The nominees of the British Academy Cymru Awards 2020 were announced earlier today. The Amazon Prime mini-series Good Omens recieved a nod in the Sound category, while Wales: Land of the Wild, the BBC documentary narrated by Michael Sheen, recieved two, for Factual Series and Original Music. Check out the nominees:
Factual Series
Cornwall: The Fishing Life
Wales: Land of the Wild / Cymru Wyllt
Warriors: Our Homeless World Cup
Ysgol Ni: Maesincla – WINNER
Original Music (sponsored by Cardiff Council)
Mark Thomas for Last Summer
Jonathan Hill for The Long Song – WINNER
John Hardy Music for Steel Country
Karl Jenkins & Jody Jenkins for Wales: Land of the Wild / Cymru Wyllt
Sound
Alex Ashcroft for The Last Tree
Production Team for Good Omens – WINNER
Production Team for Sex Education
The ceremony will be broadcast on BAFTA’s Facebook and YouTube channels at 7 PM GMT on October 25 2020 and will be hosted by Alex Jones, the television presenter. This post will be updated once the winners are announced.
Congratulations to the teams behind both productions!
As previously announced, Michael Sheen appeared in this year’s socially distanced edition of the BAFTA TV Awards. He and David Tennant relived their characters in Staged and presented the Best Mini-series award, which went to the HBO production Chernobyl.
Watch the clip below:
Tonight is the night of the BAFTA TV 2020 Awards, and Michael Sheen is one of the confirmed presenters. The ceremony is going to be broadcast on BBC One at 7 PM UK time. Here are some links to watch it:
Don’t forget to click on this link to find out which time it begins on your timezone.
He is going to be presenting a prize from his home via videolink during the ceremony this coming Friday. Read more:
The British Academy has announced some intriguing new details about their long-awaited 2020 TV awards ceremony, with the special socially-distanced BAFTA ceremony set to be joined by a varied collection of celebrities to present the coveted awards alongside main host Richard Ayoade.
According to BAFTA, some presenters will award the prizes from the studio including Adrian Lester, Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal, Greg Davies, Himesh Patel, Jessica Hynes, Gangs of London’s Joe Cole and Sope Dirisu, Stacey Dooley and Nina Sosonya.
Meanwhile, a host of other famous faces – including Billy Porter, Chris O’Dowd, David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Ruth Madeley, Jeff Goldblum and Muppets stars Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy – will present virtually via videolink, meaning the age of Zoom TV isn’t quite over yet. All nominees and winners will also be watching from home.
The Virgin Media BAFTAs will air on Friday, 31 July from 7 PM BST on BBC One.
Yesterday the winners of the 2020 Sandford St Martin Awards, “an extraordinary awards ceremony for an extraordinary time”, were announced yesterday. The Amazon/BBC production Good Omens won the Radio Times’ Readers Award:
Ler maisAn overwhelming favourite among those who voted this year! Based on a fantasy fiction novel by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens is a six-part drama series, written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Douglas Mackinnon about a Demon and an Angel’s efforts to prevent the end of the world. Good Omens stars an ensemble cast, led by Michael Sheen and David Tennant, with Miranda Richardson, Michael McKean, Jack Whitehall, Jon Hamm and Frances McDormand among the many stars in supporting roles.Set in present day England, the series follows a fussy angel, Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and a loose-living Demon, Crowley, (David Tenant), who’s shared fondness for life on earth sees them form an unlikely alliance to stop Armageddon. Aziraphale and Crowley team up to try and save the world from the anti-Christ – an unsuspecting 11-year-old boy, living in rural Oxfordshire. A great story that explores some very big ideas and some big themes without ever losing its sense of the absurd.
Earlier today the nominees of the 2020 Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards were announced. Good Omens got a nomination for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects. See the other nominees:
Ben Turner, Chris Reynolds, Asa Shoul – The Crown – Left Bank Pictures, Sony Pictures Television/Netflix
Framestore, Painting Practice, Real SFX, Russel Russel Dodgson – His Dark Materials – Bad Wolf, BBC Studios/HBO/BBC One
Lindsay McFarlane, Claudius Christian Rauch, Jean-Clément Soret, DNE – Chernobyl – Sister Pictures, The Mighty Mint, Word Games/Sky Atlantic
Milk Visual Effects, Gareth Spensley, Real SFX – Good Omens – Amazon Studios, BBC Studios, Narrativia, The Blank Corporation/Amazon Prime Video
The winners of the British Academy Television Craft Awards, originally scheduled for Sunday April 26, will be revealed on Friday July 17. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the ceremony will take place as a closed studio, socially-distanced show, with nominees invited to accept their awards virtually. Hosted by Stephen Mangan, the ceremony, will be broadcast on the BAFTA YouTube chanel.
Michael Sheen was invited to announce the winner of the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, “one of the UK’s most prestigious literary prizes as well as the world’s largest literary prize for young writers. Awarded for the best published literary work in the English language, written by an author aged 39 or under, the Prize celebrates the international world of fiction in all its forms including poetry, novels, short stories and drama.”
The winner was Bryan Washington, 27, for his debut short story collection LOT, for which he won £30,000. More about his work here.
Watch the virtual ceremony in the video below:
The BBC and Amazon series adaption of Terry Pratchett and New Gaiman’s book was selected one of the “60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019”.
See below the other nominees in the “Entertainment” category:
Chernobyl; – WINNER
David Makes Man; – WINNER
Dickinson; – WINNER
Fleabag; – WINNER
Float;
Good Omens;
Our Boys;
Ramy; – WINNER
Stranger Things; – WINNER
Succession; – WINNER
Unbelievable; – WINNER
Watchmen; – WINNER
When They See Us. – WINNER
The awards ceremory, originally set to happen in June, is yet to be announced.
Congratulations to everyone involved in Good Omens!
EDIT: Update on the awards ceremony date as published on Deadline website:
The Peabody Awards, which had to postpone its scheduled June 18 winners ceremony in what was to be its first time held in Los Angeles, said Thursday it is now canceling the event. Winners instead will be announced next week and be accepted via video.
The plan calls for the Peabodys to reveal the recipient of its Career Achievement Award on June 8, with winners to be announced June 10.
The second volume from the ‘Book of Dust’ series, written by Philip Pullman and narrated by Michael Sheen, was shortlisted in the British Book Awards 2020 as audiobook of the year. Check out the other nominees:
According to organization:
The awards night will now be taking place on 29th June 2020. The awards have moved from their original date of 18th May 2020 as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, which has disrupted many events and public gatherings.
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Last night (January 12) Michael Sheen and his Prodigal Son co-star Tom Payne took the stage at the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards to present the Best Actress in a Comedy Show award, which was handed to Fleabag creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge. See the photos on the photo gallery:
