2025 BAFTA Winners

Earlier today the BAFTA's crowned their winners. The Best Picture race at the Oscars is still a giant question mark, right? Below is a list of the nominees with the winners highlighted in blue, plus my thoughts.

BEST FILM

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

If Anora or The Brutalist would've won here, I would've called Best Picture and open and shut case, but the BAFTAs went with Conclave, the film that I thought would be the easy Best Picture win at the start of the season. Does the Academy follow? Who knows. 

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

Bird

Blitz

Conclave

Gladiator II

Hard Truths

Kneecap

Lee

Love Lies Bleeding

The Outrun

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

A double win for Conclave. It's too bad one of the smaller films here couldn't have gotten some love.

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

Hoard

Kneecap

Monkey Man

Santosh

Sister Midnight

Very happy for the Kneecap crew. That film was so fun. 

CHILDREN’S AND FAMILY FILM

Flow

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

All We Imagine as Light

Emilia Pérez

I’m Still Here

Kneecap

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

It baffles me that Emilia Perez is still sweeping this category. I watched I'm Still Here earlier today and it's even crazier that Emilia Perez is beating that. 

DOCUMENTARY

Black Box Diaries

Daughters

No Other Land

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Will & Harper

I really wanted Will & Harper to win something big since they didn't make the Oscar cut.

ANIMATED FILM

Flow

Inside Out 2

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

I was hoping BAFTA would give us some insight on Flow vs The Wild Robot, but alas, it went with Wallace. I don't see this winning the Oscar. 

DIRECTOR

Anora – Sean Baker

The Brutalist – Brady Corbet

Conclave – Edward Berger

Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve

Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard

The Substance – Coralie Fargeat

Brady was on shaky ground after DGA but it seems he's back on top. 

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Anora

The Brutalist

Kneecap

A Real Pain

The Substance

I love that Jesse Eisenberg won here. As much as I love Anora and The Substance, A Real Pain had a tighter screenplay from start to finish, even if the other concepts were more original, so I'm fine with this win. 

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

Mikey winning here was a surprise! I still think Demi will win the Oscar, but I'm so happy to see Mikey get something for her excellent work in Anora.

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

Lead Actor continues to be beyond boring for me again this year. Was Brody good? Yes. Was he the best of these men? No! Domingo, Fiennes or Chalamet would be better winners. 

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

The lead performance continues to sweep. Zoe was the best part of this movie, but I can never lose my cynicism with her wins, even though I'm happy for her. 

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

See above in Supporting Actress. Kieran is a lead, but I am happy for him because he was fantastic. 

CASTING

Anora

The Apprentice

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Kneecap

I love that Anora won this!

CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Nosferatu

COSTUME DESIGN

Blitz

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Nosferatu

Wicked

EDITING

Anora

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Kneecap

MAKE-UP AND HAIR

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Nosferatu

The Substance

Wicked

It's nice to finally see a win for The Substance at BAFTA.

ORIGINAL SCORE

The Brutalist

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Nosferatu

The Wild Robot

PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Nosferatu

Wicked

This is such a weird win. It's definitely the showiest of the bunch, but it would be my #5 if I were ranking these. 

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

Better Man

Dune: Part Two

Gladiator II

Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes

Wicked

Won't worry WETA, your win for a Planet of the Apes film will come someday. 

SOUND

Blitz

Dune: Part Two

Gladiator II

The Substance

Wicked

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

Adiós

Mog’s Christmas

Wander to Wonder

I haven't seen the other two nominees, but after watching Wander to Wonder I'm not shocked it's winning. It's like depressing Toy Story. 

BRITISH SHORT FILM

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

Marion

Milk

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Stomach Bug

EE RISING STAR AWARD

Marisa Abela

Jharrel Jerome

David Jonsson

Mikey Madison

Nabhaan Rizwan