Papal drama Conclave and immigration epic The Brutalist led the winners at the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards, winning four prizes each.
Edward Berger-directed Conclave won the coveted Best Film prize as well as Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay and Editing.

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist took the Director prize, Leading Actor for Adrien Brody as well as Cinematography and Original Score.
The prizes were widely shared on the night with Anora, Emilia Perez, A Real Pain, Wicked, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and Dune: Part Two all winning two prizes each.
Sean Baker’s sex worker drama Anora won the Leading Actress prize for Mikey Madison and Casting.
Jacques Audiard’s Mexico-set Emilia Pérez went into the night with 11 nominations, winning Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña and Film Not in the English Language.
Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain took the Supporting Actor prize for Kieran Culkin and Original Screenplay for Eisenberg.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was voted best Animated Film and triumphed in the new category of Children’s & Family Film.
Dune: Part Two won Special Visual Effects and Sound, while Wicked was honoured with Costume Design and Production Design.
Rich Peppiatt’s Irish-language drama Kneecap won Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, while the Demi Moore starring body horror The Substance won Make Up & Hair. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story won Documentary.
Rock, Paper, Scissors took the British Short Film award, while the BAFTA for British Short Animation was won by Wander To Wonder.
Films that had multiple nominations but lost out on the night included A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet, Nosferatu, Blitz, Gladiator II and The Apprentice.
MediCinema was awarded the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award. The BAFTA Fellowship was presented to actor Warwick Davis. The EE Rising Star Award, the only award voted for by the public, went to David Jonsson.
The BAFTAs were presented by David Tennant at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

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