2025 BAFTA nominations: No Angelina, Nicole or Denzel!

I’ll just say it – this awards season is not panning out the way I thought it would, nomination-wise. I knew that Angelina Jolie would have a tough sell to be a contender for her performance in Maria, but I wasn’t expecting her to get shut out of BAFTA and SAG nominations! Same with Denzel Washington’s scenery-chewing performance in Gladiator II – I never thought that Denzel would be snubbed right and left for NOMINATIONS. Exact same situation with Nicole Kidman in Babygirl – she has now been snubbed for a SAG and BAFTA nom, just like Angelina and Denzel. WTF? The BAFTAs released their “shortlists” a few weeks ago, but they released their official nominations today. The silver linings of this year’s awards season is that Conclave and Anora are getting so much love. The big BAFTA nominations:

Best Film


Anora


The Brutalist


A Complete Unknown


Conclave


Emilia Pérez

Leading Actress


Cynthia Erivo, Wicked


Demi Moore, The Substance


Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez


Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths


Mikey Madison, Anora


Saoirse Ronan, The Outrun

Leading Actor


Adrien Brody, The Brutalist


Colman Domingo, Sing Sing


Hugh Grant, Heretic


Ralph Fiennes, Conclave


Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice


Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Supporting Actor


Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing


Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown


Guy Pearce, The Brutalist


Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice


Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain


Yura Borisov, Anora

Supporting Actress


Ariana Grande, Wicked


Felicity Jones, The Brutalist


Isabella Rossellini, Conclave


Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl


Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez


Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Director


Sean Baker; Anora


Brady Corbet; The Brutalist


Edward Berger; Conclave


Denis Villeneuve; Dune: Part Two


Jacques Audiard; Emilia Pérez


Coralie Fargeat; The Substance

[From The Evening Standard]

At some point, I’m going to need some heavy-duty analysis of how Yura Borisov has managed to get all of these nominations. I’m not mad about it, I just thought it would be a much harder sell to promote his (outstanding) performance. It’s also so bizarre to me that Jamie Lee Curtis now has a SAG and BAFTA nomination for a role which wasn’t on many people’s radars. What else? A bit surprised to see the BAFTA love for The Apprentice, and I’m not surprised that the BAFTAs went out of their way to recognize British actors like Hugh Grant and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. They also think Saoirse Ronan is British, don’t they? She’s Irish. She just played a Scottish character in The Outrun. Anyway, Anora and Conclave are my girls this year, which probably means that Emilia Perez is taking it.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, ‘Conclave’ stills.