The 78th British Academy Film Awards ceremony, commonly known as the BAFTAS, was held by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on Sunday. The nominees for all the categories were announced by January 15, 2025.
Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light (2024), was nominated in the category of Best Film Not in the English Language, for which Emilia Pérez (2024) was the winner.
The films with the most nominations were Conclave (2024) with 12 nominations, Emilia Pérez (2024) with 11 nominations, and The Brutalist (2024) with nine nominations. Anora, Dune: Part Two, and Wicked have seven nominations each. While, A Complete Unknown had six nominations, Nosferatu and The Substance were tied with five nominations each.
The BAFTA Fellowship, which is awarded in recognition of outstanding achievements in art forms of the moving image, has been awarded to Warwick Davis. He is known for his roles such as Professor Filius Filtwick, the Charms master of Hogwarts, in the Harry Potter film series and for various roles in the Star Wars series.
The following is the list of winners and nominees:
BAFTA Fellowship: Warwick Davis
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema: MediCinema
Best Film
Winner: Conclave
Other Nominees: Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, and Emilia Pérez.
Outstanding British Film
Winner: Conclave
Other Nominees: Bird, Blitz, Gladiator II, Hard Truths, Kneecap, Lee, Love Lies Bleeding, The Outrun, and Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
Director
Winner: Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)
Other nominees: Sean Baker (Anora), Edward Berger (Conclave), Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two), and Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez).
Leading Actress
Winner: Mikey Madison (Anora)
Other nominees: Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths), Demi Moore (The Substance), and Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun).
Leading Actor
Winner: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
Other Nominees: Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), Hugh Grant (Heretic), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice).
Supporting Actress
Winner: Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)
Other nominees: Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Felicity Jones (The Brutalist), Jamie Lee Curtis (The Last Showgirl), and Isabella Rossellini (Conclave).
Supporting Actor
Winner: Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
Other nominees: Yura Borisov (Anora), Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing), Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), and Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice).
Film not in the English language
Winner: Emilia Pérez
Other nominees: All We Imagine as Light, I'm Still Here, Kneecap, and The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Documentary: Winner: Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. Other nominees: Black Box Diaries, Daughters, No Other Land, and Will & Harper.
Animated Film
Winner: Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Other nominees: Flow, Inside Out 2, and The Wild Robot.
Original Screenplay
Winner: A Real Pain
Other nominees: Anora, The Brutalist, Kneecap, and The Substance.
Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Conclave
Other nominees: A Complete Unknown, Emilia Pérez, Nickel Boys, and Sing Sing.
Original Score
Winner: Daniel Blumburg (The Brutalist)
Other nominees: Volker Beretelmann (Conclave), Camille, Clément Ducol (Emilia Pérez), Robin Carolan (Nosferatu), and Kris Bowers (The Wild Robot).
Cinematography
Winner: Lol Crawley (The Brutalist)
Other nominees: Stéphane Fontaine (Conclave), Greig Fraser (Dune: Part Two), Paul Guilhaume (Emilia Pérez), and Jarin Blaschke (Nosferatu).