Ahead of the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 16, the organizers have announced the longlisted films that will advance to the nominating stage of voting, selected from a total of 235 films submitted for consideration.
Notably this year, animated features have burst the bounds of their dedicated category to show up not only in the children’s film competition, but in longlists for Outstanding British Film (Aardman/Netflix’s Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl), Film Not in English Language (Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow) and Original Score (DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot).
Round Two voting, to determine the nominations, opens today at 6 p.m. GMT to BAFTA’s voting members and will close on Friday 10 January 2025 at 6 p.m. GMT. The nominees will be announced Wednesday, January 15 via the BAFTA YouTube channel.
Categories with animated nominees listed below. See all the longlisted films here.
Animated Film
Eight films will advance in the Animated Film category. All BAFTA film-voting members were invited to join an opt-in chapter to determine the longlist and will vote to nominate four films. In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning film. Sixteen eligible films were submitted for consideration.
- Despicable Me 4
- Flow
- Inside Out 2
- Memoir of a Snail
- Moana 2
- That Christmas
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
British Short Animation
Six films will advance in the British Short Animation category. A jury votes to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members are invited to join an opt-in chapter to vote for the overall winning short animation.
- Adiós
- Mee and Burd
- Mog’s Christmas
- Plunge
- Three Hares
- Wander to Wonder
Children’s & Family Film
Eight films will advance in the Children’s & Family Film category. A jury determines the longlist, nominations and overall winner in this category. Nineteen eligible films were submitted for consideration.
- Flow
- Kensuke’s Kingdom
- Piece By Piece
- Spellbound
- That Christmas
- Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
- Young Woman and the Sea
Special Visual Effects
Ten films will advance in the Special Visual Effect category. Members of the SVFX chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the overall winning film. Eighty-two films were submitted for consideration. A supporting Statement and a show-reel of the SVFX work (up to five minutes in duration) can be submitted and are published on BAFTA View.
- Alien: Romulus
- Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
- Better Man
- Civil War
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Dune: Part Two
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Gladiator II
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Wicked
Film Not in English Language
Ten films will advance in the Film Not in the English Language category. All BAFTA film-voting members were invited to join an opt-in chapter to determine the longlist. This chapter will vote to nominate five films. In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning film. Forty eligible films were submitted for consideration.
- All We Imagine as Light
- Black Dog (Gou zhen)
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Emilia Pérez
- Flow *
- The Girl with the Needle
- I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)
- Kneecap
- La Chimera
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Original Score
10 films will advance in the Original Score category. Members of the Music chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film-voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 118 films were submitted for consideration. Music cue sheets are provided by the entrants and published on BAFTA View.
- Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
- Blitz
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Gladiator II
- Nosferatu
- The Outrun
- The Substance
- The Wild Robot *
