By Shamsudeen Abubakar
The Brutalist and the Conclave has emerged as the 2025 winner at the BAFTAs Film awards to celebrate the very best of the past year’s film releases among the British and international talents.
The 78th BAFTA Film Awards ceremony which took place Sunday 16th, 2025, at the Royal Festival Hall at London Southbank was hosted for the second consecutive year by actor David Tenant in celebration of the big screen action over the past 12 months.
In a parallel achievement, ‘Conclave’ and ‘The Brutalist’ earned four prizes each being the most decorated films of that evening. Edward Berger’s ‘The Conclave’ won Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Editing Awards while Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’ secured Original Score, Cinematography, Best Director, and Best Actor categories.
Several other awardees were Mikey Madison – Anora for Leading Actress Award, Adrien Brody – The Brutalist for Leading Actor, Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez for Supporting Actress, Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain for Supporting Actor, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story who took the Documentary Award, Production and Custume Design – Wicked, Make-up and hair – The Substance, EE Bafta rising star award (voted for by the public was David Jonsson, Original screenplay won by A Real Pain, Dune: for part two won Sound and Visual Effects, Brutish Short Film – Rock, Paper, Scissors, British Short Animation – Wander to Wonder, Original Cast Score won by The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg,
Also, Warwick Davis took the BAFTA Fellowship Award, Kneecap for Outstanding debut by a British writer, Emilia Pérez for Film not in the English language, Children’s and Family Film as well as Animated Film was won by Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, and an award for Outstanding British contribution to cinema award was given to MediCinema, the British charity which has been dedicated to improving the wellbeing of patients in NHS hospitals.
In the run-up to this year’s highly anticipated ceremony, 12 has been emerged after nominations for Conclave, 11 for Emilia Perez, and 9 for The Brutalist. Universal dominates with 32 nods across 6 films.
This report is published as part of the writer’s internship with Nollywire, facilitated by the National Association of Campus Journalists(NACJ), Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.