Baftas

News

The speeches were the real winners at 2021’s BAFTA Awards

Here's our favourites.
Douglas Greenwood
4.12.21
News

everything you missed at last night’s baftas

Timothée Chalamet! Ill-advised jokes! Gay rights!
Roisin Lanigan
2.11.19
Culture

why olivia colman deserves every award under the sun

Gentle, funny, smart, self-deprecating -- Olivia Colman’s un-starry and disarming interview style might seem like the best Oscar campaign Hollywood could buy, if she had not so clearly always been this way.
Philippa Snow
2.8.19
Film

everything you missed at the baftas last night

The protests, the outfits, Timothée Chalamet winning everyone over for the 83rd time this year -- here’s everything you need to know to hold your own at the water cooler today.
Georgie Wright
2.19.18
News

emma watson has donated £1 million in support of time's up

Ahead of the BAFTAs, the actress and activist has spoken on the culture of harassment, abuse and impunity in the entertainment industry.
Eleanor McCooey
2.19.18
News

ken loach delivers searing attack on uk government at the BAFTAs

The I, Daniel Blake director used his acceptance speech for Best British Film to speak out against the “callousness and brutality” of the UK government, following the decision to end its child refugee programme last week.
Matthew Whitehouse
2.13.17
Film

'american honey' nominated for outstanding british film at this year's baftas

The Sasha Lane-starring flick joins 'Moonlight' and 'I, Daniel Blake' in a series of nominations that celebrate the role of the outsider in cinema.
Matthew Whitehouse
1.10.17
Film

the baftas just took a big step forward for film diversity

British Oscars so white, but they're doing something about it.
Hannah Ongley
12.21.16
News

bafta is shaking up its member voting privileges too

After #OscarsSoWhite and the Academy’s review of membership, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts LA chapter is rethinking its own roll.
Matthew Whitehouse
4.29.16
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the alternative award ceremony awards

#OscarsSoWhite was only the half of it. The 2016 awards season has to go down as history’s most controversial, powered by the deathless echo chamber of social media outrage. As it splutters to a close, we celebrate the people who outshone all others in...
Dan Martin
3.4.16
Film

'carol,' 'amy' and 'the danish girl' receive bafta film award nominations

Cate Blanchett, Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander are among the actors in contention.
Nick Levine
1.8.16
Film

the 15 things we learned from a night at the baftas

Behind the scenes at the British film industry’s annual awards ceremony.
Colin Crummy
2.10.15
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