BAFTA Awards 2025 Winners Announced

The BAFTA Awards 2025 ceremony was held at the Royal Festival Hall in London and the winners of the awards for this film event were announced

According to the legend of Media Life, the films “Secret Meeting” and “Brutalist” shared the main awards of the annual British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA 2025) and each received four awards
The film “Secret Meeting” or “The Council of Cardinals” by Edward Berger won the Best Film, Best British Film, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing at the BAFTA 2025 Awards

In the final stages of the ceremony, it seemed that “Brutalist” had a better chance, as Brady Corbett received the Best Director award and Adrien Brody won the Best Actor award. Lull Crowley also won the Best Cinematography award for the film and Daniel Bloomberg won the award for Best Original Score

Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez also had a successful night, taking home awards for best foreign-language film and best supporting actress for Zoe Saldana. Director Jacques Audiard and Saldana paid tribute to the film’s star, Carla Sofia Gascon, in their speeches, but made no mention of the media controversy surrounding her

BAFTA 2025 Winners Announced

The winners of the awards for this film event were announced as follows

Best Film: “The Secret Meeting” or “The Congregation of Cardinals”

Best British Film: “The Secret Meeting” or “The Congregation of Cardinals”

Best First Work by a British Writer, Director or Producer: “Keep”

Best Foreign Language Film: “Emilia Pérez”

Best Documentary: “Superman: The Christopher Reeve Story”

Best Animated Film: “Wallace & Gromit: The Revenge of the Birds”

Best Children’s & Family Film: “Wallace & Gromit: The Revenge of the Birds”

Best Director: “The Brutalist” by Brady Corbett

Best Original Screenplay: “True Pain” by Jesse Eisenberg

Best Adapted Screenplay: “The Secret Meeting” or “The Congregation of Cardinals” by Peter Strahan

Best Best Actress: Mikey Madison, “Annora”

Best Actor: Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”

Best Supporting Actress: Zoe Saldana, “Emilia Pérez”

Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin, “True Pain”

Best Casting: “Annora”

Best Cinematography: Lol Crowley, “The Brutalist”

Best Editing: Nick Emerson, “The Secret Meeting”

Best Costume Design: Paul Tazewell, “The Villain”

Best Makeup: Pierre-Oliver Persin, Stephanie Gaillon, Federico Arguello, Marilyn Scarsley, “The Material”

Best Original Score: Daniel Bloomberg, “The Brutalist”

Best Production Design: Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales, “The Villain”

Best Sound: Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Garth John and Richard King for “Dune: Part II”

Best Special Effects: Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Gerd Nefzer and Rhys Salcombe for “Dune: Part II”

Best British Animated Short Film: “The Press to Wonder”

Best British Short Film: Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rising Star: David Johnson