Maureen Lipman has taken issue with the British Academy Film Awards (Bafta) offering its nominees and award-winners the option to have the gender-neutral term “performer” – as opposed to “actor or actress” – engraved on their mask plaques.
While the film awards have given nominees and winners this choice since 2022, The Times’s recent Bafta 2024 longlist report seems to have spotlighted this years-ago change. The Best Actor and Best Actress categories, however, still remain binary.
