The 2025 BAFTA nominees have been revealed, and Conclave is the massive winner – however one in every of my favourite films bought nothing, and it is a crime

Just a few weeks in the past, the 2025 Golden Globes kicked off the beginning of this 12 months’s awards season, with the primary glitter-ball occasion of the 12 months celebrating a few of the finest films of 2024.

Now, it is the flip of the 2025 BAFTAs, whose nominations have been introduced right this moment (January 15). And, similar to the 2025 Golden Globes nominees record, this 12 months’s contingent has bought us all speaking concerning the surprises (and snubs) which might be half (and never half) of its choice.

Edward Berger’s spiritual thriller Conclave leads the pack with 12 nominations, whereas Emilia Perez (11) and The Brutalist (9) comply with carefully behind. Of all of 2024’s new films that launched in theaters and/or on the world’s finest streaming companies, although, there’s just one – the Zendaya-starring Challengers – that is shocked me over its lack of recognition.

Being one in every of, if not probably the most memorable film scores of 2024, the truth that Challengers wasn’t thought of worthy of a nod in that class is unforgivable in my eyes. Compared to this class’s precise nominees – The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Nosferatu, and The Wild Robot – it is a travesty that, on the very least, Challengers wasn’t given the nod on this area. To say it has been neglected on this class (or any class, for that truth) is an understatement. Here’s hoping the Oscars committee sees extra sense when this 12 months’s Academy Awards are revealed on January 19.