BAFTA Film Head On Beefing Up Security After ‘Oppenheimer’ Prank & How The LA Fires Might Impact The Ceremony

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The spoils were shared fairly equally this morning as BAFTA unveiled its 2025 Film Award nominations. Conclave and Emilia Perez are out front with 12 and 11 noms apiece.

The two high-concept pics are trailed closely by Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist (9), Sean Baker’s Anora (7), Dune: Part Two (7), and Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unkown (6).  “It’s been a super strong year for films.

There’s a particularly strong range of films,” Anna Higgs, BAFTA Film Committee Chair, said of this afternoon’s nominations.  “You’ve got your dramas that are traditionally seen as awards movies, but we’ve got thrillers, musicals, biopics, horror, and comedy all in just the top 10 most nominated movies.”  Highlighting the specific breadth of British films, best illustrated by what she described as the diversity of the Outstanding British Film nominees, Higgs added: “You go from the magical realism of an auteur like Andrea Arnold all the way through to madcap mayhem with Wallace and Gromit.

And that shows you how healthy and exciting and innovative the filmmaking world is right now.” This afternoon’s nominations were announced just over a week after the beginning of the LA fires, which have to date killed 24 people and consumed over 38,000 acres of land.