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President
  
Joey Berlin

Website
  
bfca.org

Broadcast Film Critics Association httpslh6googleusercontentcom6RsKPBXnK8AAA

Formation
  
1995; 22 years ago (1995)

Board of Directors
  
John De Simio, Jim Ferguson, Mark Ramsey, Sara Voorhees

Affiliations
  
Broadcast Television Journalists Association (since 2011)

Julia roberts winning broadcast film critics association award 2001


The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is an association of approximately 250 television, radio and online critics. Founded in 1995, it is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada. The BFCA has presented the Critics' Choice Movie Awards each year since 1995. Of the prestigious awards given by film critics it is the most populist in its tastes.

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The BFCA also selects a Film of the Month and recommends other films throughout the year, based on the cumulative grades each film receives in the monthly balloting.

Membership

BFCA members are "working critics whose reviews are broadcast on a regular basis to a wide audience, either on television, on radio, or (in special cases) on the internet"; more specific requirements must be met by radio- and internet-based critics:

  • Radio film critics "must be heard in at least five markets in addition to their primary radio station, unless their primary outlet is in a major city" such as New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Toronto
  • Internet-based critics must be "well-known print critics as well, or among the few internet critics whose reviews are read by a large enough audience", are "easily accessible on their site" and "identified as the site's primary critic"

    • According to the Los Angeles Times, the BFCA is "largely composed of online bloggers and obscure movie reviewers".

    Charity work

    A portion of the proceeds from the best tables at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards is donated to charities such as the Starlight Children's Foundation and Heifer International.

    Broadcast Television Journalists Association

    The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) launched in 2011 as an offshoot of the BFCA. The BTJA presented its first awards at a ceremony luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles in June 2011. Cat Deeley hosted the event.

    References

    Broadcast Film Critics Association Wikipedia
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