By Tom Grater International Film Reporter BAFTA has named a 12-strong steering group that will lead a review of its voting processes this year in a bid to address a lack of diversity in its nomination.
This year, the awards body caught flack for unveiling a crop of nominations featuring no non-white actors and an all-male director field.
Deadline broke the news that BAFTA was set to conduct a “thorough review” of its procedures in response to a backlash that sparked the hashtag #BAFTAsSoWhite and calls from orgs including Directors UK to address the issue.
The review will cover nominations and voting process, the role of distributors, the campaigning process, and the makeup of BAFTA’s membership and ultimately how these processes and
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