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May 2026

  • Alan Cumming in a dark double-breasted suit gestures with both hands while speaking on a stage.

    ‘Bad people’: Alan Cumming criticises Bafta after N-word outburst

  • Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan on stage presenting a Bafta prize in February.

    Bafta doubles down on preparations for Sunday TV awards after N-word fallout

April 2026

  • John Davidson at the Baftas in February 2026

    Bafta apologises for events surrounding John Davidson’s Tourette’s outburst

    An independent review found ‘weaknesses’ in the organisation’s planning and crisis procedures
  • Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo on stage during the Baftas at the Royal Festival Hall on 22 February.

    Airing of Bafta racial slur breached BBC standards, corporation finds

    Executive complaints unit finding relates to broadcast of N-word during awards ceremony
  • Film and TelevisionThe World According To Garp, Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt Film and Television

    Mary Beth Hurt obituary

    Actor who made her name in The World According to Garp and was nominated for a Bafta for Woody Allen’s Interiors

March 2026

  • Impeccably stylish … breakout smash Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the 2026 Bafta game award nominations.

    Bafta games awards 2026: Clair Obscur and Dispatch lead the nominations

  • BAFTA Film Awards Nominees' Party in LondonDelroy Lindo attends the BAFTA Film Awards Nominees' Party at The National Gallery, in London, Britain, February 21, 2026. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

    ‘Did I just hear what I thought I heard?’: Sinners’ Delroy Lindo on Bafta N-word controversy

  • Scottish actor Alan Cumming at the Baftas 2026.

    Baftas host Alan Cumming criticises BBC for ‘broadcasting slurs and censoring free speech’

  • Nominees' Party for the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 - PortraitureLONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 21: Robert Aramayo and John Davidson during the Nominees' Party for the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 at the National Portrait Gallery on February 21, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)

    What the Baftas N-word controversy revealed about disability and race

  • Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku says Baftas win was ‘tainted’ by N-word incident

  • ‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

  • Delroy Lindo thankful for ‘love and support’ after N-word incident at Baftas

February 2026

  • Tim Davie wearing a grey scarf looks on outside glass doors of Portcullis House, London

    Poisoned chalice? The BBC’s struggles to find a successor to Tim Davie

  • a man stands for a photograph

    double quotation markTourette syndrome tests the limits of acceptance – I’ve struggled with it for 30 years

    Leyland Cecco
  • The BBC is under fire over its failure to remove a racial slur shouted by John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, from its broadcast of the Bafta film awards. Lucy Hough is joined by the Guardian’s assistant opinion editor Jason Okundaye

    Today in Focus: The Latest
    BBC backlash grows after Bafta racial slur - The Latest

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  • John Davidson before the Bafta film awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday.

    Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson says Bafta told him ‘any swearing would be edited out of the broadcast’

  • BBC apologises to staff over N-word inclusion as Bafta announces comprehensive review

  • ‘Tics are involuntary’: people with Tourette syndrome on Baftas outburst

  • Sinners studio say they raised N-word use with Bafta immediately as Google ‘deeply sorry’ for offensive notification

  • Bafta judge quits over ‘utterly unforgivable’ handling of Tourette N-word incident

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