British actor and former BAFTA nominee Phil Davis has said he has quit his membership after the “parody” of this year’s awards show.
Phil’s credits include the Who’s rock opera ‘Quadrophenia’, the TV shows ‘Whitechapel’, ‘Sherlock’ and ‘Merlin’ and the historical drama ‘Vera Drake’, for which he was BAFTA nominated in 2005.
On Wednesday evening, he shared a tweet telling his followers that he had made the decision to resign from the British media organisation.
“The BAFTAs were an embarrassing travesty,” she wrote. “Cut out the winner’s speeches that deserve curvy interviews. Poor Richard E Grant pretending to arrive in a Batmobile and no Bernard Cribbens [tribute]. I have resigned my membership.”
Following this year’s ceremony, a spokesperson responded to viewers’ criticism of Bernard Cribbens’ absence from the In Memoriam tribute section.
The organization has insisted that the Doctor Who actor be honored at the next BAFTA TV show, which will be broadcast in the spring.
Meanwhile, the winner for Best Adapted Screenplay Lesley Paterson spoke after her acceptance speech was cut from the final broadcast.
A BAFTA representative also confirmed that during the ceremony the wrong winner was originally nominated for Best Supporting Actress, although this was also cut from the BBC’s coverage of the evening.
Netflix’s anti-war epic “All Quiet on the Western Front” was this year’s big BAFTA winner, winning seven of the 14 awards it was nominated for.
However, the event was met with backlash on social media as fans of the film noted that all of this year’s winners were white.
