BAFTA Rejigs Voting for Performance and Director Categories for 2023 Film Awards
variety.comManori Ravindran International EditorBAFTA has made key changes to its awards eligibility and voting rules for next year’s film awards, handing back more power to its voting members in the performance and director categories.The British Academy faced scrutiny for the 2022 film awards, where only two nominees in each performance category were the result of votes by the membership, and four were selected by juries, while all six director nominees were selected by a jury.
The resulting nominations were refreshingly diverse, but BAFTA was criticized in some circles for not placing more trust in its membership and voting chapters.For the 2023 awards, there will be an equal split between voting-based nominees and jury-based nominees in each performance category, while the directing category will include two vote-based nominees and four jury-based nominees.
Emma Baehr, executive director of awards and content for BAFTA, told Variety: “For the review in 2020, we implemented 120 changes, but we always said that we would adjust and look at [them] again.
There were always going to be reviews, and we’ve had two years of data since we did these changes, and we’ve been looking at that, talking to the industry, and seeing where we need to make minor adjustments.“The rationale behind [the changes to the voting for performances] is more about — again — refinement, and looking at the data, looking at what’s been long listed, and reducing the long list as well,” said Baehr.The newly-introduced BAFTA longlists will be reduced in size for best film, all craft categories and Outstanding British Film.
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