The European Movie Awards, Europe’s equal of the Oscars, will transfer from its conventional December slot to mid-January in 2026.
The European Movie Academy, which oversees the awards, stated the shifting of the date was a part of an ongoing technique to reposition and rebrand the occasion and its work.
This yr’s thirty sixth version and the thirty seventh version in 2024 will each happen in December as beforehand. The thirty eighth version will then transfer to mid-January in 2026.
The academy believes that by shifting the ceremony to the start of the calendar yr, European nominees and winners will likely be featured far more visibly inside the worldwide awards season together with the Oscars.
The EFA nominations will proceed to be introduced by mid-November every year, giving a bigger window for nominated movies to be promoted.
Academy members eligible to vote will be capable of watch the movies on the Academy VOD platform, or in cinema screenings if the nominated movies are launched throughout this era or are a part of programmes the Academy organizes itself, such because the Month of European Movie.
“European cinema is among the nice dominant inventive and cultural forces within the world cinema hierarchy,” says the European Movie Academy’s Chair of the board, Mike Downey.
“The choice of the board to re-position the European Movie Awards after virtually 4 many years in December marks a basically constructive change because the occasion lastly lands the place it must be: entrance and centre within the coronary heart of the awards season, the place it will possibly create most impression for European candidates, in addition to improve the Academy’s function as a big participant within the world awards recreation.”
Academy CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol stated the change would instantly result in the prolongation of its new public-facing Month of European Movie inititive.
The inaugural version which ran for a month from mid-November final yr, celebrating European cinema in 45 nations concurrently.
“Within the subsequent years, we’ll develop this programme into a correct award season for movies from Europe. After the season has been established on our continent first, we’re eager to discover strategic collaborations and attain audiences in different components of the world as of 2026,” stated Knol.
“Followers of European movies dwell all over the place. We wish to make individuals conscious that European cinema exists, that it may be found extra simply. We’d like to supply European cinema the place individuals favor watching movies – from cinemas to streaming platforms.”
Below present awards calendars, the European Movie Awards will take their place inside the worldwide awards hall among the many Golden Globes, the BAFTAs and the Oscars.
The deliberate mid-January slot will place the ceremony within the weekend after the Golden Globes, and previous to the closing of the nomination voting for the Oscars.
The European Movie Academy stated it had taken its determination in session with the Academy of Movement Image Arts & Sciences, the Hollywood International Press Affiliation and BAFTA, in addition to the administration of festivals corresponding to Sundance, Göteborg, Rotterdam, and the Berlinale, that every one happen shortly after the longer term European Movie Awards weekend.
