BAFTAs 2025: the winners in full

Conclave (2024)

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. 

Three men in suits and a man in a Irish flag suit and balaclava attend the 2025 Bafta red carpet
Director Rich Peppiatt (second from the left) with Kneecap trio Naoise Ó Cairealláin (left), Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh (second from the right) and JJ Ó Dochartaigh (right)David Fisher/Shutterstock

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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