Lol Crawley BSC takes home BAFTA for Cinematography

The winners of the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards were announced tonight in a ceremony hosted by David Tennant at The Royal Festival Hall in London and broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer. 

The Brutalist won four BAFTAs: Director for Brady Corbet, Leading Actor for Adrien Brody, Original Score, and Lol Crawley BSC took home the Cinematography BAFTA.

When accepting his Best Cinematography award, Crawley recognised the incredible cast in The Brutalist – including Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce, saying, “To dance with Adrien in those handheld moments will stay with me for a very long time.”

Backstage in the winners press conference, British Cinematographer asked Crawley what he felt shooting on celluloid and in the VistaVision format brought to the film and if he had any advice he would like to share with other filmmakers embarking on a VistaVision journey.

“Let’s try to shoot more film. Use it or lose it. If you want to shoot film, keep shooting film and I hope we continue in that vein. VistaVision is a format that came out in the 1950s and pulls through 35mm horizontally rather than vertically, like a stills camera would and so it shoots on a bigger frame. There aren’t that many of the cameras around but I think more and more people are shooting with VistaVision so I think you’ll see some more productions embracing it,” he said.

“Hitchcock used it initially for films like Vertigo and sections of North by Northwest and that’s one of the reasons we chose to use it because a lot of the scenes in The Brutalist take place in the 1950s so Brady (Corbet) really wanted to use a format of that time. And then you end up with a bigger field of view and I think it’s successful in The Brutalist because you can be back and celebrate the space as well as the performance. I’m thinking specifically about Adrien stepping off the bus to meet Alessandro’s character in Philadelphia – you feel very much connected to the performance but you are also not denying the space as well, so it’s a beautiful format. Technically challenging but beautiful.”

Conclave won four BAFTAs: Best Film; Outstanding British Film, Adapted Screenplay and Editing.

Anora won two BAFTAs: Leading Actress for Mikey Madison and Casting.

Emilia Pérez won two categories: Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña and Film Not in the English Language.

A Real Pain also won two categories: Supporting Actor for Kieran Culkin and Original Screenplay for Jesse Eisenberg

Wicked won two categories: Costume Design and Production Design

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl won two categories: Animated Film and the new category introduced this year – Children’s & Family Film.

Dune: Part Two won two categories: Special Visual Effects and Sound

Kneecap won Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, Rich Peppiett.

The Substance won Make Up & Hair.

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story won Documentary.

Rock, Paper, Scissors won the British Short Film award; and the BAFTA for British Short Animation was won by Wander To Wonder.

This marks first-time BAFTA Film Awards wins for performers Adrien Brody, Mikey Madison, Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin, and a first-time BAFTA Film Awards nomination and win for Director Brady Corbet.

MediCinema was awarded the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award.

The BAFTA Fellowship was presented to actor Warwick Davis, in honour of his work as an actor and for using his platform to challenge societal prejudice and champion self-empowerment, advocating that people with dwarfism can and do lead full and meaningful lives. The Fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA in recognition of an individual’s outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, games or television across their career.

The EE Rising Star Award, the only award voted for by the public, went to David Jonsson.

The full list of winners and nominees are…

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Perez

Nosferatu

The Brutalist – WINNER