BAFTAs 2020: 10 Ups & 5 Downs

4. The Patronising "Awards Given Out Earlier" Montage

BAFTAs 2020 Roger Deakins
BBC Films

Because the BAFTAs aren't aired live and the BBC apparently doesn't want to devote more than two hours to airing it, they annually cram the "lesser" awards into a five-minute montage at the end of the show.

This year, that resulted in a stonking 11 (!) awards getting the footnote treatment, including categories such as Editing, Cinematography, Animated Film, and Original Score.

Though this presumably isn't the BBC's intent, the unsavory implication that some awards are more important than others feels like a disservice to all the winners and nominees.

It was especially tough seeing the brilliant Roger Deakins' Best Cinematography win (pictured above) for 1917 reduced to a 15-second soundbite. Just make the broadcast three hours long, you cowards.

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