Press Releases

• The all British line-up of EE Rising Star Award nominees for 2021 are: Bukky Bakray, Conrad Khan, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Morfydd Clark and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
• Nominees were selected by a group of industry jurors including Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander, actress and BAFTA Film Committee member Jo Hartley and BAFTA-winning actress Naomi Ackie
• The winner will be announced on Sunday 11th April 2021 at the EE BAFTA Film Awards ceremony on BBC One
• Celebrating its 16th year, the prestigious EE Rising Star Award is the only category at EE BAFTA Film Awards voted for by the British public and voting is now open at ee.co.uk/BAFTA
• Nominations for all categories at the EE BAFTA Film Awards will be announced on Tuesday 9th March, with the ceremony being broadcast on Sunday 11th April on BBC One

BAFTA has announced the nominations for the 2021 British Academy Games Awards.

• BAFTA Games Awards partners with EE, the UK’s number one network for gaming, to unlock the new EE Game of the Year Award – the only category to be voted for by the public
• The 2021 nominees are: Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Call of Duty: Warzone, Ghost of Tsushima, Hades, The Last of Us 2 and VALORANT
• Global community of games fans can now vote for the EE Game of the Year Award at ee.co.uk/BAFTAGames
• Nominations for all other categories will be announced Tuesday 2nd March 2021, with the winners announced at the BAFTA Games Awards on Thursday 25th March 2021

• EE partners with British Academy Games Awards for the third year and introduces an all-new publicly voted category to the Awards: the new EE Game of the Year Award
• The UK’s number one network for gaming will give fans at home the opportunity to have their say and vote for their favourite game 
• The shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 23rd February 2021, when voting will open to the public, with the award announced at the virtual ceremony on 25th March 2021
• Nominations for all other categories at the BAFTA Games Awards will be announced Tuesday 2nd March 

New Round One longlisting introduced after BAFTA 2020 Review with the aim of levelling the playing field and ensuring more films are fully considered for nominations

Nominations to be announced on 9 March and EE Rising Star Award nominations on 3 March

Young people encouraged to ‘Express Yourself’ in series of activities launched today by BAFTA, Place2Be and Oak National Academy, including:

• Jodie Whittaker kicks-off the week with national virtual school assembly
• Strictly’s Oti Mabuse, Rocks Actress Bukky Bukray and YouTuber Nikki Lilly lead free online sessions in Acting, Art, Creating Content, Dance and Writing
• Nationwide search for ‘BAFTA Young Presenter’ begins 

Today, albert announces the launch of the albert news consortium, a group which has been set up to support the broadcast and production community specifically engaged in news television. 

Application for BAFTA Breakthrough India will now close on Monday 8 February

Key quotations from BAFTA: A Life in Pictures: George Clooney

Key quotations from BAFTA masterclass: Regina King