{"id":2295210,"date":"2026-02-23T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2295210"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:49:00","slug":"free-palestine-cut-from-bbc-broadcast-of-my-fathers-shadow-director-akinola-davies-jr-s-baftas-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/free-palestine-cut-from-bbc-broadcast-of-my-fathers-shadow-director-akinola-davies-jr-s-baftas-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Free Palestine\u2019 Cut From BBC Broadcast of \u2018My Father\u2019s Shadow\u2019 Director Akinola Davies Jr.\u2019s BAFTAs Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After winning the BAFTA Film Award for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer, \u201cMy Father\u2019s Shadow<\/a>\u201d helmer Akinola Davies Jr.<\/a> ended his speech by saying \u201cfree Palestine.\u201d However, these words were then cut from his speech when the ceremony aired two hours later on the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of Davies Jr.\u2019s speech during the taping of the awards \u2014 and in one of the only politically-charged moments of the show \u2014 he said: \u201cTo the economic migrant, the conflict migrant, those under occupation, dictatorship, persecution and those experiencing genocide, you matter and your stories matter more than ever. Your dreams are an act of resistance. To those watching at home, archive your loved ones, archive your stories yesterday, today and forever. For Nigeria, for London, Congo, Sudan, free Palestine. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

But this part was entirely cut from the show\u2019s broadcast on BBC One<\/a> and iPlayer,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After winning the BAFTA Film Award for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer, \u201cMy Father\u2019s Shadow\u201d helmer Akinola Davies Jr. ended his speech by saying \u201cfree Palestine.\u201d However, these words were then cut from his speech when the ceremony aired two hours later on the BBC. Towards the end of Davies Jr.\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2295211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2295210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Free-Palestine-Cut-From-BBC-Broadcast-of-\u2018My-Fathers-Shadow.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295212,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295210\/revisions\/2295212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}