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After Huw Edwards Scandal, BAFTA Will Consider Revoking Awards if Winners Found Guilty of Crimes
Citing the Huw Edwards scandal as an example, BAFTA chair Sara Putt outlined new guidance over the retrospective revocation of competition awards.
Citing disgraced former BBC News host Huw Edwards — who earlier this year pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children — as an example, BAFTA chair Sara Putt outlined the “forfeiture process” that would lead the organization to consider revoking an award. For competitive film, TV and game awards presented from 2025 onwards, the new guidance states that the grounds by which they would be “considered for revocation” include the entrant having used duplicitous or illegal methods to make their work or false information that renders their application ineligible. But unconnected to a specific work, BAFTA also now says that it can consider withdrawing an award retrospectively if the “individual named winner is found guilty by the courts of any criminal offense and is sentenced to a term of imprisonment of three months or more (whether or not suspended).”
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