With just a few days to go before the British Academy of Film and Television Arts hands out the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday, the organization says it has suspended Bryan Singer’s nomination for Bohemian Rhapsody in the Outstanding British Film Category. The film remains in that race, however, and the other people…

UPDATE, writethru: BAFTA has revealed its nominations for this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards with Fox Searchlight’s The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos leading the list of contenders at 12. Also making strong showings are Netflix’s Roma, Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born, Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Universal’s First…

Nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards are being unveiled at BAFTA's London headquarters this morning. The announcement begins at 7:30 AM UK time. BAFTA Chair Dame Pippa Harris will be joined by Will Poulter and Hayley Squires to read off the list of this year's contenders. The BAFTA ceremony will be held…

We don’t have the nominees yet, but we do have a host. Ab Fab veteran Joanna Lumley has been set to front the EE British Academy Film Awards for the second year running. The actress, author and activist last year replaced longtime emcee Stephen Fry. The BAFTA Film Awards ceremony takes place on February 10 and will…

With new diversity requirements for the BAFTA Film Awards formally coming into effect, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has published the Rules & Guidelines for next year’s prizes, and set its key dates for the 2018-2019 season. Nominations will be unveiled on January 9 with the BAFTA ceremony held on…

Black is the new black, in the UK as well as the U.S. Female nominees and guests attending this year's BAFTA Film Awards are expected to wear black in solidarity with their American counterparts. A letter, sent “on behalf of a collective of UK based female film and television industry leaders” and obtained by…

Ab Fab veteran Joanna Lumley has been set as the host of this year’s BAFTA Film Awards, following the departure of Stephen Fry who said last week that he was stepping down after fronting the ceremony 12 times. The announcement was made at this morning’s unveiling of nominations for Britain’s biggest movie prizes, with…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Guillermo del Toro’s period fairy tale The Shape Of Water leads the nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards with 12 including Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. Del Toro just took the Golden Globe in the directing category this…

Nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards are being unveiled at BAFTA’s London headquarters this morning. The announcement begins at 7:30 AM UK time (watch it below). BAFTA Chair Jane Lush will be joined by Game Of Thrones‘ Natalie Dormer and Black Panther‘s Letitia Wright to read off the list of this year’s…

The BAFTA Film Awards will no longer have the UK’s resident renaissance man fronting the ceremony, with Stephen Fry saying today he is stepping down from his longtime emcee role. Fry has played nimble-tongued host to the awards 12 times, and every one of those evenings “has a place in my memory,” he said. “But after…

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has set new diversity standards for two of its main film prizes as well as tweaking membership requirements to allow more flexibility for incoming candidates.

Beginning in 2019, the Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer…

EXCLUSIVE: After months of speculation, the British Academy of Film and Television Awards has confirmed it is moving its EE BAFTA Film Awards to London's iconic Royal Albert Hall for 2017.

It will mark the first time the event has been held there since 1997, when the Film and Television Awards were given jointly at the…