BAFTA’s new CEO Jane Millichip is preparing to welcome the largest group of nominees to ever turn up at this weekend’s film awards. It’s exciting, says the executive, both from a red ca…
is preparing to welcome the largest group of nominees to ever turn up at this weekend’s film awards.
Last year’s EE Rising Star Award winner Lashana Lynch returns to present the award to this year’s winner.The Sky veteran was appointed CEO of BAFTA in October, taking over from long-time chief executive Amanda Berry, who announced in late 2021 that she would be stepping down from the organization after 25 years.
“I was ready for a change, but I wasn’t quite sure what that was,” says Millichip of her decision to step down from Sky Studios. “I realized that I needed to leave to get the headspace to work it out. And then quite soon in that process, this role came up, and quite a few people called me and said, ‘You should apply.’”
Now four months into the job, the British executive says she wants to be “data-led” in taking BAFTA into its next chapter.of her approach to implementing change at the org two years after its ground-breaking diversity review. “It’s not an end state.” The piece of work that will occupy most of Millichip’s time, however, are the actual BAFTA awards across film, TV and games. After the academy’s #BAFTAsSoWhite scandal in 2020, the industry keeps a close eye on the org’s film nominations, particularly in its performance categories. It’s for this reason, perhaps, that BAFTA has instituted juries for its performance and directing categories — a level of involvement that has received its fair share of criticism.
Looking ahead to the Feb. 19 film awards, Millichip says she’s thrilled to have joined BAFTA as it begins to broadcast some of its awards live on the BBC for the first time. To date, there has always been a delay between the live awards and its broadcast on the Beeb. This year, the final four performance categories will be revealed live.
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