BAFTA 2025 LIVE on OTT: Here's when and where you can stream David Tennant-hosted awards show

Next up in the prestigious awards ahead of the Oscars 2025 is the 78th British Academy Film Awards—also known as the BAFTAs. On February 16, 2025, London's Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre will host the much-awaited event. The event will honor the best domestic and international films of 2024.

Host and live streaming

For the second year running, David Tennant will host the event. Live streaming of the program will be available on several worldwide broadcasters, including Lionsgate Play (OTTplay Premium) in India. You can begin live streaming the awards at 11:30 pm on February 16, 2025, Sunday.

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This year, one new award will celebrate the very best films appealing to intergenerational audiences, that is, for kids and family films. This follows the 2020 addition of Best Casting as the only new category to the EE BAFTA Film Awards in the past five years. This new category of awards will profile the essential creative contributions of the children's media sector, as was in 2023, and would be specifically for family films and children's films.

On January 3, 2025, the BAFTA longlists were revealed. On January 15, 2025, the nominees were revealed by Mia McKenna-Bruce, winner of the 2024 EE Rising Star Award, and Will Sharpe, winner of the BAFTA TV Award. On January 7, 2025, the EE Rising Star Award candidates were announced; this year celebrates the 20th anniversary of the category in which the British public votes. Presenters for the category will be Letitia Wright (2019 winner) and James McAvoy (first winner). 

Top nominated films

February 16, 2025, is when the winners will be revealed. With 15 nominations, the Spanish-language French musical crime film Emilia Pérez topped the longlists, followed by Conclave with 14. The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, and The Substance each have 11 nominations. 13 nominations for Emilia Pérez are equal to the record set by three films in a single year—Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Oppenheimer—and in 2022—All Quiet on the Western Front—which was nominated for Best Film at the BAFTAs. Conclave has the most nominations (12), followed by Emilia Pérez (11) and The Brutalist (9).

There is a wide range of genres represented in this year's BAFTA Film Awards nominations, including musicals (or films inspired by music) like A Complete Unknown, Emilia Pérez, and Wicked, historical epics like Blitz and The Brutalist, and big-budget action films like Dune: Part Two and Gladiator II. Horror films Heretic, Nosferatu, and The Substance are among those that received nominations.

After Alfonso Cuarón, who won six for Roma in 2019, Anora writer-director Sean Baker received five nominations (Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Casting, and Best Editing), putting him in second place for most individual nominations at a single ceremony. Thanks to his four nominations for the Irish comedy-drama Kneecap, English filmmaker Rich Peppiatt surpassed Billy Elliot's Stephen Daldry (three) as the most nominated debut director in history.

India at BAFTAs

Meanwhile, in the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer, Monkey Man, directed by Dev Patel, has been nominated alongside Santosh, written and directed by Sandhya Suri, with production credits going to James Bowsher and Balthazar de Ganay. Also making it to the list is Karan Kandhari (Writer, Director) of Sister Midnight.

Moreover, Best Film Not in the English Language features Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light.

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