Randomized titles for members to watch and compulsory"conscious voter" videos are just some of the major changes implemented as round one of voting opens up, with BAFTA cheering a huge spike in completed diversity surveys and more than 80,000 streams on its new viewing platform.
Among the changes that BAFTA’s almost 7,000 voting members will already have noticed is a selection of 15 films each member is being asked to watch, randomly selected from across the categories and mixing up the biggest titles and less well known films. All submitted films are now being made available on BAFTA’s new streaming platform, BAFTA View, where there have already been more than 80,000 streams to date. Despite a COVID-19 impacted year in cinema, the number of entries is remarkably similar to 2020, dipping only slightly from 269 — the biggest year on record — to 258.
“A lot of people said they wanted to understand and be briefed about the issues around unconscious bias,” says film committee chair Marc Samuelson. “Essentially, they’re quite academic and explain, from a psychological perspective, what the processes are that are going on, where you are being influenced and the things that you can do to not let that happen.”
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