BAFTA LA Delays Britannia Awards to 2021 Due to Coronavirus Pandemic

The British Academy has announced more than 120 significant and wide-ranging changes across its voting, membership and campaigning process aimed at addressing the lack of diversity in the BAFTA Awards.

Bafta has announced a raft of changes to its film awards – including expanding the nominations for director, actor and actress from five to six – in response to a lack of diversity at this year’s ceremony.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorBAFTA today revealed over 120 changes to its voting, membership and campaigning processes as it published the findings of an in-depth seven-month Awards Review. The British org began the review to address diversity standards after controversy erupted earlier this year over its 2020 BAFTA Film Awards nominations, which featured zero non-white acting contenders and an all-male directing field.

has drawn the ire of Sir Graham and others.Speaking to the BBC’s Radio 4 today programme on Monday, said: “What we have also seen over the last six months is the Government has got into the habit of, in respect to the coronavirus issue, ruling by decree without usual debate and discussion and votes in Parliament that we would expect on any other matter."The British people aren't used to being treated as children."We expect in this country to have a parliamentary democracy where our elected

David Cameron was ­yesterday accused of having a “brass neck” for ­volunteering at a ­food bank – despite his ­policies making them desperately needed.He presided over the largest increase in food banks in British history while prime minister.Asked about lockdown, Cameron told Times Radio: “My wife was battling hard to save and promote her fashion ­business, I was working less than that. "And so I cooked all the meals.

updated figures from Public Health England show that Bolton is the first place in the UK to record a weekly rate of more than 200 new cases for every 100,000 people.And yet, residents who are showing symptoms are still struggling to access the tests they have been told they must take.From the online failures which sent people miles from home to mobile centres in key infection areas failing to arrive, the entire testing project appears to have created confusion.One concerned Bolton mum told

Former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher is strongly against wearing a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic despite mandates in the United Kingdom where he resides. Gallagher, 53, also called a friend of his “cowardly” for doing his part to avoid spreading the novel virus.

According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, the UK unemployment rate now stands at 4.1 per cent.

Also Read: BAFTA Film Awards Pushed Back 2 MonthsThe Awards are presented annually at The British Academy Britannia Awards gala dinner, which celebrates the relationship between the British and American entertainment industries. The first Britannia Award was presented in 1989 to Albert R.

Peter White Television EditorThe Britannia Awards, organized by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, has been postponed.The event, which last year was held on October 25 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, has been shelved until 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.It is the latest, and likely not the last, physical film and television event to have been hit by the Coronavirus.BAFTA said that instead its focus in LA during 2020 will be on its membership programming, educational

coronavirus cases are rapidly on the rise - yet the number of confirmed deaths remain extremely low. The Good Morning Britain doctor made his comments after the UK recorded its highest daily total of confirmed positive cases in more than three months.

here"The absorption of food and vomiting are problems and they're trying to work out whether that's because his cells don't produce the enzymes to digest. His liver and heart and blood vessels have been affected." Kate, who has now returned to work at Good Morning Britain, said she's been 'consumed with fear' throughout Derek's illness, but has had to pull herself together for the kids.

There’s a lengthy list of music stars who’ve taken issue with having their music played at Donald Trump’s rallies without permission, ranging from Neil Young to Steven Tyler to Adele.

The Animals, has spoken out about Donald Trump‘s use of ‘House Of The Rising Sun’ at a recent event.The song, which was made famous by the English rock band when they released a version of the old folk standard in 1964, was played over a speaker system on Wednesday (September 2) at Wilmington International Airport in North Carolina as Air Force One taxied down the runway.Burdon, who sang the song in his signature deep-voice, has responded to Trump’s use of the song, saying he didn’t grant

Chris Willman Music WriterPostponed from May and then canceled as a ceremony due to the pandemic, the U.K.’s Ivor Novello Awards were revealed Wednesday in an announcement made by Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1 Radio.The awards, selected by juries of the winners’ peers, celebrate British songwriting and scoring for film and television.