Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light Bags 3 Nods In BAFTA Awards 2025’s Longlist

Payal Kapadia recently secured Golden Globes nominations in the Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film categories for her globally acclaimed film All We Imagine As Light. Now the film has also received three nods in the BAFTA longlist. The categories include Best Director, Original Screenplay and Best Film not in the English language.

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— BAFTA (@BAFTA) January 3, 2025

Earlier this week, BAFTA unveiled the longlists for 25 categories which includes All We Imagine As Light alongside names like, Jacques Audiard’s crime drama Emilia Perez. The film landed 15 nods on the longlist followed by Edward Berger’s thriller Conclave with 14 nods. Some of the hit 2024 films that also made it to the list include The Substance, The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown with 11 nods on the longlists. While Wicked and Dune: Part Two bagged 10 followed by Anora and Gladiator 2 with nine nods.

The longlist for best film included, Anora, The Apprentice, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, Kneecap, The Substance and Wicked. Other categories for the longlist included Outstanding British Film, Best Debut British Director/Writer or Producer, Children and Family Film, Animated film and many more. Check out the full list here.

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All We Imagine as Light is longlisted for THREE categories at BAFTAs – Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film not in the English Language.

Hope it gets nominations in all three categories ❤️
— Tuhin (@tuhinat221b) January 3, 2025

Outstanding British Film
Back to Black
Bird
Blitz
Civil War
Conclave
Gladiator II
Hard Truths
Kneecap
Lee
Love Lies Bleeding
The Outrun
Paddington in Peru
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
We Live in Time
Wicked Little Letters

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Bring Them Down
Grand Theft Hamlet
Hoard
Kneecap
Monkey Man
On Falling
Santosh
Sister Midnight
The Taste of Mango
The Teacher

Children and Family Film
Flow
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Piece by Piece
Spellbound
That Christmas
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Young Woman and the Sea

Film Not in English Language
All We Imagine as Light
Black Dog
The Count of Monte Cristo
Emilia Pérez
Flow
The Girl With the Needle
I’m Still Here
Kneecap
La Chimera
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

I got my eye on All We Imagine As Light. It getting an above-the-line category at Baftas and Oscars is more possible than we think pic.twitter.com/G5TZEANkgw
— Isaiah Washington (@Izabod13I) January 3, 2025

Documentary
The Bibi Files
Black Box Diaries
Daughters
Elton John: Never Too Late
I Am: Celine Dion
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
No Other Land
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Stor
Will & Harper

Animated Film
Despicable Me 4
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
That Christmas
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Director
All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia
Anora, Sean Baker
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet
Conclave, Edward Berger
Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve
Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard
La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher
Lee, Ellen Kuras
The Outrun, Nora Fingscheidt
The Substance, Coralie Fargeat

Original Screenplay
All We Imagine as Light
Anora
The Apprentice
The Brutalist
Challengers
Civil War
Heretic
Kneecap
A Real Pain
The Substance

Can’t fathom how challenging it must be to make films as politically engaged and rhapsodically beautiful as those of Payal Kapadia and face this kind of reductive, regressive gatekeeping at home. To call ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT “technically very poor” is an enraging distortion. pic.twitter.com/DBzW1f0zRq
— Isaac Feldberg (@isaacfeldberg) December 22, 2024

Adapted Screenplay
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Lee
Nickel Boys
Nightbitch
The Outrun
Sing Sing
Wicked

Other categories include Leading actors, casting, costume desgin and others. The awards are set to be held on February 12, 2025.

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