E! is constant its push into awards ceremonies.
The Versant-owned community has picked up the rights to air the 2026 BAFTA Movie Awards. It’s going to air the ceremony, which is hosted by Traitors host Alan Cumming, on Sunday, February 22 at 8pm. It is not going to air the occasion dwell on condition that it’s set in London and can run earlier within the day throughout the pond.
The cable community has taken over the rights from BritBox, which aired the occasion for the final couple of years.
E! is already the house of the Critics Selection Awards and is thought for its purple carpet protection of different main ceremonies.
The BAFTA Movie Awards ceremony shall be held on the Southbank Centre’s Royal Pageant Corridor in London and can air dwell on the BBC within the UK.
One Battle After One other leads the pack with 14 nominations together with Finest Movie, Director and Tailored Screenplay. Paul Thomas Anderson’s film got here into the BAFTA nominations stage sizzling with 16 longlist mentions, essentially the most ever recorded for a movie. The 14 nominations is the second-highest haul recorded by a movie after Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, which landed 16 in 1983. The King’s Speech, All Quiet on the Western Entrance, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon additionally landed 14 BAFTA noms. Every of these movies, excluding Crouching Tiger, received Finest Movie.
Sinners landed 13 BAFTA nominations. The movie’s haul contains Finest Director and Unique Screenplay for Ryan Coogler. Michael B. Jordan landed his first BAFTA nomination within the Finest Actor class, and Manchester native Wunmi Mosaku landed a Finest Actress nomination.
Trailing the 2 Warner Bros titles are Hamnet and Marty Supreme, with 11 nominations. Paul Mescal and Timothée Chalamet are each Finest Actor nominees, and each Chloé Zhao and Josh Safdie are Finest Director nominees.
Frankenstein and Sentimental Worth each clocked eight nominations, whereas Bugonia and shock British field workplace hit I Swear clocked 5 nominations. Different well-represented British titles embrace The Ballad of Wallis Island and Pillion, which each landed three nominations.
Zac Ntim contributed to this story.
