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BAFTA is in talks with distributors regarding eligibility for films for next year's awards season given that many won’t be released theatrically due to the coronavirus. A BAFTA spokesperson said: "BAFTA is reviewing how to ensure that films scheduled for release during this uncertain period remain eligible, and are…

BAFTA has postponed its Television Craft Awards and Television Awards, making it the latest major TV event to succumb to the coronavirus crisis. BAFTA said in a statement: “Following the latest government advice on coronavirus (COVID-19), we regret to announce that the British Academy Television Craft Awards and…

BAFTA has said it plans to hold its Game Awards behind closed doors amid the growing threat of coronavirus. Instead of holding a red carpet event at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on April 2, BAFTA will live stream the gathering. It added that its Television Craft Awards and British Academy Television Awards are still set…

It is a good thing the Academy Awards are getting it over with two weeks earlier than normal, because this year’s truncated season’s suspense quotient has been virtually zapped by the weekly procession of the same winners we have been witnessing Sunday after Sunday for the past month (these winners are running out of…

As expected, diversity (or the lack thereof) was the hot-button topic at tonight's BAFTA Awards. Joaquin Phoenix, picking up his Best Actor prize for Joker, made a particularly poignant speech on the topic. "I feel conflicted because so many of my fellow actors that are deserving don’t have that same privilege. I…

UPDATED with full winners list: The BAFTA Film Awards have named Sam Mendes’ 1917 Best Film at its annual ceremony Sunday in London, exactly one week before this compressed film awards season concludes with the 92nd Oscars. Mendes’ World War I epic from Universal and Amblin/DreamWorks picked up a leading seven awards…

UPDATE, writethru: Sam Mendes’ war drama 1917 was the big winner here at the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday night, scoring Best Film, Outstanding British Film and Director among its seven prizes. BAFTA is the last major body to hand out trophies before next Sunday’s Oscars and the Universal/Amblin/DreamWorks pic found a…

Bectu, the UK union that represents entertainment workers, has asked for a sit-down with awards body BAFTA to discuss a proposal that it believes would effect "substantial change" in the industry's diversity. Philippa Childs, head of Bectu, wrote to BAFTA chief executive Amanda Berry earlier this week to express…

With the BAFTA Film Awards fast approaching this Sunday, London is poised to start swinging into revelry from Friday through to the wee hours of Monday morning. The party roster this year as compared to last is slightly different, but that shouldn't dampen the spirit of the home stretch towards the Oscars on February…

EXCLUSIVE: Micheal Ward, the Top Boy and Blue Story actor who has been nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star award, has secured a major role in Steve McQueen’s BBC and Amazon drama Small Axe. Ward will play one of the two leads in the third episode of the anthology drama, which tells five stories from within London's…

BAFTA leadership has taken the unusual step of reaching out to the entire membership to express frustration over the lack of diversity in this year's nominations. There were no women up for Best Director for the seventh year in a row and there was another all-white set of acting nominees. In a correspondence seen by De…

EXCLUSIVE: Yesterday's BAFTA nominations announcement hit a nerve. The lack of diversity in major categories, including an all-white set of acting nominees and no women up for Best Director for the seventh year in a row, has sparked a backlash. Today, the chief exec of filmmakers' body Directors UK, which has more…