Ahead of the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025, BAFTA has unveiled the initial longlists today. 235 movies were submitted over 29 categories, including the newly added children’s and family film award category. Based on the longlisting, Edward Berger’s Conclave and Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard will dominate the award circuit this year as they gained 15 and 14 nominations. They are followed by A Complete Unknown (James Mangold), The Brutalist (Brady Corbet) and The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) with each 11 spots.

The second round of voting opens today, and the final nominations will be announced on the 15th of January by last year’s rising star winner, Mia Mckenna-Bruce, and A Real Pain’s Will Sharpe. Round three voting begins a week later and on the 16th of February, returning host David Tennant will welcome back the crème-de-la-crème of the movie industry at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London for the 78th BAFTA ceremony.

The EE Rising Star Award nominations will be revealed next Tuesday, the 7th of January.

A woman in a red suit stands in a dimly lit room, striking a dramatic pose. Seated guests are visible in the background.
Zoe Saldana as Rita in Emilia Pérez courtesy of Pathé

Check out the official longlist for the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 below:

Best Film

Outstanding British Film

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

  • Bring Them Down
  • Grand Theft Hamlet
  • Hoard
  • Kneecap
  • Monkey Man
  • On Falling
  • Santosh
  • Sister Midnight
  • The Taste of Mango
  • The Teacher
  • Children’s & Family Film
  • Flow
  • Kensuke’s Kingdom
  • Piece By Piece
  • Spellbound
  • That Christmas
  • Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
  • The Wild Robot
  • Young Woman and the Sea

Film Not in English Language

  • All We Imagine as Light
  • Black Dog (Gou zhen)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Flow
  • The Girl with the Needle
  • I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)
  • Kneecap
  • La Chimera
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Documentary

  • The Bibi Files
  • Black Box Diaries
  • Daughters
  • Elton John: Never Too Late
  • I Am: Celine Dion
  • Made In England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
  • No Other Land
  • The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
  • Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
  • Will & Harper

Animated Film

  • Despicable Me 4
  • Flow
  • Inside Out 2
  • Memoir of a Snail
  • Moana 2
  • That Christmas
  • Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
  • The Wild Robot

Director

  • All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia
  • Anora, Sean Baker
  • The Brutalist, Brady Corbet
  • Conclave, Edward Berger
  • Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve
  • Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard
  • La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher
  • Lee, Ellen Kuras
  • The Outrun, Nora Fingscheidt
  • The Substance, Coralie Fargeat

Original Screenplay

  • All We Imagine as Light
  • Anora
  • The Apprentice
  • The Brutalist
  • Challengers
  • Civil War
  • Heretic
  • Kneecap
  • A Real Pain
  • The Substance

Adapted Screenplay

  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Lee
  • Nickel Boys
  • Nightbitch
  • The Outrun
  • Sing Sing
  • Wicked

Leading Actress

  • Amy Adams, Nightbitch
  • Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
  • Demi Moore, The Substance
  • Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
  • Kate Winslet, Lee
  • Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
  • Marisa Abela, Back To Black
  • Mikey Madison, Anora
  • Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
  • Saoirse Ronan, The Outrun

Leading Actor

  • Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
  • Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
  • Daniel Craig, Queer
  • Dev Patel, Monkey Man
  • Hugh Grant, Heretic
  • Jude Law, Firebrand
  • Kingsley Ben Adir, Bob Marley: One Love
  • Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
  • Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
  • Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Supporting Actress

  • Adriana Paz, Emilia Pérez
  • Ariana Grande, Wicked
  • Emily Watson, Small Things Like These
  • Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
  • Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl
  • Margaret Qualley, The Substance
  • Michele Austin, Hard Truths
  • Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
  • Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Supporting Actor

  • Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
  • Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
  • Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
  • Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
  • Harris Dickinson, Babygirl
  • Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
  • Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
  • Mark Eydelshteyn, Anora
  • Stanley Tucci, Conclave
  • Yura Borisov, Anora

Casting

  • Anora
  • The Apprentice
  • Back To Black
  • Blitz
  • The Brutalist
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Kneecap
  • Wicked

Cinematography

  • Anora
  • The Brutalist
  • Civil War
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Gladiator II
  • Nosferatu
  • The Substance

Costume Design

  • Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
  • Blitz
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  • Gladiator II
  • Nosferatu
  • Wicked

Editing

  • Anora
  • Challengers
  • Civil War
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Gladiator II
  • Kneecap
  • The Substance

Make Up & Hair

  • The Apprentice
  • Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
  • Blitz
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Joker: Folie À Deux
  • Nosferatu
  • The Substance
  • Wicked

Original Score

  • Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
  • Blitz
  • The Brutalist
  • Conclave
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Gladiator II
  • Nosferatu
  • The Outrun
  • The Substance
  • The Wild Robot

Production Design

  • Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
  • Blitz
  • The Brutalist
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Gladiator II
  • Nosferatu
  • The Substance
  • Wicked

Special Visual Effects

  • Alien: Romulus
  • Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
  • Better Man
  • Civil War
  • Deadpool & Wolverine
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  • Gladiator II
  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
  • Wicked

Sound

  • Blitz
  • The Brutalist
  • Civil War
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Gladiator II
  • The Substance
  • Wicked

British Short Animation

  • Adiós
  • Mee and Burd
  • Mog’s Christmas
  • Plunge
  • Three Hares
  • Wander to Wonder

British Short Film

  • The Ban
  • Clodagh
  • The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
  • Homework
  • Marion
  • Milk
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors
  • Sister Wives
  • Stomach Bug
  • Woodlice