The 2025 Baftas, hosted by Doctor Who star David Tennant, are being held at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in central London on 16 February, 2025, and guests have already started to arrive including Jeff Goldblum and Gwendoline Christie.
The EE BAFTA Film Awards are the UK equivalent of the Oscars, honouring the best cinema of 2024, with Conclave leading the pack with 12 nominations in total. Netflix’s musical Emilia Pérez is also one of the big contenders on the night with 11 nominations, while historical epic The Brutalist is up for nine awards.
Pop icons Take That will perform Greatest Day from the soundtrack of Sean Baker’s seven-time nominated Anora, while Wicked star Jeff Goldblum is set to perform on the piano during the In Memoriam section.
Star Wars legend Warwick Davis will be awarded the Bafta Fellowship, while Marisa Abela, Jharrel Jerome, David Jonsson, Mikey Madison, and Nabhaan Rizwan will be keeping their fingers’ crossed as they hope to win the public-voted EE Rising Star Award.
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Pamela Anderson, Mark Hamill, and Selena Gomez among presenters at the Baftas
Pamela Anderson during filming for the Graham Norton Show. (PA) Earlier this week Bafta confirmed the full list of presenters at tonight’s Bafta Film Awards, and it’s a veritable who’s who of showbiz.
Adam Pearson, Adam Scott, Anna Kendrick, Camila Cabello, Celia Imrie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colman Domingo, Gwendoline Christie, Hannah John-Kamen, Isabella Rossellini, James McAvoy, James Norton, Jessie Eisenberg, Joe Alwyn, Letitia Wright, Leo Woodall, Lupita Nyong’o, Marisa Abela, Marisa Tomei, Mark Hamill, Michelle Monaghan, Naomi Ackie, Orlando Bloom, Pamela Anderson, Ralph Fiennes, Simon Pegg, Selena Gomez, Shazad Latif, Stephen Merchant, Thomasin McKenzie, Vanessa Kirby, Vanessa Williams, Will Poulter, Will Sharpe, Tom Felton, Wunmi Mosaku, Zoe Saldaña.
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David Tennant, Jeff Goldblum and Gwendoline Christie among early arrivals at the Baftas
David Tennant, Clara Amfo and Alex Zane attend the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 16, 2025 in London, England. (Scott Garfitt/BAFTA via Getty Images) Jeff Goldblum and David Tennant are among the early arrivals at this year’s Bafta film awards.
Scottish actor and Doctor Who star Tennant arrived on the red carpet wearing a sparkly black suit before he hosts the ceremony for the second year running at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday.
Goldblum plays the Wizard in the The Wizard Of Oz prequel musical, which tells the story of the early years of the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba, played by British star Cynthia Erivo.
Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie will present an award.
Gwendoline Christie attends the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 at The Royal Festival Hall. (John Phillips/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA) Anna Higgs, Chair of BAFTA Film Committee arrives for the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 at The Royal Festival Hall. (John Phillips/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA) Emilie Livingston and Jeff Goldblum attend the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 at The Royal Festival Hall. (Tristan Fewings/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA) Monica Barbaro attending the 78th British Academy Film Awards, at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London. (PA) -
Bafta CEO hails ‘amazing’ year for British film
CEO BAFTA, Jane Millichip attends the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 16, 2025. (John Phillips/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA) Chief executive of Bafta Jane Millichip said it has been an amazing year for British film.
Speaking to the PA news agency on the red carpet Ms Millichip said: “If you look at the best British category this year, it’s an amazing array of really small character pieces. Its an extraordinary category with films like Bird, Blitz and Gladiator 2.”
She added that it was “incredibly important” to have films not in the English language like Kneecap and Emilia Perez.
“It’s fantastic to have a film in the Irish language like Kneecap.”
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We’re VIPs Gromit!
Figurines of Wallace, Gromit and Norbot at the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 at The Royal Festival Hall. (Joe Maher/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA) Wallace, Gromit, and Norbot, the stars of the Bafta-nominated Wallace & Gromit: A Vengeance Most Fowl have hit the red carpet ahead of the 2025 Baftas.
The Aardman Animation movie is nominated for Outstanding British Film, Animated Film, and Children’s and Family Film.
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David Tennant shares key to hosting the Baftas
Host David Tennant on stage during the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2024. (Kate Green/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA) This weekend, David Tennant will take to the 2025 Bafta Film Awards stage as host for the second year in a row. After a knockout debut last year, the pressure could be on, but he’s making sure the jitters don’t get the best of him.
“I want to keep the expectations as low as possible,” he tells Yahoo UK ahead of the ceremony. However, that might be easier said than done considering how triumphantly his first hosting duties went down in 2024.
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We off to see the wizard… Jeff Goldblum has arrived
Jeff Goldblum arrives at the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 at The Royal Festival Hall. (Photo by John Phillips/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA) Wicked star Jeff Goldblum has arrived at the 2025 Baftas. Although not nominated himself, Goldblum will take to the piano for the ceremony’s in memoriam section.
The US actor recently released a single with Scarlett Johansson which will feature on his forthcoming album Still Blooming. The 72-year-old has also collaborated with his Wicked co-stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande for the jazz album, made with his band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra.
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Host David Tennant has arrived at the 2025 Baftas
David Tennant at the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 16, 2025 in London, England. (Scott Garfitt/BAFTA via Getty Images) After his triumphant first stint as the host of the Baftas in 2024, Rivals star David Tennant has returned to host for a second time.
The Doctor Who actor is already something of a national treasure thanks to his contribution to the entertainment industry, but his appearance at the awards show has truly cemented his status as he stole the show at one of the glitziest nights of the year. Tennant was charming and witty, cracking jokes and delighting both the audience and viewers at home with his effusively positive attitude.
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Photos from Bvlgari’s Bafta nominees party
Demi Moore attends the Nominees’ Party for the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025 at The National Gallery. (Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images) The 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards Nominees’ Party, supported by Bvlgari, took place at the National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square last night. The event marks the start of a weekend of celebrations, honouring this year’s nominees across all categories, ahead of the ceremony tonight at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.
Those in attendance included Adrien Brody, Demi Moore, Hugh Grant, Isabella Rossellini, Jeremy Strong, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Sebastian Stan, BAFTA Fellow Warwick Davis, Yura Borisov and EE Rising Star Award-nominees David Jonsson, Jharrel Jerome, Marisa Abela, Mikey Madison and Nabhaan Rizwan, along with many more of this year’s nominated talent.
Mikey Madison and Nabhaan Rizwan attend the Nominees’ Party for the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025, supported by Bvlgari at the National Gallery. (Scott Garfitt/BAFTA via Getty Images) Sebastian Stan attends the Nominees’ Party for the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025, supported by Bvlgari. (Lia Toby/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA) Adrien Brody attends the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards Nominees’ Party supported by Bvlgari. (Lia Toby/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA) The Brutalist’s Stacy Martin and Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold and Joe Alwyn arriving at the EE BAFTA Film Awards Nominees’ Party 2025. (Doug Peters/EMPICS/Alamy Live News) Anna Elisabet Eberstein and Hugh Grant attend the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards Nominees’ Party supported by Bvlgari. (Lia Toby/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA) Anna Kendrick attends the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards Nominees’ Party supported by Bvlgari at the National Portrait Gallery. (Samir Hussein/WireImage) -
Netflix post-Bafta party moved to new location after blaze at Chiltern Firehouse
Firefighters at the Chiltern Firehouse in central London, after a fire broke out on Valentine’s Day. (PA) Netflix has moved the location of its annual post-Bafta Film Awards party following a blaze at the original venue.
Around 100 people were forced to evacuate Chiltern Firehouse, a luxury hotel favoured by celebrities, on Valentine’s Day after the fire ripped through ducting at the London establishment.
Streaming platform Netflix has now moved its after party to luxury hotel The Twenty Two in Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square.
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The films with the most nominations at the 2025 Baftas
Ralph Fiennes stars in Conclave, a thriller set around the election of a new Pontiff. (Alamy) With 12 nods Edward Berger’s Conclave comes in to the night with the most nominations, closely followed by Netflix’s Emilia Pérez.
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12 nominations for Conclave
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11 nominations for Emilia Pérez
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Nine nominations for The Brutalist
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Seven nominations for Anora, Dune: Part Two and Wicked
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Six nominations for A Complete Unknown and Kneecap
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Five nominations for Nosferatu and The Substance
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It’s time for the Baftas!
Clara Amfo and Alex Zane will host the EE BAFTA Film Awards live stream. (Shane Anthony Sinclair/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA) The biggest night on the UK showbiz calendar has arrived, with the 2025 Bafta Film Awards taking place this afternoon and evening at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank.
Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson and a host of Wicked stars are among the A-listers set to grace the Bafta red carpet.
Moore, 62, is nominated in the leading actress category and has already picked up gongs at the Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globes for her role in body horror film The Substance. Baywatch star Anderson, 57, who was snubbed for her role in drama The Last Showgirl, is to present an award at the ceremony, which is being hosted by Scottish actor David Tennant for the second year running.
Full list of Bafta nominations
EE Bafta Film Awards 2025 nominations
Best Film
Anora – Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker
The Brutalist – TBD
A Complete Unknown – Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, James Mangold
Conclave – Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman
Emilia Pérez – TBD
Outstanding British Film
Bird – Andrea Arnold, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Lee Groombridge
Blitz – Steve Mcqueen, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Anita Overland
Conclave – Edward Berger, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman, Peter Straughan
Gladiator II – Ridley Scott, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Michael Pruss, David Scarpa, Peter Craig
Hard Truths – Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh,
Jj Ó Dochartaigh
Lee – Ellen Kuras, Kate Solomon, Kate Winslet, Liz Hannah, Marion Hume, John Collee, Lem Dobbs
Love Lies Bleeding – Rose Glass, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman, Wereonika Tofilska
The Outrun – Nora Fingscheidt, Sarah Brocklehurst, Dominic Norris, Jack Lowden, Saoirse Ronan, Amy Liptrot
Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek,
Mark Burton
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
Hoard – Luna Carmoon (Director, Writer)
Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt (Director, Writer)
Monkey Man – Dev Patel (Director)
Santosh – Sandhya Suri (Director, Writer), James Bowsher (Producer), Balthazar De Ganay
(Producer) [Also Produced By Mike Goodridge, Alan Mcalex]
Sister Midnight – Karan Kandhari (Director, Writer)
Film Not In The English Language
All We Imagine As Light – Payal Kapadia, Thomas Hakim
Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard, Tbd
I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) – Walter Salles, Tbd
Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof, Amin Sadraei
Documentary
Black Box Diaries – Shiori Ito, Hanna Aqvilin, Eric Nyari
Daughters – Natalie Rae, Angela Patton, Tbd
No Other Land- Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Lizzie Gilliett, Robert Ford
Will & Harper – Josh Greenbaum, Rafael Marmor, Christopher Leggett, Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum
Animated Film
Flow – Gints Zibalodis, Matīss Kaža
Inside Out 2 – Kelsey Mann, Mark Nielsen
Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek
The Wild Robot – Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann
Children’s & Family Film
Flow – Gints Zibalodis, Matīss Kaža
Kensuke’s Kingdom – Kirk Hendry, Neil Boyle, Camilla Deakin
Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek
The Wild Robot – Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann
Director
Anora – Sean Baker
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet
Conclave – Edward Berger
Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve
Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard
The Substance – Coralie Fargeat
Original Screenplay
Anora – Written By Sean Baker
The Brutalist – Written By Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
Kneecap – Writer Rich Peppiatt, Story By Rich Peppiatt, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó
Hannaidh, Jj Ó Dochartaigh
A Real Pain – Written By Jesse Eisenberg
The Substance – Written By Coralie Fargeat
Adapted Screenplay
A Complete Unknown – Screenplay By James Mangold And Jay Cocks
Conclave – Screenplay By Peter Straughan
Emilia Pérez – Written By Jacques Audiard
Nickel Boys – Screenplay By Ramell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
Sing Sing – Screenplay By Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Story By Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar,
Clarence Maclin, John ‘Divine G’ Whitfield
Leading Actress
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun
Leading Actor
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Hugh Grant – Heretic
Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice
Supporting Actress
Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande – Wicked
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
Jamie Lee Curtis – The Last Showgirl
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez
Supporting Actor
Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice
Casting
Anora – Sean Baker, Samantha Quan
The Apprentice – Stephanie Gorin, Carmen Cuba
A Complete Unknown – Yesi Ramirez
Conclave – Nina Gold, Martin Ware
Kneecap – Carla Stronge
Cinematography
The Brutalist – Lol Crawley
Conclave – Stéphane Fontaine
Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser
Emilia Pérez – Paul Guilhaume
Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke
Editing
Anora – Sean Baker
Conclave – Nick Emerson
Dune: Part Two – Joe Walker
Emilia Pérez – Juliette Welfling
Kneecap – Julian Ulrichs, Chris Gill
Costume Design
Blitz – Jacqueline Durran
A Complete Unknown – Arianne Phillips
Conclave – Lisy Christl
Nosferatu – Linda Muir
Wicked – Paul Tazewell
Make Up & Hair
Dune: Part Two – Love Larson, Eva Von Bahr
Emilia Pérez – Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier, Jean-Christophe Spadaccini, Romain
Marietti
Nosferatu – David White, Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton
The Substance – Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, Frédérique Arguello, Marilyne Scarselli
Wicked – Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Sarah Nuth
Original Score
The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg
Conclave – Volker Bertelmann
Emilia Pérez – Camille, Clément Ducol
Nosferatu – Robin Carolan
The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers
Production Design
The Brutalist – Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia
Conclave – Suzie Davies, Cynthia Sleiter
Dune: Part Two – Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau
Nosferatu – Craig Lathrop
Wicked – Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales
Sound
Blitz – John Casali, Paul Cotterell, James Harrison
Dune: Part Two – Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Gareth John, Richard King
Gladiator II – Stéphane Bucher, Matthew Collinge, Paul Massey Danny Sheehan
The Substance – Valérie Deloof, Victor Fleurant, Victor Praud, Stéphane Thiébaut, Emmanuelle
Villard
Wicked – Robin Baynton, Simon Hayes, John Marquis, Andy Nelson, Nancy Nugent Title
Special Visual Effects
Better Man – Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs
Dune: Part Two – Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Gerd Nefzer, Rhys Salcombe
Gladiator II – Mark Bakowski, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny, Pietro Ponti
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes – Erik Winquist, Rodney Burke, Paul Story, Stephen Unterfranz
Wicked – Pablo Helman, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner, Anthony Smith
British Short Animation
Adiós – José Prats, Natalia Kyriacou, Bernardo Angeletti
Mog’s Christmas – Robin Shaw, Joanna Harrison, Camilla Deakin, Ruth Fielding
Wander To Wonder – Nina Gantz, Stienette Bosklopper, Simon Cartwright, Maarten Swart
British Short Film
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing – Theo Panagopoulos, Marissa Keating
Marion – Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine, Marija Djikic
Milk – Miranda Stern, Ashionye Ogene
Rock, Paper, Scissors- Franz Böhm, Ivan, Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer
Stomach Bug – Matty Crawford, Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou
EE Rising Star Award (Voted For By The Public)
Marisa Abela
Jharrel Jerome
David Jonsson
Mikey Madison
Nabhaan Rizwan
The ten films with the most nominations are:
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12 nominations for Conclave
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11 nominations for Emilia Pérez
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Nine nominations for The Brutalist
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Seven nominations for Anora, Dune: Part Two and Wicked
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Six nominations for A Complete Unknown and Kneecap
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Five nominations for Nosferatu and The Substance
The following films also nominated include:
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Three nominations for The Apprentice, Blitz, Gladiator II, Sing Sing, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and The Wild Robot
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Two nominations for Flow, Hard Truths, The Outrun and A Real Pain
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One nomination for each of the following: All We Imagine As Light, Better Man, Bird, Black Box Diaries, Daughters, Heretic, Hoard, I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui), Inside Out 2, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Last Showgirl, Lee, Love Lies Bleeding, Monkey Man, Nickel Boys, No Other Land, Santosh, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Sister Midnight, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story and Will & Harper
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· The following British shorts were nominated: Adiós, The Flowers Stand Silently Witnessing, Marion, Milk, Mog’s Christmas, Rock Paper Scissors, Stomach Bug and Wander To Wonder
