Citing the Huw Edwards scandal as an example, BAFTA chair Sara Putt outlined new guidance over the retrospective revocation of competition awards.

In the fallout from the Huw Edwards scandal, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has passed a new rule allowing the awards body to retroactively strip competitive awards from future winners convicted of serious crimes following a review process.

BAFTA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, has added provisions to its rulebook that give it the power to retrospectively strip winners of its competitive awards of their trophies in cases of convictions of a crime that results in a prison term or "proven dishonesty,

Disgraced news presenter Huw Edwards will keep the Bafta awards he won, but the TV and film organisation is to change its rules for people who are convicted of serious crimes in the future, it has announced. Edwards won seven individual awards for presenting, all from the Welsh branch of Bafta.

BAFTA introduces new rules that will give it the power to strip awards from people if they convicted of a crime, but Huw Edwards will keep his prizes.

Bafta has created a prize forfeiture process, in place from 2025 onwards, which will allow awards to be rescinded in specific circumstances. The process has been put in place in light of the scandal surrounding BBC newsreader Huw Edwards’ arrest and subsequent conviction for child pornography offences.

BAFTA will not revoke individual awards won by disgraced news presenter Huw Edwards, Sky News understands. Edwards, 63, was given a suspended sentence in September after pleading guilty to three counts of "making" indecent images of children.

It’s 2024, and the BAFTA Awards are tougher on serious crime and “proven dishonesty” than the U.S. presidential election. And you know what? Sure. It honestly makes sense at this point.