United Kingdom, Feb. 16 -- 'Conclave' was named Best Film at the EE BAFTA Film Awards.

The political thriller - which stars Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini - beat off competition from 'A Complete Unknown', 'Anora' 'The Brutalist', and 'Emilia Perez' to take home the top prize on Sunday (16.02.25) evening, where director Edward Bergman noted just how much he admitted screenwriter Peter Straughan's work.

Speaking live on stage at the Royal Festival Hall during the ceremony, he said: "First of all, I wanna say, about seven years ago, I got my hands on this script by Peter and I started reading everything he'd written.

"Suddenly, out of the blue, Tessa [Ross, producer] called to say she had a script by him. You might imagine how I fe...