France shines thanks to Emilia Perez: Jacques Audiard’s film leads the BAFTA nominations!

After the success of Justin Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, French cinema continues to surprise the world and the BAFTA nominations, revealed on Wednesday, January 15, prove it once again. Twice awarded at the Cannes Film Festival – the best actress prize and the jury prize – Emilia Perez Jacques Audiard received no less than 11 nominations for the British Oscar.

The horror film Substance, directed by Frenchwoman Coralie Fargeat, winner of the Cannes Screenplay Award, received 5 nominations, including a BAFTA for Best Actress (Demi Moore) and a BAFTA for Best Director Coralie Fargeat.

The filmmaker is the only woman who made it to the list of nominated directors. The category is distinguished by the presence of two Frenchmen, as Jacques Audiard is also named after Emilia Perez.

As for the most nominated film, it is the successful Conclave, which takes first place with 12 nominations in all categories combined.

Discover the BAFTA 2025 nominations:

Best movie:

• Anora

• Brutalist

• a complete stranger

• Conclave

• Emilia Perez

Best British Film:

• a bird

• Blitz

• Conclave

• Gladiator 2

• hard truths

• Knee cap

• Lee

• Love Lies bleeds

• overtaking

• Wallace and Gromit: Palm of Revenge

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Everything we imagine as light

• Emilia Perez

• I’m still here

• Knee cap

• The seeds of the wild fig tree

Best Original Screenplay:

• Anora

• Brutalist

• Knee cap

• real pain

• substance

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• a complete stranger

• Conclave

• Emilia Perez

• The Nickel Boys

• sing sing

Best achievement:

• Sean Baker for Anor

• Brady Corbett for Brutalist

• Edward Berger for the Conclave

Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two

• Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez

• Coralie Fargeat for substance

Best Actress:

• Cynthia Erivo in Wicked

• Carla Sofia Gascon in Emilia Perez

• Marianne Jean-Baptiste in The Hard Truth

• Mike Madison in Anora

• Demi Moore in substance

• Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun

Best hope:

• Marisa Abella

• Jarrel Jerome

• David Johnson

• Mike Madison

• Nabhan Rizwani

Best Actor:

• Adrien Brody in Brutalist

• Timothee Chalamet in “The Perfect Stranger”.

• Colman Domingo in Sing Sing

• Ralph Fiennes in Conclave

• Hugh Grant in The Heretic

• Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice

Best Supporting Actress:

• Selena Gomez in Emilia Perez

• Ariana Grande in Wicked

• Felicity Jones in Brutalist

• Jamie Lee Curtis in The Last Showgirl

• Isabella Rossellini in Conclave

• Zoe Saldana in Emilia Perez

Best Supporting Actor:

• Yura Borisov in Anora

• Kieran Culkin in Real Pain

• Clarence McLean in Sing Sing

• Edward Norton in The Perfect Stranger

• Guy Pearce in Brutalist

• Jeremy Strong in The Apprentice

Best music:

• Brutalist

• Conclave

• Emilia Perez

• Nosferatu

• A wild robot

Best Animated Film:

• stream

• On the contrary 2

• Wallace and Gromit: Palm of Revenge

• A wild robot

Best Documentary:

• Black Box Diaries

• daughters

• There is no other land

• Super/Human: The Christopher Reeve Story

• Willie and Harper

Best Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer:

• Luna Carmoon for Hoard

• Rich pepiat on the knee

• Dev Patel for Monkey Man

• Sandia Suri, James Bowsher, and Balthazar de Ganey, Santosh

• Karan Kandhar in Sister Midnight