BAFTA 2025 nominations: Conclave is a surprise hit with 12 nods as Mexican transgender musical Emilia Perez receives 11 - but Kate Winslet and Paul Mescal movie Gladiator 2 are both SNUBBED
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Ralph Fiennes has beaten box-office juggernauts Gladiator 2 and Wicked to win 12 BAFTA nominations including best actor and best film for his movie Conclave. The British actor, 62, won his first and only BAFTA 32 years ago for his hit holocaust film, Schindler’s List, and is tipped to win again for his role in the thriller about finding a new Pope based in the Vatican City.
![[Emilia Perez has come in second in the number of nominations with 11 BAFTA nods after sweeping up 10 gongs in the US award ceremony]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/12/93779403-14287525-On_paper_the_genre_bending_crime_musical_which_centres_around_a_-a-70_1736943100977.jpg)
Back on home soil, Conclave has been nominated for twice as many gongs at the BAFTAs than it was earlier this month at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles. The hit thriller starring Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini is about a secretive and high-stakes election of a new Pope, where power, ambition, and personal secrets collide among the warring cardinals.
![[Gladiator 2 has yet again been snubbed by Award judges after it was shunned for Best Film and its leading man, the Irish star Paul Mescal, failed to make the BAFTA longlist for Best Actor]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/12/91936697-14287525-Normal_People_star_Paul_Mescal_in_the_Paramount_Pictures_Gladiat-a-73_1736943405699.jpg)
It has beaten the Golden Globes’ big winner, the Spanish drama Emilia Perez, which has come in second in the number of nominations with 11 BAFTA nods after sweeping up 10 gongs in the US award ceremony. Gladiator 2 has yet again been snubbed by Award judges after it was shunned for Best Film and its leading man, the Irish star Paul Mescal, 28, failed to make the BAFTA longlist for Best Actor.
![[Conclave has been nominated for twice as many gongs at the BAFTAs than it was earlier this month at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/12/94118101-14287525-image-a-71_1736943183229.jpg)
Ralph Fiennes has beaten box-office juggernauts Gladiator 2 and Wicked to win 12 BAFTA nominations including best actor and best film for his movie Conclave. Emilia Perez has come in second in the number of nominations with 11 BAFTA nods after sweeping up 10 gongs in the US award ceremony.
![[Emilia Perez, starring Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez in its female-led ensemble cast, is making significant headway this awards season]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/15/12/93769447-14287525-Emilia_Perez_starring_Karla_Sof_a_Gasc_n_Zoe_Saldana_and_Selena_-a-75_1736943756024.jpg)
