Hugh Grant, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Tom Hiddleston among Bafta presenters

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Hugh Grant, Priyanka Chopra Jonas And Tom Hiddleston Among Bafta Presenters
Presenters will appear in person at the ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Photo: PA Images.
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By Laura Harding, PA Deputy Entertainment Editor

Hugh Grant, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Tom Hiddleston will be among the presenters when the Bafta film awards are presented this weekend, without the winners and nominees present.

Contenders, including Daniel Kaluuya, Vanessa Kirby and Riz Ahmed, will appear virtually at London's Royal Albert Hall.

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The gongs will be handed out over two nights in largely virtual ceremonies, but presenters will attend in person for the main event on Sunday.

The craft awards will be celebrated on Saturday on BBC Two in a ceremony hosted by Clara Amfo.

The Duke of Cambridge, who is president of Bafta, is due to appear to lead a pre-recorded conversation with costume designer Jenny Beavan and make-up and hair designer Sharon Martin about filming in lockdown and the craft of film-making.

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His grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on Friday, became the organisation’s first president in 1959.

Actor, writer and director Noel Clarke will be recognised with the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award during the Saturday show, which will also feature a performance from supporting actor nominee Leslie Odom Jr, who will sing Speak Now from his film One Night In Miami.

The main show on Sunday will be hosted by Dermot O’Leary and Edith Bowman, when the remaining 17 awards will be presented and director Ang Lee will be honoured with the Bafta Fellowship.

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William will also deliver a speech via video celebrating the resilience of the film industry over the past year.

Road movie Nomadland and coming-of-age drama Rocks lead the diverse nominations, where four female film-makers are in the running for the best director prize.

Chadwick Boseman has received a posthumous Bafta nomination for his performance as an ambitious trumpeter in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

He died aged 43 last August due to complications related to colon cancer.

 

Also nominated in the best actor category is Ahmed for his role as a drummer who loses his hearing in Sound Of Metal, as well as Adarsh Gourav for The White Tiger, Tahar Rahim for The Mauritanian, Sir Anthony Hopkins for his turn in drama The Father, about a man slipping into dementia, and Mads Mikkelsen for Another Round.

The nominees in the leading actress Bafta category are Bukky Bakray for Rocks, Radha Blank for The Forty-Year-Old Version, Kirby for Pieces Of A Woman, Frances McDormand for Nomadland, Wunmi Mosaku for His House, and Alfre Woodard for Clemency.

Female directors were entirely absent from the shortlist in 2020 but this year four of the six are women, with nods going to Shannon Murphy for Babyteeth, Jasmila Zbanic for Quo Vadis, Aida?, Sarah Gavron for Rocks, and Chloe Zhao for Nomadland, as well as Thomas Vinterberg for Another Round and Lee Isaac Chung for Minari.

Kaluuya is nominated for his role as Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in Judas And The Black Messiah, and he will compete against Leslie Odom Jr for One Night In Miami, Clarke Peters for Da Five Bloods, Paul Raci for Sound Of Metal, Barry Keoghan for Calm With Horses, and Minari actor Alan Kim, who is the youngest ever Bafta nominee at eight years old.

His co-star, Yuh-Jung Youn, is nominated in the supporting actress category, alongside Niamh Algar for Calm With Horses, Kosar Ali for Rocks, Maria Bakalova for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Dominique Fishback for Judas And The Black Messiah, and Ashley Madekwe for County Lines.

The EE Bafta Film Awards Opening Night will air on April 10 at 8pm on BBC Two.

The EE British Academy Film Awards will air at 7pm on BBC One on April 11.

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