BBC Time’s prison drama was the big winner of Baftas TV in 2022 on Sunday, receiving best miniseries and best actor for Sean Bean at a personal ceremony where social issues took center stage.
In another triumph for social realism Help, for the crisis in the nursing home during the Covid-19 pandemic, won two awards. Jodie Comer won the Best Actress Award for her role as a caring worker, taking her second Bafta Award after winning her role in Killing Eve in 2019, while Best Supporting Actress was awarded to Katie Tyson for her role as a resident.
Speaking after receiving her award, Comer said the show allowed her to “realize the power we have in the stories we tell and choose to tell, and [the importance of] does not deviate from difficult topics.
Jody Comer accepts the award for best actress for help. Photo: James Veysey / Rex / Shutterstock for BAFTA
Collecting the Time Award for Best Miniseries, Stephen Graham praised the “phenomenal cast of young working-class men,” adding that they made the show “an absolute pleasure to be a part of.” Graham, who played a prison officer in the drama, said as a child he dreamed of working on “social commentary stories.”
Tyson used his speech to thank Channel 4: “I remember being a teenager when Channel 4 was born and there were so many good things like diversity and it was a voice for people who weren’t heard at the time.
The other big winner was Big Zuu, which garnered its two Bafts Awards for Best Gaming and Entertainment Performance for Big Zuu’s Big Eats with a look of disbelief. “It’s crazy, it’s not really normal,” he told a news conference.
Big Zuu with its two awards for best feature film and best entertainment performance for Big Zuu’s Eats. Photo: James Veysey / Rex / Shutterstock for BAFTA
He presented the argument for representation in a powerful speech. “Men come from a humble beginning. Representation is so important. When I grew up, there weren’t many chefs or people who looked like me on TV. And now there are young people watching us, thinking, you know what? If these wasters can win the Bafta, so can we! ”
Sunday’s ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Coast of London marked the first personal awards since 2019, as well as the 75th anniversary of Baftas TV. Crowds gathered on nearby Hungerford Bridge as British television stars gathered on the red carpet.
Setting the tone for the rest of the night, Bafta Chairman Krishnendu Majumdar opened the show with a political speech in which he made a powerful public speaking argument challenging the government’s plans to privatize Channel 4, praising colleagues “working in Ukraine and calling for for more diversity among industry decision makers.
In the Amazon Prime subway international category, a Pulitzer Prize-winning adaptation of Colston Whitehead’s Escape from Slavery won the tough competition from the hit shows Heritage, East City Mare, Squid Game and Call to my agent. “
At a press conference for the winners, actor Sheila Atim praised the advisers on the set that they care about the well-being of the members of the cast. “This is real proof of the fact that you can have a really safe and secure work environment while creating a brilliant job.”
Further echoing the ceremony’s focus on current social issues, Steve McQueen won the Bafta Award in the facts category after missing out on the Little Ax Award last year for his 1981 documentary The Uprising of the New Baptism of Fire, which portends future racial injustices, including Grenfell.
Steve McQueen won the award for Best Fact Series for Uprising. Photo: James Veysey / Rex / Shutterstock for BAFTA
McQueen told a news conference that “black British history has been swept under the rug” for too long.
He also made a passionate request to Channel 4 to help keep the UK creative. “Other people have more money than us Americans, but we have great ideas and that makes us who we are.”
In another signal of the importance of inclusion on television, Virgin Media Must-see Moment voted in Strictly Come Dancing when deaf Rose Eiling-Ellis dancers danced in silence with her partner Giovanni Pernis. She said she was excited that her dance had led to a “better awareness of the deaf.” “We still have a long way to go, but it’s a great start,” she said.
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However, the AIDS drama of the 1980s, It’s a Sin, which had six nominations, the most from each show, failed to win any awards.
The creators of the blockade drama Together with Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy, which won the best drama, used their speech to read a statement from Covid-19 Grieving Families for Justice, who said they were “ignored, lied to. and plastered by the government seems too busy to party, ”and called for an investigation into Covid.
Matthew McFadden won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Heritage. Creator Jesse Armstrong accepted the award, saying at a news conference that his chemistry with actor Nicholas Brown was written in the script, but mainly due to the fact that “actors love to work together and they feed on it, and we feed on it. how it presents itself is a happy carousel. ”
For the script, Motherland took its first win for Bafta in its latest series. Gogglebox took home the best reality show and created facts, while the best drama series went to the teen series In My Skin.
The best comedy performances went to Jamie Demetriou in the men’s category for Channel 4’s Stath Lets Flats, while Sophie Whelan accepted her trophy in a swearing-out speech for her role in BBC Two’s Alma’s Not Normal.
Moe Gilligan, who won the award for best comedy entertainment program for The Lateish Show, said he owed his career to Channel 4 giving him a chance. “I’ve been to a lot of meetings and they’ve said, ‘You’re fine, but we don’t know what to do with you.’
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