Press Releases

• BAFTA Games Awards partners with EE, the UK’s number one network for gaming, to announce the return of the EE Game of the Year Award – the only award to be voted for by the public
• The 2022 nominees are: Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Deathloop, It Takes Two, Metroid Dread, The Forgotten City and Unpacking
• The community of games fans can now vote for the EE Game of the Year Award at: https://ee.co.uk/why-ee/baftagames
• Nominations for all other categories will be announced on Thursday 3rd March with the winners announced at the BAFTA Games Awards on Thursday 7th April 2022

• New eligibility criteria for The Breakthrough Cymru Award
• Introduction of new category ‘News, Current Affairs and Topical’
• Editing Category to recognise both Fiction and Factual

This year's EE British Academy Film Awards nominees Benedict Cumberbatch, Jessie Buckley, Stephen Graham, Caitríona Balfe, Ann Dowd, Mike Faist, Ciarán Hinds, Ariana DeBose, Troy Kotsur, Jane Campion, Aleem Khan, Rebecca Hall and more confirmed to participate, with further names to be announced.

The Awards will coincide with BAFTA's dedicated festival weekend, celebrating its renewed focus for the children’s film, games and television industries

• 14 awards categories including Non-Scripted, Pre-School Live Action and Young Performer
• Awards Ceremony to take place on Sunday 27 November at BAFTA 195 Piccadilly
• Year-round industry and public events confirmed for BAFTA initiatives including Young Creators, Young Game Designers (YGD) and BAFTA Kids’ Roadshow with Place2Be
• The rules and guidelines for the BAFTA Children & Young People Awards are available at awards.bafta.org/entry

BAFTA to put the spotlight on producers, supporting those from under-represented backgrounds, including minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled and those from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

Apurva Asrani, Monika Shergill, Ratna Pathak Shah, Gaurav Gandhi amongst those determining this years’ BAFTA Breakthrough participants in India

Winners to be announced at the EE British Academy Film Awards on Sunday 13 March