Following last week’s Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles, the Hollywood set skipped across the pond this evening for the BAFTA Awards 2025. The event, held at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London and hosted for a second consecutive year by David Tennant, is an important awards season stop and provides even more insight into who might lift those coveted golden men at the Oscars. Taking place in the lead-up to the Oscars, the BAFTAs can often be an accurate predictor of who goes home with the gold in the States.

Per usual, the BAFTAs 2025 weren’t short on star power with the likes of Demi Moore, Selena Gomez, Timothée Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, and Ariana Grande all up for awards this year. On the red carpet, the usual awards show glamour reigned supreme with stars dressing up in their finest and faciest gowns, diamonds, and timepieces.

At a BAFTA Awards where there was no clear frontrunner going into the ceremony, British Academy voters chose to largely share the spoils when it came to handing out honours. But only one could win the top prize of best film, and this year that went to Conclave, which had entered the night with the most number of nominations (11). Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller wound up tying with Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist with four BAFTA wins each. Of its four, the 3.5-hour American epic won leading actor for Adrien Brody and director for Corbet.

Meanwhile, there was a surprise when Mikey Madison was named leading actress for Anora, with The Substance star Demi Moore’s seem by many as sure bet. Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror instead took home one award, for make-up and hairstyling.

Elsewhere, Jacques Audiard’s crime musical Emilia Pérez, Jon M. Chu’s hit musical adaptation Wicked, Jesse Eisenberg’s travel comedy A Real Pain, Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Two and Aardman’s stop-motion feature Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, each got two BAFTA awards. The one major snub of the night was James Mangold’s much adored Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, which didn’t manage to land any of its six nominations.

The event was somewhat light on politics, with host David Tennant being the only one to mention U.S. president Donald Trump (although he did so three times in his opening monologue). Most of this section was, however, cut from the BBC’s broadcast of the ceremony.

And there was little in the way of controversy, despite Audiard thanking his Emilia Peréz star Karla Sofia Gascón in his acceptance speech for film not in the English language. Gascón was nominated for leading actress, but wasn’t in attendance at London’s Royal Festival Hall following the scandal that erupted over her historic racist tweets.

Winners’ List
BEST FILM
Conclave

LEADING ACTRESS
Mikey Madison (Anora)

LEADING ACTOR
Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)

DIRECTOR
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet 

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Conclave

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Conclave

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Emilia Pérez

DOCUMENTARY
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

ANIMATED FILM
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

CASTING
Anora

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Brutalist

EDITING
Conclave

COSTUME DESIGN
Wicked

MAKE-UP & HAIR
The Substance

ORIGINAL SCORE
The Brutalist

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Wicked

SOUND
Dune: Part Two

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune: Part Two

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
Wander to Wonder

BRITISH SHORT FILM
Rock, Paper, Scissors

EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
David Jonsson