Sony Pictures Animation<\/a> and distributed by Netflix, has been ruled ineligible by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, despite a formal appeal by Netflix, Variety has confirmed.<\/p>\nBAFTA eligibility rules require films to have a qualifying theatrical release. However, under \u201cexceptional circumstances,\u201d the Film Committee may allow entries that have been made available to the U.K. public through other distribution models, such as event cinema.<\/p>\n
Netflix appealed under this clause, arguing that the film\u2019s event-style theatrical run \u2014 though held two months after its streaming debut \u2014 warranted consideration. But BAFTA\u2019s Film Committee rejected the appeal, stating that the film did not meet the eligibility criteria. Specifically, the film failed to achieve the minimum requirement of \u201cat least 10 commercial screenings in the U.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d is an Oscar frontrunner, but that won\u2019t be the case for the BAFTAs. The animated film, produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Netflix, has been ruled ineligible by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, despite a formal appeal by Netflix, Variety has confirmed. BAFTA eligibility rules require […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2149636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2149635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018KPop-Demon-Hunters-Ruled-Ineligible-for-BAFTAs-\u2014-Heres-Why.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149637,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149635\/revisions\/2149637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}