Boyhood, The Theory of Everything and The Grand Budapest Hotel were the big winners of the night at the Royal Opera House in London, as Britain’s most prestigious film awards were handed out. Boyhood took the top honours of the night, for Best Film and for its director Richard Linklater. It also saw Patricia Arquette […]
The British film industry elite have announced their nominations for this year’s BAFTAs and unusually, it’s an American film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, that has the most nods, eleven. But two British Oscar front-runners, The Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game, about the Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing, are hot on its […]
The veteran actress Dame Helen Mirren is to be made a fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. BAFTA’s highest honour will be handed to the four-time BAFTA winner at this year’s awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House on 16th February. Dame Helen won the TV BAFTA three times in successive […]
Alfonso Cuaron’s space thriller “Gravity” scored 11 nominations for the British Academy Film and TV Awards (BAFTA), including for film, actress for Sandra Bullock, director for Cuaron and screenplay for Cuaron and his son, Jonas. It’s worth noting that Gravity is actually a British Film. Meanwhile, Steve McQueen’s “12 Years A Slave” and David O. […]
Knocking The Hobbit off the top spot on its opening weekend is crime comedy-drama, American Hustle which opened to £3,632,094 in the UK. Christian Bale and Amy Adams play two con artists who are forced to work with a FBI agent, played by Bradley Cooper, to set up corrupt politicians such as the mayor of […]
A group of seventeen up and coming British creatives from the fields of film, television and gaming have been named as BAFTA’s first ever “Breakthrough Brits.” The group will be invited to a networking event with industry experts at BAFTA, next month. “We want to turbocharge the careers of really talented people right across the […]
The British crime thriller Metro Manila is marking its UK theatrical release with the news that it’s been picked to represent the UK in the race for next year’s Best Foreign Language Oscar. Although it’s set in the Philippines and shot entirely in the language of Tagalog, Metro Manila was written and directed by Sean […]
One of the father figures of modern British comedy – and travel presenter – Michael Palin is to receive one of the top honours in television in the UK. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is to present the Monty Python star with a Fellowship of the organisation at this month’s BAFTA TV […]
The BBC’s Olympics coverage and the sitcom inspired by the preparations for the event, Twenty Twelve, are among the broadcasts nominated for the television BAFTA Awards, that will take place next month. Twenty Twelve is one of four programmes to receive four nominations, including nods for its stars Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes. The Wall-to-Wall-produced TV […]
The Queen has been awarded an honorary BAFTA at a reception she was hosting to celebrate the British film industry at Windsor Castle. She was presented with the award by the actor and director Sir Kenneth Branagh. The chairman of BAFTA, John Willis, said the Queen was being honoured for her enduring support for and […]