#bafta-awards-incident

#bafta-awards-incident

These messages are addictive because they give us something that we are not meant to see.

For Hollywood's biggest night, celebrities pay as much attention to their red-carpet attire as their speeches. It's a night to leave a mark not just on Hollywood but on best-dressed lists and even make fashion history.

When it's a nominee... it just feels like this big important moment and I just really want to honor it. They'll be photographed usually more than some others and then I do imagine what it would end up looking... with an award.

There is this one, for example, which for the time being seems to solely consist of bored-looking reporters sullenly looking at their phones. But it will probably pick up in time.

BBC director-general Tim Davie said the BBC "profoundly regrets" the inclusion of the N-word in the broadcast of this year's BAFTAs, which he characterized as unintentional and the result of a "genuine error." Davie claims that no one in the on-site broadcast truck heard John Davidson, the activist with Tourette's, shout a racial slur while Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were onstage during the February 22 awards ceremony.

Paul Mescal stepped up early with a big swing, hard-launching his relationship with Gracie Abrams with a red-carpet kiss. The frayed rolled cuffs and Henley collar of his Prada shirt gave him the air of having walked to the red carpet straight from the boards of Shakespeare's Globe theatre. Method dressing is the new power dressing, and this could be the season of Hamnet-core: see, also, Archie Madekwe's doublet-shaped Dior jacket and Elizabeth-adjacent sparkly ruff.

The BBC has been reviewing what happened at Bafta on Sunday evening. This was a serious mistake and the director-general has instructed the Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) to complete a fast-tracked investigation and provide a full response to complainants.

Institutionally, we still don't understand what inclusion means. Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don't provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in that room safe by them being there, that's not inclusivity. That's exploitation. That man's disability got exploited that night, and it led to multiple offenses.

The truest thing ever said about the Golden Globes was by Tina Fey when she hosted the awards in 2019 and described the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of junket hacks, as operating out of the back booth of a French McDonalds. The HFPA was disbanded in 2023 after allegations of racism, but 95 former members retained voting rights and on Monday, the show went on.

The Paddington actor-animatronic hybrid from the West End run of Paddington: The Musicalpresented an award! To whom? Does it matter. Bear on stage! Of course it matters who won a BAFTA off Paddington. Congratulations to Boong. Sinners is also have a good night, though not quite as good as anyone who gets to meet Paddington. The film has already won Editing, Original Screenplay and Supporting actress at the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards.

Hence the attention that is paid to the annual announcement of the Baftas, Golden Globes and Oscars hosts; they are gigs that can flourish in the cultural memory, such as Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's multiple turns at the Golden Globes, or become infamous, such as Anne Hathaway and James Franco's double act at the Academy Awards in 2011, which saw them castigated as children and spectacularly unwatchable by the media.

The politically charged thriller One Battle After Another took six prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, building momentum ahead of the Oscars next month. Blues-steeped vampire epic Sinners and gothic horror story Frankenstein won three awards each, while Shakespearean family tragedy Hamnet was named best British film. Jessie Buckley, as widely predicted, also won the best actress prize for her role in Hamnet.