The BAFTA Awards have changed their rules to improve gender parity among the nominees.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has changed the rules for some of its TV Awards and TV Craft Awards categories in a bid to improve gender parity among the nominees.Tuesday, BAFTA said that the top three male and top three female vote-receivers in round one of the directing categories and in round one of the entertainment-performance category will automatically go through to jury consideration for the 2023 awards.
At this year’s TV Craft Awards, there were no female directors nominated in either the fiction or factual directing categories, with just one woman nominated in the multicamera category. The British organization We Are Doc Women the disparity when the nominees were announced in March. In the entertainment-performance category at the TV Awards, one woman,Other changes are afoot for the British Academy. The original-music category will now be split into two separate categories, original music: fiction and original music: factual. Furthermore, the BAFTAs acknowledged that the British Academy has historically favored scripted entries over non-scripted entries in the international category.
“Television and the way in which audiences consume content is ever-evolving, and it’s essential we adapt alongside,”the deputy chair of BAFTA and chair of the BAFTA Television Committee, was quoted as saying the press announcement. “As a mirror to the industry, we are in the privileged and unique position of being able to drive and influence positive change.
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