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BAFTA Television Awards 2021: Steve McQueens acclaimed Windrush series Small Axe and The Crown lead nominations while I May Destroy You also lands nods following awards snub The Netflix drama landed 10 nominations across the TV and Craft categories, including nods for Josh OConnor, Tobias Menzies and Helena Bonham Carter  Small Axe landed the most nods with 15, including two for John Boyega and Shaun Parkes in the Leading Actor category The series, directed by Steve McQueen, was praised by cri...

BBC News Published image captionMangrove was released as part of the anthology series Small Axe Sir Steve McQueens Small Axes series leads the field at this years Bafta Television Awards, with 15 nominations. The directors landmark five-film BBC One series tells stories about the lives of the West Indian community in London from the 1960s to the 1980s. Netflixs regal drama The Crown is also one of the leading shows, with 10 nods. I May Destroy, about a woman coming to terms with a sexual assaul...

By Press Association 2021 Mangrove is one of five films from director Sir Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology (BBC/PA) Sir Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology series leads the nominations at the Bafta television awards, where it is in the running for 15 gongs. There is recognition for John Boyega for his performance as Met Police officer Leroy Logan in the instalment Red, White And Blue, while Letitia Wright and Shaun Parkes are nom...

Mae Martin (Ian West/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Mae Martin said “gender is a construct” after landing a best female performance in a comedy Bafta nomination. The TV star is in the running for semi-autobiographical Channel 4 series Feel Good, about a stand-up comedian in recovery who forms a relationship wi...

BAFTA TV Awards Nominations In Full: Steve McQueen’s ‘Small Axe’ & ‘The Crown’ Dominate

The deputy chairwoman of the Bafta television committee has said the work being done to improve diversity at the awards has “really paid dividends” in this year’s nominations. Sir Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology series, which tells stories from London’s West Indian community, has 15 nods, while categories including supporting actress and leading actor have also seen a greater breadth of performers nominated. Michaela Coel’s sexual assault drama I May Destroy You received eight n...

Small Axe: What you need to know about the Bafta-nominated series 28/04/2021, 11:01 am John Boyega as police officer and anti-racism reformer Leroy Logan in Sir Steve McQueen’s anthology series Small Axe (BBC/PA) Directed, written and created by Sir Steve McQueen, the Small Axe collection is made up of five original films which aired on the BBC in 2020. The films – Mangrove, Lovers Rock, Red, White and Blue, Alex Wheatle and Education – are set in the time period from the late 1960s to t...

28 Apr 2021 : Nathan Griffin Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones in Normal People. The nominations for the 2021 BAFTA Television Awards have been announced with Element Pictures’ BBC Three hit series Normal People picking up seven nominations. The Sally Rooney-adaptation earned a nomination for Best Mini-Series, while leading actors Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones were nominated in the Lead Actor and Lead Actress categories. Oscar-nominated Irish director L...

Normal People Nominated For 7 BAFTAs Share this article Normal People has been nominated for seven awards, including best mini-series, at this years BAFTAs. Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jones, who starred as Connell and Marianne in the series, have each earned nods in the leading actor categories. Lenny Abrahamson has also been nominated for Best Director exactly one year on since the adaption of Sally Rooneys novel began airing on RTE. Steve McQueens Small Axe leads the BAFTA nominations with 1...

Picture: BBC NORTH-EAST television legends have been nominated for Bafta awards. Bob Mortimers Gone Fishing series with comedian Paul Whitehouse is up for an award in the Features category while Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway is in the running for Entertainment Programme.  Mortimer and Whitehouse travelled to the North-East in the Christmas edition of Gone Fishing, which saw the duo, who took up fishing after they both had heart problems, catching grayling at quiet spots o...