The most diverse roll call is in the category for best supporting actress, which has seen nine non-white winners since 1969, including Da’Vine Joy Randolph last year for The Holdovers, and Zoe Saldana this year for the musical crime film Emilia Perez.
There remain just three female winners of the best director award in Bafta history: Kathryn Bigelow (for The Hurt Locker in 2010), Chloe Zhao (Nomadland in 2021) and Jane Campion (The Power Of The Dog in 2022).
Female directors overlooked this year included Alice Rohrwacher, for the period drama La Chimera; Ellen Kuras, for the biographical epic Lee; and Nora Fingscheidt, for the low-key drama The Outrun.
Two of the six nominees in the category this year were from an ethnic minority background: Cynthia Erivo, for the musical fantasy Wicked, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste, for the drama Hard Truths.
Mikey Madison’s Bafta success means the wait goes on for the first ever non-white winner of the award for best actress.
