The 2025 BAFTA nominations arrive while Hollywood’s awards season has been put almost entirely on pause due to the fires still affecting Los Angeles. Predictably, there were some very British nominations in store: Hugh Grant,

Holy smokes, a film that dramatizes the process to choose a Pope leads the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards. “Conclave” earned 12 nominations, beating out the musical about a drug lord getting gender affirming care, “Emilia Pérez,” which had 11. Period drama “The Brutalist” scored nine nominations.

“Conclave” leads the pack of 2025 BAFTA Film Awards nominees with 12 nods, one more than “Emilia Pérez,” which had appeared on the most longlists (15) when they were announced on Jan. 3. Mia McKenna-Bruce and Will Sharpe announced the 2025 nominees live on Wednesday in London.

Announced on Wednesday by last year’s BAFTA Rising Star winner Mia McKenna-Bruce and Will Sharpe, star of “The White Lotus” (and also a BAFTA TV award winner in 2020), the nominees have been selected following two rounds of voting by BAFTA members.

"Conclave" receives 12 nominations for the BAFTA Film Awards, followed by "Emilia Perez" with three. The British Oscars will be held Feb. 16.

But with the wildfires in Los Angeles over the past week fresh in the minds of everyone in the movie industry, Wednesday's announcement of the latest BAFTA nominations was understandably subdued. "We are very much thinking of our colleagues,

The nominations for the prestigious BAFTA Film Awards have been unveiled. The announcements, which took place on Wednesday, were made by actors Mia McKenna-Bruce and Will Sharpe. The British Academy,

However, the BAFTAs come at a particularly difficult time for the industry, with this awards season looking decidedly different compared to previous years. While the Golden Globes were able to go ahead as planned,