BAFTA Longlists Announced: ‘Chicken Run 2’ Up for Best British Film, ‘The Boy and the Heron’ for Foreign Language Pic

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts today announces the longlists of films and talent that have gone through to Round Two of voting for the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards. Round Two voting kicks off today (Jan. 5) and will determine the nominations, to be unveiled via global livestream on January 18 at 12 p.m. (GMT) from BAFTA’s 195 Piccadilly HQ in London.

Round Three of voting will determine the winners, which will be announced during the BAFTAs ceremony on February 18 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, hosted by David Tennant.

Longlists for all 24 categories were announced, including the Animated Film race. The eight films going into the semifinal decision (out of 17 eligible) are:

• The Boy and the Heron (Studio Ghibli)
• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (Aardman/Netflix)
• Elemental (Pixar/Disney)
• Nimona (Netflix)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures Animation)
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Illumination/Nintendo/Universal)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount/Nickelodeon/Point Grey)
• Wish (Walt Disney Animation Studios)

Marking the year’s great achievements in the medium, two of these animated titles have been advanced to compete with live-action films in top categories: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is in the race for Best British Film, while Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron is one of the international gems contending for the Film Not in the English Language prize. Additionally, Sony’s Marvel sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was recognized for Original Score and Special Visual Effects.

Six films advance in the British Short Animation category:

• Crab Day
• Sweet Like Lemons
• The Smeds and The Smoos
• Visible Mending
• Wild Summon
• World to Roam

And 10 films go ahead in the Special Visual Effects contest, out of 73 entered for consideration:

• Barbie
• The Creator
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Wonka

You can see all the longlist categories on the BAFTA website.