Bafta reveals date for 2025 ceremony
Following the end of awards season, Bafta have began to look ahead to 2025 by revealing the date of their 78th edition.
While a venue is yet to be announced for the prestigious event and most important ceremony in the British cinematic calendar, the Baftas will take place on February 16th, 2025. It has been held at the Royal Festival in London on the past two occasions, but also recently been staged at the Royal Albert Hall.
Notably, this date for 2025 is precisely two weeks before the Oscars is set to take place in Los Angeles on March 2nd. The Baftas has become a strong indicator of the movies and personnel who will emerge victorious at the Academy Awards. Additionally, similarly to this year, the Baftas will get underway during the middle of the Berlin Film Festival.
The big winner from this year’s Baftas was Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The movie was nominated in 13 categories, and took home seven. Significantly, Robert Downey Jr then won ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for his performance as Lewis Strauss, Cillian Murphy was the lucky recipient of ‘Best Actor in a Leading Role’ and ‘Best Director’ was awarded to Nolan, making it his first Bafta win in the category.
The British filmmaker thanked Universal Studios during his speech, saying, “Thank you for letting us take on something quite dark and seeing the potential in that.”
Meanwhile, Poor Things was hailed as the most engaging film of the year, winning the awards for ‘Best Special Visual Effects’, ‘Best Costume Design’, ‘Best Makeup and Hair’ and ‘Best Production Design’, before actor and producer Emma Stone grabbed the coveted prize of ‘Best Leading Actress’.
At the moment, it remains too early to predict the set of movies that will be in the mix at the 2025 event, but it will undoubtedly be an unmissable evening that indicates how the Academy Awards will play out two weeks later.
Additionally, Bafta previously announced a rule change for the 2025 event in the ‘Best Film’ category. In order to be eligible for nomination, movies must have appeared in 50 commercial cinema screens across the United Kingdom for at least seven days at the height of its release.
If a movie fails to meet that specification, it could still be eligible if it has the equivalent of 350 screenings across the country. Previously, Bafta only demanded that a film have ten screenings each day for a seven-day period or 70 screenings.
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