At the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards, Tourette's syndrome activist John Davidson experienced a tic outburst and used expletives and a racial slur.

The British Academy Film Awards and BBC have apologized Monday for a racial slur that was broadcast during Sunday’s show while two stars of the film “Sinners” were onstage.

Tourette's syndrome activist John Davidson yelled the n-word when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo appeared onstage at the BAFTA Awards

The British Academy has addressed the controversy surrounding the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday night, where Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson made a number of offensive comments during the show. Among his involuntary outbursts - caused by his condition - was the N-word,

Awards season burns bright overseas, as "One Battle After Another" and "Sinners" score some pre-Oscars heat.

This year's Bafta Film Awards had it all... A-listers, a touch of royalty, Paddington Bear - and the sun even came out, for what felt like the first time all year.

The producers didn't hear it, the apologies were tone-deaf, the awards show was derailed and an organization that has spent much of the last decade trying to prove it's not racist has a big problem. That's the fallout from Sunday's EE BAFTA Film Awards,