BAFTA Awards 2025 Full Winners L: All We Imagine As Light loses to Emilia Pérez yet again; Conclave, The Brutal clinch top honours | Hollywood News
78th British Academy Film Awards 2025 Full Winners L: In yet another setback for director Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light, which had been dominating recent film festivals and securing top honours, it lost the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language to the French musical crime drama Emilia Pérez. All We Imagine As Light was only the seventh Indian film ever nominated in this category and the first in over a decade since Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox (2013), starring Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur.This marks the third time this year that Payal’s film has been bested Emilia Pérez in major award categories. Earlier, it lost the Best Foreign Language Film award to the French title at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards. While Payal also made hory as the first Indian filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director for an Indian film at the same event, she ultimately fell short of a win. Earlier this month, All We Imagine As Light once again faced disappointment as Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez claimed the Best Foreign Language Film award at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.
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Starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam and Hridhu Haroon, All We Imagine As Light follows two Malayali nurses in Mumbai and their friendships. The film previously made hory as the first from India to win the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May last year.
Despite opening to mixed responses, Emilia Pérez has been dominating the film awards season this time, even becoming the only non-English film to earn 13 Academy Award nominations. However, the film has also been at the centre of controversy over its lead star Karla Sofia Gascón’s old tweets, which many felt were Islamophobic and rac. At the 78th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), Emilia Pérez also won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Zoe Saldaña. Meanwhile, Edward Berger’s political thriller Conclave and Brady Corbet’s epic period drama The Brutal emerged as the biggest winners of the night, each taking home four awards.
Here’s the complete l of winners of the 78th BAFTA Awards, 2025:
Best Film: Conclave
Best Director: Brady Corbet (The Brutal)
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Adrien Brody (The Brutal)
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)
Best Original Screenplay: Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Peter Straughan (Conclave)
Best Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Best Documentary: Super/Man: The Chropher Reeve Story
Best Film Not in the English Language: Emilia Pérez
Best Casting: Anora (Sean Baker and Samantha Quan)
Best Cinematography: The Brutal (Lol Crawley)
Best Costume Design: Wicked (Paul Tazewell)
Best Editing: Conclave (Nick Emerson)
Best Make Up & Hair: The Substance (Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, Frédérique Arguello, and Marilyne Scarselli)
Best Original Score: The Brutal (Daniel Blumberg)
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Best Sound: Dune: Part Two (Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Gareth John, and Richard King)
Best Special Visual Effects: Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Gerd Nefzer, and Rhys Salcombe)
Outstanding British Film: Conclave
Outstanding Debut a British Writer, Director or Producer: Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt: Director, Writer)
Best British Short Animation: Wander to Wonder
Best British Short Film: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Best Children’s & Family Film: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
EE Rising Star Award: David Jonsson
