BAFTA holds the 80th EE BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday 21 February 2027 at the Royal Festival Hall, its home since 2023.
BAFTA holds the 80th EE BAFTA Film Awards at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Sunday 21 February 2027. Its prizes are voted by an academy of working film practitioners rather than by critics or the public.
David Lean, Carol Reed, Laurence Olivier and Michael Powell were among the founders of the British Film Academy. Two years later, on 29 May 1949, it gave its first film awards.
The ceremony has been broadcast since 1956. The Academy merged with the television producers’ guild in 1958, and EE has sponsored the film ceremony since 2013.
Over the last decade the Academy has rebuilt how the voting works, after a review of who was nominated and by whom. For 2027 the Outstanding British Film longlist grows from 15 titles to 20. The Casting Chapter also joins the Acting Chapter in voting on the performance categories through the first two rounds.
The Academy moved the ceremony to the Royal Festival Hall in 2023. Longlists are announced on 7 January and nominations on 19 January.
In a concert auditorium the seats all face one way, so guests watch the ceremony rather than dine through it.