The BAFTA Awards Address Gender Inequity With a Rule Change

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. In a press release Tuesday, BAFTA said that the top three male and top three female vote-receivers in round one of the directing categories (factual, fiction, and multicamera) and in round one of the entertainment-performance category will automatically go through to jury consideration for the 2023 awards. “This new intervention, a first for the TV Craft Awards [and for the TV Awards], will increase the visibility of… Read Full Article