For the past couple of months and leading up to mid-March of this year, we are seeing many awards being handed out to many deserving films, and perhaps some lesser deserving. But hey, it’s all down to opinion really, right? Well, it’s time to form your own. The following are films that have won/been nominated for one or more awards, some multiple, and could be worth your time in the coming weeks. For a full list of BAFTA and Academy Award nominees (arguably the biggest film awards in Britain and the US, respectively), see 2025 BAFTA Nominees & Winners and The Acadamy Award 2025 – Nominees and Winners.

Please note, more films will be added as and when they are released.

The Awards list consists of: The Apprentice, Bird, Blitz, Conclave, A Different Man, Elton John: Never Too Late, Flow, The Girl with the Needle, Hoard, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Kneecap, Love Lies Bleeding, Nickel Boys, No Other Land, The Outrun, Queer, Sing Sing, Sugarcane, The Six Triple Eight and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.

Director: Ali Abbasi
Writer: Gabriel Sherman
Cast: Sebsatian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Martin Donovan, Maria Bakalova, Catherine McNally

Taking an interesting angle on the saga of Donald Trump (played here by Stan), Abbasi explores the controversial oligarch’s early rise fueled by his mentor, lawyer Roy Cohn (Strong). Writer Sherman certainly did his due diligence in his research, as much of it comes across as true at the most and entirely plausible at the least. It’s interesting to see a shift in Trump’s personality, watching him devolve into a cold, greedy businessman and become the Trump we know today. The performances are fantastic, particularly from Strong, and the film does a great job of immersing audiences into the world as it was in the 1970s-80s, particularly the singular world of Trump.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for The Apprentice.

Director: Michael Gracey
Writers: Simon Gleeson, Oliver Cole, Michael Gracey
Cast: Robbie Williams, Jonno Davies, Steve Pemberton, Alison Steadman, Kate Mulvaney, Frazer Hadfield, Damon Herriman, Raechelle Banno

If you grew up in the UK in the 1990s/early 2000s, you’re likely very much aware of Robbie Williams and his music. As a member of Take That, Robbie shot to fame at a very young age, and thus was susceptible to all the trappings that come with the pressure of being in the public eye. Drink, drugs and sex were freely available, and, as depicted in the film, Robbie was constantly fighting his inner demons and subduing them in any way he could. So what makes this film different to any other musician’s biopic? Well, Robbie decided to portray himself as a monkey. You might think this is because he was something of a ‘performing monkey’, but Williams has said it’s because he always felt himself ‘less evolved’ than other people. Either way, it’s an interesting choice, and one that actually paid off. You never really forget that you’re seeing a monkey, but you do believe you’re seeing Robbie and how he sees himself. His personality shines through for better or worse and is the very heart of the movie. Throw in some fantastic musical sequences (top choices of his biggest hits), emotional relationships and cheeky narration from the man himself, and you will be suitably entertained, just as Rob always intended.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for Better Man.

Director: Andrea Arnold
Writer: Andrea Arnold
Cast: Nykyia Adams, Franz Rogowski, Barry Keoghan, Jason Buda, Jasmine Jobson, James Nelson-Joyce

In this wonderfully crafted coming-of-age story, twelve-year-old Bailey (Adams) lives with her sometimes loving, sometimes ignorant young father Bug (Keoghan) and her protective half-brother Hunter (Buda). When her father announces his upcoming nuptials to a woman he’s not known for long, Bailey distances herself further from him. In doing so, she meets Bird (Rogowski), a man who claims to have lived in the area when he was a child then lost touched with his family, convincing Bailey to help reunite him with his family, and in turn he helps her with her own. Arnold has done such an amazing job of blending fantasy with reality, effectively blurring that line between childhood (the innocence and belief in the fantastical) and young adulthood, particularly when a child has grown up in a rough home and has to learn very quickly to take care of themselves, and even younger siblings. The performances are excellent, particularly from Adams and Rogowski, and each character is varied and imperfect, a great reflection of reality. This may be my top film of 2024.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for Bird.

Director: Steve McQueen
Writer: Steve McQueen
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Elliot Heffernan, Paul Weller, Benjamin Clémentine

This tale told during the London Blitz features multiple trials endured by many brought to light through the life of one family. Rita (Ronan) is mother to George (Heffernan). Rita is white, whereas George’s father is a black man who was deported back to Grenada, thus making George mixed-race and of a single-parent household. They also live with Rita’s father, Gerald (Weller). When Rita finally concedes to evacuating a reluctant George to the country, George doesn’t get far before he opts to jump off the train and return to London, which turns out to be very difficult, particularly with persistent bombings. Heffernan puts in a great performances as young George, and much of the suffering is emotional and heartwrenching and underlines by a poignant score by Hans Zimmer, however the film as a whole comes across as incohesive and unoriginal, perhaps having too many threads trying to tie this loose knot of a story together.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for Blitz.

Director: Edward Berger
Writer: Peter Straughan, based on the book by Robert Harris
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Jacek Koman, Isabella Rossellini

After the death of the Pope, a group of Cardinals convene at a papal conclave to elect a new one. The leader of the Cardinals, Dean Thomas Lawrence (Fiennes), uncovers a weave of conspiracies and cover-ups in the search for the new Pope, causing him to lose trust in those he once considered his closest confidants. This film has been hugely lauded across the board, and its strengths lie in its stellar cinematography, stirring score and compelling performances. However, the story itself is not particularly strong or intriguing. Lies and betrayals within the Catholic church? Within a religious organisation?? Colour me not at all surprised. The confessions and uncovering of deceptions in the search for a new Pope do not seem shocking, and the only really interesting and truly consequential revelation is left, disappointingly, to the end of the film. Not a bad film, but more average than critics might have you think.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for Conclave.

Director: Aaron Schimberg
Writer: Aaron Schimberg
Cast: Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson, Renate Reinsve, Miles G. Jackson

In a true ‘be careful what you wish for’ fable, Edward (Stan) is a shy actor living with a facial condition as a result of neurofibromatosis. When he is presented with the opportunity to take a new experimental medication that could remove his condition, he jumps at the chance. The medication does its job, and initially Edward takes on a new persona as Guy. Things seem to be going well for Guy, until Oswald (Pearson), another man with the same condition Edward had, enters his life and appears to have everything Edward wishes he had before he underwent the transformation. Truly, Schimberg has highlighted that the grass is not always greener – sometimes it’s down to how you face a situation that determines how others respond and your own internal happiness. The story is bizarre but in many ways relatable, and Stan and Pearson’s performances as two sides of the same coin are opposing yet partnered, almost a Jekyll-Hyde situation.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for A Different Man.

Directors: R.J. Cutler, David Furnish

Elton John is certainly a name everyone knows, from country to country, young to old, everyone has heard and enjoyed at least one of his songs at some point. He is certainly an icon to be celebrated and immortalised, but was this documentary necessary? Not really. Sure, his final tour before retirement was rather a big deal, but it could have been done in the style of filming of the final show intermixed with interviews and a brief recount of his life and career, rather than a full-length documentary. Especially considering it’s only been six years since Rocketman, a biopic of John’s life, there isn’t much more left to know about the man. Some of the interviews (many of which were conducted during the writing of his autobiography) were interesting, coming from the horses’s mouth, but again it didn’t really present anything new.
Click here to see the nominations and awards for Elton John: Never Too Late.

Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Writers: Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža

When an extreme flood appears to engulf everything on Earth, a small group of animals consisting of a cat, a capybara, a dog, a lemur and a secretarybird band together to survive, facing obstacles and other wildlife. The film is told mostly through the POV of the cat, and it’s interesting to see the animals build relationships that otherwise wouldn’t exist were they not in peril, even if it gives them slightly more humanistic attributes. It’s a lovely film, beautifully animated and edited with excellent sound and music – it has no dialogue, which opens it up to a much wider audience. It’s always wonderful to see a good film that targets human (or animal) feelings without words (in a similar vein to Robot Dreams, another heavily-nominated animation), as sometimes sound and music can do so much more to infiltrate our emotions. The fantasty elements are immersive, and honestly, the animals are incredibly cute.
Click here to see all the awards and nominations for Flow.

Director: Magnus von Horn
Writers: Line Langebek Knudsen, Magnus von Horn
Cast: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Ava Knox Martin, Joachim Fjelstrup

Based loosely on the real-life story of child murderer Dagmar Overbye, in 1919 Copenhagen, young woman Karoline (Sonne) finds herself near destitute. Her husband, Peter (Zeciri) has gone off to war, and she finds herself pregnant by the boss of the factory where she works. In need of help, she is assisted by Dagmar (Dyrholm), a woman who provides a service to house unwanted children with new families. As Karoline gets to know Dagmar and her daugther, Erena (Martin), she comes to learn that Dagmar is more sinister that she realised. The film hints of an expressionist style now and again, and utilises its black and white style to impress the century-old setting. The story is paced well, with different events affecting Karoline’s decisions, and the performances are fantastic, particularly from Dyrholm.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for The Girl with the Needle.

Director: Luna Carmoon
Writers: Luna Carmoon
Cast: Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires, Deba Hekmat

This is one of those films that pulls a bit of a bait-and-switch, but not necessarily in a detrimental way. Young Maria (Lily-Beau Leach) grows up in 1980s England with her mother. Her mother is a hoarder, but also suffers from other mental illnesses. In spite of this, Maria is happy, if frustrated, with her mother. After a big life change, teenage Maria (Leon) appears to still be happy but now maladjusted, something that worsens when she meets Michael (Quinn). The film starts off well, with the relationship between young Maria and her mother being an intriguing one, and yet, thirty minutes in, Maria’s life takes a ninety-degree turn, as does the film’s plot. It deals with Maria’s oddness that perhaps came about due dealing with the trauma of growing up in an unusual household and subsequent events. It is open to interpretation as to why Maria becomes the person she does, but with electric performances from both Leon and Quinn, it’s one to leave you pondering what could happen beyond the film’s ending anyway.
Click here to see all awards and nominations for Hoard.

Director: Neil Boyle, Kirk Hendry
Writer: Frank Cottrell Boyce, based on the book by Michael Morpurgo
Cast: Aaron MacGregor, Cillian Murphy, Raffey Cassidy, Sally Hawkins, Ken Watanabe

Every so often, we get an animation that is just out of this world. While on a boat trip with his family, Michael (MacGregor) falls overboard during a storm, and he washes up on an island where he meets Japanese war survivor Kensuke (Watanabe). Although the two cannot communicate much with language, they form a bond that transcends their situation and face a few threats together. The animation style itself is beautiful, reminiscent of early British animation, with a Japanese flare that gives it colour in more ways than one. The story is wonderful, emotional and easy to digest, and MacGregor’s performance is stunning. It’s a shame this one has not been nominated for an Oscar.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for Kensuke’s Kingdom.

Director: Wes Ball
Writer: Josh Friedman
Cast: Owen Teague, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, Freya Allan, William H. Macy, Dichen Lachman

Many years after the death of Caesar, apes rule the world, with humans reduced to neanderthals again, essentially. Noa (Teague), a young chimpanzee, finds himself alone after his clan is attacked by ape raiders. In a bid to find and rescue his them, he meets orangutan Raka (Macon) and human Nova (Allan), and together they search for a way to free Noa’s clan. The Planet of the Apes series has been going fairly strong since 1968, always at the forefront of film development, whether that be in make-up, costuming, prosthetics, CGI or motion capture, and it has always also played on the effect humans have on the Earth. This film is no exception, and presents another fairly interesting story about the lust for power that seems to come with any form of ‘intelligence’, though the characters don’t set themselves apart from others we have seen many times before. The visual effects are indeed fantastic, as would be expected from an Apes film, and so the awards and nominations in that department have certainly been earned.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

Director: Rich Peppiatt
Writers: Rich Peppiatt, Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvai
Cast: Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvai, Josie Walker, Fionnuala Flaherty, Jessica Reynolds, Michael Fassbender

Amidst the tumultuous politics within Ireland and the push for indepedence from Britain, in the late 2010s two Belfast lads (of the “ceasefire generation”) start a hip-hop group, controversially naming themselves Kneecap, to promote the Irish language and rebel against the more common use of English. It’s absolutely a poignant film, one that showcases any indigenous peoples’ fight to keep their own culture, traditions and language alive, and isn’t afraid to delve into Ireland’s other deeper troubles, such as drugs and religion. It has elements reminiscent of 2010’s Four Lions in its comedy amidst turmoil, and has a strong rebellious nature that’s sure to rouse any moral fibre within its viewers.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for Kneecap.

Director: Rose Glass
Writers: Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dave Franco, Katy O’Brian, Jena Malone, Ed Harris, Anna Baryshnikov

How far would you go for someone you love? On top of that, how far would you go for someone you love whom you just met? When Lou (Stewart) meets body-builder Jackie (O’Brian) they quickly fall into a relationship, but it’s not long before Jackie’s true colours show and upends Lou’s already turbulent life. It’s a good little film with plenty of good performances and a very strange, but kind of fun, ending, and it features a handful of shocks and gore to keep you on your toes. The action and drama is a little up and down, and it was a bit light on Jackie’s own story, but it’s certainly got its kicks and is well-shot overall.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for Love Lies Bleeding.

Director: RaMell Ross
Writers: RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, based on the book by Colson Whitehead
Cast: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Ethan Cole Sharp, Hamish Linklater

When they are both sent to a segregated all-boys reformatory school (at least one of them falsely accused of a crime), two young African-Americans befriend each other and try to survive the corruption of the staff and the abuse and racism they suffer. Based on a real school (and no doubt hundreds of similar schools), this Jim Crow-era story is hard-hitting yet all-important. Attempts have been made in the past to erase the stories of these young men and all they went through, but books and films such as this keep their memory alive and work as a reminder of the shameful past of white people. The performances are astounding, the story fantastically written, and the third-person POV works incredibly to put us in the shoes of these young men. The abuse itself is not always blatantly shown, and doesn’t need to be in order for it to have an impact. A stunning film all-round.
Click here to see all awards and nominations for Nickel Boys.

Directors: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

You will have to have been living under a pretty big rock if you are unaware of the war (and decades-long tension and violence) between Israel and Palestine (if you need a clear run-down, I highly recommend this BBC article). As we have seen from other filmmakers who live in war-torn areas of the world, people are risking their lives to document events for the world to see. No Other Land has filmmaker and activist Bael Adra documenting his experience of living under constant threat from Israel, having collected recordings he has made since he was a child and right up to the 2023 retaliation of Israel after the Hamas attack. Within the film, he records harrowing footage of people being shot, people being forced from their homes and being torn down, and his developing friendship with Yuval, a Jewish Israeli journalist sympathetic to the Palestinians. It’s a strongly built recount of years of fear and pain, but also pushes through the strength and hope that the Palestinians have for a ceasefire.
Click here to see all awards and nominations for No Other Land.

Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Writer: Amy Liptrot, Nora Fingscheidt, Daisy Lewis, based on the memoir by Amy Liptrot
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Stephen Dillane, Saskia Reeves

While there are many coming-of-age films between childhood and young adulthood, how about coming of age for young adulthood to official adulthood? Orkney native Rona (Ronan) moves to London to pursue her studies. While there, she delves into the party lifestyle, going from quiet island life to city style hedonism, quickly delving into addiction while also reeling from the separation of her parents – a religious mother and bipolar-suffering father. The film artistically weaves between Rona’s states of mind, depending on if she’s on an alcohol-fueled spiral or a more sober path that leads her to evaluate her life, all while trying to navigate her family life. Ronan’s performance is raw and visceral, exactly the kind of performance we have come to expect from her, and exactly the performance needed to express Rona’s deep emotions.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for The Outrun.

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: Justin Kuritzkes, based on the book by William S. Burroughs
Cast: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville

In Mexico City in the 1950s, American expat William (Craig) is living a drug-fueled isolated life, occasionally hitting local bars and enganging in casual relations with other men. He soon meets American GI Gene (Starkey), and wants to establish a deeper connection. As their relationship builds, they make a trip to the Ecuadorian jungle in search of plant that supposedly gives telepathic abilties. It’s a bizarre sort of tale, the drug trips a little reminiscent of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but mixed with Call Me by Your Name, another of Guadagnino’s films. When the men are together it can be quite tender, but for the most part it’s an animalistic kind of film, the sex and drugs very much fueling the film, with great performances from Craig and Starkey.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for Queer.

Director: Greg Kwedar
Writer: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield, based on The Sing Song Follies by John H. Richardson and Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code by Brent Buell
Cast: Colman Domingo, Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, Sean San Jose, Paul Raci, David Giraudy, Patrick Griffin, Mosi Eagle, James Williams, Sean Dino Johnson

Prison dramas are often repetitive in their content, making it known how rough these prisons can be. It’s not often a prison drama shows a more hopeful and helpful side. The story revolves around the real Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at the Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison, and features a few ex-inmates of the prison. The program focuses on using theatre to rehabilitate offenders, one of the members being Divine G (Domingo), a falsely-accused man who writes plays for the groups and takes his performances seriously. Divine G works on his exonoration while trying to recruit new members to the RTA, including sceptical new inmate, Divine Eye. It’s a really beautiful and enlightening story that also sheds light on the amount of wrongful incarcerations of African-Americans in US prisons. Throwing Shakespeare in the midst of a men’s prison sounds strange, but it works to show how theatre, a very human expression, can be a tool to assist people in the processing of their own inner demons.
Click here for all the nominations and awards for Sing Sing.

Directors: Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat

It’s no secret these days about the atrocities commited by European people on the indiginous peoples of North America, especially the conditioning and abuse suffered by the Native children when they were forced into residential schools run by the Catholic church, a religious organisation that is, as we know today, rife with historical abuse across the world. Canada was no different in the suffering of its Native people at the hands of white people. This film delves into an investigation of the Canadian residential school system, bringing up traumatic memories for survivors and bringing to light much of the abuse suffered by the children, not to mention the numerous cover-ups of murdered children. It’s a tough yet necessary watch, and relating an important and significant reckoning between the past and the present, with answers wanted and reparations sorely overdue.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for Sugarcane.

Director: Tyler Perry
Writer: Kevin Hymel, Tyler Perry
Cast: Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Milauna Jackson, Kylie Jefferson, Shanice Shantay, Sarah Jeffrey

Making films about near-forgotten people who did something pretty significant that potentially altered the course of the future is pure award fodder for sure. Fortunately, the majority of these films are made for the right reasons, not just for award season. Such is true for The Six Triple Eight. During WWII, the mail between the US and Europe had built up significantly, with millions of pieces of mail left undelivered. To solve this problem that could severely affect the morale of the soldiers and the people of the US, the government opt to send the Black Women’s Army Corps to do the job within six months, a job that others have tried and failed to do. It certainly is a job they were fully expected to fail to do, but the strength and resilience of the women, in particular their commanding officer, Major (formally Captain) Charity Adams (Washington), shines through and lifts the spirits of even the most disbelieving. The film is a truly important and well-told story, with excellent writing that is stunningly performed, particularly by Washington, who really should have been in the running for a Best Actress award. In fact, this film has been left out of many award categories, disappointingly overshadowed by less worthy films.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for The Six Triple Eight.

Directors: Merlin Crossingham, Nick Park
Writers: Mark Burton, Nick Park
Cast: Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel, Reece Shearsmith, Diane Morgan, Adjoa Andoh, Muzz Khan, Lenny Henry

How long have we been (patiently) waiting for another W&G adventure!? Their previous two, 2005’s feature-length The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and 2008’s short A Matter of Loaf and Death, were fun but felt like they were missing something, something that Vengeance Most Fowl appears to have found: a stronger connection to the original three shorts (A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave) in the use of villain Feathers McGraw, who returns to thwart Wallace’s (voiced by Whitehead, replacing the late Peter Sallis) new invention, Norbot the gardening robot, and get back the diamond he originally stole in The Wrong Trousers. It’s a fantastic romp that brings us much of the humour we love about Wallace and Gromit along with a great original story, and, as always, Gromit is the real MVP that we all root for.
Click here to see all the nominations and awards for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.