One of the UK’s top entertainment awards, the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), has moved to abolish gender, making its award categories gender-neutral in the future.
“Celebrating 25 years of awards by changing traditional performance categories, BIFA will present five Acting Awards to celebrate and reward outstanding acting talent showcased in a British independent film,” He said In a press release on Tuesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“The new performance categories are Best Leading Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Combined Performance – in two (exceptionally three) shows that are the film’s common focus – and Best Ensemble. The Netflix-sponsored BIFA Breakthrough Performance Award remains unchanged and concludes with a new batch of awards.” .
At BIFA, we are making some changes.
Marking 25 years of awards with changing traditional performance categories, we are introducing four new Acting Awards to celebrate outstanding acting talent showcased in a British independent film.
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BIFA also added a category titled “Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary”.
The Best Music Award will also be divided into two awards; Best original music and best music supervision.
BIFA joins a growing number of film industry awarding organizations that either address gender-neutral or offer specific categories as gender-neutral awards.
Leading the group, Grammy He went Gender-Neutral in 2012. In 2017, the MTV Movie & TV Awards presented their first gender-neutral awards to Taraji P. Henson and Vin Diesel. The awards also included the award for “Best Actor in a Motion Picture”, which went to Emma Watson.
This trend has continued in many smaller shows, but in 2020, the organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival announced the end of gender segregation awards starting in 2021, saying that “the lack of segregation of awards in the field of acting according to gender is a sign of more gender awareness.” genders in the film industry.
Also, last year, the Gotham Awards, New York’s annual indie film gala, announced its shift to the gender-neutral award categories.
The 2022 BIFA nominations will be announced on November 3, and awards will be given one month later.
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