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In the following pages, we feature just a few of the people we’ve supported these past few years. Their story is our story, which, like an infinite spiral, continues and evolves. Have a wonderful night.
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This is a special year for BAFTA – our 75th! As we celebrate the achievements of yesterday and continue to act on the issues of today, we are also looking to tomorrow. This is a pivotal moment in our history. We are actively investing in a future that will benefit our members, our industries and anyone who loves films, games and television. We’ve already made some sweeping changes, across our whole organisation, to get us to a place where we can best fulfil our mission: to inspire new and unheard voices, to support talent from all backgrounds, to advocate for change and to celebrate excellence.
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A very warm welcome to tonight’s Awards and especially to all our nominees. Your boundless hard work, dedication and creativity, in another challenging year, is inspirational and we hope your exceptional work will ignite the same kind of creative sparks in the next generation.
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You can play a pivotal role in supporting the creative future of film, games and television by making a donation today. Or why not name one of the seats in our newly designed Princess Anne Theatre and become part of the fabric of London’s most exciting new creative space. To find out more, visit bafta.org/about/fundraising or contact Lucy Plaskett on +44 7970 325678
BAFTA is a registered charity no 216726 and Friends of BAFTA USA is a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”).
At BAFTA, we believe that talent is everywhere but opportunity is not. We have recently redeveloped 195 Piccadilly to be a creative centre for film, games and television, giving us the increased space and state-of-the-art technology to dramatically increase our support for the next generation of talent.
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FEBRUARY BAFTA, Place2Be and Oak National Academy launch the Express Yourself campaign as part of Children’s Mental Health Week.
MARCH A new category is introduced at the Games Awards, EE Game of the Year, which was won by The Last of Us Part II. The big winner on the night was Hades, with five awards, including Logan Cunnigham, winner of Performer in a Supporting Role.
APRIL The Film Awards is celebrated over two days, Saturday and Sunday. Nomadland was the big winner with four awards, including Best Film, Director and Leading Actress. The publicly voted EE Rising Star Award went to Bukky Bakray.
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MAY It was a story of first-time winners at the Television Craft Awards and the Television Awards, with Paul Mescal, Malachi Kirby, Rakie Ayola, Aimee Lou Wood, Sophie Willan, Georgi Banks-Davies, Marian Mohamed, Marcus Viner and Harry Escott all winning their first BAFTA.The publicly-voted Virgin Media’s Must-See Moment was won by Britain’s Got Talent’s Diversity performance.
PHOTOS: BAFTA; BAFTA/ Greg Williams; BAFTA/ Amy Muir; BAFTA/Charlie Clift; BAFTA/Scott Garfitt
JUNE • The inaugural BAFTA Breakthrough India initiative launches, in partnership with Netflix. • BAFTA publishes the results of its first ever global membership survey and commits to address areas of underrepresentation by 2025.
JULY For the first time, awards are presented for both Games and Immersive categories at the GSA BAFTA Student Awards, hosted digitally in Los Angeles.
AUGUST Leading screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability, albert, celebrates its 10th anniversary.
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SEPTEMBER Twenty-seven BAFTA scholars in the US and UK are announced. A further 14 recipients will benefit from a career development bursary pilot, supported by filmmaker Paul Greengrass. OCTOBER Gangs of London wins four at the BAFTA Cymru Awards.
NOVEMBER • BAFTA 195 opens its doors to members after being closed for two years for a major redevelopment. • Limbo wins four at the BAFTA Scotland Awards. • BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew announces 20 practitioners from underrepresented backgrounds who will receive bespoke mentor and career support. • Guru Live, our festival for emerging talent, goes online for free.
DECEMBER • BAFTA, with the support of Netflix, unveils its UK and US Breakthrough participants, naming 36 creatives from film, games and television. • BFI Flare x BAFTA reveals the industry mentors who will support six British LGBTQIA+ filmmakers. • BAFTA consolidates its US operations - BAFTA North America is born.
THE 2021 AWARDS SCHEDULE 25 MARCH British Academy Games Awards 10-11 APRIL EE British Academy Film Awards 24 MAY British Academy Television Craft Awards
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FACE VALUE In December, this beautiful photo of the multi-talented Michaela Coel was selected as a winner of the UK’s biggest portrait competition, Portrait of Britain 2021, organised by 1854 Media and the British Journal of Photography. The portrait was part of a set captured by photographer Charlie Clift at the 2021 Television Awards, where Coel picked up two wins for her drama, I May Destroy You, including Leading Actress, adding to its three wins at the earlier Television Craft Awards. 9
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SAMAIRA IQBAL WON BAFTA’S YOUNG PRESENTER 2021 COMPETITION, SUPPORTED BY SKY KIDS’ FYI. AS PART OF HER PRIZE, SHE WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO INTERVIEW HER DREAM SPORTS PERSONALITY.
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Television Lecture 2014: Lenny Henry); BAFTA/Michael J Barrett (Sir Run Run Shaw, 1978); BAFTA/Matt Holyoak (Film Awards portrait, 2019);
PHOTOS: BAFTA (Carl Foreman Awards 1993; Mitzi Cunliffe Special Award, 1992; Television BAFTA/Doug McKenzie (Dirk Borgarde Tribute, 1988); BAFTA/Alecsandra Raluca
Birch (2020 EE Rising Star Michael Ward; Television Lecture 2020: Chris Packham; Scherfig); BAFTA/Agne Bekeraityte (albert x BAFTA Crew, 2019)
This year, BAFTA celebrates its 75th anniversary. It’s been quite a journey. Here are just a few highlights from across the years, from Los Angeles to Hong Kong. Here’s to many more!
Academy Circle in Hong Kong, 2013; BAFTA 195; Martin Scorsese at BAFTA Scotland, 1987; BAFTA Cymru launch, 1988; 2007 Games Lecture Showcase, 2019); BAFTA/Jessie Craig (Breakthrough 2013); BAFTA/Quetzal Maucci (Elevate round table, 2020); BAFTA/Lisa Prime (BAFTA
Craft Awards 1993; BAFTA Scotland Awards, 1993; Anthony Minghella Lecture, 1997; Dragoi (Elevate at Pinewood, 2018); BAFTA/Jordan Anderson (Death Stranding
:Will Wright); BAFTA/Ricky Darko (#MeToo at the Film Awards 2018); BAFTA/Jonathan Kids’ Big School Day, 2018); BAFTA/Jamie Simonds (David Lean Lecture 2014: Lone
GREAT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BAFTA YOUNG GAME DESIGNERS SUPERTEAM ENTERS A CLIMATE CHANGE-THEMED GAME JAM? THEY SHOWCASE THEIR GAME AT COP26 AND TO ROYALTY, NATURALLY. Climate change is front page news, but communications on how and what changes we should make are often complex and confusing. One way to encourage positive action is through engaging storytelling, and this was the challenge set by Abertay University for a game jam sponsored by SSE Thermal, themed around carbon capture technology. Four students teamed up to create a climate action game, Net Carbon, that would not only win the jam but also go on to be finetuned and displayed at UN climate change conference COP26. All four talented students are former BAFTA Young Game Designers (YGD) alumni, namely: Harry Petch, Cam Tuliao, Jaime Williams and Jordan Han. “It feels like YGD is one big family to me,” says Harry, who was twice a YGD finalist and also the winner of the Mentor Award. “We created a game that we all felt had some nice nuance. It was quite simple but we were happy with it... COP26 was overall a very valuable experience and we had some lovely feedback.” Earlier this year, Harry was invited to BAFTA 195 Piccadilly to present Net Carbon to HRH The Duke of Cambridge at the first official event to be held in our fully redeveloped HQ. The event was a showcase of new talent and included the launch of a new career development bursary in Prince William’s name, as well as the announcement of a new tier of membership for emerging practitioners. 14
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February 1949: One of the earliest photographs of a meeting of the Council of the British Film Academy (the precursor to BAFTA) at its offices at 117 Piccadilly, this previously unpublished image captures (from left to right): Michael Balcon (chair), Roger Manvell (director) and David Lean (BAFTA’s original chair). The BFA was founded in 1947 with the aim of “stimulating exceptional
creative work” and supporting and celebrating British filmmakers during a period of intensified competition from American films in the post-war period. BAFTA’s current mission has expanded far beyond the BFA’s original ambitions, but if this small group of exceptional British filmmakers had not taken that first big step then the arts charity would not be here today.
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I actually cried,” blushes hair and make-up artist Alesha Ledeatte-Williams, recalling the moment she was interviewed after applying for a BAFTA scholarship. “It was one of those times when you think to yourself, ‘This is my only opportunity...’ Without the scholarship, I wouldn’t be working in the industry now, I reckon. And that’s the truth.”
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ALESHA LEDEATTE-WILLIAMS HAD A NUMBER OF JOBS, FROM TEACHING ABROAD TO EVENT MANAGEMENT, BEFORE REALISING HER LOVE FOR FILM AND MAKE-UP COULD BE THE PERFECT COMBO. THE ROAD AHEAD HAD ONE MAJOR BARRIER...
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR A SPECIAL PHOTOSHOOT TO MARK THE BRITISH ACADEMY TELEVISION CRAFT AWARDS AND THE VIRGIN MEDIA BRITISH ACADEMY TELEVISION AWARDS IN 2021, FOUR WINNERS WERE ASKED TO PICK A PLACE OF SIGNIFICANCE THAT INSPIRES THEIR WORK. TURNS OUT DOROTHY WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG... This was where I first learnt to play. To hold [a BAFTA]
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MARIAN MOHAMED Emerging Talent: Factual for Defending Digga D Marian picked Ridley Road Market in Hackney, a lively hive of activity near her home that the director knows very well.
GEORGI BANKS-DAVIS Emerging Talent: Fiction for I Hate Suzie London’s Grand Union Canal is a place close to Georgi’s heart. The director was recently selected as a 2021 BAFTA Breakthrough participant.
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CHARLIE COOPER Male Performance in a Comedy Programme for This Country Charlie stepped out into the countryside near his hometown of Stroud to do a spot of fishing. This was Charlie’s seventh BAFTA nomination for writing and starring in This Country; previously winning three for Breakthrough Talent and Scripted Comedy in 2018 and Writer: Comedy in 2019. Charlie and his sister, Daisy Cooper, were also named as a Breakthrough duo in 2017.
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“She very kindly agreed,” he notes. “I’d written a sample script and it just happened to be in a similar genre to her next project, Kaos. She liked the script and so did the producers, so I pitched some storylines and wrote some sample scenes... When she called to say I’d gotten the job to join the writers’ room, I was on my shift at the cinema. I just went into the toilets and cried.” Edward now has two projects in development, one with Two Brothers Pictures and the other with Objective Fiction, as well as a film treatment (“a queer coming-of-age vampire flick”), currently in the process of applying for funding.
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At a BFI Flare x BAFTA mentoring lunch with filmmaker Isabel Sandoval; Inset: mentor Charlie Covell
xtracts from issue #1 (winter 1959) of the Journal, the first member publication by the Society of Film and Television Arts (SFTA), formed earlier that year from the merger of the British Film Academy and the Guild of Television Producers and Directors. The amalgamation of these
two leading industry bodies represented the, sometimes grudging, acceptance that British practitioners were increasingly working across both film and television. Notably, the Journal’s first issue explored the newly emerging format of ‘videotape’ and how it was impacting both industries.
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RICHARD CURTIS IS A BAFTA-WINNING WRITER, DIRECTOR, HUMANITARIAN AND A PASSIONATE ADVOCATE FOR MAKING MORE FILMS, GAMES AND TELEVISION PROGRAMMES TACKLING SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE. If ever there was a need to change a narrative with global implications then now is the time for sustainability and climate action. Film, games and television can play their part in ensuring this message is driven home to the public not just through documentaries or current affairs programming but through all genres. This was the message from writer-director Richard Curtis in an address given at a Project Everyone panel held at COP26 in November 2021. Curtis is a key voice from the screen industries highlighting the impact of climate change and has long been a supporter of albert, the leading screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability, which is now officially part of BAFTA. 28
Curtis revealed how great films had impacted his understanding of the world, noting how The China Syndrome (1979) had “nailed me on the subject of nuclear power,” while Ken Loach’s Raining Stones (1993) had taught him “more about the texture and reality of poverty than every article in the Guardian.” He now thinks it’s time that film, games and television did the same for climate change.
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This isn’t about preaching,” he added. “I suspect it’s not even about raising awareness – we might be beyond that now... We need to inspire action and innovation by making it dramatic and interesting. We need to show the terrible price of climate change but also the success stories, so people really see how change can happen... I truly believe every genre has its role... My motto has always been: to make things happen, you have to make things. And this is the moment to make things about climate. It’s worth the world to try.”
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BREAKIN The 2021 UK Breakthrough participants
PHOTOS: BAFTA/David Vintiner; BAFTA/Alexey Kosorukov; BAFTA/ Matt Winkelmeyer/Mike Coppola/ Getty Images
BAFTA BREAKTHROUGH SHOWCASES AND SUPPORTS THE NEXT GENERATION OF CREATIVE TALENT IN FILM, GAMES AND TELEVISION IN THE UK, INDIA AND THE US. THEY ARE ALL EXCITING PROSPECTS AT A CRITICAL ‘BREAKTHROUGH’ MOMENT IN THEIR CAREERS. TWO OF THE 2021 PARTICIPANTS, ONE FROM THE UK INITIATIVE AND ONE FROM THE US, TELL THEIR STORY...
Read the full interviews: bafta.org/about/awards-brochures BAFTA’s flagship talent programme champions and supports individuals on the verge of their big breakthrough. Find out more at bafta.org/supporting-talent/breakthrough BAFTA Breakthrough is supported by Netflix in the UK, USA and India. 30
NG OUT MDHAMIRI Á NKEMI (EDITOR) BREAKTHROUGH: LIFE IN A DAY (2021)
I’m looking for projects that feel like they haven’t been done before, at least not through a mainstream lens. Things that feel fresh and exciting, from voices that haven’t had much chance to tell their stories before. It’s amazing to be recognised by BAFTA... Breakthrough was recommended to me by my friend, composer Segun Akinola, who did it back in 2017... He’d gotten a lot out of it and made some good connections. It just sounded like a really good opportunity.
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I didn’t really know film was a job and never considered it when I was younger. I read a lot and had kind of decided that I was going to be an author. That all went off the rails when I turned 12 and my friend got this [DSLR] camera. My friend was using it for photography but I realised it could also do video and started playing around with it. I became obsessed... Editing was the thing I was drawn to – it was the bit that was most exciting to me as it felt like that that was where the film came alive.
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The 2021 US participants ANNA FRANQUESA-SOLANO (CINEMATOGRAPHER) BREAKTHROUGH: THE FAREWELL (2019)
I studied art history at university first. By the end of it, the only thing I knew was that I didn’t want to study other people’s work, I wanted to create things myself. By coincidence, I worked on a short film and it opened a whole new world of possibilities. Film was always something you just watched in the cinema, it wasn’t something I thought I could ever do. It was not part of my world in Barcelona.
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hen and now. BAFTA 195 Piccadilly sits at the heart of our activities. It was officially opened on 10 March 1976 by HM The Queen, pictured here addressing guests in the Princess Anne Theatre. Also pictured, the Queen’s private secretary, Bill Heseltine; HRH The Duke of Edinburgh; BAFTA president HRH The Princess Anne; vice-president Sir Richard Attenborough; and chair Sydney Samuelson.
Almost 50 years later, on 27 January 2022, BAFTA’s current president, HRH The Duke of Cambridge, was our royal guest at the first official event to be held in the newly redeveloped building. Below he’s pictured in the fully refurbished, state-of-theart Princess Anne Theatre, in conversation with Suranne Jones, Annie Price (BAFTA mentors), Lily BlunsomWashbrook and Roxanne McKenzie (scholars).
PHOTOS: BAFTA/Michael J Barrett; BAFTA/Scott Garfitt
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STA RRY STARRY E YED EYED CELEBRATING THE 2021 EE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS, PHOTOGRAPHER GREG WILLIAMS CAPTURED SOME STRIKING IMAGES OF THE NOMINEES. HE ASKED THEM TO MIMIC THE FAMOUS BAFTA MASK, NOTING: “[IT’S] A SIMPLE WAY TO CREATE A SENSE OF TOGETHERNESS AND UNITY BETWEEN NOMINEES SCATTERED ACROSS THE GLOBE.”
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MY, M Y, M Y D E L I L A H BAFTA WINNER CISSY JONES ON HER UNIQUE JOURNEY INTO VOICE ACTING FOR GAMES... After a decade working in the tech industry.
After two years of classes and gaining an agent...
I hate this. I need a new job. But what? “...Next on Inspiration FM, The Simpsons’ Nancy Cartwright talks voice acting...”
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‘Going from a decent salary to a gig economy was scary. But I knew in my heart it was the right path. My second audition was for The Walking Dead.’ Circa: 2014-15.
2017: Cissy wins a BAFTA for voicing Delilah in Firewatch.
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‘Firewatch and Delilah changed my life. She brought me to BAFTA and that opened countless doors. I was still fairly new back then. Now I work a lot in games, animation and commercials. I’m so much happier now.’
PHOTOS: BAFTA/Misha Meghna; BAFTA: Jamie Simonds; James Veysey/Shutterstock
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IN A IDEAL WORLD, WORDS LIKE ‘INCLUSION’ AND ‘REPRESENTATION’ WOULD NOT BE A THING. JOBS WOULD GO TO THE PERSON MOST SUITABLE, SELECTED BY TALENT AND EXPERIENCE. SADLY, WE DON’T LIVE IN THAT WORLD YET, BARRIERS DO EXIST AND THE PLAYING FIELD IS NOT LEVEL. BUT WE’RE WORKING ON IT...
It’s not about equality of outcome, it’s about equality of opportunity,” says actress Melissa Johns, star of Coronation Street (2017-2019), Life (2020) and Grantchester (2021), and member of the 21-strong cohort of actors selected in 2019 for BAFTA Elevate, an initiative supporting talented individuals from underrepresented backgrounds to reach the next stage of their career. 39
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If we have equality of opportunity, then surely you will get the best person for the job. But, until those casting doors are open for everybody, you will never know if that’s truly what you have.”
Melissa is in a strong position to comment. Born without her right arm below the elbow, she has not only had to overcome intolerance in everyday life, but also accept herself for who she is, all while trying to forge a career in a profession that is riddled with many more rejections than it is successes. “What we need to remember is that we are as worthy of getting roles and being in this industry as anyone else,” she says. “Our industries will always be richer with more voices. We can tell stories that take our lived-in experiences into consideration and portray characters in a completely different way. That’s what we bring to the table. Rather than representation being the driving force, why can’t it be the by-product? Our talent should get us to where we need to be.” Melissa is the co-founder of TripleC, which runs DANC (the Disabled Artists Networking Community). BAFTA has been working with both to help make the industry more inclusive. “As an actor, BAFTA has encouraged me, empowered me and celebrated me in my own right,” she says. “But I also see the work they’re doing with my organisation towards making long-lasting changes. BAFTA has all the ingredients to be one of our biggest game changers and champions to level out the industry.” Read the full interview: bafta.org/about/ awards-brochures
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FACTUAL A RTH U R CA RY Surviving 9/11 Top Hat Productions/BBC Two JA MES N E W TO N Grenfell: The Untold Story BBC Studios/Channel 4 JA MES W NE W TO N Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles Wonderhood Studios/Channel 4 JA MIE R O B E RTS Four Hours at the Capitol AMOS Pictures Ltd/BBC Two
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MULTI - CAM E RA MAT TH EW G R I F F I T HS Six Nations Rugby: Wales v England BBC Sport/BBC One N IK K I PA RS ONS Strictly Come Dancing BBC Studios/BBC One PAU L DU G DA L E Glastonbury Festival: Live at Worthy Farm BBC Studios, Driift Live/BBC Two PAU L MC N A M A RA ITV Racing: The Grand National ITV Sport/ITV
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FACTUAL A N N A P R I C E , J U ST I N BA D G E R, S IM ON SYKES Pandemic 2020 KEO Films/BBC Two DA N N Y C O LLI NS, M A R K HA M M I LL 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room Wish/Art Films, BBC One/Apple TV+ D OU G B RYSO N Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Owl Power/BBC Two EMMA LYSAG HT Grenfell: The Untold Story BBC Studios/Channel 4
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FICTION A N DR EW J OH N M C C LE LL A ND Line of Duty World Productions/BBC One D OM IN IC STRE V E NS A Very British Scandal Blueprint Television/BBC One EL EN P IER C E LE WI S Landscapers SISTER, South of the River Pictures/Sky Atlantic SA RA H B R EW E RTO N It’s A Sin Red Production Company/Channel 4
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FACTUAL A DA M B R OW N ( D I R E CTO R ) Into the Storm: Surfing to Survive (Storyville) Raw TV/BBC Four H U G H DAV I ES ( P R O D U C E R ) Football’s Darkest Secret: The End of Silence Insight TWI, Passion Pictures, Very Much So, Ventureland/BBC One P OP PY B E G U M ( D I R E CTO R ) Queens of Rap acme films/Channel 4 S OP H IE C U NNI NG HA M (DIR ECTO R / P R O D U C E R ) Look Away Top Hat Productions/Sky Documentaries
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MU S I C A RTH U R S HA R P E Landscapers SISTER, South of the River Pictures/Sky Atlantic CA R LY PA RA D I S Line of Duty World Productions/BBC One J ON ATH A N ‘ E LE VAT E D’ O LO RU NF E MI The Outsiders? AFL Films/YouTube N ATA L IE HO LT Loki Marvel Studios/Disney+
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FACTUAL D OU G A N D E RSO N, A LE X VA I L Tiny World (Reef) Plimsoll Productions/Apple TV+ JA MES IN C LE D O N Liverpool Narcos Blast! Films/Sky Documentaries J OH N S H I E R, DAWSO N D U NNI NG Earth at Night in Colour Offspring Films/Apple TV+
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C OME DY N ATH A N B RYO N, PAU L D O O L A N Bloods Roughcut TV, Sky Studios/Sky One N IDA M A N ZO O R We Are Lady Parts Working Title Television/Channel 4 STEP H EN MER C HA NT, EMMA JA N E U NSWO RT H The Outlaws Big Talk Productions, Four Eyes Entertainment/ BBC One S OP H IE W IL L A N Alma’s Not Normal Expectation/BBC Two
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THE RECIPIENT OF A BAFTA SPECIAL AWARD IS TRIPLEC, A GATEWAY ORGANISATION FOR DEAF, DISABLED OR NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE TO ACCESS THE ARTS AND MEDIA. Words: Rich Matthews | Images courtesy of TripleC
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T HE J U RI ES C OSTU ME D ESI G N Richard Boden chair Bartholomew Cariss Eleanor Baker Jamie Lapsley Jennifer Michalski-Bray Jo Conti Marvyn Marques Mekel Bailey Sarah Ryan Sekou Traore Zoë Howerska DI RECTO R : FACT UAL Christine Healy chair Andrea Carnevali Anne Thomopoulos Asif Zubairy Chitsidzo Kurangwa Jessica Brady Jill Robertson Laura Aviles Mark Readman Martin Kemp Rupert Hall Seetha Kumar Sophie Lanfear
D I R E CTO R : FI CT I O N Dan Maynard chair Antonia Campbell-Hughes Aurora Fearnley Ben Mole George Amponsah Georgi Banks-Davies Helen Gregory Jake Polonsky Krysty Wilson-Cairns Manori Ravindran Natalie Jamieson Nick Wood Youssef Kerkour D I R E CTO R : M U LT I - CA M E RA Claire Zolkwer chair Anouk Fontaine Diana Patrick Diccon Ramsay Jan Genesis Janet Fraser Crook Laura Linton Laura Watts Leon Wilson Ross MacGibbon Suzi Aplin
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EMER G I N G TALEN T: FACT UAL Denise Seneviratne chair Afua Hirsch David DeHaney Debbie Shuter Dirk Nel Gregor Lyon Jenny Ash Laura Warner Simon Frederick Suzanne Lavery
MA K E U P & H A I R D ES I G N Becky Cadman chair Akua Gyamfi Cahal Bannon Dumebi Anozie Gemma Wheatcroft Jacquetta Levon Jeremy Woodhead Ken O’Rourke Lisa Cavalli-Green Ole Bratt Birkeland
EMER G I N G TALEN T: F ICT I O N Dan Isaacs chair Andy Brierley Carolyn Strauss Charlotte Walter Faraz Shariat Grant Montgomery James Richardson Kenton Allen Rachel De-Lahay Simone Pennant Suzan Harrison
O RI G I NA L MU S I C Sara Putt chair Adem Ilhan Anne Dudley Bankey Ojo Claire Batchelor Darcia Martin Emma Butt Fajar Yuskemal Jim Fortune Laura Hastings-Smith Laura Rossi Peter Davies
EN TE RTAI N M E N T CRAF T T E AM Ade Rawcliffe chair Andrew Newman Carol Abbott Emma Morgan Erron Gordon Faraz Osman Josephine Brassey Lou Fox Lucy Mitchell Mohammed Rashid Richard Plumb Vivek Sharma
P H OTO G RA P H Y: FACT UA L Lara Akeju chair Aadel Nodeh-Farahani Craig Hastings Emily Almond Barr Jasleen Sethi Jason Ferguson Julie Moniere Liza Williams Richard Melman Teresa Griffiths
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T I T L ES & G RA P H I C I D E NT I T Y Kalpna Patel-Knight chair Ant James Ashley Bradford Chris Hooper Josh Jacobs Liz Friedman Mike Ellis Morgan Beringer Nick Reyniers Sian James-Royle Siobhan Greene
P R ODU CT I ON D ESI G N Adeel Amini chair Angel Parmar Anita Overland Chapman CH Kan Christiane Krumwiede Damien Creagh Dick Lunn Helen Scott Megan Bosaw Peter Bingemann
WRI T E R: C O ME DY Paul Gilbert chair Akemnji Ndifornyen Angela Clarke Bert Tyler-Moore Caroline Quentin Dane Baptiste Hamza Jeetooa Kayleigh Llewellyn Misha Manson-Smith Paul Chahidi Vicki Pepperdine
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Mad Dog 2020 Casting is delighted to be an Official Television Craft Partner for a third year. Our support for 2022 enables us to achieve our objectives of promoting the best in talent and the craft of television. We promote the professionalism of film and television in the UK through training and encouraging skill and talent. We further support the industry by endeavouring to provide the best in background casting to enable the creativity of our clients to flourish. The support of BAFTA allows us to raise the profile of probably the last facilities supplier to be appointed in the production process. The provision of background casting is a finely tuned process that we constantly seek to improve. We share this core value with BAFTA and the other industry bodies we support. Congratulations to all the nominees for their amazing achievements and for providing the skill and talent that the industry needs to such a high standard. We support you. Visit: maddog2020casting.com
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3 Mills Studios is proud to continue its support of this category for the seventh year running. In what has been another epic year for highend television drama, we want to shine a light on the outstanding work done by those behind the camera. 3 Mills Studios provides facilities for a diverse range of productions across independent film, television and theatre. We share BAFTA’s commitment to sustainability and diversity, and our partnership with the Television Craft Awards provides real value to our goals of inspiring the next generation. We hope the exceptional creative talent in the Director: Fiction category will serve as an inspiration to the future directors of British television – and 3 Mills Studios will be there to help those directors bring their stories to life.
The Farm Group, part of Streamland Media, is proud to sponsor this category. Our craft staff rely on beautifully composed pictures to feed their own creativity and we applaud all of this year’s nominees for their brilliance. The calibre of work truly inspires us. At The Farm, we provide award-winning comprehensive post-production services from facilities throughout the UK, in addition to partnerships with BBC Sport, UKTV and Channel 4. Our capabilities encompass picture, sound and location services across various genres of television. Nurturing talent lies at the heart of The Farm’s ethos. Many of our talented creatives, including editors, colourists, and re-recording mixers, as well as post producers, started at entry level positions and we pledge to continue the development of future talent.
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For more than 25 years, Hotcam has supported the broadcast, film and creative industries with equipment hire, multi-camera technical design, systems engineering, production services and crewing. We believe that at the heart of any successful production is the creativity, talent and teamwork of some truly unsung heroes. This is why Hotcam is proud to sponsor the Television Craft Awards for the 16th consecutive year, as it recognises these individuals for their outstanding contributions to our industry. Your vision, our expertise… Visit: hotcam.tv microsoft c at e g o r y s p o n s o r f o r production design
Microsoft is proud to be supporting the Production Design category as it not only highlights the incredible creative talent behind the scenes of our most beloved television programmes, but also raises
awareness for the sheer amount of hard work and dedication it takes to bring them to fruition. Behind the scenes, Microsoft has been hard at work supporting production designers and their teams with prop provisions from our range of devices, along with software and gaming clearances, to enable them to tell realistic, true-to-life and compelling visual stories. Visit: microsoft.com / ben.productplacement.com s a r a p u t t a s s o c i at e s c at e g o r y s p o n s o r f o r e m e r g i n g ta l e n t : f i c t i o n
The work of Sara Putt Associates is about nurturing talent. We are lucky enough to represent a roster of amazingly talented clients and through our Trainee Scheme and Foundation we seek out and support new talent. We are a community, and we endeavour to empower all clients to maximise their potential. The last two years have been hugely tough on freelancers, hence supporting this community and celebrating the success of emerging talent feels more important than ever.
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BAFTA is about inspiration and excellence and working alongside the iconic BAFTA brand to celebrate the next generation of talent is an honour. Visit: saraputt.co.uk
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ScreenSkills is the industryled skills body for UK screen. We help find, develop and sustain the skilled and inclusive workforce which is critical to the UK’s global screen success. The High-end TV Skills Fund, managed by ScreenSkills, supports career development opportunities for talent working at all levels in high-end television, from new entrants to executives. This year the fund will invest more than £10m of industry contributions from UK production to meet training needs, continuing to develop the behind-the-camera talent who make the outstanding content being celebrated by BAFTA. We congratulate all the Photography & Lighting: Fiction nominees and thank 83
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With a mission to connect the best acting talent with great roles, Spotlight has always recognised that every successful television show relies on the expertise of a team of less celebrated professionals behind the camera. Spotlight has campaigned for the recognition of casting directors for almost 20 years, so we’re delighted to once more be sponsoring the Scripted Casting category and to support BAFTA and the industry in this way. We’re well aware how crucial all the skills recognised by the Television Craft Awards are to this industry, and we’re delighted to be celebrating the achievements of all the nominees. Visit: spotlight.com
OFFIC E RS OF T HE ACA D E MY OFFIC ERS HRH The Duke of Cambridge, Paul Taiano o b e Co-optee and Chair, Finance, kg k t Audit and Risk Committee Academy President Barbara Broccoli o b e Vice-President, Film
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Anna Higgs Chair, Film Committee Ade Rawcliffe Chair, Learning, Inclusion and Talent Committee Dr Jo Twist o b e Chair, Games Committee Bal Samra Co-optee and Chair, Commercial Committee
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C OM M IT TEES EL ECT E D M EM B ERS O F THE F I LM C OM M I T T E E Anna Higgs Chair Alexandra Derbyshire* Deputy Chair Isabel Begg Nainita Desai Julie La’Bassiere Marc Samuelson Clare Stewart Emily Stillman Yu-Fai Suen Alison Thompson
E L E CT E D M E M B E RS OF THE TELEVISION C O MM I T T E E Sara Putt Chair Nicky Sargent Deputy Chair Lara Akeju Becky Cadman Christine Healy Dan Isaacs Ade Rawcliffe Beryl Richards* Fatima Salaria Claire Zolkwer * Children’s Representatives
EL ECT E D M EM B ERS OF TH E GAM ES COM M I T T E E Dr Jo Twist o b e Chair Des Gayle Deputy Chair Jodie Azhar Nick Button-Brown* Leanne Loombe Elizabeth Mercuri Catherine Woolley
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