Stars stun on the red carpet at 2025 BAFTAs

16 February 2025, 16:54 | Updated: 16 February 2025, 20:26

The 78th BAFTAs have been held in London this evening - with a host of A-list stars taking their place on the red carpet.

David Tennant hosted the ceremony for the second time at the Royal Festival Hall.

He kicked off the awards with a sketch, showing him in his dressing room with wife Georgia Tennant.

He called on the "Bafta gods" to help him, getting messages from fellow Scottish actor Brian Cox, who started singing a remade version of The Proclaimers hit "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)".

Tennant wore a kilt as he walked into the event hall, which included him saying "I'm going to work hard for you, Selena" Gomez, while touching the US actress on the shoulder.

Timothee Chalamet was spotted in the audience alongside his partner Kylie Jenner.

The 29-year-old was nominated in the leading actor category for his role in Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.

Cynthia Erivo, Mikey Madison and Demi Moore were all up for Lead Actress for their roles in Wicked, Anora and The Substance respectively.

Ariana Grande faced Selena Gomez and Emilia Perez for supporting actress.

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was nominated in the Animated Film category.

Stars Ralph Fiennes, Sebastian Stan, Zoe Saldana and Hugh Grant were also up for prizes.

The Brutalist, Conclave and Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown contested Best Film.

Jeff Goldblum arrived on the red carpet early for the awards.

Goldblum, 72, stars as the Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the multi-award nominated film based on the West End and Broadway musical Wicked.

He was due to play the piano during the 'In Memoriam' section of the awards.

Chief executive of Bafta Jane Millichip said it had been an amazing year for British film.

She went on: "If you look at the best British category this year, it's an amazing array of really small character pieces.

"It's an extraordinary category with films like Bird, Blitz and Gladiator 2."

She added that it was "incredibly important" to have films not in the English language like Kneecap and Emilia Perez.

"It's fantastic to have a film in the Irish language like Kneecap."

Stacy Martin, who stars in multi-nominated film The Brutalist, said the most amazing thing about the movie is that it's been made by "a family of friends".

Martin, who plays Maggie Lee in the post-Second World War picture, told PA: "Even though the scope of the film was very big, there were lots of very strong friendships and strong collaborations happening, so you're kind of more free and less intimidated to dive in."

The French actress said she loved portraying such a "beautiful and promising" character who could achieve whatever she wanted.

She said that while the film explores themes of the Holocaust it tackles themes that are still relevant today.

"I think that having a bit of distance, but also being able to relate to certain themes, I think, has made some of it quite poignant and quite modern in a way," she said.

British actor Warwick Davis, who was set to pick up the Bafta Fellowship, said he learned about his award while checking emails on the toilet.

The Harry Potter star told PA: "I found out last November, I was actually on the toilet reading my emails and received one from Bafta, with a letter attached, saying: "You've been awarded a fellowship."

"I was excited but thought 'hang on, it could be a scam', so I checked the email address it come from, and it was indeed a Bafta email address.

"Then I got very excited and jumped off the loo and ran around the house telling the kids and the dog."

Davis - who was born with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare bone disorder that results in dwarfism - said he hopes his award is also for his work as an actor as well as his activism.

"If I can have a sneaky bit of this Bafta for my performance work as well my advocacy, I'd be delighted."