The 2025 BAFTA nominees have been revealed, and Conclave is the massive winner – however considered one of my favourite motion pictures received 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 motion pictures of 2024.

Now, it is the flip of the 2025 BAFTAs, whose nominations had been introduced as we speak (January 15). And, identical to the 2025 Golden Globes nominees record, this 12 months’s contingent has received us all speaking concerning the surprises (and snubs) which can 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) observe carefully behind. Of all of 2024’s new motion pictures that launched in theaters and/or on the world’s finest streaming providers, although, there’s just one – the Zendaya-starring Challengers – that is surprised me over its lack of recognition.

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