Deadline’s BAFTA Awards Live Blog
deadline.comThe EE BAFTA Film Awards are about to kick off here at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London. The ceremony is on a delay and won’t air for another two hours, but Deadline is in the house, so join us as we follow the proceedings in the liveblog below.
David Tennant returns to host the BAFTAs in a sophomore turn, while there will also be performances by Take That (with “Greatest Day” from Anora) and Jeff Goldblum, who will play the piano during the In Memoriam portion of the program.
Coming into the evening, Edward Berger’s Conclave (released by Black Bear in the UK) is the leading nominee with 12 mentions, followed by Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez (Netflix) with 11 and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist (UPI) at nine.
Also high up with nominations are Sean Baker’s Anora (7), Universal’s Wicked (7) and Searchlight’s Timothée Chalamet-starrer A Complete Unknown (6).
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