Kate and William arrive at the Baftas

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The Prince and Princess of Wales arrive on the red carpet ahead of the 79th British Academy Film Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall.Bafta chairwoman Sara Putt spoke to the Press Association about this year's nominations.Ms Putt said it's important that Bafta encourages voters to watch "as wide a range of films" as possible, adding that she was "really proud" to see that reflected in the nominations.

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00:16We absolutely see ourselves as an international body. I think one in five of our members does not

00:23live in the UK. We have representation in North America, in Scotland, in Wales, all around the

00:28world. So that international element is very important and it's lovely to welcome so many

00:33sort of nominees from all over the world to the ceremony today. But I think we are also the British

00:40Academy and therefore to be able to encourage our voters to watch as wide a range of films and make

00:49sure that our voters, our academicians, are as diverse as needed to reflect the society we live

00:57in. Those are the important things to me and we've worked incredibly hard over the last

01:01few years to achieve that. The job is never done. There's always work to do. But I'm really,

01:07really proud of the range of films that our voters are seeing, are going to the cinema to

01:14screenings, are watching on BAFTA View and are taking into consideration when casting their

01:19votes.

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