Paddington Bear to Present at BAFTA Film Awards

This weekend’s BAFTA Film Awards is about to get a marmalade-y splash of furry Peruvian attraction.

Paddington Bear has been confirmed as one in every of the ceremony presenters, with the beloved creature — at present on stage at the West End in “Paddington the Musical” — set to current the award for best youngsters’s and household movie (a class his last big display screen outing “Paddington in Peru” was notably absent from last 12 months).

Paddington’s involvement will possible be a first for the BAFTAs, which is unlikely to have seen a four-pawed member of the ursine household giving an award before.

Other, more human, presenters on the evening are set to embrace Aaron Pierre, Aimee Lou Wood, Alicia Vikander, Alia Bhatt, Bryan Cranston, Cillian Murphy, David Jonsson, Delroy Lindo, Emily Watson, Erin Doherty, Ethan Hawke, Gillian Anderson, Glenn Close, Hannah Waddingham, Karen Gillan, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Kerry Washington, Little Simz, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, Milly Alcock, Minnie Driver, Monica Bellucci, Noah Jupe, Olivia Cooke, Patrick Dempsey, Regé-Jean Page, Riz Ahmed, Sadie Sink, Stellan Skargård, Stormzy and Warwick Davis.

Elsewhere on the evening, alongside the precise nominated movies and expertise, the ceremony will see the first performance outdoors the U.S. of “Golden” from smash-hit animationi “Kpop Demon Hunters,” sung by Jae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami. Meanwhilee, Jessie Ware will cowl one in every of Barbara Streisand’s songs during the In Memoriam part.

The BAFTA Film Awards happen Feb 22 at London’s Royal Festival Hall, with Alan Cumming on internet hosting duties for the first time.