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Marisa Abela looks sensational in a glitzy black gown as she makes her arrival to the BAFTAs 2025 red carpet

Marisa Abela looks sensational in a glitzy black gown as she makes her arrival to the BAFTAs 2025 red carpet

She never puts a foot wrong when it comes to fashion.

And Marisa Abela looked sensational at the 2025 EE British Academy Film Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday.

The Industry star, 28, turned heads in a sparkling black gown which featured thin straps and showed off her physique.

She wore her long dark tresses pulled back and opted for a glowing makeup look with a slick of light pink lip. 

Marisa leads the nominees for the EE BAFTA Rising Star Award for her portrayal as Amy Winehouse in the 2024 film Back To Black. 

The brunette beauty accessorised with a dazzling silver necklace which added an extra touch of glamour to the incredible look.

Marisa Abela looked sensational at the 2025 EE British Academy Film Awards at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday

Marisa Abela looked sensational at the 2025 EE British Academy Film Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday

The Industry star, 28, turned heads in a sparkling black gown which featured thin straps and showed off her physique

The Industry star, 28, turned heads in a sparkling black gown which featured thin straps and showed off her physique

The EE BAFTA 2025 Awards returns for an unmissable night of entertainment, celebrating the year’s best films and the creative talent who bring them to life. 

After six years of being held at the Royal Albert Hall, the star-studded ceremony moved to a new home in 2023 – the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall – where it will once again take place.

The EE BAFTA Film Awards encompᴀss 25 compeтιтive categories which are decided by BAFTA members. 

The show will feature some exciting new updates including a new Children’s & Family Film category which will celebrate the very best films appealing to inter-generational audiences.

The new category is the first to be featured in five years marking the first new EE BAFTA Film Award in five years.

Another new feature will see an updated voting process has been introduced to the Outstanding British Film category. 

Thriller Conclave takes the record for 12 nominations across all categories while Emilia Perez received 11 and The Brutalist had nine. 

Back on home soil, Conclave has been nominated for twice as many gongs at the BAFTAs than it was last month at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles.

She wore her long dark tresses pulled back and opted for a glowing makeup look with a slick of light pink lip

She wore her long dark tresses pulled back and opted for a glowing makeup look with a slick of light pink lip

The brunette beauty accessorised with a dazzling silver necklace which added an extra touch of glamour to the incredible look

The brunette beauty accessorised with a dazzling silver necklace which added an extra touch of glamour to the incredible look

The hit thriller starring Ralph 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.

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.

Demi Moore, 62, who picked up her first acting accolade ever at the Globes for her role in Substance has been nominated for Leading Actress along with Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo, 38, and Saoirse Ronan, 30, for the Outrun.

Film industry insiders believe the Ghost star’s admission into the BAFTA shortlist will raise her hopes of securing her first Oscar. 

Elsewhere in the BAFTA nominations, the Succession brothers, Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin will battle it out for Supporting Actor for their performances in A Real Pain and the Trump biopic, The Apprentice. 

Meanwhile, Adrien Brody’s film The Brutalist has received nine BAFTA nominations, followed by Dune 2 and Wicked – both getting seven nominations.

Marisa leads the nominees for the EE BAFTA Rising Star Award for her portrayal as Amy Winehouse in the 2024 film Back To Black.

Industry actress Marisa Abela leads the nominees for the EE BAFTA Rising Star Award for her portrayal as Amy Winehouse in the 2024 film Back To Black

Marisa leads the nominees for the EE BAFTA Rising Star Award for her portrayal as Amy Winehouse in the 2024 film Back To Black

The shortlist, announced on Tuesday, is made up of Marisa, Jharrel Jerome (Unstoppable), David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus), Mikey Madison (Anora) and Nabhaan Rizwan (In Camera).

Coincidentally, David, Nabhaan and Marisa were all stars of BBC drama Industry.

BAFTA chairwoman Sara Putt told the PA news agency the BAFTA nominations list this year was ‘just such a brilliant variety.’

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She added: ‘But then also, when you look at the 10 films in best film, I think you’ve got six different genres in there.

‘You’ve got sci-fi, you’ve got comedy, you’ve got horror… you’ve got straight drama, you’ve got musicals, and to see horror, with Nosferatu and The Substance and Heretic, all getting nominated.

‘You know, films with music in them that you can go from Wicked through to Kneecap. It’s an amazing list with real breadth and depth, which is very exciting.’

The award is seen as the pathway to A-list success with previous winners including Tom Holland, James McAvoy, Tom Hardy, Lashana Lynch and Kristen Stewart.

David Tennant will take to the stage to host the BAFTAs for a second year in a row. 

The actor, 53, first hosted the awards show last year, taking over from Richard E Grant.

He will no doubt be bringing his charisma and humour following a widely acclaimed debut that was watched by over 3.8m viewers at home.

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

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, starring Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez in its female-led ensemble cast, is making significant headway this awards season

Emilia Perez, starring Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez in its female-led ensemble cast, is making significant headway this awards season 

More than 20 million views were clocked up through fans catching up on ceremony highlights on social media.

While Prince William, who is the president of the BAFTA, is usually accompanied by Catherine on the red carpet, the Waleses are not expected to attend this year’s ceremony.

Kate missed the awards last year weeks before she revealed in a video message on March 22 that she was suffering from cancer. Prince William walked the red carpet alone at the Baftas.

The 2025 EE Bafta Film Awards will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 7pm on Sunday February 16. 

BAFTA 2025 NOMINATIONS

BEST FILM

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

 

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM 

Bird

Blitz

Conclave

Gladiator II

Hard Truths

Kneecap

Lee

Love Lies Bleeding

The Outrun

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

 

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER 

Hoard – Luna Carmoon (director, writer)

Kneecap – Rich Peppiatt (director, writer)

Monkey Man – Dev Patel (director)

Santosh – Sandhya Suri (director, writer), James Bowsher (producer), Balthazar De Ganay (producer) [also produced by Alan McAlex, Mike Goodridge]

Sister Midnight – Karan Kandhari (director, writer)

 

BEST CHILDREN’S AND FAMILY FILM

Flow

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot 

 

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

All We Imagine As Light

Emilia Pérez

I’m Still Here

Kneecap

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY 

Black Box Diaries

Daughters

No Other Land

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Will & Harper

 

BEST ANIMATED FILM 

Flow

Inside Out 2

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

 

BEST CHILDREN’S AND FAMILY FILM 

Flow

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

 

BEST DIRECTOR 

Anora – Sean Baker

The Brutalist – Brady Corbet

Conclave – Edward Berger

Dune: Part Two – Denis Villeneuve

Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard

The Substance – Coralie Fargeat

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 

Anora

The Brutalist

Kneecap

A Real Pain

The Substance

 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Nickel Boys

Sing Sing

 

BEST LEADING ACTRESS 

Cynthia Erivo – Wicked

Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez

Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths

Mikey Madison – Anora

Demi Moore – The Substance

Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun

 

BEST LEADING ACTOR  

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo – Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes – Conclave

Hugh Grant – Heretic

Sebastian Stan – The ApprenticE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez

Ariana Grande – Wicked

Felicity Jones – The Brutalist

Jamie Lee Curtis – The Last Showgirl

Isabella Rossellini – Conclave

Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR  

Yura Borisov – Anora

Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain

Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing

Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown

Guy Pearce – The Brutalist

Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice

BEST CASTING 

Anora

The Apprentice

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Kneecap

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Nosferatu

 

BEST EDITING  

Anora

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Kneecap

 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN 

Blitz

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Nosferatu

Wicked

 

BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIR 

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Nosferatu

The Substance

Wicked

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE 

The Brutalist

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Nosferatu

The Wild Robot

 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Nosferatu

Wicked

 

BEST SOUND 

Blitz

Dune: Part Two

Gladiator II

The Substance

Wicked

 

BEST VISUAL SPECIAL EFFECTS 

Better Man

Dune: Part Two

Gladiator II

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Wicked

 

BEST BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION 

Adiós

Mog’s Christmas

Wander to Wonder

 

BEST BRITISH SHORT FILM  

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

Marion

Milk

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Stomach Bug

 

RISING STAR AWARD (VOTED FOR BY THE PUBLIC) 

Marisa Abela

Jharrel Jerome

David Jonsson

Mikey Madison

Nabhaan Rizwan

 

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