Take That to Perform at the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards, New Category to Debut

The BAFTAs return for another year, with the first of two annual events arriving just after Valentine's Day. The British Academy Film Awards, the first of the two events covering British Film and Television, is now nearly 80 years in and continues to honor the best work on screen by British artists (and a few Americans they let have a statue every year). As has become tradition, BritBox will carry both ceremonies live*, streaming simultaneously on both sides of the pond here in the U.S. while it streams on iPlayer in the U.K.

(*Like the Emmys, the British Television Awards don't happen until after the "TV season" is over, though the BAFTAs hold its version right away in May instead of waiting until September.)

The traditional "Awards Season" has been in a complete muddle for the past few years since the 2020 pandemic upended large gatherings. The timing was poor, as the season's final event, the Academy Awards, had just completed a slow but steady shift from its early March date to the first weekend in February. This was the second time the Oscars had moved up the calendar, having already moved from the original April spot a good decade or so prior, in order to shorten costly campaigns.