As expected, diversity (or the lack thereof) was the hot-button topic at tonight’s BAFTA Awards. Joaquin Phoenix, picking up his Best Actor prize for Joker, made a particularly poignant speech on t…
, who many thought could’ve been a nominee in the acting field this year, wasn’t holding back with the quips when live-tweeting from inside the ceremony.
“i’m sitting next to half of the black people here and the three of us are laughing at all of [Graham Norton’s] jokes,” she posted as this year’s host pointed to the #BAFTAsSoWhite controversy in his opening monologue., essentially the story of a white man who makes himself even whiter,” Norton quipped.
“They’re beginning the ceremony by patting themselves on the back for including women and bong joon ho,” Turner-Smith also wrote as the awards got underway.For Sama scooped the award for Best Documentary, having become the most-nommed doc in BAFTA’s history. The project came from female Syrian director Waad al-Kateab, who had the joint most nominations for any individual , and Edward Watts.
The winners in both short film and animated short were women directors, Carol Dysinger and Elena Andreicheva forGrandad Was a Romantic.director Sergio Pablos also highlighted the diverse crew employed on his animated feature, “[The film had] the most diverse crew I’ve ever worked with. 22 countries, 15 languages, almost gender parity.”
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