The Oscars are notorious for snubbing performances in horror movies, but six actors have managed to break through the bias.

The 62-year-old beat Amy Adams, Cynthia Erivo, Mikey Madison, Karla Sofia Gascon and Zendaya to win best actress in a musical or comedy film, a category that had been considered very competitive. "I'm just in shock right now,

The Bafta nominations will be announced on Wednesday, the latest milestone in an unpredictable awards season which has thrown up several surprises. The British Academy's shortlists are likely to be a strong Oscars indicator. Last year, the winners of the top six categories matched up perfectly between the two ceremonies.

Wicked's Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, recent Golden Globe winners Demi Moore and Kieran Culkin, and other big names including Timothee Chalamet, Hugh Grant, Saoirse Ronan and Sebastian Stan are among 24 stars nominated in the performance categories.

“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.

Rich Peppiatt’s Irish-language film Kneecap has received at six nominations for the 2025 British Academy of Film and Television awards (Bafta) as Saoirse Ronan has been shortlisted for leading actress for her role in The Outrun, the film based on the 2016 memoir of journalist Amy Liptrot about struggles with alcoholism.

Conclave and Emilia Pérez lead the nominations at the 2025 BAFTAs. The nominations for the ceremony, hosted once again by David Tennant, dropped on Wednesday at midday ahead of the event, which will take place on Sunday, February 16, at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) -Papal thriller "Conclave" led nominations for the BAFTA Film Awards on Wednesday, with music-themed and horror productions also faring well at Britain's top

The film’s star Fiennes is nominated in the leading actor category, where he will go head to head with Adrien Brody for immigrant tale The Brutalist, Timothee Chalamet for Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and Colman Domingo for Sing Sing, about prisoners becoming part of a theatre group.

Payal Kapdia’s luminous portrait of three women in Mumbai won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and is one of the season’s most acclaimed films, but curiously was not selected by India to represent the country at the Oscars (it could still be nominated in other categories).

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