Conclave, Emilia Perez lead the BAFTA nominations

Ah, awards season, when cinema stans obsessively track the goings-on at all the film fétes in America and that one in England. While not necessarily as big of an indicator for the Academy Awards race as U.S. shows like the Golden Globes, Oscars prognosticators will factor what goes on at the British Academy Film Awards into their predictive formulas. As American awards bodies are still figuring out how to proceed amid natural disaster in Los Angeles, their U.K. counterpart announced the 2025 BAFTA nominations on Wednesday morning, and Edward Berger’s Conclave and Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez lead the pack.

Papal thriller Conclave scored an impressive 12 nominations, including best film, director, leading actor for Ralph Fiennes and supporting actress for Isabella Rossellini. (This is Rossellini’s first BAFTA nod; as Variety notes, half of the recognized actors are first-time nominees.) Emilia Perez is not far behind with 11 nominations, including best film, director, leading actress for Karla Sofía Gascón and supporting actress for Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña.

Rounding out the 2025 BAFTA nominations for Best Film include The Brutalist (which took nine total nominations), Anora (seven nominations), and A Complete Unknown (six nominations). Fan favorite Wicked missed a Best Film nod, but earned seven nominations total. Irish-language comedy biopic Kneecap is up there with the rest of the Hollywood fare having earned six nominations, including a nod for Outstanding British Film — though Kneecap themselves might dispute that designation.

The BAFTAs previously announced their nominees for the 2025 Rising Star Award, which celebrates up-and-coming industry talent. This year’s crop of nominees — voted by the public — is a strong showing for HBO’s Industry, with two current and one former cast member on the roster. The full list includes Marisa Abela (Back To Black), Jharrel Jerome (Unstoppable), David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus), Mikey Madison (Anora) and Nabhaan Rizwan (In Camera). The 2025 BAFTA ceremony will take place on February 16, hosted by David Tennant. You can check out the full list of nominations below.

Santosh — Sandhya Suri (Director, writer), James Bowsher (Producer), Balthazar de Ganay (Producer), also produced by Alan McAlex, Mike Goodridge

Kneecap — written by Rich Peppiatt, story by Rich Peppiatt, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, JJ Ó Dochartaigh

Sing Sing — screenplay by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence ‘Divine Eye’ Maclin, John ‘Divine G’ Whitfield

Emilia Pérez — Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier, Jean-Christophe Spadaccini, Romain Marietti

Nosferatu — David White, Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton

The Substance — Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, Frédérique Arguello, Marilyne Scarselli

Gladiator II — Stéphane Bucher, Matthew Collinge, Paul Massey Danny Sheehan

The Substance — Valérie Deloof, Victor Fleurant, Victor Praud, Stéphane Thiébaut, Emmanuelle Villard

Wicked — Robin Baynton, Simon Hayes, John Marquis, Andy Nelson, Nancy Nugent Title

Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes — Erik Winquist, Rodney Burke, Paul Story, Stephen Unterfranz

Wicked — Pablo Helman, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner, Anthony Smith

“Adiós” — José Prats, Natalia Kyriacou, Bernardo Angeletti

“Mog’s Christmas” — Robin Shaw, Joanna Harrison, Camilla Deakin, Ruth Fielding

“Wander To Wonder” — Nina Gantz, Stienette Bosklopper, Simon Cartwright, Maarten Swart

“The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing” — Theo Panagopoulos, Marissa Keating

“Marion” — Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine, Marija Djikic

“Milk” — Miranda Stern, Ashionye Ogene

“Rock, Paper, Scissors” — Franz Böhm, Ivan, Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer

“Stomach Bug” — Matty Crawford, Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou