OUTLANDER stars Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan top the celebrity bill on the red carpet at tonight’s Bafta Scotland ceremony in Glasgow.
They will be run close by the weel-kent faces of old campaigners and Still Game creators Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill who are due to receive an Outstanding Contribution to Television award for the long-running comedy series.
The awards will be presented by host Edith Bowman after a cavalcade of famous faces take to the red carpet, including Trainspotting actress Kelly Macdonald, Line Of Duty star Martin Compston, filmmaker and actor Peter Mullan, YouTube star Jamie Genevieve, Nicola Coughlan and Saoirse-Monica Jackson from TV show Derry Girls, ex-Coronation Street actress Helen Flanagan, voice of Love Island Iain Stirling, and journalists Jackie Bird and Kirsty Wark.
Tonight’s occasion represents a high point for the film, games and television industries at a time when public interest is also at a peak.
There was an almost 50% increase in entries for the awards this year, interpreted as a healthy resurgence in home-grown creativity.
Bafta Scotland director Jude MacLaverty has said: “This is not only completely unprecedented but also demonstrates the quality, vibrancy, and wealth of creative talent working in the industry in Scotland right now.
“There has been a tremendous increase in the volume of quality content produced in Scotland and by Scottish talent.”
Television drama The Cry and feature film Wild Rose have three nominations each, the latter the story of a young mother from Glasgow who dreams of being a country and western singer. The film has nominations for best feature film, best actress (Jessie Buckley) and best writer (Nicole Taylor).
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Comedy-drama Stan & Ollie, coming-of-age feature Beats, drama The Victim, and documentary Real Kashmir F.C. all received two nominations.
This year’s Actress Film category sees Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose), Shirley Henderson (Stan & Ollie) and Florence Pugh (Outlaw King) competing for the award.
Other notable nominees include Harry Wootliff’s romantic drama Only You and Naziha Arebi’s documentary Freedom Fields, which follows the set up of an all-woman football team in post-revolutionary Libya.
An Outstanding Contribution to Craft award (in memory of Robert McCann) will go to Pat Rambaut – script supervisor on films such as Local Hero, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Mona Lisa.
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