Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Longlisted for BAFTA Award
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Thomas Storai 
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle has been nominated for the Best Animated Film at the BAFTAs.
The British Academy Film Awards announced today that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle is in the longlist for the 2026 Best Animated Film category. The film, produced by ufotable and distributed by Aniplex, Crunchyroll, and Sony Pictures Releasing International, was also recently nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Motion Picture – Animated category.
All BAFTA film-voting members were invited to join an opt-in chapter to determine the Animated Film longlist and will vote to nominate three films. In the final round all film-voting members vote to determine the winning film.
Released in the UK on 12th September, the film earned over $793 million worldwide. This made it the highest-grossing Japanese film. It is also the 5th highest-grossing non-English film of all time. Additionally, it is the 7th highest-grossing film of 2025. It ranked ahead of Superman, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Captain America: Brave New World.
UK RELEASE
In the UK, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle delivered £3.4m at the box office in its opening weekend. It broke the record for highest earnings for an anime film in the UK & Ireland. The film opened across nearly 500 screens with an average of £7K per screen, making it the highest-earning film in the UK & Ireland per-screen average for its opening weekend.
By the end of the year, it became the highest-grossing international film in North America and had a 98% Fresh critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle is the first film in the three-part cinematic trilogy that will cover the final chapters of the story.
REVIEW
In his FOUR-STAR REVIEW of the film, our reviewer, Carl Roberts, said, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle expertly picks up the continuing story with great animation, action, and horror. It pulls at our heartstrings with the emotion it holds in between the violence and gore, and it does contain a few shocks along the way. No spoilers, but not everyone makes it out of the film alive or intact. At the same time, fans of Inosuke and Nezuko will feel shortchanged by the limited screen time they receive. In Nezuko’s case, she appears for around thirty seconds, and then she is gone for the rest of the film.” Read his full review here.
THE BAFTAS
The BAFTA 2026 ceremony will take place on Sunday, 22nd February at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Congratulations to the team behind Demon Slayer. The film is an exceptional template for other projects to follow. We here at Future of the Force applaud its nomination.
You can catch the previous installments of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba on Crunchyroll.
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