How BAFTA CEO Jane Millichip Plans to Spend the Film Awards
It’s Jane Millichip‘s fourth BAFTA Film Awards this Sunday, and the CEO is already anticipating a lively show. The exec has lauded the likes of Chloé Zhao and Ryan Coogler for their record-breaking feats ahead of the star-studded awards ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall, though it’s Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another out in front with 14 nominations in total. It’s also been a hugely impressive year for British indie film with Harry Lighton’s Pillion, Akinola Davies Jr.’s My Father’s Shadow, and Tim Key and Tom Basden’s Ballad of Wallis Island all up for BAFTAs, which has Millichip beaming. “This year’s nominees tell a story,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter this week. “They’re really unapologetic [in] storytelling and style this year, which is really interesting.” But Millichip is also admittedly in awe of around 2,000 people who will be working on the weekend’s live show, broadcast on the BBC in the U.K. and on E! in the U.S. “What I found absolutely mesmerizing when I first joined was just what the 360 of it …
