

BEST FILM
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave WINNER
Emilia Pérez
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM of the YEAR
Bird
Blitz
Conclave WINNER
Gladiator II
Hard Truths
Kneecap
Lee
Love Lies Bleeding
The Outrun
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
BEST CASTING
Anora (Sean Baker & Samantha Quan) WINNER
Th Apprentice (Stephanie Gorin & Carmen Cuba)
A Complete Unknown (Yesi Ramirez)
Conclave (Nina Gold & Martin Ware)
Kneecap (Carla Stronge)
BEST DIRECTION
Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)
Sean Baker (Anora)
Edward Berger (Conclave)
Brady Corbet (The Brutalist) WINNER
Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)
Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part 2)
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) WINNER
Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown)
Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)
Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)
Hugh Grant (Heretic)
Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice)
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo (Wicked)
Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths)
Mikey Madison (Anora) WINNER
Demi Moore (The Substance)
Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Yura Borisov (Anora)
Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) WINNER
Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing)
Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown)
Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)
Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez)
Ariana Grande (Wicked)
Felicity Jones (The Brutalist)
Jamie Lee Curtis (The Last Showgirl)
Isabella Rossellini (Conclave)
Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez) WINNER
BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL)
Anora (Sean Baker)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold)
Kneecap (Writer: Rich Peppiatt; Story: Rich Peppiatt, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh & JJ Ó Dochartaigh)
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg) WINNER
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
BEST SCREENPLAY (ADAPTED)
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold & Jay Cocks)
Conclave (Peter Straughan) WINNER
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard)
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes)
Sing Sing (Screenplay: Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar; Story: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence ‘Divine Eye’ Maclin & John ‘Divine G’ Whitfield)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Brutalist (Lol Crawley) WINNER
Conclave (Stéphane Fontaine)
Dune: Part 2 (Greig Fraser)
Emilia Pérez (Paul Guilhaume)
Nosferatu (Jarin Blaschke)
BEST EDITING
Anora (Sean Baker)
Conclave (Nick Emerson) WINNER
Dune: Part 2 (Joe Walker)
Emilia Pérez (Juliette Welfling)
Kneecap (Julian Ulrichs & Chris Gill)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Brutalist (Judy Becker & Patricia Cuccia)
Conclave (Suzie Davies & Cynthia Sleiter)
Dune: Part 2 (Patrice Vermette & Shane Vieau)
Nosferatu (Craig Lathrop)
Wicked (Nathan Crowley & Lee Sandales) WINNER
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Blitz (Jacqueline Durran)
A Complete Unknown (Arianne Phillips)
Conclave (Lisy Christl)
Nosferatu (Linda Muir)
Wicked (Paul Tazewell) WINNER
ORIGINAL MUSIC
The Brutalist (Daniel Blumberg) WINNER
Conclave (Volker Bertelmann)
Emilia Pérez (Camille & Clément Ducol)
Nosferatu (Robin Carolan)
The Wild Robot (Kris Bowers)
BEST MAKE UP/HAIR
Dune: Part 2 (Love Larson & Eva Von Bahr)
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) WINNER
Wicked (Frances Hannon, Laura Blount & Sarah Nuth)
BEST SOUND
Blitz (John Casali, Paul Cotterell & James Harrison)
Dune: Part 2 (Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Gareth John & Richard King) WINNER
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)
BEST ACHIEVEMENT in SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Better Man (Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft & Peter Stubbs)
Dune: Part 2 (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Gerd Nefzer & Rhys Salcombe) WINNER
Gladiator II (Mark Bakowski, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny & Pietro Ponti)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Erik Winquist, Rodney Burke, Paul Story & Stephen Unterfranz)
Wicked (Pablo Helman, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner & Anthony Smith)
BEST FILM NOT in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE
All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez WINNER
I’m Still Here
Kneecap
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Flow
Inside Out 2
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl WINNER
The Wild Robot
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Black Box Diaries
Daughters
No Other Land
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story WINNER
Will & Harper
OUTSTANDING DEBUT by a BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR or PRODUCER
Hoard Luna Carmoon (Director/Writer)
Kneecap Rich Peppiatt (Director/Writer) WINNER
Monkey Man Dev Patel (Director)
Santosh Sandhya Suri (Director/Writer), James Bowsher (Producer), Balthazar de Ganay (Producer), also produced by Alan McAlex, Mike Goodridge (Writer/Director)
Sister Midnight Karan Kandhari (Director/Writer)
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
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 WINNER
BRITISH SHORT FILM
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) WINNER
Stomach Bug (Matty Crawford & Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou)
EE RISING STAR AWARD
Marisa Abela
Jharrel Jerome
David Jonsson WINNER
Mikey Madison
Nabhaan Rizwan
The British Academy Film Awards were held on Sunday, February 16, 2025 at Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre and broadcast on BBC One starting at 7pm local time (2pm EST) and streamed via BBC iPlayer.

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