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- byfilmyguru on14 Feb 09
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This is the place where popular reviews will premier every 15 days. So go ahead and keep posting to find a place here.
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All About BAFTA
- byfilmyguru on15 Feb 09
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- The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a British charity that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.
- The BAFTAs are the British equivalent of the Oscar ceremony. This year the event takes place in London on the 8th February - two weeks before the Academy Awards.
- BAFTA was founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Roger Manvell and others.
- The first awards, designed by Henry Moore, were statues in the form of a large, bronze, seated lady valued at UK £550 each at the time, but of great value today.
- In 1958, the Academy merged with The Guild of Television Producers and Directors to form The Society of Film and Television.
- In 1976, the Academy was renamed the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
- Since 1998, the event has been sponsored by the mobile phone company, Orange, with the ceremony's name changed officially to the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2000.
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