‘Awards Magnet’: Analyzing the 2025 BAFTA Awards nominations
How did Daniel Craig miss at BAFTA? Is A Complete Unknown coming on like a freight train? Gold Derby experts and editors Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng break down the 2025 BAFTA Awards nominations on Awards Magnet.
A week after scoring a surprise Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actor for Queer, Craig was even more surprisingly AWOL from BAFTA’s nominations list that has an extra sixth spot. Hugh Grant (Heretic) and Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) made it in alongside the predicted Oscar top four of Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave). How could the erstwhile Bond be excluded on home turf? That was always a possibility since Heretic is a greater box office success, and said home turf enormously liked The Apprentice, which converted three of its longlist mentions into nominations. Queer? Craig was its sole longlist showing. But now, what does this mean for the Oscars?
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A Complete Unknown was one of the last 2024 releases, but it quickly made itself known in the Oscar race. Fresh off the SAG ensemble nomination and a Directors Guild of America bid for James Mangold last week, the Bob Dylan biopic nabbed a Best Picture nomination at BAFTA in a field of five next to the expected Oscar top four of Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, and Emilia Pérez. Wicked, which missed DGA and BAFTA Best Picture, is in fifth place in the Oscar odds, but in reality, it’s another music-based crowd-pleaser that is most likely in the top five. If A Complete Unknown keeps this momentum going, how high is its Oscar nomination ceiling?
Plus: Has Jamie Lee Curtis secured a slot in the topsy-turvy Best Supporting Actress race?
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