The Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci-led film, based on the novel by Robert Harris, leads the way with 12 BAFTA nominations — ahead of Emilia Pérez ‘s 11 and The Brutalist ‘s nine, as unveiled by actors Will Sharpe and Mia McKenna-Bruce from the British Academy’s headquarters in London mid-day on Wednesday.

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.

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.

The nominees for the 2025 EE BAFTA film awards are being unveiled in London on Wednesday. Actors Will Sharpe and Mia McKenna Bruce are revealing the coveted shortlists at 12 p.m. GMT (4 a.m. PT) in a livestream from the U.K. Academy’s headquarters at 195 Piccadilly in the British capital.

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 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,

The full list of nominations for the 2025 BAFTAs was announced on Wednesday, Jan. 15. The religious thriller 'Conclave' led the list with 12 nominations. Read More: 10 Movies Like Ariana Grande's 'Wicked' The BAFTA award ceremony will be hosted in London on Feb.

The countdown is on: there’s just one month to go before the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards return to the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. And the nominees are… Selena Gomez as Jessi in Emilia Pérez. (Netflix) Analysis: Which Films Are Poised To Win Big?