BAFTA Awards 2023: All about the Phosphor Bronze Award
Firstly the abbreviation BAFTA stands for British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
This is an international trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television, and video games in the United Kingdom.
It has an international program of learning events and initiatives offering access to talents through workshops, masterclasses, scholarships, lectures, and mentoring schemes in the United Kingdom and the United States.
It was formed in the year 1947 on the 16th of April which is about 75 years ago and was created to support, promote and develop the art of film, television, and video games. It is presided by the prince of Wales, the chairman is KrishnenduMajundar and they have about 6500 members with its headquarters in Piccadilly London, United Kingdom.
How the British Academy of Film and Academy of Arts Started
In 1949 the British Film Academy, as it was then known, presented the first awards for films made in 1947 and 1948. Since 2008 the ceremony has been held at the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden. It had been held in the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square since 2000.
Since 2017, the BAFTA ceremony has been held at the Royal Albert Hall. The ceremony had been performed during April or May of each year, but since 2002 it has been held in February to precede the academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ (AMPAS) Academy Awards (Oscars), even though it is not a precursor to the Academy.
In order for a film to be considered for a BAFTA nomination, its first public exhibition must be displayed in a cinema and it must have a UK theatrical release for no fewer than seven days of the calendar year that corresponds to the upcoming awards. A movie must be of feature-length and movies from all countries are eligible in all categories, with the exception of the Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut which are for British films or individuals only.
BAFTA AWARDS 2023
It was held at the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre, the first time since the 69th British Academy Film Awards (2016) that the ceremony was not held at the Royal Albert Hall.
The move is part of a new deal between BAFTA and the Southbank Centre and brought the Film Awards in line with the British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Games Awards, which are already held there.
Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2022.
The nominations were announced on 19 January 2023 via a global live stream, hosted by actors Hayley Atwell and ToheebJimoh, from the arts charity’s newly redeveloped HQ at 195 Piccadilly, London.
The EE Rising Star Award nominees, which is the only category voted for by the British public, was announced on 17 January 2023.
The 2023 BAFTA Awards are underway. On Sunday, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts gave out their picks, with host Richard E. Grant emceeing the event in London. Going into the evening,
Germany’s All Quiet on the Western Front adaptation led with the most nominations, 14 total.
Best Film
All Quiet on the Western Front — WINNER
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár
Outstanding British Film
Aftersun
The Banshees of Inisherin — WINNER
Brian and Charles
Empire of Light
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Living
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical
See How They Run
The Swimmers
The Wonder
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Animated Film
Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio — WINNER
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red
DirectorAll Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger — WINNER
The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin Mcdonagh
Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Tár – Todd Field
The Woman King – Gina Prince-Bythewood
Amidst many other awards shared at the ceremony.
The German-language epic anti-war drama All Quiet on the Western Front received the most nominations with fourteen, tying the record set by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) as the most nominated non-English language film in the awards’ history; The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once followed with ten nominations each. The former two are also one of the most nominated titles in BAFTA history, coming second (alongside 2007’s Atonement) only to Gandhi (1982), the most nominated film at the BAFTAs with sixteen nods.
All Quiet on the Western Front ultimately won the most awards with seven, including Best Film, Best Director (Edward Berger) and Best Film Not in the English Language, followed by The Banshees of Inisherin and Elvis with four apiece. With the aforementioned seven wins, the World War I epic now holds the record for the most BAFTAs for a film not in the English language; the record was previously held by the Italian coming-of-age drama Cinema Paradiso, which claimed five BAFTAs in 1991.
However, the nominations were also notable for largely omitting Avatar: The Way of Water, The Fabelmans and Top Gun: Maverick, frontrunners at several other awards shows, from major categories, and for Bardo, Glass Onion, RRR and Women Talking being completely shut out.
The ceremony was hosted by Swazi-English BAFTA and Academy Award-nominated actor Richard E. Grant while British television personality Alison Hammond hosted from backstage, giving viewers what’s billed as an “access-all-areas experience”. Additionally, presenters Vick Hope and BBC Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb hosted the red carpet pre-show. The broadcast aired on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, and was syndicated globally in eight countries.
Award Trophy
To Charles Chaplin, who became a worldwide icon through screen personas trophy award is a mask that Mitzi Cunliffe designed which was given as the “BAFTA award” to Charles Chaplin who became a worldwide icon through screen persona, The tramp.
This bronze mask and marble base weigh 3.7 kg (8.2 Ib) and measure 27cm (11in) high × 14cm (5.5In) wide × 8cm (3.1in) deep; the mask itself is 16cm (6.3in) high × 14cm (5.5in) wide made of phosphor bronze and is put in a Middlesex factory.
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