Guy Pearce leads Australia's BAFTA Awards hopes as 2025 nominations announced

Papal drama Conclave is leading this year's BAFTA nominations, after scooping up a total of 12 nominations, followed by Spanish musical drama Emilia Pérez which picked up 11.

The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody and Australian Guy Pearce came in with nine nominations, including individual nods for both actors.

Pearce, who scored a Supporting Actor nod will go up against Succession stars Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin for their roles in The Apprentice and A Real Pain, respectively.

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Also in the category is Edward Norton for A Complete Unknown, Yura Borisov for Anora and Clarence Maclin for Sing Sing.

Australian cinematographer Greig Fraser scored a nomination for his work in Dune: Part Two.

Cate Blanchett had success with Marion, a film about France's only female bull-jumper, nominated for British Short Film.

Blanchett served as executive producer on the project alongside actress Sienna Miller.

Other Aussie hopes, including Nicole Kidman for Babygirl, Better Man director Michael Gracey and Memoir of a Snail by Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot all missed out on nominations.

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Others snubbed for individual awards included Kate Winslet for her leading performance in Lee, which still managed to score a nomination for Outstanding British Film. As an executive producer on the WWII film, Winslet still scored a win there.

Gladiator II scored a nod in the Outstanding British Film category but Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal and Ridley Scott all missed out on individual nominations.

Saoirse Ronan was among the big winners in the nominations - scoring an individual Leading Actress nod for her role in biopic The Outrun, exploring addiction and recovery.

She had Outstanding British Film nominations for The Outrun, which Ronan served as an executive producer on, and the another for Steve McQueen's WWII film Blitz.

Joining Ronan in the Leading Actress category is first-time BAFTA nominee and recent Golden Globes winner Demi Moore for The Substance, along with Cynthia Erivo for Wicked.

Moore and Erivo are among 14 first-time nominees out of the 24 in the performance categories - as are Supporting Actress nominees Ariana Grande (Wicked), Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez) and Isabella Rossellini (Conclave).

Also among them, is actress Mikey Madison who scored nominations in both the Leading Actress and Rising Star categories for her work in Anora. The Cannes Palme d'Or-winning film scored seven nominations in total, as did Wicked and sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two.

Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown received a total of six nominations, including Leading Actor for Timothée Chalomet.

Chalomet will go up against Brody (The Brutalist), Hugh Grant (Heretic), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) and Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) for the trophy.

Other notable mentions include recognition for funnyman Will Ferrell's moving documentary Will & Harper.

While actor/writer/director Dev Patel scored an Oustanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer nomination for his efforts writing, directing and starring in action-thriller Monkey Man.

While a number of US awards shows are being rescheduled as wildfires rage in LA, BAFTA is sticking to the February 16 date, with David Tennant returning as host.

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"We are very much thinking of our colleagues, friends, community over there," BAFTA chair Sara Putt told The Associated Press.

"It's devastating what's going on."

However, she wouldn't be drawn on if or how the fires might impact the ceremony, considered the UK's answer to the Oscars.

"The ceremony is a month away, it would be inappropriate and far too early to say anything about that," Putt said.

The BAFTAs will take place at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, February 16 (Monday, February 17 AEDT) and will be streaming live on BritBox in Australia.

FULL LIST OF 2025 BAFTA AWARD NOMINEES:

Best film

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Outstanding British film

Bird

Blitz

Conclave

Gladiator II

Hard Truths

Kneecap

Lee

Love Lies Bleeding

The Outrun

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Oustanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

Hoard

Kneecap

Monkey Man

Santosh

Sister Midnight

Children's and family film

Flow

Kensuke's Kingdom

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

Film not in English language

All We Imagine as Light

Emilia Pérez

I'm Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)

Kneecap

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Documentary

Black Box Diaries

Daughters

No Other Land

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Will & Harper

Animated Film

Flow

Inside Out 2

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

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

The Brutalist

Kneecap

A Real Pain

The Substance

Adapted screenplay

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Nickel Boys

Sing Sing

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

Hugh Grant, Heretic

Ralph Fiennes, Conclave

Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Supporting actress

Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl

Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez

Ariana Grande, Wicked

Felicity Jones, The Brutalist

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

The Apprentice

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Kneecap

Cinematography

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Nosferatu

Costume Design

Blitz

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Nosferatu

Wicked

Editing

Anora

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Kneecap

Makeup & hair

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Nosferatu

The Substance

Wicked

Original score

The Brutalist

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Nosferatu

The Wild Robot

Production design

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Nosferatu

Wicked

Special visual effects

Better Man

Dune: Part Two

Gladiator II

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Wicked

Sound

Blitz

Dune: Part Two

Gladiator II

The Substance

Wicked

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