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Luther and Thor star Idris Elba is to be awarded the BAFTA Special Award at the BAFTA Television Awards on July 31 in recognition of his role in championing diversity and new talent in the industry. Elba, whose breakout role came as Stringer Bell in The Wire, founded Green Door Pictures in 2013 with a specific…

UPDATED WITH WINNERS: Chernobyl was the big winner at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on Friday after the Sky and HBO drama scooped seven awards. The Sister-produced nuclear disaster series beat competition from the likes of The Crown, Killing Eve and The Virtues at the pre-recorded ceremony, triumphing in categories…

Nicky Sargent and Vikki Dunn, the founders of post-production house The Farm Group, are to be presented with the Special Award at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on July 17. The pair will receive the prize, one of BAFTA’s highest honors, after founding their company in 1998 and working on some of the biggest shows on…

Six years ago I wrote a piece titled “All White At The Top,” asking why the UK film industry was painfully bereft of Black, Asian and minority ethnic executives. I drew up a list of more than 75 leading companies in production, sales, exhibition, distribution, post-production, public and private finance, VFX, talent…

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) today confirmed that both the British Academy Cymru Awards and British Academy Scotland Awards will go ahead in 2020. Both ceremonies will be held, with more details on format set to be announced later this year, taking into consideration UK government…

In step with the Oscars, BAFTA has announced temporary changes to its film eligibility rules for the 2021 awards. Scroll down for the full list of changes. The changes are in response to COVID-19 and the lack of theatrical releases with most UK cinemas still closed. Movies that were released on VOD instead of their…

BAFTA on Monday said that its next EE British Academy Film Awards will now be held on April 11, 2021, keeping in line with the Oscars which earlier in the day shifted its 2021 date to April 25 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The BAFTAs are traditionally two weeks before the Oscars, making today’s move…

Following today's announcement that the Academy is planning to introduce representation and inclusion criteria that films must meet to be eligible for its awards, BAFTA has confirmed it is looking to expand its own standards to cover all of its prizes (they presently cover just two categories), with both bodies aiming…

Krishnendu Majumdar, the newly-appointed chair of UK awards body BAFTA, has sent a letter to the org's membership addressing the killing of George Floyd and the voting org’s record on diversity. In the letter, he expresses solitary for the Black Lives Matter protests that have sprung up around the globe since Floyd's…

Chernobyl is leading the pack for this year’s BAFTA TV Awards and BAFTA TV Craft Awards after the Sky and HBO original scored 14 nominations, including best drama mini-series. The nuclear disaster drama’s 14 nods mean it is the most-nominated show in BAFTA history alongside Killing Eve last year, which was also…

BAFTA has appointed Krishnendu Majumdar, the producer behind the International Emmy-winning series Hoff The Record, as its new chair. The co-founder of Me + You Productions has been deputy chair for the past year and becomes the first person of color to chair the organization, replacing Dame Pippa Harris. Majumdar…

BAFTA Breakthrough Brits, the talent showcase of rising stars in film, games and TV which has touted Florence Pugh and Letitia Wright in recent years, is significantly expanding in scope to welcome applicants from the U.S., India and China. Under the updated moniker BAFTA Breakthrough, the initiative is taking…