BAFTA Awards
Film Academy, BAFTA, Grammys Heads on Diversity Progress, AI, and Modernizing Awards Shows
How to handle and regulate AI, how to continue making awards shows more appealing to a broader audience, and how key improving diversity is to ensuring relevance and revenue were just some of the questions discussed by the heads of the organizations behind the Oscars, BAFTA Awards and Grammys in Toronto on Sunday morning. Bill […]
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BAFTA TV Awards: ‘Top Boy,’ ‘Happy Valley’ Win Two Each as ‘The Crown,’ ‘Black Mirror’ Miss Out
Happy Valley and Top Boy shared the BAFTA love on Sunday night at the British Academy’s prestigious Television Awards in London’s Royal Festival Hall. Sarah Lancashire took home the top prize for her performance in Sally Wainwright’s Yorkshire-based police thriller, and fellow Briton Timothy Spall beat Succession‘s Brian Cox to win the equivalent award, best […]
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BBC’s BAFTAs Red Carpet Interview With Andrew Scott Receives Criticism After Going Viral
Andrew Scott stepped away from a red carpet interview with BBC News at the BAFTAs after he was asked inappropriate questions about Saltburn star and BAFTA nominee Barry Keoghan. Scott, who was in attendance alongside his All of Us Strangers co-star Paul Mescal because the movie was nominated for six awards, including outstanding British film, […]
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BAFTA Says Security Removed Prankster Who Joined ‘Oppenheimer’ Team Onstage: “We Are Taking This Very Seriously”
The BAFTAs have responded to reports that a social media prankster joined the Oppenheimer team onstage as they accepted the best film prize at Sunday’s awards. The man, whom the British Academy did not name, was “removed by security” after he took the stage with Oppenheimer writer-director-producer Christopher Nolan, producers Emma Thomas and Charles Roven […]
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BAFTA Awards: Samantha Morton Dedicates BAFTA Fellowship to “Every Child in Care” and Poverty
Samantha Morton, the British actor (She Said, The Whale, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Walking Dead), writer (I Am…Kirsty) and director (The Unloved), received the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy’s highest honor at the BAFTA Film Awards in London on Sunday. But the outspoken star used her moment on stage to share very emotional words about children who […]
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Christopher Nolan Breaks the BAFTA Curse With Two ‘Oppenheimer’ Trophies
Christopher Nolan finally won a BAFTA Film Awards honor on Sunday, two as a matter of fact, breaking what some admirers had lovingly described as a “curse.” After all, the director, one of the most prolific and best known British film exports, had previously lost out on picking up a BAFTA trophy. Nolan had received […]
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BAFTA Awards: Hannah Waddingham Performs “Time After Time” for In Memoriam Segment
Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham performed a very emotional and heartfelt rendition of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” at the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday, adding a somber note to the British Academy’s big annual ceremony. Organizers had announced a musical performance by Waddingham on the biggest night in British film, following the star’s Apple […]
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BAFTA Awards: Nick Mohammed Surprises Crowd With Comedy Performance on Skates
Who says film awards ceremonies can’t also be fun and surprising? Sunday’s BAFTA Film Awards ceremony in London, hosted by Scottish actor David Tennant (Doctor Who, Inside Man), had members of the crowd in a state of surprise thanks to an unannounced appearance, on roller skates, by Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed, performing as Mr. Swallow, his alter […]
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BAFTA Film Awards: ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ Performance Rocks the Ceremony
It was “Murder on the Dancefloor” at Sunday’s BAFTA Film Awards ceremony in London. English singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor performed her 2001 smash hit “Murder on the Dancefloor,” featured in Emerald Fennell’s BAFTA-nominated film Saltburn, at the ceremony, greeted by joyous screams and much applause from the crowd in attendance. She was surrounded by a group of […]
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BAFTA Film Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Seven Honors, ‘Poor Things’ Gets Five
“And the BAFTA goes to… Oppenheimer” Those words were on BAFTA Film Awards ceremony presenters’ lips a total of seven times in London on Sunday at the ceremony, hosted by Scottish actor David Tennant (Doctor Who, Inside Man) at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in the British capital. Those included the lips of Michael J. Fox, who […]
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Where to Watch the 2024 BAFTA Awards Online
The 77th annual awards ceremony airs this Sunday at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET from Royal Festival Hall in London — here's how to stream it live without cable.
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BAFTAs: David Beckham, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba Join as Award Presenters
The BAFTAs have filled out their presenter ranks with a host of Hollywood celebrities, including David Beckham, Cate Blanchett, Dua Lipa, Idris Elba, Hugh Grant and Gillian Anderson. And Hannah Waddingham is set to perform a musical number, following on the Ted Lasso star’s Apple TV+ Christmas special Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas. The star-studded […]
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