The EE Bafta Film Awards are back and they’re more action packed and entertaining than ever!

Multi-award-winning actor Richard E Grant will add his razor-sharp wit to the proceedings as he hosts the ceremony celebrating the year’s finest movie moments, whilst Alison Hammond will be using her candid interview style to get the gossip from the A-listers backstage in her Bafta Studio, giving viewers an access all areas experience as one of the biggest nights in film unfolds.

The ceremony is full of amazing performances, A-list interviews and awards; while all taking place in front of a star-studded audience at the prestigious Royal Festival Hall.

Plus, for the first time ever the ceremony will culminate in a LIVE broadcast to reveal the final four category winners. So, it will be an adrenaline fuelled and nail-biting evening! But which famous faces will be walking away empty handed and who will win one of the iconic Bafta masks?

How to watch the Bafta Film Awards on BBC TV and iPlayer

You can watch the Bafta Film Awards on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Sunday 19 February from 7pm

Watch Bafta 2023 nominees on BBC iPlayer

From an Animated Short to Documentary Features and starring turns by those nominated for their acting skills, check out just some of the Bafta nominated titles now available to watch on BBC iPlayer.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

A story of kindness, friendship, courage and hope for viewers of all ages in a heartwarming, this hand-drawn animated film based on the children's book by Charlie Mackesy is nominated for Best British Short Animation.

Watch The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse on BBC iPlayer (link below)

Navalny

Also nominated in the Documentary category is Navalny, a documentary about Russia's opposition leader, Alexei Navalny. While recovering from Novichok poisoning in 2020, Navalny and his team unravel the plot against him, finding evidence of the Kremlin’s involvement, and prepare to go public with their findings.

Watch Navalny on BBC iPlayer (link below)

Paul Mescal

His lead role in BBC Film backed Aftersun has landed him his first ever Oscar nomination for Best Lead Actor and a Bafta nomination for Best Lead Actor too! Go right back to where it all began for Irish actor Paul Mescal on BBC iPlayer with his Bafta-winning (TV Bafta, that is) performance in Normal People.

Watch Paul mescal in Normal People on BBC iPlayer (link below)

Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell features alongside Paul Mescal in the Best Lead Actor race. You'll find him in The North Water on BBC iPlayer, playing harpooner Henry Drax. During filming of the series, Farrell says he "did feel that death was just around the corner at any given time, that we were just one mistake away from someone falling into the Arctic sea and either very quickly getting hypothermia or sinking under the weight of the waterlogged costume."

Watch The North Water on BBC iPlayer (link below)

Brendan Gleeson

Farrell's regular on-screen partner Brendan Gleeson is nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2023 Academy Awards and the Baftas but you can find him discussing a very different partnership on BBC iPlayer. State of The Union series two sees liberal campaigning Ellen ( Patricia Clarkson) dragging her traditional, self-made husband Scott (Gleeson) out of his comfort zone and into a hipster Connecticut coffee shop, where they have 10 minutes before their marriage counselling session to drink a coffee, gather their thoughts and argue.

Watch State of The Union on BBC iPlayer (link below)

Micheal Ward

From Bafta Rising Star winner to Best Supporting Actor nominee, Micheal Ward is recognised alongside Gleeson on the 2023 shortlist. You can watch Blue Story, the film that secured him his Rising Star win back in February 2020, on BBC iPlayer. And you can also see him in Small Axe, Steve McQueen's anthology film series - Ward appears in Lovers Rock, an ode to the romantic reggae genre of the same name, and to the black youth who found freedom and love in its sound at London house parties, at a time when they were unwelcome in white nightclubs.

Watch Blue Story on BBC iPlayer (link below)
Watch Small Axe: Lovers Rock on BBCiPlayer (link below)

Cate Blanchett

She's secured another Bafta nomination (and Oscar nomination) for Best Lead Actress for her role as a fictional composer but in Mrs. America on BBC iPlayer, Cate Blanchett stars in a stylish, treacherous true story about the women, fights, and fallout on both sides of America's sex equality war.

Watch Mrs America on BBC iPlayer (link below)

Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson is no stranger to a Bafta honour and she makes the shortlist for Best Actress for her role in Good Luck To You Leo Grande. You can see her working her period drama magic alongside Dakota Fanning in Effie Gray or watch her talk Ali Plumb through her life in film in Movies That Made Me on BBC iPlayer.

You can even watch how she handled being asked some particularly difficult questions by intrepid young journalists...

Watch Effie Gray on BBC iPlayer (link below)
Watch Emma Thompson's Movies That Made Me on BBC iPlayer (link below)
Watch Kids Ask Difficult Questions: Emma Thompson on BBC iPlayer (link below)

Daryl McCormack

Emma Thompson's Good Luck To You, Leo Grande co-star is nominated for the Rising Star at the 2023 Baftas and you can find him on BBC iPlayer in Peaky Blinders. McCormack plays Isiah Jesus in the fifth and sixth series of Steven Knight's drama - and he also pops up for a chat about relationships with Thompson in The Big Interviews.

Watch Peaky Blinders on BBC iPlayer (link below)
Watch The Big Interviews on BBC iPlayer (link below)

Naomi Ackie

Another Rising Star nominee, Naomi Ackie, appears in Steve McQueen's Small Axe. She plays Hazel in Education, a film that sees a group of West Indian women uncover an unofficial segregation policy preventing many black children from receiving the education they deserve. And she also makes an appearance in Doctor Who. Check out Face The Raven and you'll spot her playing Jen alongside Letitia Wright and Joivan Wade.

Watch Small Axe: Education on BBC iPlayer (link below)
Watch Doctor Who - Face The Raven on BBC iPlayer (link below)

Carey Mulligan

Carey Mulligan secures a Best Supporting Actress nod at this year's ceremony. You can catch her in two very different roles on iPlayer - working opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Wildlife and with David Tennant (and a LOT of Weeping Angels) in Doctor Who episode Blink.

Watch Wildlife on BBC iPlayer (link below)
Watch Doctor Who - Blink on BBC iPlaye (link below)r

Steven Spielberg

A regular feature during awards season, Steven Spielberg finds himself nominated Best Director at the Oscars yet again in 2023 - and Best Original Screenplay at the Baftas and Oscars. You can watch his multi-Academy Award winner Schindler's List on BBC iPlayer - and his take on Roald Dahl's classic story, The BFG too. And there's always his talk through his greatest sci-fi movies for Radio 1's Movies That Made Me.

Watch Schindler's List on BBC iPlayer (link below)
Watch Steven Spielberg's Movies That Made Me on BBC iPlayer (link below)