Kate Beckinsale criticises BAFTA after ‘In Memoriam’ snub

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BAFTA after being told that they “could not guarantee” that her late stepfather would be included in their ‘In Memoriam’ segment this year.Beckinsale’s stepfather Roy Battersby was a prolific television director who worked on shows including Cracker, A Touch of Frost and Inspector Morse.

He married Beckinsale’s mother Judy Loe, and passed away on January 10 at the age of 87.On the day that this year’s BAFTA Film Award nominations were announced, Beckinsale took to Instagram to reveal that she had been informed by the organisation that they could not assure her that he would be honoured in the montage of those that have died in the past year.“So a man dead less than a week somehow has to audition in front of a committee after a decades long career (in which he has been awarded from said organisation the highest accolade they have) to decide IF his death is worth mentioning,” she wrote.A post shared by Kate Beckinsale (@katebeckinsale) “If his work, his life, his craft, his mentoring, his heart and soul are worthy of a mention that he is gone.

That has broken my heart all over again. I am paralysed, sick and sickened and I will honour him and his work every day of my life.”She continued: “You may be aware that BAFTA has said he will be included in their segment.

I have not heard from them, they have not apologised to me publicly or personally and just asked that my publicist relay an apology,” she wrote.A post shared by Kate Beckinsale (@katebeckinsale)“I have received far too many DMs from family members of people in the British film industry who have passed away who received similarly cold emails and were equally distressed by them.