STUDIOCANAL’s I Swear dominated the 46th annual BASE Awards at The Londoner, taking home five honours as the UK home entertainment sector gathered to celebrate the industry’s top campaigns, releases, and talent.
Hosted by Ayo Akinwolere, the awards recognised I Swear across multiple categories, including Campaign of the Year for Independent Film, Campaign of the Year for New Release Film (Up to £15m Box Office), Social Impact, Best in Class: Social/PR with Premier, and Best in Class: Producers Award with Kirk Jones, Tempo Productions, and John Davidson. STUDIOCANAL also picked up awards for its Ran Collector’s Edition, winning Campaign of the Year for Catalogue and Best in Class: Packaging & Artwork.
Universal Pictures was named Digital Distributor of the Year, while Elevation Sales and Warner Home Video shared the Physical Distributor of the Year award. Universal’s Wicked scored major title honours, taking 2025 EST and Overall Title of the Year, alongside Physical Title of the Year alongside Spirit Entertainment. Universal also won Best in Class: Video Asset for Jurassic World Rebirth and Creative Initiative of the Year for Black Phone 2… The Phone Rings Interactivity Campaign.
Other major distributor wins included Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning for Campaign of the Year (New Release Over £15m Box Office), and Warner Bros.’ A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms for Campaign of the Year (Specialist & TV). Warner Bros. also secured the Commercial & Audience Engagement Initiative of the Year for its Superman x hmv partnership and the inaugural Best in Class: SteelBook® Case award for A Nightmare on Elm Street Collection 1–7.
Retailer of the Year titles went to Amazon Prime Video for digital and hmv for physical. BBC Studios was named Independent Label of the Year for Physical, while Lionsgate won for Digital. The BASE Rising Star Award was presented to Abby Phippen, Digital Manager at Vertigo Releasing.
