Movie featuring Ukrainian actor makes it to BAFTA 2025 longlist: what Rock, Paper, Scissors is about

The British film Rock, Paper, Scissors, starring Ukrainian actor Oleksandr Rudynskyi, has been shortlisted for the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2025. The film, which the jury members highlighted, tells the story of Ukraine war.

Its appearance in the longlist indicates the relevance of the topic of war abroad and the importance of covering the lives of people in the area of active hostilities. It is known that Rock, Paper, Scissors was one of 235 films submitted for consideration. This was reported on the BAFTA website.

The film starring a Ukrainian is featured in the British Short Film category, where 10 movies will compete for the victory.

The short film Rock, Paper, Scissors was directed by the British-German filmmaker Franz Böhm. Oleksandr Rudynskyi played the lead role of a young man Ivan, who lives in eastern Ukraine. His father is a surgeon who saves lives of Ukrainian soldiers. At the same time, Ivan's task is to protect the wounded from the Russian occupiers.

Key Nominations

Best Film

• Anora
• The Apprentice
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Kneecap
• The Substance
• Wicked

Outstanding British Film

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

Children's & 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 (Gou zhen)
• 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.

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 Story
• 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

British Short Film

• The Ban
• Clodagh
• The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
• Homework
• Marion
• Milk
• Rock, Paper, Scissors
• Sister Wives
• Stomach Bug
• Woodlice

Director

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

Leading Actress

• Amy Adams (Nightbitch)
• Cynthia Erivo (Wicked)
• Demi Moore (The Substance)
• Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez)
• Kate Winslet (Lee)
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths)
• Marisa Abela (Back To Black)

• Mikey Madison (Anora)
• Nicole Kidman (Babygirl)
• Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun).

Leading Actor

• Adrian Brody (The Brutalist)
• Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)
• Daniel Craig (Queer)
• Dev Patel (Monkey Man)
• Hugh Grant (Heretic)
• Jude Law (Firebrand)
• Kingsley Ben Adir (Bob Marley: One Love)
• Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)
• Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice)
• Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown)

Supporting Actress

• Adriana Paz (Emilia Pérez)
• Ariana Grande (Wicked)
• Emily Watson (Small Things Like These)
• Felicity Jones (The Brutalist)
• Isabella Rossellini (Conclave)
• Jamie Lee Curtis (The Last Showgirl)
• Margaret Qualley (The Substance)
• Michele Austin (Hard Truths)
• Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez)
• Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Perez)

Supporting Actor

• Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing)
• Denzel Washington (Gladiator II)
• Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown)
• Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)
• Harris Dickinson (Babygirl)
• Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice)
• Kieran Culkin (Real Pain)
• Mark Eydelshteyn (Anora)
• Stanley Tucci (The Conclave)
• Yura Borisov (Anora)

The nominees will be announced on January 15, while the winners - on Sunday, February 16, 2025.

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