BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS LOS ANGELES® TO HONOR DANIEL CRAIG, QUENTIN TARANTINO, TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE, AND WILL WRIGHT AT THE 2012 BAFTA LOS ANGELES BRITANNIA AWARDS ON NOVEMBER 7, 2012
BROADCAST TO AIR ON BBC AMERICA NOVEMBER 11, 2012
The Britannia Awards are BAFTA Los Angeles’ highest accolade, a celebration of achievements honoring individuals and companies that have dedicated their careers to advancing the entertainment arts. Acclaimed actor Daniel Craig will receive the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year, while Academy and BAFTA Award-winning director Quentin Tarantino will receive the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Emmy Award-winning co-creators of South Park and Tony Award-winning co-creators of The Book of Mormon, will receive the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy. Video game designer Will Wright will receive the Albert R. Broccoli Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Entertainment. Additional honorees will be announced in the coming weeks.
The awards are presented annually at a gala dinner, where peers and colleagues celebrate the work and accomplishments of these distinguished honorees. Proceeds from the gala ceremony support BAFTA Los Angeles’ on-going education, scholarship, community outreach and archival projects.
"With the BBC broadcasting the BAFTA Awards in London, it feels only natural that BBC AMERICA would become our broadcasting partner for the Britannia's, here in LA,” said Britannia Chairman, Nigel Lythgoe. “They join us for a most incredible evening, as we celebrate and reward some remarkably talented people on our 25th Anniversary.”
The BBC AMERICA partnership with the Britannia Awards extends an on-going relationship between the network and BAFTA Los Angeles. For ten years the network has been the annual Presenting Sponsor of the TV Tea, held the weekend of the Emmys, and was the Media Sponsor of the 2012 Awards Season Tea, held during the Golden Globe weekend. American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance producer Nigel Lythgoe is Chairman of the Britannia Committee, which oversees the Awards. Lythgoe also serves on the Board Executive Committee of BAFTA Los Angeles and was Chairman of BAFTA Los Angeles in 2010/2011.
“BBC AMERICA is delighted to broadcast this year’s Britannia Awards,” said Perry Simon, General Manager, Channels, BBC Worldwide America. “This event is a perfect fit for our brand as we continue to bring our audience the best of the UK in the US. We’ve enjoyed a wonderful relationship with BAFTA Los Angeles and this is the logical next step in the evolution of our partnership.”
The Britannia Award was first given to Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli in 1989. Past recipients also include Warren Beatty, Helena Bonham Carter, Sir Michael Caine, Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Hopkins, the late Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Christopher Nolan, Emily Blunt, Sean Penn, Dame Helen Mirren, Ben Stiller, Kate Winslet and Denzel Washington.
