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Alan Cumming has been named big of the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards, which volition instrumentality spot connected February 22 astatine London’s Royal Festival Hall.
The actor, writer and shaper succeeds David Tennant, who fronted the ceremonial successful 2024 and 2025. While Cumming has antecedently hosted the BAFTA Television Awards and a scope of large U.S. ceremonies, this volition people his archetypal clip starring BAFTA’s flagship movie event.
Cumming said helium was pleased to instrumentality to the BAFTA signifier successful a hosting role, describing the ceremonial arsenic an accidental to observe filmmaking trade portion keeping the evening lively. The 2026 amusement volition aerial connected BBC One and watercourse internationally.
BAFTA executives pointed to Cumming’s acquisition and surface beingness arsenic cardinal factors successful the decision. Emma Baehr, BAFTA’s enforcement manager of awards and content, said the organisation expects him to bring warmth, humour and vigor to the evening arsenic it honours the year’s astir acclaimed films.
Cumming’s vocation spans much than 4 decades crossed film, tv and theatre. His surface credits see GoldenEye, X2: X-Men United, Eyes Wide Shut and Emma, with an upcoming relation successful Avengers: Doomsday. On television, helium earned some a Golden Globe and an Emmy for The Good Wife and has precocious gained renewed visibility arsenic big and enforcement shaper of the U.S. variation of The Traitors, which has collected aggregate Emmy and Critics’ Choice Awards.
The 2025 BAFTA Film Awards broadcast attracted an mean tv assemblage of astir 3 cardinal viewers, alongside tens of millions of views crossed BAFTA’s integer platform.
Voting for the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards opened connected December 5. Longlists volition beryllium announced connected January 9, with nominations to beryllium revealed connected January 27, up of the February ceremony.
