey Madison winning Best Actress in a Leading Role, while A Complete Unknown failing to win any of its six nominations was considered a surprising snub. Favourites in the supporting performance categories, Zoe Saldaña (for Emilia Pérez) and Kieran Culkin (for A Real Pain) won their categories, which was said to make them all but guaranteed to win at the 97th Academy Awards.
There were relatively few political comments made at the ceremony, with Tennant making jokes about Donald Trump – though some, including comparing Trump to the character Beetlejuice, as well as jokes about Conclave, were cut from the broadcast; Peppiatt saying that everyone "should have their language respected, their culture respected and their homeland respected"; and Edward Berger accepting Outstanding British Film for Conclave by vaguely referring to elections in Germany and describing the time as "a crisis of democracy". When presenting Best Film, Mark Hamill referred to "troubling times" before deliberately not naming Trump. In reference to which comments were cut, the BBC stated editing decisions were "made due to time constraints".

## In Memoriam

The In Memoriam was accompanied by Jeff Goldblum performing "As Time Goes By" on piano and paid tribute to the following:
* Alain Delon – actor, producer
* Anouk Aimée – actress
* Samantha Davis – actress
* Pat Heywood – actress
* John Amos – actor
* Louis Gossett Jr. – actor
* Mitzi Gaynor – actress, dancer, singer
* Reuben Barnes – projectionist, technical manager
* Phyllis Dalton – costume designer
* James Earl Jones – actor
* Shelley Duvall – actress
* Jim Abrahams – director, writer
* Roger Corman – director, producer, actor
* Jenne Casarotto – agent
* Lynda Obst – producer
* Teri Garr – actress
* Donald Sutherland – actor
* James Hambidge – art director, production designer
* Ray Chan – art director, production designer
* Robert Towne – writer
* Jon Landau – producer
* Kris Kristofferson – actor, musician
* Gena Rowlands – actress
* Dame Joan Plowright – actress
* Lisa Westcott – make up & hair designer
* Loulia Sheppard – hair designer
* Paul Engelen – make up designer
* Robert Watts – producer, production manager
* Adam Somner – producer, assistant director
* Norman Spencer – producer, production manager
* David Korda – producer, financier
* Dick Pope – cinematographer
* Roger Pratt – cinematographer
* David Lynch – director
* Dame Maggie Smith – actress
Deadline Hollywood opined that there "were no egregious omissions" from the segment.

## Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 12 | Conclave |
| 11 | Emilia Pérez |
| 9 | The Brutalist |
| 7 | Anora |
| 7 | Dune: Part Two |
| 7 | Wicked |
| 6 | A Complete Unknown |
| 6 | Kneecap |
| 5 | Nosferatu |
| 5 | The Substance |
| 3 | The Apprentice |
| 3 | Blitz |
| 3 | Gladiator II |
| 3 | Sing Sing |
| 3 | Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl |
| 3 | The Wild Robot |
| 2 | Flow |
| 2 | Hard Truths |
| 2 | The Outrun |
| 2 | A Real Pain |
Films that received multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 4 | The Brutalist |
| 4 | Conclave |
| 2 | Anora |
| 2 | Dune: Part Two |
| 2 | Emilia Pérez |
| 2 | A Real Pain |
| 2 | Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl |
| 2 | Wicked |
* ↑ If counting Mikey Madison's Rising Star Award nomination, Anora would have eight nominations.