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The papal thriller “Conclave” and the musical comedy by Frenchman Jacques Audiard “Emilia Perez” lead the Bafta nominations. The British Film Awards will be presented on February 16 in London.
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January 15, 2025 – 2:04 p.m.
(Keystone-ATS) “Conclave”, directed by German filmmaker Edward Berger, garnered 12 nominations, closely followed by “Emilia Perez” (11). “The Brutalist”, a film in which Adrien Brody plays a Holocaust survivor architect, is nominated nine times.
These nominations announced on Wednesday, which set a trend before those of the Oscars, confirm the favorite status of “Emilia Perez”, already a big winner at the Golden Globes where he won four awards in early January.
This musical fresco on the gender transition of a Mexican drug trafficker, awarded at Cannes and broadcast on Netflix, is notably nominated in the best film category, best foreign language film, best director for Jacques Audiard and best actress for Karla Sofía Gascón.
Coralie Fargeat, only nominated director
“Conclave”, which recounts the power games during the election of a new pope, is also nominated in the best film category, best director for Edward Berger, big winner of the Bafta two years ago with his adaptation of “In the West, nothing new”, and best actor for the Briton Ralph Fiennes. “Anora,” which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, is nominated seven times, like the musical “Wicked.”
Frenchwoman Coralie Fargeat is the only woman nominated in the best director category for her gory and feminist fable “The Substance”, also starring Denis Villeneuve (“Dune II”), Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”) and Sean Baker ( “Anora”).
Unexpected success of “Kneecap”
Demi Moore, who won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of a former Hollywood star addicted to a youth serum in “The Substance,” is nominated in the best actress category. “Kneecap”, a docu-fiction about a cheeky Northern Irish trio who rap in Gaelic, continues to enjoy unexpected success and garners six nominations in the categories of best British film, casting and original screenplay.
The Bafta ceremony generally provides a preview of the Oscars, awarded two weeks later in Los Angeles. This city is still in the grip of devastating fires, and the televised announcement of the nominations, postponed twice, will take place online on January 23. The gala evening scheduled for March 2 is currently being maintained. The Critics Choice Awards ceremony, which was to be held on Sunday, had to be postponed.
