My 2025 EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Longlist Predictions

BEST FILM
All We Imagine As Light
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
The Substance
Wicked

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Bird
Blitz
Civil War
Conclave
Gladiator II
Hard Truths
Kneecap
Lee
Love Lies Bleeding
On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
Paddington In Peru
The Outrun
Santosh
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wicked Little Letters

ANIMATED FILM
Chicken For Linda!
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir Of A Snail
Piece By Piece
Transformers One
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

DOCUMENTARY
The Bibi Files
Black Box Diaries
Dahomey
Daughters
Made In England: The Films Of Powell & Pressburger
Mediha
No Other Land
Porcelain War
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Sugarcane

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
All We Imagine As Light
Armand
Emilia Pérez
The Girl With The Needle
I’m Still Here
Kneecap
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
Santosh
Touch
Vermiglio

DIRECTOR
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Edward Berger – Conclave
Sean Baker – Anora
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Rose Glass – Love Lies Bleeding
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine As Light
Ellen Kuras – Lee
Mohammad Rasoulof – The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
Halina Reijn – Babygirl

LEADING ACTOR
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig – Queer
Jonno Davies – Better Man
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Hugh Grant – Heretic
Cillian Murphy – Small Things Like These
Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice

LEADING ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Angelina Jolie – Maria
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun
Tilda Swinton – The Room Next Door
Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here
Kate Winslet – Lee

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jonathan Bailey – Wicked
Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Barry Keoghan – Bird
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Peter Sarsgaard – September 5
Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice
Stanley Tucci – Conclave
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Michele Austin – Hard Truths
Leonie Benesch – September 5
Katy O’Brian – Love Lies Bleeding
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande – Wicked
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Room Next Door
Sing Sing
Wicked
The Wild Robot

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
All We Imagine As Light
Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
Hard Truths
Kneecap
A Real Pain
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
September 5
The Substance

CASTING
Anora
Bird
Blitz
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Kneecap
Love Lies Bleeding
September 5
Wicked

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blitz
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
The Girl With The Needle
Gladiator II
Maria
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu

COSTUME DESIGN
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Blitz
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Firebrand
Gladiator II
Maria
Nosferatu
Wicked

EDITING
Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Kneecap
September 5
The Substance
Wicked

MAKE UP & HAIR
The Apprentice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
A Different Man
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Blitz
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
Maria
Nosferatu
Wicked

ORIGINAL SCORE
Blitz
The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Room Next Door
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Young Woman And The Sea

SOUND
Blitz
Civil War
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Blitz
Civil War
Dune: Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Gladiator II
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes
The Substance
Wicked