{"id":1339,"date":"2008-02-07T04:23:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T03:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/07\/interview-amanda-berry-of-bafta\/"},"modified":"2013-01-18T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:44:44","slug":"interview-amanda-berry-of-bafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/02\/07\/interview-amanda-berry-of-bafta\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Amanda Berry of BAFTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Orange British Academy Film Awards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/awards\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Orange British Academy Film Awards\" alt=\"The Orange British Academy Film Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/copy-of-bafta-logo.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/awards\/film\/\"><strong>Orange British Academy Film Awards<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; also known as the BAFTAs &#8211; take place this Sunday and it is the showpiece event of the UK film calendar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/the-academy\/key-personnel\/bafta-management-ltd,47,BA.html\"><strong>Amanda Berry<\/strong><\/a> is the chief executive of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/the-academy\/key-personnel\/bafta-management-ltd,47,BA.html\">BAFTA<\/a> and I recently spoke to her about: the awards event; the changes she has made since the late 90s; how it fits in to the awards season; how the nomination process works, what the BAFTA organisation does around the year; and the films up for nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Amanda_Berry_BAFTA_Interview_2008.mp3]\n<p>To download this as a podcast via iTunes just click the image below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/itunes.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK viewers can see the awards show on BBC1 this Sunday at 9pm and for more information just visit their official website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/awards\">www.bafta.org\/awards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Amanda_Berry_BAFTA_Interview_2008.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/16\/bafta-nominations-2\/\">The full BAFTA nominations for this year<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/awards\/film\/\">Watch some of the highlights from last year at BAFTA&#8217;s site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Amanda Berry of BAFTA ahead of the 2007-08 ceremony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}