Shailene Woodley, Jack O’Connell Among BAFTA Rising Star Nominees
Shailene Woodley, Miles Teller, Margot Robbie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jack O’Connell will compete on the viewing audience-voted Rising Star Award at the BAFTAs this year. Last year the award went to Will Poulter. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards will be announced on February 8th.
The official announcement from Stephen Fry:
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He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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