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Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced the nominees for its 16th Dorian Film Awards. Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” led the nominees with nine nods, including Film of the Year, LGBTQ Film of the Year, Director of the Year, and Screenplay of the Year.” Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” nabbed eight nominations including, Director for Fargeat, while “Challengers” and “Emilia Peréz” earned six nominations each.

“The Brutalist” made a strong showing with five nominations, with “Anora,” “Nickel Boys” and “Wicked” all close behind with four apiece. “Queer” and “Problemista” round out the multi-nominated films with three nods each. In the per-studio counts, A24 led with 25 nominations, then Amazon MGM with 13, Netflix with 11, and Mubi with 10.

Notable titles in the group’s trademark categories include the slapstick comedy “Hundreds of Beavers” vying for Unsung Film of the Year, “Madame Web” and “Trap” for Campiest Flick,...

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For me the year of 2024 was a challenging one. Between being in hospital or housebound at home, I could not attend any press shows or even visit my local cinemas. However, I have tried to catch up with some of the more important films of the year. I have missed many I would like to have seen, but time marches on and I have made the best of a bad situation. If it was a tough year for me, it also seems to have brought many films dealing with various difficulties to our cinema screens.

Take, for instance, Edward Berger’s Conclave. What could be more challenging than the selection of a new Pope? Ralph Fiennes in this role is torn between tradition and scandals concerning the possible candidates. Then there was Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, where a Mexican cartel leader is forced to disappear...

Even Margaret Qualley can’t get the haunting visuals of “The Substance” out of her mind.

The actress told IndieWire that more than two years after wrapping production on Coralie Fargeat’s Golden Globes-winning satirical horror film, she still has “nightmares” about a certain gory scene — and it’s not that bloody ending. Instead, the sequence in which Sue (Qualley) starts to fall apart quite literally ahead of her big New Year’s Eve hosting spot is what lives rent-free in Qualley’s subconscious.

“Actually, just the night before last, I had a replica nightmare of when Sue loses her teeth, and she’s freaking out in front of the mirror,” Qualley said. “I’m one of those people who’s definitely had that nightmare before where you lose your teeth, but then I had the literal scene: I was looking in the mirror with only my two teeth. It...

One of the last critics groups to announce their year-end awards is Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. This year, the 500+ member body kicked off the 2025 Dorian Film Awards by honoring Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw The TV Glow” with nine nominations while Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” earned eight noms. Other nominees in the Film of the Year category included “Challengers,” “Nickel Boys,” and “Anora.”

Read More: ‘Wicked,’ ‘Conclave,’ and ‘The Penguin’ Earn 2025 PGA Awards Nominations

Among other awards season contenders, “Challengers” and “Emilia Pérez” earned six nominations while “The Brutalist” earned five.

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I Saw the TV Glow and The Substance led the way at the Dorian Film Award nominations on Friday. The awards are selected by Galeca — the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics comprises more than 500 critics, journalists, and media figures. Winners will be announced on Feb. 13.

SEE2025 Independent Spirit Awards nominations: Full list led by ‘Anora,’ ‘I Saw the TV Glow’

From director Jane Schoenbrun, A24’s I Saw the TV Glow tells the eerie story of two friends (Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine) whose realities start to collapse around their favorite television series. The movie received a leading nine Dorian nominations including Film of the Year, LGBTQ Film of the Year, and Director of the Year, while both Smith and Lundy-Paine were nominated for their performances. The indie feature, hailed as a groundbreaking trans allegory, has mostly flown under the radar this awards season, though it did score three Gotham...

The votes are in for the 2025 Dorian Awards nominations. Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics said today that Neon’s Anora, Amazon MGM Studios’ Challengers, A24’s I Saw the TV Glow, Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM’s Nickel Boys and Mubi’s The Substance will battle it out for Film of the Year.

Vying for LGBTQ Film of the Year are Challengers, I Saw the TV Glow, Netflix’s Emilia Peréz and A24’s Love Lies Bleeding and Queer.

Nominees for the all-gender Film Performance of the Year prize are Golden Globe winners Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) and Demi Moore (The Substance) along with Daniel Craig (Queer), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Peréz), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Mikey Madison (Anora) and Justice Smith (I Saw the TV Glow).

Jane Schoenbrun’s thought-provoking horror tale I Saw the TV Glow leads...

Exclusive: Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two leads the nominations at this year’s Online Film Critics Society Awards. Scroll down for the lists in full.

Dune: Part Two clocked nine noms. The haul includes nods in the Best Picture, Best Directing, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Chasing Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel is Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist (8), Edward Berger’s Conclave (7) and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (7), while Anora, Nickel Boys, and Wicked each earned 6 nominations.

Comprised of nearly 300 voting members from around the world, the Online Film Critics Society was founded in 1997. Check out the nominations below.

Best Picture:

Anora

The Brutalist

Challengers

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

I Saw the TV Glow

Nickel Boys

Nosferatu

The Substance

Wicked

Best Animated Feature:

Flow

Inside Out 2

Memoir of a Snail

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

Best Directing:

Sean Baker – Anora

Brady Corbet – The Brutalist

Coralie Fargeat – The...

A Different Man, The Substance, Wolf Man… Body horror films have seen a sudden surge in Hollywood. We take a look at why that might be.

The human body has long been violated, penetrated and torn apart on the silver screen. Horror has always thrived on gore and the multiple ways you can make people suffer, especially physically. The early 2000s even saw the rise of ‘torture porn’, a genre which focuses primarily on extensive, almost silly gore.

2024 was a particularly strong year for body horror with both The Substance and A Different Man making their ways into UK cinemas. The Substance, which we awarded the full five stars in our review, is a strong contender at this year’s Oscars, especially after Demi Moore took home one of the Best Actress awards at the Golden Globes. A Different Man’s Sebastian Stan also took home Best Actor in Musical Or Comedy,...

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. Et/ 4:00 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

Once again, the last time the Best Original Screenplay Oscar was won exclusively by someone who did not direct the film was in 2011 for “The King’s Speech.” More specifically, the last time a director won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay who was not also nominated for Best Director that year was when Spike Jonze won for “Her” a decade ago.

So with that in mind, consider Sean Baker (“Anora”), Coralie Fargeat (“The Substance”), and Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold (“The Brutalist”) shoo-ins for a...

The Producers Guild of America has announced its 2025 nominees for movies and television.

The list was released Thursday following two postponements due to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

Nominees for the guild’s top film prize, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, include Sean Baker’s dramedy Anora, Brady Corbet’s historical epic The Brutalist, Edward Berger’s Conclave, Jacques Audiard’s musical Emilia Pérez, Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Wicked, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, Jesse Eisenberg’s bromance dramedy A Real Pain, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance and Tim Felbaum’s thriller September 5.

The Producers Guild will also present special honors to Chris Meledandri (David O. Selznick Achievement Award), Dana Walden (Milestone Award), Taika Waititi (Norman Lear Achievement Award) and Lynda Obst and Paula Weinstein (Trailblazer Award).

Winners will be announced at the PGA...

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) unveiled its 2025 Awards nominees on Thursday, honoring an eclectic slate of films poised to dominate this year’s Oscar race.

Among the 10 nominees for the coveted Darryl F. Zanuck Award for outstanding producer of theatrical motion pictures are Sean Baker’s poignant dramedy “Anora,” Brady Corbet’s meticulously crafted historical epic “The Brutalist,” Edward Berger’s religious thriller “Conclave,” Jacques Audiard’s genre-bending musical “Emilia Pérez” and Jon M. Chu’s glittering adaptation of “Wicked.”

Perhaps the most unexpected entry in this year’s list is Tim Fehlbaum’s indie thriller “September 5.” The high-stakes dystopian drama, acquired by Paramount Pictures after generating buzz at Venice and Telluride, edged out high-profile contenders like RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” and Greg Kwedar’s prison drama “Sing Sing.” The nod for “September 5” marks a significant moment for the underdog film, which now finds itself in the best picture conversation.

When the 2025 Oscars nominations are announced on Jan. 23 at 5:30 a.m. Pt, expect Emilia Pérez to be on top.

According to Gold Derby predictions, the Netflix musical dramedy is poised to receive 11 bids — more than any other contender — including Best Director (Jacques Audiard), Best Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón), and Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña). That would be two fewer than last year’s nominations leader Oppenheimer at 13, but on par with 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once at 11 — both of which won Best Picture.

Close behind with 10 forecasted noms is A24’s The Brutalist, starring Best Actor frontrunner Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor who tries to live out the American Dream in the 1940s and 1950s. Expect nominations for Best Director (Brady Corbet), Best Supporting Actress (Felicity Jones), and Best Supporting Actor (Guy Pearce), per Gold Derby odds.

Focus Features’ Conclave, which depicts the intrigue inside the Vatican...

The Oscar race is a marathon, not a sprint. There are dozens of pit stops along the way and trophies to be given out before the 2025 Oscars on Sunday, March 2. Keep track of precursor wins here with our scorecard. This includes honors from major film festivals, critics groups, guilds, and televised shows of the 2024-25 Oscar season. Wins are listed in order of announcement and in accordance with candidates’ FYC campaigns.

Updated: Thursday, Jan. 16 with Pittsburgh Film Critics Association, Women Film Critics Circle, and Chicago Indie Critics winners.

Since her victory at the Golden Globes, Demi Moore has earned eight Best Actress prizes, including five consecutively, most recently from the Cic. The haul has brought her precursor win total to 14, passing Marianne Jean-Baptiste for second place for the season thus far (Mikey Madison leads Best Actress contenders with 26 wins). Did Moore’s Globe victory for The Substance and moving speech give her a boost?...

Conclave Leads Nominations (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Hollywood’s award season has already warmed up the new year; the Golden Globes successfully separated favorites from potential surprises, and nominations for SAG and Critics Choice Awards have already been unveiled. Now, the British Academy Film Awards have followed suit.

While Hollywood is fighting the cataclysmic California wildfires, postponing forthcoming ceremonies and extending Academy Awards submission dates, fortunately, all the way across the Atlantic Ocean, the British Isles face no such threat. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced nominees across 26 categories, recognizing outstanding contributions to cinema.

Doctor Who actor David Tennant, last year’s host, will return to lead the ceremony. This year marks one of the most competitive lineups, with no clear frontrunners and several close races. Conclave leads with 12 nominations, followed closely by Emilia Pérez with 11. Anora director Sean Baker achieved a historic six individual nods,...

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Ya se conocen los nominados a los Premios BAFTA 2025. Los ganadores se anunciarán el 16 de febrero. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los nominados de esta edición:

Mejor PELÍCULA

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Emilia Pérez

Cónclave

Mejor PELÍCULA BRITÁNICA

Bird

Blitz

Cónclave

Gladiator II

Hard Truths

Knecap

Lee

Love Lies Bleeding

The Outrun

Wallace y Gromit: La venganzase sirve con plumas

Mejor debut de un escritor, director o productor británico

Hoard

Kneecap

Monkey Man

Santosh

Sister Midnight

Mejor PELÍCULA Familiar

Flow

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Wallace y Gromit: La venganzase sirve con plumas

The Wild Robot

Mejor PELÍCULA De Habla No Inglesa

All We Imagine as Light

Emilia Pérez

I’m Still Here

Kneecap

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Mejor PELÍCULA Documental

Black Box Diaries

Daughters

No Other Land

Super/Man: The...

Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence in director Edward Berger’s ‘Conclave’ (Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024)

Conclave emerged the favorite among the 2025 Ee BAFTA Film Awards voters, scoring 12 nominations including Best Film, Director, Leading Actor, and Supporting Actress. Emilia Pérez was close behind with 11 nominations, followed by The Brutalist with nine and Anora, Dune: Part Two, and Wicked with seven.

Overall, 42 films earned BAFTA Film Awards nominations, and 14 of the 24 performance nominees are BAFTA Awards first-timers.

Winners will be announced on February 16th.

“From a total of 235 films entered, we are delighted to announce 42 extraordinary and creatively ambitious films that have been nominated. The skills on display from creative and technical practitioners across the board are phenomenal. I look forward to celebrating the many talented people in front of and behind the camera at the Ee BAFTA Film Awards 2025 ceremony on 16 February,” stated Sara Putt, Chair of BAFTA.

BAFTA...

Blumhouse Pictures, the kings of horror at the box office for the past decade, didn’t make a big splash at the box office in 2024. This year looks to be much different, starting this weekend with Leigh Whannell’s “Wolf Man.”

According to exhibitors and rival distributors, “Wolf Man” is projected for a 3-day opening in the high teens. With MLK Day included, the Universal release is expected to earn a 4-day opening above $20 million.

This would be a higher opening than any of Blumhouse’s launches in 2024, as their last January release, “Night Swim,” and their September remake of “Speak No Evil” both opened to around $11 million. “Speak No Evil” was Blumhouse’s top film last year with $36.9 million domestic and $75.7 million worldwide.

To be clear, none of Blumhouse’s 2024 films were flops, easily clearing their production budgets which never exceeded $15 million. But 2024 was also only the second year...

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. Et/ 4:00 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

Though there are still nominations being announced here and there, the recent arrival of BAFTA and DGA nominations, plus certain films doing very well at the Golden Globes, can point to a few contenders that (for now) feel like a lock for a Best Director nomination at the 2025 Oscars.

For instance, “The Brutalist” helmer Brady Corbet was the big winner at the January ceremony, and has consistently been recognized in just about any Best Director category he’s eligible for. His narrative of taking initiative and...

There are many moments, in Coralie Fargeat's 2024 horror-satire The Substance, when Fargeat's frequently invasive camera is clearly avoiding its characters' faces on purpose. That's mostly just part of the movie's whole ethos, with the camera frequently breaking the human body down into individual components in order to highlight how...

Anora, A Complete Unknown, Challengers, Hit Man, and Wicked are among the 2025 Writers Guild of America Awards nominees.

In Best Original Screenplay, Anora and Challengers are up against A Real Pain, Civil War, and My Old Ass. The Best Adapted Screenplay lineup features A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Hit Man, Nickel Boys, and Wicked.

The nominations were announced Wednesday, a week after the guild postponed its scheduled Jan. 9 announcement due to the Los Angeles wildfires.

As previously reported, dozens of scripts — including several top Oscar hopefuls — were ineligible for consideration this year. A screenplay is ineligible if it’s produced outside of the WGA’s collective bargaining agreement or written by a non-union member.

The ineligible adapted scripts were Golden Globe champ Conclave (by Peter Straughan), Emilia Pérez (by Jacques Audiard), I’m Still Here (by Walter Salles), Inside Out 2 (by Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein with a...

Seven years went from the time when director Coralie Fargeat made her feature directorial debut with a very cool revenge movie that was appropriately titled Revenge – you can read our 8/10 review of the film at This Link – and when she came back with an “explosive feminist take on body horror” called The Substance, which stars Demi Moore (Ghost) and Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). Fargeat’s second movie was worth the wait (you can read our 9/10 review Here), and has been streaming on the Mubi service since Halloween. Qualley wore some major prosthetic makeup for some sequences in the film – and during a new interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, she revealed that it took a year for her skin to recover from the irritation caused by those prosthetics.

The film is gory, but also humorous, and it’s quite a wild ride. Here’s the...

Bafta has announced the nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards in 2025, celebrating the very best in film of the past year. Bafta winner Will Sharpe and former Ee Rising Star winner Mia McKenna-Bruce hosted the announcement via global livestream from the arts charity’s headquarters at 195 Piccadilly, London. The Ee Bafta Film Awards, hosted by David Tennant, will be broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer from London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 16 February. In addition, the Ee Bafta Film Awards will be available across BritBox in North America, the Nordics and Australia, as well as a host of further international broadcasters to be announced. Viewers at home will also have front row seats to the red-carpet arrivals, which will be streamed live on Bafta’s YouTube, featuring interviews with nominees and other special guests. Voting for the Ee Rising Star Award is now open at ee.co.

This afternoon, Will Sharpe and Mia McKenna-Bruce announced the list of lucky nominees for 2025’s Ee BAFTA Awards.

This year nominations see 12 nominations for ‘Conclave,’ 11 nominations for ‘Emilia Pérez,’ While ‘The Brutalist’ received 9 nominations. 7 nominations for ‘Anora,’ ‘Dune: Part Two’ and ‘Wicked.’

14 out of 24 nominees in the performance categories have received their first BAFTA Film nomination, including Yura Borisov (Anora), Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), Isabella Rossellini (Conclave), Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) and Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice).

The Ee BAFTA Film Awards ceremony will once again be held at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in central London, and broadcast on Sunday 16 February 2025 on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK.

Also in news – Jack Huston...

Today, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) released the film nominations for 2025, with two international films leading the list. Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave received 12 nominations, and Jacques Audiard’s musical Emilia Pérez received 11 nominations.

Both films have open categories for the best film, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The Brutalist, directed by Brady Corbet and a Golden Globe winner, has received nine nominations.

Universal Pictures led the nominations this year with 32 for its films. The studio has had success with several productions: “The Brutalist” received nine nominations, “Anora” and “Wicked” got seven each, “Nosferatu” had five, “The Wild Robot” got three, and “Monkey Man” received one. Netflix trails behind with 16 nominations, partly thanks to “Emilia Pérez.”

Some odd missing items have caught the industry’s eye. “Wicked” was not nominated for Best Film despite receiving good technical nominations. Denzel Washington, a well-known actor, did...

Roll up, awards buffs: shiny trophy season is hotting up, with BAFTA having announced its nominees for this year’s ceremony. And fittingly, it seems BAFTA members might have gathered in robes to submit their votes on little white slips of paper: papal thriller Conclave is the most-nominated film this year, receiving 12 nods including Best Film, Director for Edward Berger, Leading Actor for Ralph Fiennes, Supporting Actress for Isabella Rossellini, Adapted Screenplay and more. Send up the white smoke, people.

Hot on Conclave’s heels is Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying crime-thriller-musical-character-drama, in which a cartel boss undergoes gender-reassignment surgery to begin her new life. The film is nominated in 11 categories. Audiard is nominated for Director, while the film itself is up for Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Film Not In The English Language. Emilia herself, Karla Sofía Gascón, is up for Leading Actress, with Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña...

Universal is absolutely towering over the studios and streamers when it comes to this year’s BAFTA nominations.

Thanks to “The Brutalist” (nine nominations), “Anora” and “Wicked” (seven each), plus “Nosferatu” (five), “The Wild Robot” (three) and “Monkey Man” (one), Universal and its offshoot label Focus Features have amassed an astonishing 32 nominations in total, twice that of its nearest competitor, Netflix. The streamer landed 16 overall, led by the 11 from “Emilia Pérez.”

But Universal could have had five more had it not offloaded Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror “The Substance” before Cannes.

Further down, the nascent distributor Black Bear U.K. had a phenomenal year thanks to the 11 nominations for “Conclave”, and three for “Sing Sing.” Black Bear’s total of 12 was two up on Disney, which earned 10, most coming from Searchlight’s “A Complete Unknown.”

See the list of top-performing distributors below:

Universal Pictures & Focus Features (32)

“Anora” 7

“The Brutalist” 9

“Monkey Man...

The nominations for the 2025 BAFTAs are here!

This year, Conclave scored the most nominations with 12 total. Emilia Pérez is in second with 11 nominations this year.

This year’s ceremony is set to take place on Sunday (February 16) live from London, England with Doctor Who‘s David Tennant returning to host.

Just Jared will be live updating throughout the event, so stay tuned!

Keep reading to find out more…

Scroll down for the full list of nominees…

Best Film

“Anora” — Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker

“The Brutalist”

“A Complete Unknown”

“Conclave”

“Emilia Pérez”

Outstanding British Film

“Bird” — Andrea Arnold, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Lee Groombridge

“Blitz” — Steve McQueen, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Anita Overland

“Conclave” — Edward Berger, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman, Peter Straughan

“Gladiator II” — Ridley Scott, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Michael Pruss, David Scarpa, Peter Craig

“Hard Truths” — Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe

“Kneecap” — Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney,...

Wicked, Kneecap, Gladiator II star Denzel Washington, Sing Sing breakout Clarence Maclin, Queer lead Daniel Craig, and The Substance star Margaret Qualley were among the biggest snubs and surprises after the 78th annual BAFTA Awards nominations were announced on Wednesday.

Conclave and Emilia Pérez led all films with 12 and 11 nominations, respectively. Most of the expected Oscar contenders also landed predicted bids with British Academy of Film and Television Arts voters (the complete list of nominees is here). However, the BAFTA Awards snubs and surprises were slightly scooped by the BAFTA Awards themselves. Earlier this month, the BAFTA Awards revealed this year’s longlists in each category, with Netflix’s Emilia Pérez and Focus Features’ Conclave pacing the field with, respectively, 15 and 14 longlist mentions. Other contenders that performed well on the longlists included The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, and The Substance. Films and performers excluded from the longlists in key categories included Angelina Jolie,...

The nominees for the 78th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) are here, setting up even more showdowns in the 2025 awards season.

Check out this year’s nominees for the 2025 Baftas below:

Best Film:

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Outstanding British Film:

Bird

Blitz

Conclave

Gladiator II

Hard Truths

Kneecap

Lee

Love Lies Bleeding

The Outrun

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Best Director:

Anora Sean Baker

The Brutalist Brady Corbet

Conclave Edward Berger

Dune: Part Two Denis Villeneuve

Emilia Pérez Jacques Audiard

The Substance Coralie Fargeat

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Cynthia Erivo Wicked

Karla Sofia Gascon Emilia Pérez

Marianne Jean-Baptiste Hard Truths

Mikey Madison Anora

Demi Moore The Substance

Saoirse Ronan The Outrun

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Adrien Brody The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes Conclave

Hugh Grant Heretic

Sebastian Stan The Apprentice...

The 2025 Ee BAFTA Film Awards nominations are in, with 42 films receiving nods on Wednesday morning. Leading the crop of nominees are “Conclave” with 12, “Emilia Pérez” with 11, and “The Brutalist” with nine. “Anora,” “Dune: Part Two,” and “Wicked” all received seven nominations, even though “Wicked” was shut out from the Best Film category. Ireland’s Oscar entry “Kneecap,” which is on the Academy shortlist, made a strong showing with six nominations. Same with “A Complete Unknown.” “Nosferatu” and “The Substance,” meanwhile, both earned five nominations.

Shut-outs and also-rans included “Challengers,” which received zero nominations; Denzel Washington from the Best Supporting Actor category for his work in “Gladiator II”; Nicole Kidman, out for her work in “Babygirl”; and Daniel Craig, the English actor snubbed for his work in “Queer.” “Sing Sing” did well with three nominations including for Best Actor Colman Domingo and Best Supporting Actor Clarence Maclin. Selena Gomez is in for “Emilia Pérez,...

“Conclave” leads the pack of 2025 BAFTA Film Awards nominees with 12 nods, one more than “Emilia Pérez,” which had appeared on the most BAFTA longlists (15) when they were announced on Jan. 3.

Mia McKenna-Bruce and Will Sharpe announced the 2025 nominees live on Wednesday in London.

The British academy nominated “Conclave” for best film, outstanding British film, best director (for Edward Berger), lead actor (Ralph Fiennes), supporting actress (Isabella Rossellini), and adapted screenplay (Peter Straughan). “Emilia Pérez” picked up nods for best film, director (Jacques Audiard), lead actress (Karla Sofía Gascón), supporting actress (Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña) and adapted screenplay (Audiard).

“The Brutalist,” meanwhile, received nine nominations, including best film, director (Brady Corbet) and actor (Adrien Brody), followed by seven each for “Anora,” “Dune: Part Two” and “Wicked.” Of those three, only “Anora” made the cut for best film and director (Sean Baker). Coralie Fargeat landed the last spot in the director category,...

The 2025 BAFTA Film Awards nominations are in – here’s a look at the snubs and the snub-ies.

With A Real Pain star Will Sharpe and last year’s Rising Star Award winner Mia McKenna Bruce taking on hosting duties, the results are in for the films BAFTA’s 8,100 film awards voters consider the best of 2024.

It’s a lovely afternoon for Conclave and Emilia Pérez, leading the awards with 12 and 11 nominations respectively, and a slightly less lovely afternoon for Daniel Craig (who missed out on a Best Actor nod for Queer) and Denzel Washington, who holds onto his title as a no-time BAFTA-nominee after Gladiator II failed to register with voters.

Among the biggest surprises is the addition of Hugh Grant in the Best Actor category for his creepy-man role in Heretic – together with the three nominations for Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, 2025 is already showing the horror genre much more love than previous years.

Iris Knobloch, the respected former boss of Warner Bros. France and Germany who became the first female president of the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, has been re-elected by the festival’s board for another three-year mandate.

The German-born, Paris-based executive will continue working alongside Cannes Film Festival’s longtime general delegate and artistic director Thierry Fremaux, who remains in charge of the official selection.

Knobloch was elected by the board of directors of the Association Française du Festival International du Film, which brings together public authorities and film industry professionals. She succeeded Pierre Lescure as Cannes president.

“I am profoundly honored to once again receive the trust of our Board of Directors. I take great pride in the success of the past two editions and I am excited to continue this journey alongside our General Delegate Thierry Frémaux and our dedicated teams in the years to come,” Knobloch said in a statement.

Acting shortlists are dominated by newcomers to the exclusion of industry veterans, but The Substance’s Coralie Fargeat is the only female director in shortlist of six

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Conclave, Edward Berger’s papal thriller about a conflicted cardinal overseeing the election of the new pope, heads into next month’s Bafta awards with the most nominations. It is in the running for 12 awards – one more than its closest rival, Jacques Audiard’s much-decorated transgender musical Emilia Pérez.

Based on the novel by Robert Harris, Berger’s film will hope to repeat the surprise sweep of his previous film, All Quiet on the Western Front, which won seven awards at the ceremony two years ago, including best picture and best director.

Edward Berger’sConclaveand Jacques Audiard’sEmilia Perezlead the films nominated for the 2025 Bafta Film Awards, with 12 and 11 nominations respectively.

Papal dramaConclaveis nominated for awards including best film, outstanding British film, director, leading actor for Ralph Fiennes and supporting actress for Isabella Rossellini.

Mexico-set musicalEmilia Perezis up for best film, director, leading actress for Karla Sofia Gascon and supporting actress for both Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana.

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Forty-two films are nominated across the 23 feature categories, with nine nominations for Brady Corbet’sThe Brutalistincluding best film, director, leading actor for Adrien Brody and supporting...

Leading arthouse sales agency the Match Factory, which is part of Mubi, has appointed Agathe Valentin as sales director, a newly created role. The company’s slate includes Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore, which won best screenplay in Cannes and best actress at the Golden Globes.

The appointment comes ahead of the Match Factory’s preparations for Sundance, where the company will premiere “Magic Farm” by Amalia Ulman and Cherien Dabis’ “All That’s Left of You,” as well as for Berlinale, where it will showcase several films.

Valentin, who will report to Thania Dimitrakopoulou, VP international sales, will serve as a “key driver in executing initiatives that expand the organization’s international footprint and meet its goals,” said the company. Valentin will work from Brussels.

With nearly two decades of experience in the film industry, Valentin has worked with a broad range of companies and films. Her...

Blessed be Edward Berger, whose Vatican drama Conclave is now officially the front-runner in this year’s BAFTA Film Awards nominations.

The Ralph Fiennes- and Stanley Tucci-starring film, based on the novel by Robert Harris, leads the way with 12 BAFTA nominations — ahead of Emilia Pérez‘s 11 and The Brutalist‘s nine, as unveiled by actors Will Sharpe and Mia McKenna-Bruce from the British Academy’s headquarters in London mid-day on Wednesday.

Among others, Conclave is in the running for best film, outstanding British film, best director for Oscar winner Berger, leading actor for Fiennes and adapted screenplay for Peter Straughan. Isabella Rossellini is also nominated in the supporting actress category.

In 2023, Berger’s World War I drama All Quiet on the Western Front picked up 14 BAFTA nominations, equaling the record for a non-English-language film first set by Ang Lee’s wuxia masterpiece Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It also ended up with seven wins,...

“Conclave” and “Emilia Pérez” lead this year’s BAFTA Film Awards nominations, heading up a diverse mix of talent and titles in a competition where, for the first time in years, there’s no clear favorite in any of the major categories.

“The Brutalist,” “Anora,” “Dune: Part Two” “Wicked” and “A Complete Unknown” are also very much in contention, while the likes of Demi Moore (“The Substance”), Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”), Jeremy Strong (“The Apprentice”), Ariana Grande (“Wicked”), Selena Gomez (“Emilia Pérez”), Mikey Madison (“Anora”), Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Isabella Rossellini (“Conclave”), Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia Pérez”) and Guy Pearce (“The Brutalist”) are among the 12 of 24 nominated performers — both established and rising — getting their very first BAFTA nod.

Elsewhere, there’s space for BAFTA regulars, such as Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”), Hugh Grant (“Heretic”) and Jamie Lee Curtis (“The Last Showgirl”), yet the ongoing quest for BAFTA to...

The nominees for the 2025 Ee BAFTA film awards are being unveiled in London on Wednesday.

Actors Will Sharpe and Mia McKenna Bruce are revealing the coveted shortlists at 12 p.m. GMT (4 a.m. Pt) in a livestream from the U.K. Academy’s headquarters at 195 Piccadilly in the British capital.

Earlier this month, the longlists for each category — the results of the first round of voting for the honors — were confirmed. They were led by Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical Emilia Perez (15), including leading actress and supporting actress mentions for Karla Sofia Gascon, Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez. Edward Berger’s Conclave followed with 14 nods, including leading actor and supporting actor for Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, respectively.

After that, it was a three-way tie between Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (11). Sean Baker’s Anora is honored with nine mentions on the longlists,...

On Wednesday, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced its 78th annual BAFTA Awards nominees, with expected contenders Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, and Emilia Pérez nominated for Best Film.

Conclave led all films with 12 nominations, including bids for Best Film, Best British Film, Best Director for Edward Berger, Best Adapted Screenplay for Peter Straughan, Best Actor for Ralph Fiennes, and Best Supporting Actress for Isabella Rossellini. It’s the second time BAFTA voters have widely embraced a Berger feature in three years after giving All Quiet on the Western Front 14 nominations in 2023.

In second, just behind the nominations leader, was Emilia Pérez. Netflix’s top contender landed 11 BAFTA Award nominations, including Best Film, Best Film Not in English Language, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jacques Audiard, Best Actress for Karla Sofia Gascón, and Best Supporting Actress for Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña.

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Ah, awards season, when cinema stans obsessively track the goings-on at all the film fétes in America and that one in England. While not necessarily as big of an indicator for the Academy Awards race as U.S. shows like the Golden Globes, Oscars prognosticators will factor what goes on...

Actress Margaret Qualley has shared that the prosthetic makeup she wore while shooting “The Substance” caused serious skin damage that took a year to heal.

In a recent “Happy Sad Confused” podcast episode, Qualley told host Josh Horowitz that her skin irritation became so severe that it changed the movie’s shooting schedule and how the cameras were used.

“They had to shoot up my skirt in the beginning credits, with palm trees all around and long lenses from the bottom, because my face was so damaged they couldn’t shoot it anymore,” Qualley said. Director Coralie Fargeat had to use clever camera settings to solve the problem.

Qualley still had skin issues during her next project, “Kinds of Kindness,” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. The damage helped her play one of the four roles in the movie better than she expected.

“The character with a lot of acne?” Qualley said,...

In a recent interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Margaret Qualley said it took “a year” for her skin to recover from the irritation caused by the face prosthetics used in “The Substance.” The damage was so bad that director Coralie Fargeat had to frame out her face in certain shots.

“At the end, when they’re shooting up my skirt in the beginning credits, and it’s like the palm trees all around and they have all these long lenses from the bottom, that’s just because my face was so fucked up,” Qualley said. “They couldn’t shoot my face anymore.”

The acne from the prosthetics lasted long after “The Substance” wrapped and persisted as she began shooting her next film, “Kinds of Kindness,” in which she played four characters: Vivian, Martha, Rebecca and Ruth. Luckily, the acne played to her benefit in the Yorgos Lanthimos drama.

While on an upcoming episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast, writer and director Coralie Fargeat broke down the cinematic lineage of her “The Substance.” When talking about her much-heralded body horror sensation — the rare genre film to break into the awards race — Fargeat discussed wanting to make a film that “stays with you long after you leave the theater.” Fargeat has spent a great deal of time analyzing why certain movies left a lasting imprint on her and what she could learn from each.

“It’s about the phantasmagoria, the fact that you break the rules of reality,” said Fargeat. “You create the reality of your film, and then I think it gives you such a freedom to create something that no one else but you is going to create for your own movie.”

It’s how David Cronenberg, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, the Coen brothers, Darren Aronofsky, and John Carpenter...

Starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, the 2024 standout body horror film The Substance has earned widespread acclaim for its powerful performances and haunting imagery. As the film explores themes of unrelenting self-destruction in pursuit of perfection, Margaret Qualley revealed that her behind-the-scenes experience mirrored the film’s intensity.

A still from The Substance | Credit: Mubi

The actress, who portrays the younger version of the lead character Sue, recently shared her experience working on the movie and how it left her with “crazy prosthetic acne,” which took nearly a year to recover.

Margaret Qualley reveals the horrors of starring in The Substance

In her recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Margaret Qualley shared her experience of starring in the acclaimed body horror movie, The Substance. Qualley takes on the role of Sue, a younger version of the film star Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore).

Margaret Qualley in The Substance | Credits:...

Seven years went from the time when director Coralie Fargeat made her feature directorial debut with a very cool revenge movie that was appropriately titled Revenge – you can read our 8/10 review of the film at This Link – and when she came back with an “explosive feminist take on body horror” called The Substance, which stars Demi Moore (Ghost) and Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). Fargeat’s second movie was worth the wait (you can read our 9/10 review Here), and has been streaming on the Mubi service since Halloween. Now, Mubi has shared a making-of featurette that goes behind the scenes for The Substance for 28 minutes, and you can check it out in the embed above!

The film is gory, but also humorous, and it’s quite a wild ride. Here’s the official synopsis: It generates another you. A new, younger, more beautiful, more perfect you. And...

Out of respect for those affected by the L.A. wildfires, the American Cinema Editors have announced that the 2025 Ace Eddie Awards has been postponed. A new date for the 75th annual ceremony will be announced soon.

The reimagined gala, which will still honor Wicked director Jon M. Chu with the Ace Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award, will “pivot from a black-tie, red carpet event to a ‘Come as You Are’ community-building fundraiser,” the organization announced. In addition, a portion of the ticket sales will be donated to Southern California fire relief. The guild’s private cocktail party celebrating the Ace Eddie Awards nominees is also being moved to a new date. See more event changes in the wake of the wildfires.

The guild’s official statement is: “Due to the ongoing concerns for safety within our L.A. communities, we have made arrangements with UCLA and Royce Hall...

(Warning: This story contains spoilers for Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance).

In the final scenes of The Substance, things get messy.

Coralie Fargeat’s body horror satire follows the descent of former A-lister Elisabeth Sparkle who, in a desperate attempt to recapture her youth and stay relevant in sexist and ageist Hollywood, starts taking a mysterious chemical called The Substance. Things go very, very wrong.

Shortly after injecting the substance, Sparkle (Demi Moore, who just picked up her first-ever Golden Globe for the role) is writhing on her bathroom floor. Her back splits down the spine and Sue, a slimy, younger version of herself (played by Margaret Qualley) crawls out. Initially, the two clones follow the plan, swapping out every seven days. The body in the bathroom is kept alive with a feeding tube, while the other free is free live their life.

But the siren of youth beacons, and...

One month ago, we asked Gemini AI for Oscar predictions, and it endorsed Gladiator II as a contender for picture, director (Ridley Scott), and supporting actor (Denzel Washington). Well, Google’s artificial intelligence bot has rebooted, and it now believes the mixed-reviewed sequel will be mostly forgotten come Oscars time. In fact, Gemini’s current picks in the six main categories align much more closely with Gold Derby’s overall choices.

You can see Gemini’s forecasted nominations below, where The Brutalist, a period piece about a Holocaust survivor who’s trying to live the American Dream, is expected to clean up with bids for picture, director (Brady Corbet), actor (Adrien Brody), supporting actress (Felicity Jones), and supporting actor (Guy Pearce). Meanwhile, Anora, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, and Emilia Pérez are expected to nab four noms apiece in the six main races.

For the uninitiated, Gemini is a chatbot that...

Coralie Fargeat's masterful body horror film The Substance has been all the rage this awards season, not only because it's excellent but also because it's so rare for a horror movie to get nominated at the most prestigious award shows. Notably, Demi Moore won her first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy earlier this month, where the film also received nominations for Best Director, Best Motion Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress (Margaret Qualley).

Following the Golden Globes, The Substance continues to win awards from organizations like the Austin Film Critics Association and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. The film has also been nominated for Critics' Choice Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award. It seems increasingly likely that The Substance will receive Academy Award attention. Some professional critics even believe Moore could be a frontrunner for this year's Best Actress race.