Noel Clarke Dedicates BAFTA Award to Underrepresented as Early Winners Are Announced
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The BAFTA Film Awards kicks off Saturday night with the early winners led by the drama movie Ma Rainey s Black Bottom starring Viola Davis and late Chadwick Boseman. Apr 11, 2021
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Noel Clarke dedicated his honorary Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema BAFTA award to the underrepresented in a passionate and moving speech on Saturday night (10Apr21).
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Hood franchise and the hit British TV series
Bulletproof was the only winner to pick up the trophy in person during the Opening Night segment of the 2021 BAFTAs, which continues on Sunday.
Ma Rainey , starring Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman, won for costume design and makeup and hair. Hollywood throwback Mank won for production design.
Other prizes went to coming-of-age story Rocks , thriller Tenet and Sound of Metal about a drummer going deaf. Actor Noel Clarke received the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award.
The main prizes will be announced on Sunday, when director Ang Lee will receive the Bafta Fellowship. American recession drama Nomadland and Rocks had led the nominations with seven nods each.
After an outcry last year when Bafta presented an all-white acting contenders list, more than half of this year s 24 nominees are actors of colour.
LONDON – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a jazz drama set in 1920s Chicago, won two awards at the opening of the BAFTAs on Saturday, but the race for the main prizes remains open with a list of contenders that shines a spotlight on diversity. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) ceremony is being held virtually over two nights as the COVID-19 pandemic prevents the usual celebrity-packed show …