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Netflix's Emmy Award-winning Baby Reindeer won two BAFTA TV Craft Awards on Sunday, including best writing for a drama for Richard Gadd.

Overall, the Netflix limited series landed eight bids between the craft and TV awards ceremony, including Best Limited Drama, a lead actor nomination for Gadd, and two supporting actress nominations for Jessica Gunning and Nava Mau. The limited series won several honors last year and throughout the winter, including Emmy Award wins for Gadd and Gunning, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award victory for Gunning.

Other winners at the BAFTA Craft Awards included Slow Horses with two wins (sound and editing), Shogun with one victory (for photography and lighting), and Bad Sisters (for music).

See the complete list of craft award winners below. The BAFTA TV Awards are set for May 11,

BAFTA Craft Awards

Children’s Craft Team

BooSnoo! (Sky Kids)

Hey Duggee (CBeebies)

Horrible Histories...

Baby Reindeer, Slow Horses, Rivals, Shōgun, and Bad Sisters were among the winners of the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2025, which were handed out in London on Sunday. Supacell, Eric, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power were also part of the list of honorees.

The craft award for best drama writer went to Richard Gadd for his Netflix hit Baby Reindeer, while Weronika Tofilska won the best director in fiction honor for her work on Baby Reindeer.

That meant two awards on Sunday night for the hit show, with Rivals and Slow Horses also earning two honors each.

The ceremony, celebrating the best behind-the-scenes TV talent of 2024, was held at The Brewery in the British capital, an 18th-century brewery recast as an events venue.

More U.K. TV awards are set to be handed out soon. The BAFTA TV Awards will be held on Sunday, May 11 at London’s Royal Festival Hall,...

Nominations have been unveiled for the 42nd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. Check out the full list below.

Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leads the field with nine nominations, followed by Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter which received 6 (a Netflix one-two). Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II, released by Picturehouse in the UK, followed with five.

This year’s contenders feature a notably healthy representation of female filmmakers, with the top three most nominated films all helmed by women directors.

More than 180 critics across print, online and broadcast media voted for this year’s noms, which were unveiled by British actors Joanna Vanderham and Gwilym Lee. The ceremony will take place on February 6, 2022, at London’s May Fair Hotel.

“Even though cinemas were closed for half of this year, our members were always watching films,” says Rich Cline, chair of the Critics’ Circle Film Section.

Play It Safe

It took quite a while to pin down Mitch Kalisa for an interview about Play It Safe – but some films are worth it. When we finally meet, I tell him straight out that no other short film has impressed me as much this year. He thanks me and blushes a little, but takes it in his stride – with a BIFA nomination now in hand and a chance of qualifying for the Oscars, it’s something he’s getting used to hearing.

It’s a very long way from what he imagines when he first started developing this film about an acting student who struggles with being the only black person in his class. Struggling with stereotyping and the sort of low level, possibly unconscious racism that’s really hard to tackle, and asked by classmates to accept a racially stereotyped role in their latest play, Jonathan (played by Jonathan Ajayi) reaches.

AFI Fest on Monday announced the films that received this year’s awards, with Clint Bentley’s Jockey from Sony Pictures Classics and the Tommy Oliver-directed Juice Wrld taking the narrative and documentary Audience Awards, respectively.

The Grand Jury Award winners for Live Action and Animated Short will be eligible for the Best Live Action Short and Best Animated Short Oscars.

“Bringing filmmakers and movie fans together to celebrate the moving image is at the heart of AFI Fest,” said Sarah Harris, Director of Programming for AFI Festivals. “The excitement of all festival goers to be together in the theaters once again was electric. This year’s festival has truly shown everyone the power of the art form to lift our spirits when it’s needed the most.”

The AFI Fest jury was composed of film curator and writer Kiva Reardon; Amanda Salazar, head of programming and acquisitions at...

AFI Fest announced its 2021 jury and audience award winners, with audience prizes going to “Jockey” and the documentary feature centered on the late rapper Juice Wrld.

“Bringing filmmakers and movie fans together to celebrate the moving image is at the heart of AFI Fest. The excitement of all festivalgoers to be together in the theaters, once again, was electric,” Sarah Harris, AFI Festivals’ director of programming said in a statement announcing the winners. “This year’s festival has truly shown everyone the power of the art form to lift our spirits when it’s needed the most.”

Director Clint Bentley’s “Jockey” earned the audience award for a narrative feature; the film stars Clifton Collins Jr. as an aging jockey with hopes to win one last title for his longtime trainer who has acquired what appears to be a championship horse, despite the years and injuries that have taken a toll on his body.

Mitch Kalisa's Play It Safe is showing exclusively on Mubi starting October 26, 2021 in the Brief Encounters series.A RECOLLECTIONIt was a weekend drama class where I first participated in an animal movement exercise. I was about 15. The weekend was held at a prestigious drama school and I was taught by some of the Ma students.Animals allocated at random, they encouraged us to explore the intricacies of movement. We had to think about how the specific animals could inspire and define characters we’d been working on. The workshop culminated in a performance, each person was to take the stage and perform for a given time.This final presentation was the most nerve-wracking of all the performances we all had to do while at the school. However, it was at that moment I was reminded that my portrayal was more loaded than those of my classmates. The room took...

The U.S. lineup at Mubi next month has been unveiled, featuring films by Claude Chabrol, Paulo Rocha, Ulrich Köhler, and more. Notable new releases include Pedro Costa’s striking Locarno winner Vitalina Varela as well as the Julia Fox-led Pvt Chat (check out our extensive interview with director Ben Hozie here.).

As part of their series Thrills, Chills, and Exquisite Horrors, the Martin Scorsese favorite Wake in Fright joins Mubi, along with Fabrice Du Welz’s Alleluia, Nicolas Winding Refn’s underseen Fear X, and Ben Wheatley’s trippy A Field in England.

Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.

October 1 | Alléluia | Fabrice Du Welz | Thrills, Chills, and Exquisite Horrors

October 2 | Styx | Wolfgang Fischer

October 3 | The Green Years | Paulo Rocha | Double Bill: Paulo Rocha

October 4 | Change of Life | Paulo Rocha | Double Bill: Paulo Rocha

October 5 | Your Day Is My Night | Lynne Sachs

October 6 | Hey, You!

The 28th SXSW Film Festival revealed the Audience Award winners Tuesday, with Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, The Fallout and Not Going Quietly among the list of honorees. The news comes after the online edition of the fest announced its jury awards.

The Mary Wharton-directed docu Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free chronicles the iconic musician’s work on his lauded 1994 record Wildflowers via newly discovered archived footage. The film won the Audience Award in the Headliners category, while The Fallout, Megan Park’s reflection on teen grief and trauma after a mass shooting — something all too familiar right now — won under the narrative feature competition banner. On the documentary competition banner, Nicholas Bruckman’s moving feature docu Not Going Quietly took the Audience Award.

Over the course of five days of SXSW Online, the SXSW Film Festival screened 75 features including 57 world premieres, three international premieres, four North American Premieres,...

The documentary “Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free” and Megan Park’s “The Fallout” won the audience awards from the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, it was announced Tuesday.

Mary Wharton’s “Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free,” which tells the backstory behind the late rock star’s “Wildflowers” recording sessions, won among the three headlining films playing the festival. “The Fallout,” a teen drama starring Jenna Ortega and Maddie Ziegler, won the audience prize for narrative features after it also won the category’s jury prize.

“Not Going Quietly,” a documentary by Nicholas Bruckman about progressive political activist Ady Barkan and his fight with Als, won the audience award for films in the documentary feature competition. Director Natalie Morales also won the Narrative Spotlight audience award for her film “Language Lessons,” and Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler won the Documentary Spotlight Audience Award for “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America.

Chicago – The virtual/online 2021 SXSW Festival wrapped up on March 20th, after a compacted five day run. The Award Winners were announced on March 19th, and contained themes of redemption, joy, loneliness and reckoning.

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival, centered as usual in Austin, Texas, included the usual program of keynote/speeches, conference sessions, music festival showcases, film festival screenings, world-class networking, online exhibitions, and the unexpected discoveries, all taking place in a digital setting … as the pandemic hopefully wraps up as well.

’The Fallout,’ ‘Lily Topples the World’ and ‘Islands’

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Films Of SXSW: Capsule Reviews

All the films reviewed won Awards as indicated at SXSW2021. For a summary and all the award winners, click here …

Rating: 4.5/5.0

The Fallout – This involves a school shooting, experienced off screen but somehow more effective that way. The story, written and directed by Megan Park, features 16-year-old Vada (Jenna Ortega...

Chicago – The latest cinematic visionaries are often discovered at the South by Southwest Festival. Filmmakers like the Duplass brothers, Chicago’s Joe Swanberg and Lena Dunham got their first prominent notices at the fest. In that spirit, the 2021 SXSW Grand Jury Awards were announced on March 19th.

The top film in Narrative Features was director Megan Park’s stunning psychological treatise on school shootings, “The Fallout.” The charming “falling dominoes” documentary feature “Lily Topples the World” took the top prize in that category. And in the short film competition, the stark and contemporary “Play it Safe” took the Narrative top prize for its poignant exploration into preconceived notions and actions in race relations.

The following is the list of top honorees …

Grand Jury Prize - Narrative Feature

The Fallout

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Winner: “The Fallout,” directed by Megan Park

Recognition - Multi Hyphenate Storyteller: “I’m Fine (Thanks for...

Audience Awards to be announced on March 23.

The Fallout and Lily Topples The World have triumphed at the 2021 SXSW jury awards presented on Friday (March 19).

Megan Park’s The Fallout won the narrative feature competition prize and follows a high-school student as she navigates life in the wake of a school tragedy.

Special jury recognition for multi-hyphenate storyteller went to directors Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina, and there was special jury recognition for Rogelio Balagtas’ breakthrough performance in Islands.

In the documentary feature competition, Jeremy Workman prevailed for Lily Topples The World, a coming-of-age story about 20-year-old Lily Hevesh, the...