BAFTA nominations 2025: Emilia Perez, Conclave and Anura expected to be shortlisted

The BAFTA nominations will be announced on Wednesday, the latest milestone in an unpredictable awards season that has thrown up several surprises.

The British Academy shortlist is likely to be a strong indicator for the Oscars. Last year, the winners of the top six categories were exactly the same between the two events.

Nominations Follow last week’s Golden Globe Awards.which saw Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez win the most prizes, and Demi Moore boosted her chances in the Best Actress race for body horror The Substance.

The BAFTA Film Awards, hosted by David Tennant, will take place at London’s Royal Festival Hall on February 16.

There is currently no consensus on who will ultimately win Best Picture at this year’s Oscars, which take place on March 2 in Los Angeles.

The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, Anora, Conclave, Wicked and A Complete Unknown have been tipped for the top prize by various pundits. All currently have a viable path to victory.

The BAFTA shortlist comes a week after the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nominations. Which saw a strong showing for Wicked And a surprise nod for Pamela Anderson for her role as an aging Las Vegas performer in The Last Showgirl.

The British Academy’s longlists, from which nominees will be selected, It was announced earlier this month..

They included this year’s front-runners but with a few notable omissions, such as Angelina Jolie and Golden Globe winner Fernanda Torres. Failed to make Paddington in Peru. New category of kids and family movies.

But the fact that the longlists have already been released doesn’t mean there won’t be surprises when the final nominations are announced.

Emilia Pereza Spanish-language musical about a Mexican cartel leader who abandons the world of crime to make a new life as a trans woman, is a BAFTA frontrunner after being named the longest-listed.

It was closely followed. Conclavean adaptation of Robert Harris’ novel about a gossiping and scheming group of cardinals who gather in Rome to elect a new pope, and a complete unknown, which followed Bob Dylan’s rise to fame in the 1960s.

brutalabout a Hungarian architect hired by a wealthy American after World War II, and substance, which sees a woman take a black market drug to create a younger and prettier version of herself, also featured in Long List.

He joined Blockbusters. WickedThe origin story of Elphaba from The Wizard of Oz, and the Sandy sci-fi sequel TELA: PART TWO.

Anurawhich follows the whirlwind romance of a young couple who meet at a strip club, and Gladiator IIabout the forced into slavery of the grandson of a former Roman emperor, long lists were also produced.

The BAFTAs have six nomination slots available in each acting category, one more than the Oscars, which means there’s extra room for some fun surprises.

Among the front-runners in the Best Actress race who have a strong chance at the BAFTAs are: Demi Moore (The Substance) for her role as a TV aerobics instructor whose relevance is fading, and Carla Sophia Gascon (Emilia Perez) to play a newly transplanted woman who used to be a drug lord.

Others are deed certificates. Cynthia Ario (Wicked) Alphabet for his character, The Wicked Witch of the West, and Mickey Madison (Anora), to play a New York stripper who falls for the son of a rich Russian.

But there is still a chance for nomination for longlisters eg Marian Jean Baptiste (hard facts) For her performance as an irritable woman struggling with depression, and Circe Ronan (The Outer) to play a young alcoholic who returns to Scotland.

Kate Winslet (Lee) could also land in this category for her role as journalist Lee Miller. Amy Adams (Night Bitch) And Nicole Kidman (Baby Girl). Nomination for Marisa Abella, There will be a special surprise for the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black.

Meanwhile, the Best Actor category is widely seen as having been largely closed off by contenders. Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) for his role as a Budapest architect building a new life in America, and Timothée Chalamet (a complete unknown) for his portrayal of a young Bob Dylan and the conflict between his love of folk music and rock ‘n’ roll.

Coleman Domingo (Sing Sing) may be recognized for playing a prison inmate who enrolls in a performing arts program, while Sebastian Stein (The Apprentice) can be nominated for portraying Donald Trump in his early years as a real estate tycoon.

At the forefront are the British. Daniel Craig (Queer), who plays a gay man who ventures into the forest in search of a plant with telepathic properties, and Ralph Fiennes (conclave), a cardinal who oversees the race to elect a new pope.

But don’t bet against BAFTA either falling behind an outsider or two Hugh Grant (heretical) Dev Patel (monkey man) Kingsley Ben Adair (Bob Marley: One Love) And Jude law (Fire brand). All are British, and if any of them were going for a surprise nomination, the BAFTAs would be the place to do it.

Support categories, meanwhile, are likely to feature at the forefront of such Zoe Saldana (Emilia Perez) Ariana Grande (evil) Karen Culkin (a real pain) and Yura Borisov (Anura).

But one particular focus of the supporting actor race is whether Denzel Washington (Gladiator II) will be nominated. Despite a career spanning decades and nine Oscar nods for acting (including two wins), Washington has never been nominated for a BAFTA.

A few years ago, BAFTA changed the voting system in some of its major categories in an effort to increase diversity.

After that came No ethnic minority actors were nominated in 2020. With Margot Robbie, a white actress, even nominated twice for two different films.

A jury system introduced the following year meant that members’ votes determined only two of the six acting categories, while the jury decided the other four.

The 2021 shortlists were certainly more diverse as a result, but they were also pretty out of step with the rest of the awards season (though the eventual winners are largely identical to the Oscars).

BAFTA continued to use the jury system in the following years, although the number of places determined by the juries was reduced to three.

This year, however, things have changed.

Although juries helped compile this year’s longlists, final nominations for most major categories, such as the acting awards, are now decided entirely by BAFTA members.

As a result, the nominations are more likely to resemble other ceremonies, with fewer outliers making the shortlist than in recent years.

The BAFTA nominations will be announced by Mia McKenna Bruce and Will Sharp from BAFTA headquarters in central London at 12:00 GMT.

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