Making the BAFTA mask: watch how the iconic BAFTA Award is made

Daniel Orton5 February 2017
The Weekender

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This year’s BAFTA Awards ceremony is a week away and amongst the invites being sent out and dresses being bought, the BAFTA masks are being produced.

Every year the lucky recipients of a BAFTA award are presented with a bronze mask of their very own to takeaway, a slightly heavy but physical reminder of their achievement in film.

The award was designed by US sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe in 1955, and the masks have been made by New Pro Foundries in West Drayton since 1976.

Sand casts are used to make the BAFTA Awards masks.

Victoria Jones/PA

The casts are then fired and metal is heated and poured into them.

The bronze statue is then left to cool down.

Watch the video above to see the process in action.

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