The BAFTA’s faced backlash over the lack of diversity among the nominations this year.
), Lulu Wang and other female filmmakers follow the Golden Globes, which hasn’t nominated a woman since Ava DuVernay in 2014. about the “infuriating lack of diversity in the acting noms.”
“It’s just a frustration that the industry is not moving as fast as certainly the whole BAFTA team would like it to be,” he said. The pushback on the nominations is not unlike what the Oscars faced in 2015 and 2016, when it failed to recognize any actors of color. Following the second year, the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that they wouldto increase diversity, with the goal to double the number of women and"diverse members" by 2020.
While speaking to the Associated Press, Amanda Berry, OBE and Chief Executive of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, said “one of the things that BAFTA can do is create that opportunity” for diversity in front of and behind the camera. “We've done schemes in the past for female directors. We've decided, looking at the nominations today, we're going to do that again,” she continued. “We've got a scheme running at the moment called Elevate for actors from a wide range of backgrounds. And it's really important to us that we do everything we can to support people to get into this industry. You know, film has the opportunity to tell the stories of the world.
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