BAFTA North America Launches Awards for Film, TV and Games

BAFTA North America is launching a brand new set of awards, the BAFTA Honours, in Los Angeles this November. The occasion will see three honorees, chosen throughout movie, TV and video video games, obtain the long-lasting BAFTA masks.

Set for Sunday, Nov. 2, the brand new awards are supposed to mark BAFTA’s continued mission to develop within the U.S., in addition to the group’s dedication to acknowledging the gaming business on the identical stage because the movie and TV communities.

“Over 20 years ago, we launched our Games Awards in London. So for decades, we’ve now been this trisector organization: having film, television and games as our major award ceremonies in the UK,” BAFTA North America govt director Courtney La Barge Bell advised Variety. “We’ve also really been doing a lot of work to help our membership reflect that trisector, as well. BAFTA North America has had chapters in New York and LA since the 80s and 90s — and so we have always been this place where, globally, people that are at that intersection between the US and the UK across film, TV and games have been existing. It’s really what sets us apart, certainly in the US, among other academies.”

To date, BAFTA is the one main awards physique that acknowledges video video games amongst TV Academy, Film Academy and most guilds. And that is whilst the recognition of online game diversifications will increase throughout Hollywood with success for “The Last of Us” (HBO), “Arcane” (Netflix), “Fallout” (Prime Video), “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (Universal/Illumination) and “Minecraft” (Warner Bros.), amongst many titles within the works at studios, networks and streamers.

Recently, BAFTA North America has expanded its engagement with the gaming group with appearances at Games for Change in New York and Unreal Fest in Orlando, in addition to the formation of a brand new BAFTA Games North America Committee.

“For us, we’re thinking about the screen industries, and those are our three primary mediums,” La Barge Bell added. “So this event is really exciting because we are putting games on the same platform as film and television. As we think about the future of creativity and the coming years, we know films are going to become more interactive, games already are incredibly cinematic and moving. And at BAFTA, because we have this history of being trisector, we also want to be a place where those conversations happen. And so with BAFTA Honours, we’re really excited just to be showing the creativity and the craft among these three.”

Ahead of the announcement of the BAFTA Honours, BAFTA North America just lately opened full-voting membership as much as these working within the gaming business and applications might be open till August 14.

Per BAFTA North America, “Applicants do not need to be British or have previously won a BAFTA, but must demonstrate a substantial contribution to the UK screen arts, supported by their credits and career achievements.”