BAFTA weekend has arrived, and with it the kickoff of key celebrations forward of the BAFTA Movie Awards on Sunday night time, which is able to then be adopted by a number of glitzy afterparties nicely into the wee hours of Monday morning. The awards themselves will probably be handed out starting at 5pm native time on Sunday at Southbank Centre’s Royal Competition Corridor.
The ceremony, hosted by David Tennant (taking up from Richard E. Grant in 2023, and Insurgent Wilson earlier than him), will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 7pm native, a two-hour delay from the beginning of the dwell proceedings. Opposite to final yr, the ultimate 4 classes won’t be broadcast in actual time. Britbox is airing the Movie Awards within the U.S.
In 2022, the Critics Selection Awards have been held in Los Angeles on the identical night time because the BAFTAs, inflicting some disruption for nominees. Final yr, the Administrators Guild of America handed out its prizes the night time earlier than. This yr, the Annie Awards are the one overlap.
Whereas BAFTA held its annual fundraising gala earlier this week, the weekend honoring nominees begins in earnest at the moment with AppleTV+ internet hosting a brunch for the second yr operating. Apple Authentic Movies have 14 nods in complete, together with for Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon.
Later, Saturday night’s extremely elevated pub crawl begins with the Academy of Movement Image Arts & Sciences reception on the Dorchester Resort (transferring from final yr’s venue at Claridge’s in Mayfair). The occasion honors AMPAS’ Oscar nominees and is a chance for BAFTA contenders who’re up for Oscars to rub shoulders and be seen forward of the Academy Awards poll deadline on February 27.
From there, these on the listing will head to The Nationwide Gallery for BAFTA’s annual nominees do. That is the second yr BAFTA is holding the well-attended three-hour drinks and hors d’oeuvres occasion within the museum, following an extended stretch at Kensington Palace and a quick stint on the academy’s 195 Piccadilly headquarters.
Then, for some, it’s off to Charles Finch’s unique annual dinner, held in partnership with Chanel at 5 Hertford Avenue to have fun an excellent yr of movie and style.
On Sunday, and instantly following the awards, BAFTA will host its post-ceremony dinner on the Royal Competition Corridor, its sophomore go after transferring from Grosvenor Home final yr. There’s a BAFTA after social gathering on website following the meal.
From round 10pm, there’s a tantalizing roster relating to studios and streamers pulling out the stops for their very own occasions to have fun their nominees and possibly winners on Sunday (outdoors the studios, Vogue will host a do in partnership with Tiffany & Co at Annabel’s).
Excessive on everybody’s listing is the Common and Focus shindig which is able to happen on the NoMad lodge in Covent Backyard. NBCUniversal Studio Group Chair and Chief Content material Officer Donna Langley will probably be on the town to toast the studio’s nominees from Oppenheimer to The Holdovers and Earth Mama (together with movies from Focus, Uni has 21 nominations going into Sunday). To our recollection, there’s not but been a serious BAFTA social gathering held on the lodge which opened in Could 2021.
Over of their common digs, and in a celebration that’s a must-stop, Searchlight will probably be at Soho Home on Greek Avenue to have fun its 19 nominations together with for Poor Issues, All of Us Strangers and Rye Lane. It is a combo get-together because it has grown lately, that means a number of studios, streamers and indie distributors will populate the multi-tiered property. Together with Searchlight, they embody Disney, Paramount, Sony, Lionsgate, Amazon, Studiocanal, Sky, Mubi and Dogwoof. Among the many nominated movies from that group are Elemental, Mission: Unimaginable – Lifeless Reckoning Half One, Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse, Anatomy of a Fall, Saltburn, Rooster Run: Daybreak of the Nugget, Ferrari, Methods to Have Intercourse and 20 Days in Mariupol.
Across the nook, Warner Bros will flip up the pink for its annual cocktail at Kettner’s. The studio has eight nominations heading into the awards, together with 5 for Barbie. Though 2023’s highest grossing film was snubbed in Greatest Movie and Director, Greta Gerwig, who’s up for Orignal Screenplay, turned up on the London premiere of WB/Legendary’s Dune: Half Two on Thursday, so odds on are that she’s going to put in an look.
And at last, Netflix, with 12 nominations, is once more doing a full takeover of the Chiltern Firehouse, honoring such movies as Maestro, Rustin and Society of the Snow and welcoming revelers very late into the night time.
