BAFTA Awards
England, UK
Notes
- The British Academy Film Awards are the major film awards held in Great Britain.
- The first awards, designed by Henry Moore, were statues in the form of a large, bronze, seated lady valued at UK £550 each at the time, but of great value today.
- In 1958 the British Film Academy merged with the Guild of Television Producers and Directors to form the Society of Film and Television Arts.
- The British Film Academy was formed on 16th April 1947 in a hotel room at the Hyde Park Hotel by a group of the most eminent men in British film, under the chairmanship of David Lean.
- In 1976, the Academy was renamed the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
- Since 1998, the event has been sponsored by the mobile phone company, Orange, with the ceremony's name changed officially to the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2000.
Awards
60 Seconds of Fame - Best Film
60 Seconds of Fame - Best Regional Film
Academy Fellowship
Alan Clarke Award
Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film
Anthony Asquith Award for Best New British Composer (TV)
Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music
Audience Award
Audience Award (TV)
BAFTA Children's Award
BAFTA Film Award
BAFTA Games Award
BAFTA Interactive Award
BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award
BAFTA TV Award
- The BAFTA Television Awards recognize and reward excellence in British Television. The first television awards were presented in 1954 but were merged into one Awards ceremony incorporating both Film and Television in 1969. Since 1998 the ceremony is again being separated with Film and Television having their own set of awards.
Breakthrough Brits
Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer
Certificate of Merit
David Lean Award for Direction
Dennis Potter Award
EE Rising Star Award
Flaherty Documentary Award
Flaherty Documentary Award (TV)
Foreign TV Program Award
Kids' Vote
Lew Grade Award
Lloyds Bank People's Vote for the Most Popular Film
Michael Balcon Award
Mullard Award
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
P&O Cruises Memorable Moment
Richard Dimbleby Award
Rising Star Award
- The award has been inaugurated in honor of casting director Mary Selway and replaces the Orange Film of the Year award (Audience Award).
Shell International Award
Special Award
Special Award (Children's)
Sunday Times Reader Award for Games
Technical Craft Award (TV)
- Before BAFTA introduced technical categories, this generic award had been handed out.
UN Award
Writers' Award (Children's)
Writers' Award (TV)
eSports Audience Award
Historical Timeline
1963
- In the middle of the 1963 film award ceremony, a mysterious announcement requests that all ITN and BBC News employees at the ceremony return to their studios. At the end of the ceremony, guests discover that US president Kennedy has been assassinated.
1967
- The BAFTA Film Awards are televised for the first time.
1998
- For the first time since 1968 a stand-alone television awards ceremony is held.
- For the first time in 29 years, there are two separate ceremonies, one for film and one for television.
2000
- The stand-alone television craft awards ceremony is introduced.
2009
- Over 24,000 votes are cast.