BAFTAs 2025: the winners in full

Conclave and The Brutalist each won four BAFTAs at last night’s awards. Conclave – Edward Berger’s film about the elevation of a new pope – won best film, outstanding British film, adapted screenplay and best editing. Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, about an immigrant architect building a new life in America, took best director, cinematography, score and best actor for its star Adrien Brody.
Sean Baker’s Anora, about a fast-burning love affair between a sex worker and the son of a Russian oligarch, won best actress for star Mickey Madison and best casting. A Real Pain, written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg and starring Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as cousins tracing their Holocaust survivor grandmother’s footsteps back to Poland, also won two awards. The best original screenplay BAFTA went to Eisenberg for his script, and best supporting actor was awarded to Culkin.

Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt’s comedy-drama about the rise of the titular Belfast hip-hop trio, won outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer. The film, which had previously won seven awards at the British Independent Film Awards, was backed by the BFI Filmmaking Fund.
Winning films which first screened to UK audiences at the BFI London Film Festival include Conclave, The Brutalist, Anora, A Real Pain and Emilia Pérez (for which Zoe Saldana won best supporting actress).
Best film
Anora — Sean Baker, Samantha Quan, Alex Coco
The Brutalist — Brady Corbet, Andrew Lauren, Trevor Matthews
A Complete Unknown — James Mangold, Fred Berger, Alex Heineman
Winner: Conclave — Michael Jackman, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell
Emilia Pérez — Jacques Audiard, Anthony Vaccarello, Pascal Caucheteux
Outstanding British film
Bird — Andrea Arnold, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell
Blitz — Tim Bevan, Steve McQueen, Eric Fellner
Winner: Conclave — Michael Jackman, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell
Gladiator II — Ridley Scott, Peter Craig, David Scarpa
Hard Truths — Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
Lee — Kate Winslet, Ellen Kuras, Lem Dobbs
Love Lies Bleeding — Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska, Andrea Cornwell
The Outrun — Saoirse Ronan, Jack Lowden, Amy Liptrot
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl — Nick Park, Mark Burton, Merlin Crossingham
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Hoard — Luna Carmoon
Winner: Kneecap — Rich Peppiatt
Monkey Man — Dev Patel
Santosh — Balthazar de Ganay
Santosh — James Bowsher
Santosh — Sandhya Suri
Sister Midnight — Karan Kandhari
Film not in the English language
All We Imagine As Light — Paya Kapadia, Thomas Hakim
Winner: Emilia Pérez — Jacques Audiard, Anthony Vaccarello, Pascal Caucheteux
I’m Still Here — Walter Salles
The Seed of the Sacred Fig — Mohammed Rasoulof, Amin Sadraei
Documentary
Black Box Diaries — Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin
Daughters — Angela Patton, Natalie Rae
No Other Land — Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor
Winner: Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story — Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Lizzie Gillett
Will & Harper — Will Ferrell, Josh Greenbaum, Jessica Elbaum
Animated film
Flow — Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža
Inside Out 2 — Kelsey Mann, Mark Nielsen
The Wild Robot — Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann
Winner: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl — Nick Park, Mark Burton, Merlin Crossingham
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Director
Anora — Sean Baker
Winner: The Brutalist — Brady Corbet
Conclave — Edward Berger
Dune: Part Two — Denis Villeneuve
Emilia Pérez — Jacques Audiard
The Substance — Coralie Fargeat
Original screenplay
Winner: A Real Pain — Jesse Eisenberg
Anora — Sean Baker
The Brutalist — Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
The Substance — Coralie Fargeat
Adapted screenplay
A Complete Unknown — James Mangold, Jay Cocks
Winner: Conclave — Peter Straughan
Emilia Pérez — Jacques Audiard
Nickel Boys — RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
Sing Sing — Clarence Maclin, Greg Kwedar, Divine G
Leading actress
Cynthia Erivo - Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón - Emilia Pérez
Marianne Jean-Baptiste — Hard Truths
Winner: Mickey Madison - Anora
Demi Moore — The Substance
Soairse Ronan — The Outrun
Leading actor
Winner: Adrien Brody — The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet — A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo — Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
Hugh Grant - Heretic
Sebastian Stan — The Apprentice
Supporting actress
Jamie Lee Curtis — The Last Showgirl
Selena Gomez - Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande - Wicked
Felicity Jones — The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini - Conclave
Winner: Zoe Saldana - Emilia Pérez
Supporting actor
Yuriy Borisov - Anora
Winner: Keiran Culkin — A Real Pain
Clarence Mclin — Sing Sing
Edward Norton — A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce — The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong — The Apprentice
Casting
A Complete Unknown — Yesi Ramirez
Winner: Anora — Sean Baker, Samantha Quan
The Apprentice — Carmen Cuba, Stepanie Gorin
Conclave — Nina Gold, Martin Ware
Kneecap — Carla Stronge
Cinematography
Winner: The Brutalist — Lol Crawley
Conclave — Stéphane Fontane
Dune: Part Two — Greig Fraser
Emilia Pérez — Paul Guilhaume
Nosferatu — Jarin Blaschke
Editing
Anora — Sean Baker
Winner: Conclave — Nick Emerson
Dune: Part Two — Joe Walker
Emilia Pérez — Juliette Welfling
Kneecap — Chris Gill
Kneecap — Julian Ulrichs
Costume design
A Complete Unknown — Arianne Phillips
Blitz — Jacqueline Durran
Conclave — Lily Christl
Nosferatu — Linda Muir
Winner: Wicked — Paul Tazewell
Make-up and hair
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
Winner: The Substance
Wicked
Original score
Winner: The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Wild Robot
Production design
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Winner: Wicked
Sound
Blitz
Winner: Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
The Substance
Wicked
Special visual effects
Better Man
Winner: Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
British short animation
Adiós
Mog’s Christmas
Winner: Wander to Wonder
British short film
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing — Theo Panagopoulos, Marissa Keating
Marion — Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine, Marija Djikic
Milk — Miranda Stern, Ashionye Ogene
Winner: Rock, Paper, Scissors — Franz Böhm, Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer
Stomach Bug — Matty Crawford, Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou
EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
Marisa Abela
Jarel Jerome
Winner: David Jonson
Mickey Madison
Nabhaan Rizwan

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