BAFTA Drops the 2025 Film Awards Longlist

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From animated adventures to big-name dramas, here’s what’s heating up this awards season.

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The 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards longlist is out, and it’s packed with potential winners. From animated family favorites to Oscar-bait dramas, the competition is fierce this year. While final nominations drop on January 15, the buzz is already building for films like Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Flow, and Dune: Part Two.

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A whopping 235 films were submitted this year, but only a few will make the final cut when nominations are announced via livestream on January 15. Winners will be crowned on February 16 at the Royal Festival Hall in London, hosted by the always-charming David Tennant.

Here are the longlists for some of the categories:

BEST FILM

10 films will advance in the Best Film category.

  • Anora
  • The Apprentice
  • The Brutalist
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Kneecap
  • The Substance
  • Wicked

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

15 films will advance in the Outstanding British Film category.

  • 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
  • Wicked Little Letters

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

10 films will advance in the Outstanding Debut category.

  • Bring Them Down
  • Grand Theft Hamlet
  • Hoard
  • Kneecap
  • Monkey Man
  • On Falling
  • Santosh
  • Sister Midnight
  • The Taste of Mango
  • The Teacher

CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM

Eight films will advance in the Children’s & Family Film category.

  • Flow
  • Kensuke’s Kingdom
  • Piece By Piece
  • Spellbound
  • That Christmas
  • Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
  • The Wild Robot
  • Young Woman and the Sea

DOCUMENTARY

10 films will advance in the Documentary category.

  • The Bibi Files
  • Black Box Diaries
  • Daughters
  • Elton John: Never Too Late
  • I Am: Celine Dion
  • Made In England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
  • No Other Land
  • The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
  • Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
  • Will & Harper

ANIMATED FILM

Eight films will advance in the Animated Film category.

  • Despicable Me 4
  • Flow
  • Inside Out 2
  • Memoir of a Snail
  • Moana 2
  • That Christmas
  • Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
  • The Wild Robot

DIRECTOR

10 films will advance in the Director category.

  • All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia
  • Anora, Sean Baker
  • The Brutalist, Brady Corbet
  • Conclave, Edward Berger
  • Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve
  • Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard
  • La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher
  • Lee, Ellen Kuras
  • The Outrun, Nora Fingscheidt
  • The Substance, Coralie Fargeat

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

10 films will advance in the Original Screenplay category.

  • All We Imagine as Light
  • Anora
  • The Apprentice
  • The Brutalist
  • Challengers
  • Civil War
  • Heretic
  • Kneecap
  • A Real Pain
  • The Substance

LEADING ACTRESS

10 performances will advance in the Leading Actress category.

  • Amy Adams, Nightbitch
  • Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
  • Demi Moore, The Substance
  • Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
  • Kate Winslet, Lee
  • Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
  • Marisa Abela, Back To Black
  • Mikey Madison, Anora
  • Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
  • Saoirse Ronan, The Outrun

  • LEADING ACTOR

10 performances will advance in the Leading Actor category.

  • Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
  • Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
  • Daniel Craig, Queer
  • Dev Patel, Monkey Man
  • Hugh Grant, Heretic
  • Jude Law, Firebrand
  • Kingsley Ben Adir, Bob Marley: One Love
  • Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
  • Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
  • Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

10 performances will advance in the Supporting Actress category.

  • Adriana Paz, Emilia Pérez
  • Ariana Grande, Wicked
  • Emily Watson, Small Things Like These
  • Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
  • Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl
  • Margaret Qualley, The Substance
  • Michele Austin, Hard Truths
  • Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
  • Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

SUPPORTING ACTOR

10 performances will advance in the Supporting Actor category.

  • Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
  • Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
  • Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
  • Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
  • Harris Dickinson, Babygirl
  • Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
  • Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
  • Mark Eydelshteyn, Anora
  • Stanley Tucci, Conclave
  • Yura Borisov, Anora

The longlists for all 25 categories are published here.

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