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Clair Obscur: how an indie game about loss became the biggest success story of 2025

Ahead of the BAFTAs, lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen breaks down the biggest twists of Sandfall’s runaway success story

Evening Standard

Delroy Lindo shares what he thought for ‘nanosecond’ after hearing Baftas racial slur

‘Sinners’ actor was presenting an award when Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson experienced a tic

The Independent UK

Actress Wunmi Mosaku ‘awake at night’ over Baftas incident

Mosaku was speaking on the red carpet of the Actor Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday and said she is not sure if she can forgive the BBC.

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‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile

The Guardian - UK

I Swear director says Tourette’s activist John Davidson was ‘let down on many levels’ in Baftas row

BBC broadcast included John Davidson involuntarily using a racial slur

The Independent UK

John Davidson criticises BBC after being told ‘swearing would be edited out’

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Tourette's campaigner says he's ‘deeply mortified’ after involuntarily shouting racial slur during BAFTAs

John Davidson could be heard shouting a racial slur during the ceremony

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BBC pulls BAFTAs off iPlayer and issues apology after racial slur from audience broadcast

The remark was shouted from the audience as Sinners actors Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan presented an award

Evening Standard

Robert Aramayo triumphs over Leonardo DiCaprio and Timothée Chalamet in shock Bafta win

Jessie Buckley, Ryan Coogler and Sean Penn all took home major prizes – but it was a British unknown who was the star of the evening

The Independent UK

Paul Thomas Anderson pays tribute to late assistant director with Bafta win

The British filmmaker Adam Somner was diagnosed with cancer just weeks into production.

Evening Standard

Baftas ‘heckling’: What really happened during Alan Cumming’s monologue?

The Scottish comedian later explained the reasoning behind the disruption

The Independent UK

Wunmi Mosaku hails representation in Sinners as she reflects on Bafta win

The 39-year-old took home the gong for best supporting actress for her performance in Sinners.

Evening Standard

Wunmi Mosaku wins Bafta for Sinners role

The actress won the best supporting actress prize.

Evening Standard

First British woman boss of Hollywood studio to receive Bafta Award

Dame Donna Langley is the NBCUniversal chair of entertainment

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First British woman to run Hollywood studio to receive Bafta Fellowship Award

Dame Donna Langley is NBCUniversal’s chair of entertainment.

Evening Standard

Rebecca Hall says ‘being self-conscious is kryptonite for an actor’

The 43-year old actress stars in sci-fi body horror series The Beauty alongside Ashton Kutcher.

The Independent UK

Stephen Graham calls out Bafta after years of snubbing Peaky Blinders star: ‘What’s that about?’

‘I might get myself into trouble here,’ said the actor before naming the actor

The Guardian - UK

Top Boy actor Micheal Ward appears in court on rape and sexual assault charges

Bafta-winning actor did not enter plea to charges relating to one woman that are alleged to have taken place in January 2023

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Shameless star and Everton manager to be honoured at Windsor Castle

Anne-Marie Duff and David Moyes will both be made Officer of the Order of the British Empire on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

EastEnders star Jake Wood to ‘make shock return’ to soap four years after exit

His character was not killed off in December 2020 in hopes actor would make a comeback

Evening Standard

David Tennant's wife Georgia pokes fun at his TV Baftas snub on their anniversary

The Doctor Who star, 54, missed out on the leading actor gong for his role in Rivals at the TV Baftas on Sunday

The Independent UK

Danny Dyer breaks Bafta TV Awards rule and has speech edited by BBC

Actor won for his role as prescription medication dealer Lee in ‘Mr Bigstuff’

Evening Standard

Danny Dyer’s uncensored TV Baftas speech revealed after it was cut from broadcast

The EastEnders icon scooped the award for his role as Lee in Sky’s Mr Bigstuff but a toned-down version of his speech aired on BBC One

Evening Standard

Mr Bates Vs The Post Office wins Bafta but fight for victims ‘not over yet’

The four-part series tells the story about subpostmasters being wrongly convicted of offences such as fraud because of faulty software.

Evening Standard

Baby Reindeer scoops early Bafta win with prize for Jessica Gunning

Gunning beat her fellow Baby Reindeer star, trans actress Nava Mau.

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