{"id":119040,"date":"2025-01-03T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T21:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/03\/celine-dion-elton-john-documentaries-make-longlist-for-baftas\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T21:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T21:01:42","slug":"celine-dion-elton-john-documentaries-make-longlist-for-baftas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/03\/celine-dion-elton-john-documentaries-make-longlist-for-baftas\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e9line Dion & Elton John documentaries make longlist for BAFTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Documentaries on <\/span>C\u00e9line<\/strong><\/span> Dion<\/strong> and Elton John<\/strong> are officially in the running for the so-called British Oscars, the BAFTAS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both <\/span>Elton John: Never Too Late<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>I Am: <\/span>C\u00e9line<\/span><\/em> have made the longlist for the <\/span>2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards<\/span><\/a>, handed out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. They’re among the 10 movies that made the list, out of 71 movies that were submitted.<\/span><\/p>\n

The final list of nominees will be announced Jan. 15, with the EE BAFTA Film Awards ceremony happening Feb. 16 at London\u2019s Royal Festival Hall, hosted by <\/span>Dr. Who<\/span><\/em> star David Tennant<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elton John: Never Too Late<\/span><\/em> premiered in December on Disney+. It features never-before-seen footage of Elton’s career and of his life today as a husband and father. <\/span>I Am: <\/span>Celine<\/span> Dion, <\/span><\/em>which focuses on the singer’s life following her stiff-person syndrome diagnosis, started streaming on Prime Video in June 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neither film made the Oscars short list for best documentary, but the song Elton co-wrote for his movie, which is also called \u201cNever Too Late,\u201d is on the short list for best original song.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Oscar nominations will be revealed Jan. 17.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Prime Video Documentaries on C\u00e9line Dion and Elton John are officially in the running for the so-called British Oscars, the BAFTAS. Both Elton John: Never Too Late and I Am: C\u00e9line have made the longlist for the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards, handed out by the British Academy ofRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}