BAFTAs – What's Worth Seeing…

Oppenheimer dominates BAFTA nominations as Barbie misses out in the top categories

18th January 2024Jason Korsner

Christopher Nolan’s eponymous biopic about the creator of the atom bomb, Oppenheimer, is continuing to lead the charge during Awards Season, picking up [click for more...]

Traitors, Derry Girls and Paddington Bear among BAFTA TV winners

15th May 202315th May 2023Jason Korsner

BAFTA has spread its TV awards evenly across a range of broadcasters and streamers, bestowing them on everything from brand new shows to [click for more...]

Mushroom hunting, Icelandic Elves and volcanoes: meet Oscar-nominated documentarian, Sara Dosa

19th February 202319th February 2023Jason Korsner

As Sara Dosa waxes lyrical about her newfound passion for volcanoes, after an Awards-Season screening at the BFI IMAX in London, she sounds [click for more...]

Dune, Power of the Dog and Belfast dominate BAFTA Film Award nominations

3rd February 20229th February 2022Jason Korsner

The sci-fi epic Dune is leading the pack ahead of next month’s BAFTA Film Awards, having secured eleven nominations. But other than Best [click for more...]

Diversity backlash clouds BAFTA nominations that see Joker lead the pack

7th January 20208th January 2020Jason Korsner

Hot on the heels of the Golden Globes, Britain’s film and TV academy, BAFTA has announced a set of film award nominations that [click for more...]

Killing Eve leads the field in the TV BAFTA nominations

28th March 201928th March 2019Jason Korsner

BBC shows have topped the nominations list for this year’s TV BAFTAs. Killing Eve stars Jodie Comer (left) and Sandra Oh are up [click for more...]

Roma and The Favourite share the spoils at the BAFTAs

10th February 201924th February 2019Jason Korsner

Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma won BAFTA’s two most prestigious awards The Favourite has picked up the most BAFTAs, with seven, but the four [click for more...]

Awards favourite The Favourite leads 2019 Film BAFTA nominations

9th January 20199th January 2019Jason Korsner

The Favourite – a biting satire about two women vying to become the favourite of Queen Anne in the early 18th Century – [click for more...]

The Shape of Water leads British-heavy BAFTA nominations

10th January 201812th January 2018Jason Korsner

Both Sally Hawkins (left) and Octavia Spencer are up for individual BAFTAs for The Shape of Water. The fantasy romance that won the [click for more...]

It’s a happy night for Happy Valley at the BAFTAs

14th May 201715th May 2017Jason Korsner

Sarah Lancashire (second from right) with the Happy Valley team. Photo: © BAFTA In the first year that BAFTA allowed nominations from streaming [click for more...]

La La Land wins 5 BAFTAs

12th February 201713th February 2017Jason Korsner

The hot favourite going into the British Academy Film Awards, the first original musical for decades, La La Land, has delivered on its [click for more...]

Wolf Hall, Peter Kay & This is England lead BAFTA TV winners

8th May 20169th May 2016Jason Korsner

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Wolf Hall leads BAFTA TV nominations

30th March 20164th April 2016Jason Korsner

Mark Rylance and Claire Foy are both nominated for Wolf Hall The BBC’s Golden Globe-winning adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor drama Wolf Wall [click for more...]

Venice and Toronto pave the way for awards season

29th July 201525th July 2017Jason Korsner

The starting gun has been fired on the 2016 film awards season, with the announcement of the line-ups of two of the most [click for more...]

British short about racial tensions up for the BAFTAs

30th January 20024th January 2020Jason Korsner

Studying the glitz and glamour of the BAFTA nominations, the Short Film contest is easy to miss, down at the bottom, one of [click for more...]