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A pioneering curator, writer and programmer of African film is to receive Bafta’s outstanding British contribution to cinema award.June Givanni is the founder of a London archive that has amassed more than 10,000 items – including films, ephemera, manuscripts, audio, photography and posters – documenting Pan-African cinema over 40 years.The volunteer-run archive is one of the world’s most important collections documenting the moving image for the African continent and its diaspora, and includes artefacts that might…

The high point of the British film industry’s year, the Bafta film awards, returns on Sunday 18 February. The longlist has already been announced, with Killers of the Flower Moon, Barbie and Oppenheimer leading the count, and the contenders for the rising star award have also been revealed.Hosting the event is a plum job, with Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry having had the longest stints, dominating most of the 00s and 10s. But everyone from Terry Wogan (minus his Blankety Blank microphone on a stick) to (raises an eyebrow)…

Jacob Elordi, star of Saltburn and Priscilla, Phoebe Dyenvor from Fair Play and Bridgerton, and Ayo Edebiri of The Bear and Bottoms, are among the nominees for this year’s Bafta rising star award for up-and-coming talent.The actors have been shortlisted alongside Mia McKenna-Bruce from How to Have Sex and Sophie Wilde from Talk to Me. All five have captured the imagination of both the public and film industry over the past year, Bafta said.Elordi – one of the biggest stars of Gen Z, who rose to prominence with his role in…

Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s crime epic set in 1920s Osage County, is leading the pack alongside Barbie and Oppenheimer at the first stage of voting for this year’s Bafta film awards.The film, which has 15 nods on the longlist and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, is toe to toe with this summer’s box office victors Barbie and Oppenheimer, which also have 15 mentions apiece.Yorgos Lanthimos’s steampunk feminist comedy horror Poor Things follows with 14, followed by Leonard…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDavid Tennant has been announced as the host of the 2024 Baftas ceremony to be held in London next month. The Baftas will return to the Royal Festival Hall at London’s Southbank Centre on Sunday 18 February. This year’s ceremony will mark the 52-year-old Doctor Who star’s first time hosting the prestigious awards show, which was presented by Richard E Grant and Alison Hammond last…

David Tennant has been named as the new host of the Baftas in his first high-profile hosting engagement.The actor, best known for his work on the TV series Doctor Who, Good Omens and Broadchurch, will take the stage at the Royal Festival Hall for the ceremony on 18 February.After lengthy stints by Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross, the film awards of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts have been hosted by a variety of presenters over the past six years, including Joanna Lumley, Rebel Wilson and, last year, Richard…

Apple TV Plus show Bad Sisters, has won Best Drama and Supporting Actress for Anne-Marie Duff at the 2023 BAFTA Television Awards.The dark comedy, released in August 2022, has been commissioned for a second season and is currently in pre-production.Speaking about the BAFTA win, Jay Hunt, creative director for Apple TV Plus in Europe, said, “We are immensely grateful to BAFTA for honoring 'Bad Sisters’ this evening,” “This inventive, darkly humorous show has captured the imagination of audiences around the world and we’re…

BAFTA has announced its six nominees for the EE Game Of The Year Award, inviting members of the public to vote on games ranging from Elden Ring to Marvel Snap. The six nominees in the running are Elden Ring, God Of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Immortality, Marvel Snap, and Stray. Fans can vote for their preferred nominees here. The shortlist was decided by a jury panel of 10 including Jake Tucker, NME‘s commissioning editor for games. “Huge congratulations to all of this year’s nominees for the EE Game Of The…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAngela Bassett has revealed that she contacted Ariana DeBose after the singer name-dropped her in her viral Baftas rap.West Side Story star DeBose, 32, opened the Baftas on Sunday 19 February with a rendition of Eurythmics’ 1985 hit track “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”.Halfway through the song, DeBose broke into a rap, giving shout-outs to the female nominees in the audience…