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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation. They are often cited as a British equivalent to the Oscars, and the British Academy Film Awards
British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . It is often cited as the British equivalent to the Academy Award....
 are frequently known as the British Academy Awards.

A was founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean
David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
, Alexander Korda
Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born film director and film producer. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion, a film distributing company....
, Carol Reed
Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed was an England film director, most famous for directing The Third Man and Oliver! . He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for the latter....
, Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton was an England Academy Award-winning Theatre and film actor, screenwriter, Film producer and one-time Film director.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor....
, Roger Manvell
Roger Manvell

Roger Manvell was born in England on October 10, 1909 and died on November 30, 1987. The co-founder and first director of the British Film Academy was also the author of many books on films and film-making, and authored and co-authored many books on Nazi Germany, including biographies of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph...
 and others.






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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation. They are often cited as a British equivalent to the Oscars, and the British Academy Film Awards
British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . It is often cited as the British equivalent to the Academy Award....
 are frequently known as the British Academy Awards.

Introduction

BAFTA was founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean
David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE, was an England filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and Film editing, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia , The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago , Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India ....
, Alexander Korda
Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born film director and film producer. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion, a film distributing company....
, Carol Reed
Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed was an England film director, most famous for directing The Third Man and Oliver! . He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for the latter....
, Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton was an England Academy Award-winning Theatre and film actor, screenwriter, Film producer and one-time Film director.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor....
, Roger Manvell
Roger Manvell

Roger Manvell was born in England on October 10, 1909 and died on November 30, 1987. The co-founder and first director of the British Film Academy was also the author of many books on films and film-making, and authored and co-authored many books on Nazi Germany, including biographies of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph...
 and others. In 1958, the Academy merged with The Guild of Television Producers and Directors to form The Society of Film and Television, which eventually became The British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1976.

BAFTA's stated charitable remit is to "support, develop and promote the art forms of the moving image, by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public". In addition to high profile awards ceremonies BAFTA runs a year-round programme of educational events including film screenings and tribute evenings. BAFTA is supported by a membership of around 6000 people from the film, television and video game industries. BAFTA's main office is on Piccadilly
Piccadilly

Piccadilly is a major London street, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is completely within the city of Westminster....
 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, but it also has branches in Scotland
Scotland

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 (BAFTA Scotland), Wales
Wales

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 (BAFTA Cymru), New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 (BAFTA East Coast) and Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
 (BAFTA/LA).

The Academy's awards are in the form of a theatrical mask designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe
Mitzi Cunliffe

Mitzi Solomon Cunliffe was an United States sculptor. She was most famous for designing the golden trophy in the shape of a theatrical mask that would go on to represent the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and be presented as the BAFTA award....
, which was commissioned by the Guild of Television Producers in 1955. Since 1989, the Los Angeles branch, BAFTA/LA, holds its own awards ceremony each year, called the Britannia Awards.

In November 2007 a special tribute programme was shown on ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
 in the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 celebrating 60 years of the organisation called Happy Birthday BAFTA.

Awards presented in London


British Academy Film Awards

BAFTA's main film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, which in 2008 came from the Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
, having taken place since 2000 in the flagship Odeon cinema on Leicester Square
Odeon Leicester Square

The Odeon Leicester Square is a movie theater which occupies the centre of the eastern side of Leicester Square, London, dominating the square with its huge black polished granite facade and high tower displaying its name....
. The ceremony previously took place in April or May, but from 2002 onwards has taken place in February, in order to precede the Oscars
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
. The awards are mostly open to all nationalities, though there is an award for Best British Film and Best Newcomer. The 2009 ceremony
62nd British Academy Film Awards

The 62nd British Academy Film Awards, hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 8 February, 2009, and honoured the best films of 2008 in film....
 was held on the 8th February, also at the Royal Opera House.

2009's leading awards were:
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is a film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A by Indian English literature and diplomat Vikas Swarup....
 (Best Picture)
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle is an Academy Award-winning British people filmmaker and film producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Trainspotting , 28 Days Later, Sunshine , and Slumdog Millionaire, for which Boyle won numerous awards in 2009, including the Academy Award for Best Director....
 (Best Director), for Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is a film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A by Indian English literature and diplomat Vikas Swarup....
Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke

Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. is an United States actor who has appeared primarily as a leading man in action, drama, and Thriller films....
 (Best Actor in a Leading Role), for The Wrestler
Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet

'Kate Elizabeth Winslet' is an English people Actor and occasional singing. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility , Titanic #Cast in Titanic , Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Sp...
 (Best Actress in a Leading Role), for The Reader
The Reader (film)

The Reader is a 2008 in film drama film based on the 1995 in literature German language The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. The film adaptation was written by David Hare and directed by Stephen Daldry....
Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger

Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his movie career....
 (Best Actor in a Supporting Role), for The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight (film)

The Dark Knight is a superhero film directed and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Batman #Nolan_series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins....
Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz

Pen?lope Cruz S?nchez , better known as Pen?lope Cruz, is a Spain actress. She gathered critical acclaim as a young actress for films such as Jam?n, Jam?n, La Ni?a de tus ojos, and Belle ?poque ....
 (Best Actress in a Supporting Role), for Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a 2008 in film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film features well-known stars Javier Bardem, Pen?lope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson, and less-well-known British people actress Rebecca Hall....
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh is a contemporary English-born Irish people playwright and film director....
 (Original Screenplay), for In Bruges
In Bruges

In Bruges is a 2008 in film film directed and written by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their gangster boss....
Simon Beaufoy
Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy is an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and BAFTA award-winning England screenwriter. Born in Keighley, he was educated at Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter?s College, Oxford and graduated from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth....
 (Adapted Screenplay), for Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is a film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A by Indian English literature and diplomat Vikas Swarup....
A.R. Rahman (Best Music), for Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is a film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-nominated novel Q & A by Indian English literature and diplomat Vikas Swarup....


Rising Star Award
This award is given on the same day as the BAFTA Film Awards. This award is to acknowledge new talents in the acting industry whether for film, television or both. The nominees are chosen by BAFTA juries regardless of the nominee's gender and nationality. The winner, however is chosen by the public. This award is to dedicate Mary Selway who was a renowned casting director and helped many new actors and actresses to fame and recognition.

British Academy Television Awards


The British Academy Television Awards usually take place in April or May, with craft awards having a separate ceremony slightly later in the year.

The Awards are also often referred to simply as "the BAFTAs" or, to differentiate them from the film awards, sometimes as the "BAFTA Television Awards". They have been awarded annually since 1954. The first ever Awards consisted of six categories. Until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors. From 1958 onwards, after the Guild had merged with the British Film Academy, the organisation was known as the Society of Film and Television Arts. In 1976, this became the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the name the organisation goes under still as of 2007.

From 1968 until 1997, the BAFTA Film and Television awards were presented in one joint ceremony known simply as the BAFTA Awards, but in order to streamline the ceremonies from 1998 onwards they were split in two. The Television Awards are usually presented in April, with a separate ceremony for the Television Craft Awards on a different date. The Craft Awards are presented for more technical areas of the industry, such as special effects, production design, or costumes.

The Awards are only open to British programmes — with the exception of the audience-voted Pioneer Award — but any cable
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
, satellite
Satellite television

Satellite television is television delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by a satellite dish and set-top box. In many areas of the world it provides a wide range of channels and services, often to areas that are not serviced by terrestrial television or cable television providers....
, terrestrial or digital television
Digital television

Digital television is the sending and receiving of moving images and sound by Discrete signal signals, in contrast to the Analog television used by analog TV....
 stations broadcasting in the UK are eligible to submit entries, as are independent production companies who have produced programming for the channels. Individual performances, such as from actors, can either be entered by the performers themselves or by the broadcasters. The programmes being entered must have been broadcast on or between 1 January and 31 December of the year preceding the Awards ceremony (so, between 1 January and 31 December 2004 for the 2005 Awards).

Baftagate
The 1991 awards were controversial when Prime Suspect
Prime Suspect

Prime Suspect is a United Kingdom police procedural television drama series made by Granada Television for the ITV network in the 1990s and 2000s....
 beat G.B.H. to win the Best Drama Serial award. In what became known as "Baftagate", four of the jurors publicly declared that they had voted for G.B.H. and demanded to see the votes, but these had been destroyed.

British Academy Television Craft Awards


In 2000, the craft awards (for editing, music, photography, etc.) were separated from the BAFTA television awards. The craft awards now include several categories associated with interactive media. As of 2007, the awards included:
  • Breakthrough Talent
  • Costume Design
  • Director - Factual
  • Director - Fictional/Entertainment
  • Editing - Factual
  • Editing - Fictional/Entertainment
  • Interactive Creative Contribution
  • Interactive Innovation - Content
  • Interactive Innovation - Service/Platform
  • Makeup and Hair Design
  • Original Television Music
  • Photography & Lighting - Fictional/Entertainment
  • Photography - Factual
  • Production Design
  • Sound - Factual
  • Sound - Fictional/Entertainment
  • Titles
  • Visual Effects
  • Writer


    • British Academy Children's Awards

    The British Academy Children's Awards are presented annually in November to reward excellence in the art forms of the moving image aimed at children.

    The Academy has a long history of recognising and rewarding Children's programming presenting two awards at the 1969 ceremony - The Flame of Knowledge Award for Schools Programmes and the Harlequin Award for Children's Programmes.

    This year's awards ceremony included 19 categories across film, television, video games and online content. The Awards ceremony took place on 30 November 2008 at the London Hilton Hotel.

    Since 2007 the Children's Awards have included a Kids Vote Award voted for by children under 14 and a CBBC me and my movie award, a children's film-making initiative to inspire and enable children to make their own films and tell their own stories.

    British Academy Video Games Awards

    BAFTA first recognised video games and other interactive media at its inaugural Interactive Entertainment Awards ceremony in 1998, ushering in the first change to its rules since the admittance of television thirty years earlier. Among the first winning games were GoldenEye 007
    GoldenEye 007

    GoldenEye 007 is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64 video game console, and based on the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye....
    , Gran Turismo and interactive comedy MindGym
    MindGym

    MindGym is an interactive programme about creative thinking. It was produced as a CD-ROM in 1997-1998 by London-based Melrose Film Productions and NoHo Digital....
    , sharing the spotlight with the BBC News Online
    BBC News Online

    BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production. The website is the most popular news website in the United Kingdom and forms a major part of BBC Online ....
     website which won the news category four years running.

    The event was split into the BAFTA Video Games Awards and the BAFTA Interactive Awards
    BAFTA Interactive Awards

    The British Academy of Film and Television Arts annually hosted the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards for multimedia entertainment between 1998 and 2003....
     in 2003, and while high profile winners like Halo 2
    Halo 2

    Halo 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie Studios. Released for the Xbox video game console on November 9, 2004, the game is the second video game title in the Halo and the sequel to 2001's critically-acclaimed Halo: Combat Evolved....
     and Half-Life 2
    Half-Life 2

    Half-Life 2 is a science fiction first-person shooter Video game and the sequel to the highly acclaimed Half-Life . It was developed by Valve Corporation and was released on November 16, 2004, following a protracted five-year, $40 million development cycle during which the game?s source code was leaked to the Internet....
     made huge headlines, the interactive division was discontinued and disappeared from BAFTA's publicity material after only two ceremonies.

    In 2006 BAFTA announced their decision "to give video games equal status with film and television", and ensured that the ceremony held at London's Camden Roundhouse on October 5 was televised for the first time.

    Awards presented in Los Angeles


    Britannia Awards

    The BAFTA/LA awards ceremony, the Britannia Awards, started in 1989 and happens in October/November each year. There are no awards given to films or TV programmes, only to individuals.

    During the first ten years only one award was given at each event, called the "Britannia Award for Excellence in Film", but since 1999 the number of awards have grown, and in 2005 they were four: "The Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film" (the original award was renamed in 2000 to honour Stanley Kubrick
    Stanley Kubrick

    Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
    ), "The John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing" (added in 2003 in honour of John Schlesinger
    John Schlesinger

    John Richard Schlesinger, Order of the British Empire was an England film director....
    ), "The Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in International Entertainment", and "The Cunard Britannia Award for Lifetime Contributions to International Film". With the exception of the Stanley Kubrick and John Schlesinger awards, which are always given, both the number of awards and their titles may vary from year to year.

    The 2007 recipients were:
    • Denzel Washington
      Denzel Washington

      Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. is an United States actor and film director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Melvin B....
       - (Stanley Kubrick Britannia Awards for Excellence in Film)
    • Martin Campbell
      Martin Campbell

      Martin Campbell is a New Zealand Film director and television director. He has directed two James Bond films, 1995's GoldenEye, starring Pierce Brosnan, and 2006's Casino Royale , starring Daniel Craig....
       - (The John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing)
    • Kate Winslet
      Kate Winslet

      'Kate Elizabeth Winslet' is an English people Actor and occasional singing. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility , Titanic #Cast in Titanic , Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Sp...
       - (The Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year)
    • New Line Cinema's Bob Shaye & Michael Lynne
      Michael Lynne

      Michael Lynne is an American film executive.With Robert Shaye, Lynne co-founded New Line Cinema. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College and holds a Juris Doctor from Columbia University....
       - (Cunard Britannia Award for Lifetime Contributions to International Film)
    • Richard Curtis
      Richard Curtis

      Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, Order of the British Empire is a BAFTA Awards, Primetime Emmy Award- winning and Academy Award - nominated United Kingdom screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director, known primarily for romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, ''Bridget Jones's Diary , ''Notting Hill and '...
       - (The BAFTA/LA Humanitarian Award presented by Volvo)


    The 2006 recipients were:
    • Sir Sidney Poitier
      Sidney Poitier

      Sir Sidney Poitier, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Grammy award-winning Bahamas-United States actor, film director, author, and diplomat....
       - (the Cunard Britannia Award for Lifetime Contributions to International Film)
    • Rachel Weisz
      Rachel Weisz

      Rachel Hannah Weisz is an Academy Award-winning England actress. She gained wide public recognition after her portrayal of Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan-O'Connell in the Hollywood films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns....
       - (The Britannia Award for Artist of the Year)
    • Anthony Minghella
      Anthony Minghella

      Anthony Minghella Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-winning England film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007....
       - (The John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing)


    Previous recipients of the Britannia Awards have included Tom Cruise
    Tom Cruise

    Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his Stage name Tom Cruise, is an United States actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006....
    , Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor

    Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, Order of the British Empire , also known as Liz Taylor, is an England-born American actress.Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Cinema of the United States lifestyle, including many marriages, Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a la...
    , Mike Newell
    Mike Newell (director)

    Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell is an England film director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television....
    , Ronald Neame
    Ronald Neame

    Ronald Neame, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom film cinematographer, film producer, screenwriter, and film director.Neame's parents were the photographer Elwin Neame and the actor Ivy Close....
    , Albert Broccoli, Michael Caine
    Michael Caine

    Sir Michael Caine Order of the British Empire , is a two-time Academy Award and multiple BAFTA Award and Golden Globe winning England film actor who has appeared in more than one hundred films....
    , Peter Ustinov
    Peter Ustinov

    Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE or ;, born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow, was a British actor, writer and dramatist.Ustinov was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre director and opera director, film director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television pres...
    , Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese

    Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
    , Anthony Hopkins
    Anthony Hopkins

    Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, Order of the British Empire is a Welsh People film, theater and television actor. Considered by many to be one of film's greatest living actors, he is best known for his portrayal of cannibalism serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 in film blockbuster The Silence of the Lambs , its sequel, Hannibal ,...
    , Dustin Hoffman
    Dustin Hoffman

    Dustin Lee Hoffman is a two-time Academy Award-, six-time Golden Globe-, three-time BAFTA- and Emmy Award-winning United States actor....
    , John Travolta
    John Travolta

    John Joseph Travolta is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning United States actor, dancer and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction ....
    , Stanley Kubrick
    Stanley Kubrick

    Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
    , Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg

    Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
    , George Lucas
    George Lucas

    George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
    , Hugh Grant
    Hugh Grant

    Hugh John Mungo Grant is a British people actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary C?sar. His movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide....
    , Peter Weir
    Peter Weir

    Peter Lindsay Weir Order of Australia is an Australian film director. After exerting a strong influence on the Australian New Wave with his films Picnic at Hanging Rock , The Last Wave and Gallipoli , Weir directed a diverse group of U.S....
    , Tom Hanks
    Tom Hanks

    Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American film actor, film director, voice-over artist, writer and film producer. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia , the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander J...
    , Angela Lansbury
    Angela Lansbury

    Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom actor and singer whose career has spanned six decades. She made her first film appearance in Gaslight , for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and expanded her repertoire to Broadway theatre and television in the 1950s....
     and Helen Mirren
    Helen Mirren

    Dame Helen Mirren, Order of the British Empire is a multi-award winnning English actor. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career....
    .

    Awards presented in Scotland and Wales


    BAFTA Scotland

    BAFTA Scotland
    BAFTA Scotland

    BAFTA Scotland is the national organisation for Scotland of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Formed in 1997, they hold an annual awards ceremony to recognise achievement by performers and production staff in Scottish film and television....
     is the national organisation for Scotland
    Scotland

    conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
     of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts
    British Academy of Film and Television Arts

    The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation....
     mainly funded by the main Scottish broadcasters. Formed in 1997, they hold an annual awards ceremony to recognise achievement by performers and production staff in Scottish film and television. These are separate from the UK-wide British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Film Awards, although films and programmes recognised by BAFTA Scotland can also sometimes feature at BAFTA's UK awards.

    From 1998 to 2002, BAFTA Scotland held an award ceremony focusing on new talent; the organisation resumed giving annual awards in 2005.

    BAFTA Cymru

    BAFTA Cymru
    BAFTA Cymru

    BAFTA Cymru is the national organisation for Wales of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.Formed in 1991, they hold an annual awards ceremony to recognise achievement by performers and production staff in Welsh-made films and television programmes....
     is the national organisation for Wales
    Wales

    native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
     of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts
    British Academy of Film and Television Arts

    The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation....
    . Formed in 1991, they hold an annual awards ceremony to recognise achievement by performers and production staff in Welsh-made films and television programmes. These are separate from the UK-wide British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Film Awards, although films and programmes recognised by BAFTA Cymru may also feature at BAFTA's national awards.

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