Kate Beckinsale is slamming BAFTA’s response with regard to together with her late stepfather, Roy Battersby, of their in memoriam tribute through the 2024 awards present.
“Today BAFTA told me they ‘could not guarantee’ he would be included in their ‘in memoriam’ tribute, to honor the industry members we have lost,” Beckinsale, 50, wrote by way of Instagram on Thursday, January 18, alongside a throwback photograph of her and Battersby. “So a man dead less than a week somehow has to audition in front of a committee after a decades long career (in which he has been awarded from said organization the highest accolade they have) to decide IF his death is worth mentioning.”
Within the image, Beckinsale is standing along with her stepfather as he holds his BAFTA (British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts) lifetime achievement statue after she offered him the award in 1996.
The late director, who died earlier this month, was finest recognized for his work on a number of motion pictures and TV exhibits, together with Crimson Mercury, The Dwelling Entrance, Leeds United!, The Physique and extra. This 12 months’s BAFTA awards are scheduled to happen in London on February 18. The ceremony honors the perfect British and worldwide contributions to movie every year.
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“If his work, his life, his craft, his mentoring, his heart and soul are worthy of a mention that he is gone. That, that has broken my heart all over again,” Beckinsale continued. “I am paralyzed, sick and sickened and I will honor him and his work every day of my life.”
The actress shared that along with her mom, Judy Loe, coping with the lack of her husband, she has additionally been “quietly sealing with stage four cancer for the last six years.” (Loe, 76, was married to Kate’s father, Richard Beckinsale, from 1977 to 1979 and moved on with Battersby in 1997.)
“So thanks again, BAFTA for your horribly cold email,” Kate concluded.
Kate introduced on January 10 that her stepfather died at age 87.
“It is with great sorrow that the family of film and television director Roy Battersby announce the news of his recent death after a brief period of illness,” she wrote in an announcement shared by way of her Instagram Story. “He passed away peacefully on 10 January 2024, in Los Angeles surrounded by family, aged 87. Funeral will be held in London, details to follow.”
Battersby’s demise got here practically one week after Kate attended the Golden Globes. Following the awards present, she visited her stepfather whereas he was within the hospital.
“Golden globes 2024 start to end,” the actress captioned images from the awards ceremony, in addition to images sitting by her stepfather’s hospital mattress in her sparkly silver gown.
