BBC Got Nearly 1,600 Complaints About BAFTA Film Awards N-Word Fail

Sinners star says Baftas Tourettes debacle cast a ‘shadow’ over her award win

‘We’d been told that it was a family-friendly show at 7pm - So how could it possibly have been left in?’ says the actor after a racial slur was included in the broadcast of the ceremony

BBC Got Nearly 1,600 Complaints About BAFTA Film Awards N-Word Fail

The BBC received more complaints about the BAFTA Film Awards N-word debacle than for any other broadcast since the Glastonbury crisis, in which Bob Vylan chanted “death to the IDF.” The British broadcaster clocked up 1,588 complaints from viewers who said they were “unhappy a racial slur was heard and that it was not edited […]

When the Microphone Is Still On: What the BAFTA Racial Slur Incident Says About Today’s Culture

This year’s British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) ceremony was met with controversy after a disturbing incident when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on to present the award for best filmmaking. John Davidson, a campaigner suffering from Tourette’s Syndrome and the main subject of the BAFTA-nominated documentary I Swear, involuntarily shouted a racial slur [...] The post When the Microphone Is Still On: What the BAFTA Racial Slur Incident S…