52-731: The British Academy Film Awards , more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards , is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film. The ceremonies were initially held at the flagship Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square in London, before being held at the Royal Opera House from 2007 to 2016. From 2017 to 2022,
104-423: A British Writer, Producer or Director. Only UK films are eligible for the categories of The British Short Film and British Short Animation awards. During each annual ceremony, BAFTA pauses in memoriam to pay tribute to those in the industry who have died over the past 12 months, showcasing a montage of images accompanied by music. The Awards ceremony has been historically delayed broadcast on British television
156-467: A children's filmmaking initiative to inspire and enable children to make their own movies and tell their own stories, has been discontinued. BAFTA also hosts the annual BAFTA Student Film Awards as showcase for rising industry talent. The animation award was sponsored in 2017 and 2018 by animation studio Laika . Presidents Vice-Presidents William, Prince of Wales has been the President of
208-642: A 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. As of 2010 the Awards ceremony includes 19 categories across movies, television, video games and online content. Since 2007 the Children's Awards have included a Kids Vote award, voted by children between seven and 14. The CBBC Me and My Movie award,
260-485: A major precursor of the eventual annual results of the Oscar ceremonies since. In order for a film to be considered for a BAFTA nomination, its first public exhibition must be displayed in a cinema and it must have a UK theatrical release for no fewer than seven days of the calendar year that corresponds to the upcoming awards. A movie must be of feature-length and movies from all countries are eligible in all categories, with
312-786: A number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles . The BAFTA award trophy is a mask, designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe . When the Guild merged with the British Film Academy to become the Society of Film and Television Arts, later the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the first "BAFTA award" was presented to Sir Charles Chaplin on his Academy Fellowship that year. A BAFTA award – including
364-696: A series of events, including the Britannia Awards, the Awards Season Film and Television Tea Parties in January and September, and the annual Garden Party. BAFTA Los Angeles provides access to screenings, Q&As with creative talent, produces seminars with UK film and television executives and the Heritage Archive, featuring interviews with British members of the film and television industries. The Los Angeles location also hosts
416-465: Is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom. In addition to its annual award ceremonies, BAFTA has an international programme of learning events and initiatives offering access to talent through workshops, masterclasses, scholarships, lectures, and mentoring schemes in the United Kingdom and
468-615: Is held in London . From 2000 to 2007, the ceremonies took place at the flagship Odeon Leicester cinema in Leicester Square . Between 2008 and 2016, the ceremonies took place at the Royal Opera House. The 70th Awards in 2017, and subsequent ceremonies up to the 75th Awards in 2022, were held at the Royal Albert Hall. For the 76th British Academy Film Awards in 2023, it was announced that the ceremony would be moved to
520-457: 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 about 6,000 people from the film, television, and video game industries. The Academy's awards are in
572-467: The BBC News Online website which won the news category four years consecutively. These awards allowed the academy to recognise new forms of entertainment that were engaging new audiences and challenging traditional expressions of creativity. During 2003, the sheer ubiquity of interactive forms of entertainment and the breadth of genres and types of video games outgrew the combined ceremony, and
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#1732772217961624-492: The 17th British Academy Games Awards was hosted by arts and entertainment presenter Elle Osili-Wood and was watched by a global audience of 1.5 million. The British Academy Children's Awards are presented annually during November to reward excellence in the art forms of the moving image intended for children. They have been awarded annually since 1969 except for 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The academy has
676-525: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Since the inaugural BAFTA Games Awards in February 2004, twenty ceremonies have taken place. The most recent, the 20th British Academy Games Awards , was held at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 11 April 2024. Defunct The BAFTA ceremonies are typically held in March or April of each year. In some years, BAFTA has given out additional awards just prior to
728-400: The COVID-19 pandemic . The event was held as a live-streamed event on 25 March 2021. The nominees were announced on 3 March 2021. The ceremony took place at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 7 April 2022 and was hosted by television presenter Elle Osili-Wood for the second time. The nominees were announced on 3 March 2022. The ceremony took place at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 30 March 2023 and
780-596: The Electronic Entertainment Expo event, which happens in May or June of the year. The 2003 ceremony took place in February 2004. The 2004 ceremony took place on 1 March 2005. The 2006 ceremony took place at The Roundhouse on 5 October 2006 and was hosted by Vernon Kay . The 2007 ceremony took place at Battersea Evolution on 23 October 2007 and was hosted by Vic Reeves . The 2008 ceremony took place at London Hilton on 10 March 2009 and
832-845: The Most Promising Newcomer category. Nine actors have received dual nominations in the same category in a single year at the BAFTA Film Awards. The only director to receive dual nominations in the same year at the BAFTA Film Awards was Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2000. Additionally, Sidney Lumet received one joint nomination for Murder on the Orient Express and Serpico in 1974. British Academy of Film and Television Arts The British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA , / ˈ b æ f t ə / )
884-633: The Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden . It had been held in the Odeon cinema on Leicester Square since 2000. Since 2017, the BAFTA ceremony has been held at the Royal Albert Hall. The ceremony had been performed during April or May of each year, but beginning 2002 it has been held in February to precede the Academy Awards (Oscars) in the United States, making the BAFTA Film Awards
936-535: The 2018/19 season to foster diversity. BAFTA's annual film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, or "the BAFTAs", and reward the best work of any nationality seen on British cinema screens during the preceding year. In 1949 the British Film Academy, as it was then known, presented the first awards for films made in 1947 and 1948. Since 2008 the ceremony has been held at
988-674: The Academy since February 2010. The Prince's appointment follows a long tradition of royal involvement with the academy. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , was the first president of the Society of Film and Television Arts (SFTA) in 1959 to 1965, followed by Earl Mountbatten of Burma and the Princess Royal , who was its president from 1972 to 2001. It was the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's generous donation of their share of profits from
1040-512: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts in March 1976. In 2016, BAFTA embarked in an extensive renovation of the Grade II listed property. Benedetti Architects oversaw a £33M+ remodel, doubling its original capacity with the addition of an additional floor, raising and restoring two large Victorian rooflight structures and decorative plasterwork, creating an entire floor devoted to BAFTA's learning and new talent programmes, and revamping
1092-625: The British film industry. David Lean was the founding chairman. The first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949, honouring the films The Best Years of Our Lives , Odd Man Out and The World Is Rich . The Guild of Television Producers and Directors was set up in 1953 with the first awards ceremony in October 1954, and in 1958 merged with the British Film Academy to form the Society of Film and Television Arts , whose inaugural meeting
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#17327722179611144-471: The Film Awards ceremony in February. BAFTA first recognised video games and other interactive media at its inaugural BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards ceremony during 1998, the first major change of its rules since the admittance of television thirty years earlier. Among the first winning games were GoldenEye 007 , Gran Turismo and interactive comedy MindGym , sharing the spotlight with
1196-560: The London Hilton Park Lane and Tobacco Dock , and have been hosted by Dara Ó Briain and Rufus Hound . In 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic , it was announced that the ceremony was changing format from a live red-carpet ceremony at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London to an online show. The online show was presented by Dara Ó Briain from his home and was watched by 720,000 globally. In 2021
1248-713: The Royal Festival Hall as part of a new multi-year deal between BAFTA and the Southbank Centre , bringing the Film Awards in-line with the British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Games Awards , which were already held there. Until 2012, the mobile telephone network Orange sponsored the awards. Orange's parent company, EE , took over the sponsorship of the event from 2013. Note: Dench and Hoffman's tally of wins and nominations includes those received in
1300-524: The Student Film Awards and has an active Scholarship Program offering financial support and mentorship to UK students studying in the US. It created The Inner City Cinema, a screening program providing free screenings of theatrical films to inner-city areas not served by theatres. The success of Inner City Cinema has led to further free screening programs extended to multiple inner-city parks through
1352-769: The U.S., BAFTA Los Angeles offers financial support and mentorship to British graduate students studying in the US, as well as scholarships to provide financial aid to local LA students from the inner city. BAFTA New York's Media Studies Scholarship Program, set up in 2012, supports students pursuing media studies at undergraduate and graduate level institutions within the New York City area and includes financial aid and mentoring opportunities. Since 2015, BAFTA has been offering scholarships for British citizens to study in China, and vice versa. BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at
1404-584: The UK. Each BAFTA Scholar receives up to £12,000 towards their annual course fees, and mentoring support from a BAFTA member and free access to BAFTA events around the UK. Since 2013, three students every year have received one of the Prince William Scholarships in Film, Television and Games, supported by BAFTA and Warner Bros. These scholarships are awarded in the name of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge in his role as president of BAFTA. In
1456-818: The United States. BAFTA's annual film awards ceremony, the British Academy Film Awards , has taken place since 1949, while their annual television awards ceremony, the British Academy Television Awards , has taken place since 1955. Their third ceremony, the British Academy Games Awards , were first presented in 2004. BAFTA started out as the British Film Academy , founded in 1947 by a group of directors: David Lean , Alexander Korda , Roger Manvell , Laurence Olivier , Emeric Pressburger , Michael Powell , Michael Balcon , Carol Reed , and other major figures of
1508-461: The academy now advertises video games as its third major topic in recognition of its importance as an art form of moving images. The same year the ceremony was performed at The Roundhouse by Chalk Farm Road in North London on 5 October and was televised for the first time on 17 October and was broadcast on the digital channel E4 . Between 2009 and 2019, the ceremonies have been performed at
1560-686: The academy's work with both the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation (Parks After Dark) and The City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks (Teen Summer Camps). The Britannia Awards are BAFTA Los Angeles' highest accolade, a "celebration of achievements honouring individuals and companies that have dedicated their careers to advancing the entertainment arts". The Awards began in 1989 and usually take place in October/November every year. There are no awards given to specific movies or TV programmes, only to individuals. During
1612-449: The bronze mask and marble base – weighs 3.7 kg (8.2 lb) and measures 27 cm (11 in) high × 14 cm (5.5 in) wide × 8 cm (3.1 in) deep; the mask itself measures 16 cm (6.3 in) high × 14 cm (5.5 in) wide. They are made of phosphor bronze and cast in a Middlesex foundry . In 2017, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts introduced new entry rules for British films starting from
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1664-725: The ceremony was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London before moving to the Royal Festival Hall for the 2023 ceremony. The statue awarded to recipients depicts a theatrical mask. The first BAFTA Awards ceremony was held in 1949, and the ceremony was first broadcast on the BBC in 1956 with Vivien Leigh as the host. The ceremony was initially held in April or May; since 2001, it typically takes place in February. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
1716-452: The channels. Individual performances 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. Since 2014 the "BAFTA Television Awards" have been open to TV programmes which are only broadcast online. The British Academy Games Awards ceremony traditionally takes place in March, shortly after
1768-543: The craft to new heights"; "The John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing" (added during 2003 in honour of John Schlesinger ); the "Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year"; and the "Albert R. Broccoli Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment". In select years, the evening has included the "BAFTA Los Angeles Humanitarian Award". The show has been broadcast on TV around
1820-569: The event was divided into the BAFTA Video Games Awards and the BAFTA Interactive Awards Despite making headlines with high-profile winners like Halo 2 and Half-Life 2 the interactive division was discontinued and disappeared from BAFTA's publicity material after only two ceremonies. During 2006, BAFTA announced its decision "to give video games equal status with film and television", and
1872-601: The exception of the Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut which are for British films or individuals only. The British Academy Television Awards ceremony usually takes place during April or May, with its sister ceremony, the British Academy Television Craft Awards , usually occurring within a few weeks of it. The Television Awards, celebrating the best TV programmes and performances of
1924-560: The film Royal Family that enabled the academy to move to its headquarters at 195 Piccadilly. The Prince of Wales succeeded the Lord Attenborough to become the fifth President in the Academy's history. BAFTA North America, founded in 1987 and currently chaired by Joyce Pierpoline, serves as the bridge between the Hollywood and British production and entertainment business communities. The BAFTA Los Angeles location hosts
1976-448: The first ten years, one award was given at each event, named the 'Britannia Award for Excellence in Film', but since 1999 the number of awards has increased. Awards given include "The Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film" (the original award was renamed during 2000 to honour director Stanley Kubrick ), presented to an individual "upon whose work is stamped the indelible mark of authorship and commitment, and who has lifted
2028-421: The form of a theatrical mask designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe , in response to a commission from the Guild of Television Producers in 1955. The ceremony previously took place in April or May, but since 2001 it has been held in February in order to precede the Academy Awards . Most of the awards are open to all nationalities, though there are awards for Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut by
2080-628: The government; it relies on income from membership subscriptions, individual donations, trusts, foundations and corporate partnerships to support its ongoing outreach work. BAFTA has offices in Scotland and Wales in the UK, in Los Angeles and New York in the United States and runs events in Hong Kong and mainland China. Amanda Berry served as chief executive of the organisation between December 2000 and October 2022. Jane Millichip has held
2132-570: The past year, are also often referred to simply as "the BAFTAs" or, to differentiate them from the movie awards, the "BAFTA Television Awards". They have been awarded annually since 1954. The first ever ceremony consisted of six categories. Until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors . From 1968 until 1997, BAFTA's Film and Television Awards were presented together, but from 1998 onwards they were presented at two separate ceremonies. The Television Craft Awards celebrate
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2184-421: The position since October 2022. In addition to its high-profile awards ceremonies, BAFTA manages a year-round programme of educational events and initiatives including film screenings and Q&As, tribute evenings, interviews, lectures, and debates with major industry figures. With over 250 events a year, BAFTA's stated aim is to inspire and inform the next generation of talent by providing a platform for some of
2236-559: The property's food, beverage, and events operations in order to maximize revenue to sustain property maintenance and operations. The new facilities were formally reopened in 2022. BAFTA is a membership organization comprising approximately 8,000 individuals worldwide who are creatives and professionals working in and making a contribution to the film, television and games industries in the UK. In 2005, it placed an overall cap on worldwide voting membership which stood at approximately 6,500 as of 2017 . BAFTA does not receive any funding from
2288-421: The same evening, and across the world. The first broadcast was on the BBC in 1956, with Vivien Leigh (who would present an award to her husband Sir Laurence Olivier ) as the host. It has been broadcast in colour since 1970. In the US it is broadcast on BBC America . In 2023, the BAFTA Film Awards included a live telecast for its major award categories during the culmination of the ceremony. The award ceremony
2340-427: The talent behind the programmes, such as individuals working in visual effects, production, and costume design. Only British programmes are eligible – with the potential exception of the publicly voted Audience Award – but any cable , satellite , terrestrial or digital television stations broadcasting in the UK are eligible to submit entries, as are independent production companies who have produced programming for
2392-456: The world's most talented practitioners to pass on their knowledge and experience. Many of these events are free to watch online at BAFTA Guru and via its official channel on YouTube . BAFTA runs a number of scholarship programmes across the UK, United States and Asia. Launched in 2012, the UK programme enables talented British citizens who are in need of financial support to take an industry-recognised course in film, television or games in
2444-586: The world, including the TV Guide Network and BBC America in the United States. British Academy Games Awards The BAFTA Games Awards or British Academy Games Awards are an annual British awards ceremony honouring "outstanding creative achievement" in the video game industry . First presented in 2004 following the restructuring of the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards , the awards are presented by
2496-514: Was founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean , Alexander Korda , Carol Reed , Charles Laughton , Roger Manvell , Laurence Olivier , Emeric Pressburger , Michael Powell , Michael Balcon , and other major figures of the British film industry. 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. The stated charitable purpose of BAFTA
2548-648: Was held at Buckingham Palace and presided over by the Duke of Edinburgh. The Society of Film and Television Arts acquired the historic Prince's Hall facilities at 195 Piccadilly, following the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours ' move to the Mall Galleries. Queen Elizabeth , The Duke of Edinburgh , The Princess Royal and The Earl Mountbatten of Burma officially opened the organisation's headquarters in 1976, and officially became
2600-423: Was hosted by Danny Wallace . The 2017 ceremony took place at The Troxy on 12 April 2018 and was hosted by Dara Ó Briain . The 2018 ceremony took place at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 4 April 2019 and was hosted by Dara Ó Briain . Though originally planned to be presented at a ceremony at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the event was instead presented as a live stream on 2 April 2020 due to concern over
2652-407: Was hosted by Dara Ó Briain . The 2009 ceremony took place at London Hilton 19 March 2010 and was hosted by Dara Ó Briain . The 2010 ceremony took place at London Hilton on 16 March 2011 and was hosted by Dara Ó Briain . The 2011 ceremony took place at London Hilton on 16 March 2012 and was hosted by Dara Ó Briain . The 2012 ceremony took place at London Hilton on 5 March 2013 and
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#17327722179612704-403: Was hosted by Dara Ó Briain . The 2013 ceremony took place at Tobacco Dock on 12 March 2014 and was hosted by Dara Ó Briain . The 2014 ceremony took place at Tobacco Dock on 12 March 2015 and was hosted by Rufus Hound . The 2015 ceremony took place at Tobacco Dock on 7 April 2016 and was hosted by Dara Ó Briain . The 2016 ceremony took place at Tobacco Dock on 6 April 2017 and
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