2025 Nominees

Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures, BBC, Masterpiece

UK

- Best Performance in a Drama

Following the success of the BAFTA and Golden Globe winning television adaptation of the first two books in Hilary Mantel’s trilogy, we are thrilled and honoured that, nine years later, we have been able to bring Thomas Cromwell’s final chapter to the screen. This is an historical drama for the post-GAME OF THRONES and SUCCESSION era that pulls back the veil on political skullduggery and explores the same human venality and frailty that is present in any of today’s great thrillers. Intimate, thrilling, and deeply moving, The Mirror and the Light is the story of the politics of despotism, the battle between principle and survival and it shines a fresh light on the politics of power and the personal price paid by those who wield it. Cromwell’s story is as contemporary as ever – a story of loyalty and betrayal that just happens to be about people 500 years ago.