Before Bafta promised a tribute to her dad Roy Battersby at the TV show, actress Kate Beckinsale said she was “paralyzed and disgusted.”
The star of the TV show Underworld, Kate Beckinsale, said that she got an email from the TV and film awards saying that he would be considered for the “in memoriam” piece at the TV awards event, but it wasn’t a sure thing.
Director Battersby died earlier this month at the age of 87. In 1996, he got the Alan Clarke Award for outstanding service to television.
He was known for his work on the police shows Cracker, Between the Lines, Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, and the BBC drama King of the Ghetto with Tim Roth.
A representative for Bafta said that Battersby was “a famous and innovative director” and that the awards show was “saddened to hear” of his death.
As part of the statement, it was confirmed that he would be remembered at the Bafta TV awards in May and on our website’s “In Memoriam” website.
On Thursday, before Bafta made their decision, Beckinsale wrote a long Instagram post: “Today Bafta told me they ‘could not promise’ he (Roy) would be included in their “in memoriam” tribute, to honor the industry people we have lost.”
“So a man who has been dead for less than a week has to go before a committee after a decades-long career that earned him the highest honor that organization bestows to decide if his death is important enough to be talked about?”
“If it’s important to talk about his work, life, skill, teaching, heart, and soul, he is dead.”
“That really hurt my heart again.” This illness has left me paralyzed and sick, and I will always honor him and his work.
During its film and TV award shows, Bafta shows a “in memoriam” section.
Along with Leeds United!, which is about a women’s textile mill strike in the 1970s, Beckinsale praised Battersby’s “amazing job” on Tomorrow’s World, a science and technology show, and Roll On Four O’Clock, a school-set show.
Judy Loe, her mother, is an actor who has been “gracefully and quietly dealing with stage four cancer for the last six years and just lost her husband, so thanks again, Bafta for your horribly cold email.” Judy Loe has been in many TV shows, such as Inspector Morse and Space Island One.
Beckinsale also posted a picture on Instagram Stories of what she said was an email from Bafta. The email said, “All the names we collect throughout the year are brought to the attention of Bafta’s Obituaries Committee, which meets to put together the Awards In Memoriam segment for Film, Television, or Television Craft, but we can never promise that they will be included.”
Roy won a Bafta for his work in television, and since the Awards are in May, the In Memoriam will be talked about in the spring. Best wishes to all.”
Her post came out at the same time as the Bafta film award nominations on Thursday, which put Oppenheimer in first place with 11 titles.
The Bafta TV awards will take place on May 12.