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Clara Amfo is set to host the EE BAFTA Film Awards Opening Night, which will are on April 10 on BBC Two.

stream below and check back here for the full list as it’s unveiled.Best British Film contenders are expected to include Promising Young Woman and Ammonite, while Hollywood films from Nomadland to The Trial Of The Chicago 7 look to get nods too.The awards, which precede the separate TV awards ceremony on June 6, will be held at London’s Royal Albert Hall on April 11 without a live audience due to coronavirus restrictions.BAFTA has introduced more than 120 changes to its voting, membership and

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.

Jared Haris has revealed he was not the first choice for his Bafta-winning role in Chernobyl and bosses had wanted Daniel Day-Lewis instead.

Luther star Idris Elba said he will continue to champion other actors, writers and people to tell their stories as he collected one of Bafta’s highest accolades.

Following the Academy’s decision to delay next year’s Oscars by two months, from February 28 to April 25 2021, BAFTA has moved their ceremony from February 14 to April 11, 2021.BAFTA have rescheduled the ceremony in order to extend their eligibility period in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Jodie Comer and Glenda Jackson will compete for the Leading Actress gong at the 2020 BAFTA TV Awards.

"I am as surprised as you are that this is still going ahead"

The Bafta television awards will be hosted by Richard Ayoade behind closed doors and nominees will accept their awards virtually, it has been announced.

Crippling anxiety pushed Joaquin Phoenix to be physically sick as he waited backstage before a TV appearance.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is looking at means of supporting members who are facing the impact of the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

BAFTA bosses have postponed their Television Craft Awards and Television Awards due to the coronavirus crisis.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has postponed its flagship television awards ceremonies, the BAFTA Television Awards and the BAFTA Television Craft Awards.

Aisling Bea, Daisy Cooper and Barbara Broccoli are among the figures in the entertainment industry who will offer tips and guidance to aspiring female creatives.

The BAFTA Film Awards have named Sam Mendes’ “1917” Best Film at its annual ceremony Sunday in London, exactly one week before this compressed film awards season concludes with the 92nd Oscars.

The 73rd British Academy Film Awards took place in the UK this weekend. The best performances and movies were nominated at the BAFTA. While all eyes were on who will take home a BAFTA award this year and find a spot on the BAFTA 2020 winners' list, an unfortunate red carpet moment caught everyone's eye. Photos from the red carpet reveal The Irishman star Al Pacino tripped and fell on moments before he could pose for the cameras at the event. 

Graham Norton divided Bafta viewers with a biting opening monologue that took aim at the diversity controversy surrounding the awards.

Sam Mendes’s war film 1917 leads the Bafta accolades with seven wins.

Few things are more classic than a black or metallic red carpet outfit.

Tonight the BAFTA film awards were dished out at London’s legendary Royal Albert Hall with the big winner on the night being the WWI epic 1917 which walked away with no less than seven awards including Best Film, and Best Director for Sam Mendes. The film also scored Outstanding British Film.

Joker leads the way at the British Academy film awards today with 11 nominations.

Bafta nominees and film stars have attended a party at Kensington Palace ahead of the awards ceremony today.

Parasite director Bong Joon Ho is battling “horrible” jet lag due to the film’s stunning awards season success.

Days ahead of Sunday’s BAFTA awards, “The Morning Show” star Gugu Mbatha-Raw has spoken out about a “stark lack of inclusivity” at high-level awards shows.

#BAFTAsSoWhite was not the hashtag that BAFTA brass was hoping would trend on Twitter within minutes of nominations being announced.

For any awards pundits reading the BAFTA nominations as tea leaves for the impending Oscar race, 2020’s nomination slate held relatively few surprises. Unlike in certain years when BAFTA has piled nominations upon wildcard contenders (“Drive” in 2012, for example), this year’s top selections in the major categories more or less align with their perceived status across the pond — and sure enough, days later, Oscar voters largely matched their choices with those of their British counterparts.

This "invisibility" is "shocking", said Time’s Up UK chair

Andy Serkis will be honoured with the outstanding contribution to cinema award at the British Academy film awards.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is presenting Andy Serkis with its Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at the 73rd EE British Academy Film Awards ceremony on Feb. 2 in London.

Film director Steve McQueen has criticised Bafta over this year’s “all-white” controversy.

Cynthia Erivo has responded to the recent BAFTA nominations, which yielded entirely white nominees in all the major acting categories.

There will be a root and branch review of how the BAFTA Film Awards are voted on in the wake of this week’s nominations, which saw no people of color nominated in the acting categories and, again, no female helmers get a nod for best director.

Darkly comic Korean thriller Parasite has become one of the most talked about foreign language films of recent years and has now been nominated for four Baftas.

The director of Blue Story has labelled the lack of black Bafta nominees as “ridiculous” amid criticism of the diversity in this year’s film awards.

BAFTA bigwigs admitted disappointment at the all-white acting nominations unveiled Tuesday, and called on the industry to affect better and faster change. It also promised action on gender equality, telling Variety the next edition of its Elevate program will be dedicated to female directors after women helmers were once again shut out of the main category at the 2020 awards.

Jessie Buckley and Saoirse Ronan have both been nominated for the Leading Actress category at the British Academy film awards.