BAFTA Film Awards 2021 nominations in full

Given the Apartheid-era backdrop of Moffie, there are more than enough prejudices to go around — anti-black, anti-gay, anti-communist, anti-British, for starters — and South African director Oliver Hermanus makes nuanced use of all of them in his very fine fourth feature. Premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019, the film is at last being released in the U.S. by IFC beginning April 9 and is nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer,

Noel Clarke is set to be honoured with a BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award.The star, whose credits include the Kidulthood series, Bulletproof and most recently SAS: Red Notice, will receive the special award at this year’s ceremony.BAFTA said that Clark had played a “pivotal role in bringing diversity to British screens in front and behind the camera and pushing under-represented talent and stories to the forefront of cinema and television”.The star, who previously won

The British Academy Games Awards crowned Supergiant’s Greek mythology title Hades the best game of the year during the 2021 BAFTA Game Awards Ceremony on Thursday. Hades won a total of five awards, including best artistic achievement and game design at the awards show hosted by journalist Elle Osili-Wood.

Rocks is now available to read online.Rocks follows the story of an east London teenage girl whose life changes forever after her mum walks out, leaving her to look after herself and her young brother alone.The film – which handpicked its cast of unknown female leads from secondary schools around London – won best British independent film at February’s British Independent Film Awards.Written by Claire Wilson and Theresa Ikoko, the film has since been nominated for a BAFTA for Best British Film

Naman Ramachandran Clara Amfo, Edith Bowman and Dermot O’Leary will host the EE BAFTA Film Awards, which for the first time, will take place over a weekend on April 10 and 11.Amfo, a popular BBC Radio 1 presenter, will host the awards’ opening night on April 10, and will be joined by a yet-to-be-announced panel of guests who will discuss the creative process using footage from nominated films.

BAFTA has confirmed further details of its 2021 Film Awards ceremony, which will be divided into two events taking place April 10 and 11, with both shows broadcast live on the BBC.

The British Film Institute and BAFTA have announced the next stage of their work to tackle, harassment and racism in the workplace, deploying a new employer Action List for the film and TV sectors to use that comes with widespread support from across the industry. At the same, The Film and TV Charity has launched a new suite of anti-bullying support services for workers.

Westlife have signed a new record deal and plan to release new music this year. 

Let’s hear it for the nominees! Several stars have something to celebrate after being nominated for 2021 Academy Awards on Monday, March 15.

Nomadland, Minari, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and The Sound of Metal hanging on its heels, with six each. At a virtual presentation today hosted by Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, break-out British film Promising Young Woman also recieved five nominations, while a late addition to the race, Shaka King's Judas and the Black Messiah, made a surprising entry into Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor, with a nod for Lakeith Stanfield as well the bookies' favourite Daniel Kaluuya.

Naman Ramachandran Sarah Gavron’s “Rocks” is nominated for seven BAFTAs as well as a BAFTA EE Rising Star Award for its lead Bukky Bakray.

After much delay, the 2021 BAFTA Awards nominations are finally out and we are excited to see the nominations of the much-anticipated even to say the least! Film Nomadland is in the lead with a whopping seven award nominations this year including for best film, best director, adapted screenplay, leading actress, cinematography, editing and sound.

Just over a year from the reemergence of the dreaded #BAFTASoWhite hashtag in 2020 and the 2021 BAFTA film awards nominees list is almost unrecognizable, likely to be remembered —and celebrated —for those it did include rather than those left out. Unveiled on Tuesday and landing after a major seven-month review and overhaul of the BAFTA film awards rules and regulations, the nominations are —while not officially confirmed —undoubtedly the most diverse in the British Academy’s history.

2021 BAFTA Awards nominees were announced on Tuesday, presented by comedian Aisling Bea and actress Susan Wokoma live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. and were the most-nominated films of the year, with seven nominations apiece.BAFTA previously announced the all-British nominees for its Rising Star Award, including Bukky Bakray (), Conrad Khan (), Kingsley Ben-Adir (), Morfydd Clark () and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù ().The winners will be announced on Sunday, April 11, with the ceremony having been

Nomadland and Rocks lead the pack of nominees for the BAFTA 2021 awards in the most diverse nominations list ever seen in the British Academy’s history, and coming just a year after it was embroiled in the #BaftaSoWhite controversy, sparking a 7-month review and overhaul of the voting rules and regulations.

What a difference a year makes. After last year’s BAFTA film nominations sparked outrage due to a lack of diversity, the organization’s top brass couldn’t be more thrilled with this year’s dramatic U-turn in nominations.