British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has confirmed the date for next year’s award ceremony, which will be held on Sunday 16th February, 2025.
The event will be conducted two weeks before The Oscar Ceremony next year, which will be held on March 2, 2025.
It seems the date of the BAFTA will clash with the date of the Berlin Film festival, which is gonna take place from February 13 to 23, 2025. This means that industry professionals will have to fly back from the German Capital on the film festival’s first weekend.
BAFTA to take place between the Berlin Film Festival next year
Although, BAFTA hasn’t yet hand out the confirmation over the locations of the awards ceremony. This yea,r the ceremony took place at Royal Festival Hall in London, which was held three weeks before the Oscar ceremony, 2024. Films like Oppenheimer, Poor Things, and The Zone Of Interest made the biggest sweeps of the night.
Preparing the ceremony before the Oscar helps the BAFTA maintain its position as one of the most important ceremonies between the award season and warn of Academy Award wins. Like this year’s ceremony correctly foreshadowed Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Oscar sweep, while snubs were maintained for Martin Scorsese’s The Killers of the Flower Moon and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie.
As we know Scorsese’s western drama failed to get any BAFTA and Oscars this year but on the other hand Barbie, a much praised film of 2023, received only one Oscar, for the Best Original Song Award for “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and FINNEAS.
Nomination process of BAFTA
The awards gather a national audience of about 3 million people average. The ceremony is hosted by BBC One, received a count of 3.8 million audience, the highest viewing number since 2020. The organization revealed that on the night of the award, there were about 20.6m video views on ceremony highlights on their official social media handles.
Voting takes place over three rounds: Longlisting, Nominations and Winners, by the academy’s global voting film membership – comprising over 7,800 industry creatives.
BAFTA’s eligibility criteria, voting and campaigning rules are annually assessed to ensure they are robust, fair and evolve alongside the ever-changing industry landscape. The full timeline and eligibility details for the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards will be announced in due course.
About BAFTA
The British Film Awards and Television Arts (BAFTA) brings together British and international talent to celebrate the very best of films over the past year, and the filmmakers, cast and crews who bring them to celebrate on both sides of the camera.
BAFTA was first held in 1949, the BAFTA Film Awards have grown to become one of the biggest events in the global film industry. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a world-leading independent arts charity that brings the very best work in film, games and television to public attention and supports the growth of creative talent in the UK and internationally.
