BAFTA Longlists Announced

Ahead of the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards, BAFTA have submitted their longlists for all categories, determining the final films in each categories to be submitted for nomination. The second round of voting opens on the 3rd January, with the final nominations announced on Wednesday 15th January.

While there are a couple films that have over performed here due to BAFTA repeating their historic British bias, most of the major contenders have continued to dominate the longlists, with “Emilia Perez” leading the way appearing on 15 of the lists. Just behind the musical crime-drama is Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller “Conclave” with 14. “The Brutalist” (11), “The Substance” (11), “Dune: Part Two” (10), “Wicked” (10) and “Anora” (9) continue their strong showings this award season, but the biggest surprise is Bob Dylan drama “A Complete Unknown” racking up an impressive haul of 11 longlists.

All of the eight mentioned take up the Best Film slots, alongside a couple surprises. Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice” makes the Best Film longlist, having appeared on 5 longlists, and “Kneecap” rounds out the ten slots, having acquired an impressive 7 placements of its own.

It was a bad day at the office for a few films hoping to land an Oscar Best Picture nomination in two weeks, with “Sing Sing” (3), “A Real Pain” (2), “Challengers” (2) and “Nickel Boys” (1) all underperforming. While “Saturday Night” and “September 5” both failed to land a single longlist.

“Gladiator II” managed to rack up an impressive 9 selections, but its only meaningful above the line placement comes in the form of Denzel Washington in Supporting Actor.

Full list of BAFTA Longlists:

Best Film

  • “Anora”
  • “The Apprentice”
  • “The Brutalist”
  • “A Complete Unknown”
  • “Conclave”
  • “Dune: Part Two”
  • “Emilia Perez”
  • “Kneecap”
  • “The Substance”
  • “Wicked”

Outstanding British Film

  • “Back to Black”
  • “Bird”
  • “Blitz”
  • “Civil War”
  • “Conclave”
  • “Gladiator II”
  • “Hard Truths”
  • “Kneecap”
  • “Lee”
  • “Love Lies Bleeding”
  • “The Outrun”
  • “Paddington in Peru”
  • “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
  • “We Live in Time”
  • “Wicked Little Letters”

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 & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
  • “The Wild Robot”
  • “Young Woman and the Sea”

Film Not in the English Language

  • “All We Imagine as Light”
  • “Black Dog”
  • “The Count of Monte Cristo”
  • “Emilia Perez”
  • “Flow”
  • “The Girl with the Needle”
  • “I’m Still Here”
  • “Kneecap”
  • “La Chimera”
  • “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”

Documentary

  • “The Bibi Files”
  • “Black Box Diaries”
  • “Daughters”
  • “Elton John: 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 & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
  • “The Wild Robot”

Director

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

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 Perez”
  • “Lee”
  • “Nickel Boys”
  • “Nightbitch”
  • “The Outrun”
  • “Sing Sing”
  • “Wicked”

Leading Actress

  • Amy Adams | “Nightbitch”
  • Cynthia Erivo | “Wicked”
  • Demi Moore | “The Substance”
  • Karla Sofia Gascon | “Emilia Perez”
  • Kate Winslet | “Lee”
  • Marianne Jean-Baptiste | “Hard Truths”
  • Maris 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”
  • Timothee Chalamet | “A Complete Unknown”

Supporting Actress

  • Adriana Paz | “Emilia Perez”
  • 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 Perez”
  • Zoe Saldana | “Emilia Perez”

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 Brutalist”
  • “Back to Black”
  • “Blitz”
  • “The Brutalist”
  • “A Complete Unknown”
  • “Conclave”
  • “Emilia Perez”
  • “Kneecap”
  • “Wicked”

Cinematography

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

Costume Design

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

Editing

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

Make Up & Hair

  • “The Apprentice”
  • “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
  • “Blitz”
  • “A Complete Unknown”
  • “Dune: Part Two”
  • “Emilia Perez”
  • “Joker: Folie a Deux”
  • “Nosferatu”
  • “The Substance”
  • “Wicked”

Original Score

  • “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
  • “Blitz”
  • “The Brutalist”
  • “Conclave”
  • “Emilia Perez”
  • “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 Perez”
  • “Gladiator II”
  • “The Substance”
  • “Wicked”

British Short Animation

  • “Adios”
  • “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”

Films with the most nominations:

  • Emilia Perez – 15
  • Conclave – 14
  • A Complete Unknown – 11
  • The Brutalist – 11
  • The Substance – 11
  • Dune: Part Two – 10
  • Wicked – 10
  • Anora – 9
  • Gladiator II – 9
  • Blitz – 7
  • Kneecap – 7

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