Yahoo Movies What we know about the 2025 Bafta film awards as longlist is revealed
The prestigious British ceremony will help kick off awards season, and details have emerged of who has made the longlist for all 25 categories.
The EE Bafta Film Awards is on the horizon as the New Year marks the beginning of awards season, and new details have emerged about the prestigious British ceremony.
On Friday, 3 January Bafta revealed the official longlist for this year's event, with the films and actors for all 25 categories including Best Film, Best Director and Best being confirmed. The titles that have made the longlist will go through to the second round of voting, with the shortlist making up the official nominees at the awards ceremony before the winners are announced.
From the celebrity who will be hosting the show to the details of the night itself, here is everything that you need to know about the 2025 Baftas.
The Bafta 2025 longlist nominees
In the Best Film category some of the biggest movies of 2024, and the buzziest of 2025, made the cut, with Anora, The Apprentice, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, The Substance, and Wicked making the cut alongside Irish indie film Kneecap — which swept the board at the British Independent Film Awards in December 2024.
Kneecap has also been longlisted in the Outstanding British Film category alongside Back to Black, Bird, Blitz, Civil War, Conclave, Gladiator II, Hard Truths, Kneecap, Lee, Love Lies Bleeding, The Outrun, Paddington in Peru, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, We Live in Time, and Wicked Little Letters.
In the acting categories, the Best Actress longlist nominees are Amy Adams for Nightbitch, Cynthia Erivo for Wicked, Demi Moore for The Substance, Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Pérez, Kate Winslet for Lee, Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths, Marisa Abela for Back To Black, Mikey Madison for Anora, Nicole Kidman for Babygirl, and Saoirse Ronan for The Outrun.
Madison and Jolie are currently the frontrunners for this award at the Oscars, and that is likely to be the case at the Baftas though Ronan will also be well in for a shot for her performance in The Outrun.
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When the comes to Best Actor, it is a similar thing with Oscar frontrunners Ralph Fiennes and Adrien Brody longlisted alongside Colman Domingo, Daniel Craig, Sebastian Stan, and Timothée Chalamet. They are also nominated alongside Dev Patel for his directorial debut Monkey Man, Hugh Grant for his terrifying turn in Heretic, Jude Law for his portrayal of Henry VIII in Firebrand, and Kingsley Ben-Adir for his performance as Bob Marley in the singer's biopic Bob Marley: One Love.
Emilia Pérez's Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez are longlisted in the Best Supporting Actress category, as is Ariana Grande for Wicked, Felicity Jones for The Brutalist, Isabella Rossellini for Conclave, Margaret Qualley for The Substance, Emily Watson for Small Things Like These, Jamie Lee Curtis for The Last Showgirl, and Michele Austin for Hard Truths. In the Supporting Actor longlist Denzel Washington, Edward Norton, Guy Pearce, Harris Dickinson, Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Mark Eydelshteyn, Stanley Tucci, and Yura Borisov have been named.
The Best Director longlist names The Brutalist's Brady Corbet, Anora's Sean Baker, All We Imagine as Light's Payal Kapadia, Conclave's Edward Berger, Dune: Part Two's Denis Villeneuve, The Substance's Coralie Fargeat, Emilia Pérez filmmaker Jacques Audiard, La Chimera creator Alice Rohrwacher, Lee's Ellen Kuras, and The Outrun director Nora Fingscheidt.
When will the Bafta 2025 shortlist be revealed?
Voting will open for Bafta members at 6pm GMT until 10 January to determine the nominations for the awards show, and the shortlist for all 25 categories will be announced on Wednesday 15 January at 12pm GMT on Bafta's YouTube channel.
The shortlist will be announced by 2024 EE Rising Star winner Mia-McKenna Bruce and Bafta-winner Will Sharpe.
Bafta members vote on the ceremony but the public are able to share their vote in one category: the EE Rising Star Award. EE will unveil the nominees for the Rising Star Award on Tuesday 7 January 2025, which is when voting will open to the public before the winner is announced at the ceremony.
Who will be hosting the Bafta 2025 Awards?
Speaking of hosting, the 2025 Bafta film awards will once again be led by none other than David Tennant who delighted viewers with his performance as host at the 2024 ceremony. The Rivals star delighted with his bedazzled kilt and his fun back-and-forth with frenemy Michael Sheen, and he proved to be a hilarious face to the awards show.
When will the Bafta 2025 Awards be on TV?
The 2025 Bafta film awards take place on on Sunday 16 February 2025 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. The red carpet will start earlier in the day with the ceremony itself expected to begin around 7pm that evening.
It will be broadcast live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, while in North America, the Nordics and Australia it will be available to stream on BritBox. Further international broadcasters will be announced by Bafta in the near future.
The 2025 EE Bafta Film Awards will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Sunday 16 February 2025.
