The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced that the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards will take place on Friday 30 October 2015.
The EE British Academy Film Awards will take place on Sunday 14 February 2016. The British Academy Film Awards ceremony in 2017 will take place on Sunday 12 February and in 2018 on Sunday 18 February.
The BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
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At the start of the awards season, the annual Britannia Awards are bestowed upon the best creative talents in the industry for their contribution to the long-standing collaboration between the UK and US industries.
Previous honourees have included Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dame Judi Dench, George Clooney, Martin Scorsese, Dame Helen Mirren, Idris Elba, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kate Winslet, Daniel Craig, Robert Downey Jr. and Emma Watson.
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The EE British Academy Film Awards are BAFTA’s highest film honours, rewarding the best work of any nationality seen on British cinema screens. The Awards will be held at London’s Royal Opera House and be broadcast by the BBC.
This year the four performance winners – Eddie Redmayne, JK Simmons, Julianne Moore and Patricia Arquette – also went on to win Oscars. The ratings for this year’s Film Awards increased in the UK and were broadcast in every major territory in the world and seen for the first time on Youku Tudo, China’s leading internet television broadcaster.
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