Cate Blanchett, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, more wear blue ribbons at 2023 BAFTAs

• At the 2023 BAFTA Awards.
• Cate Blanchett was one of a number of celebrities and United Nation
•  Goodwill Ambassadors making a message.

The UNHCR stated on Saturday that its Goodwill Ambassadors, including Blanchett, British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, former Olympian Yusra Mardini, and others, would wear a blue ribbon to Sunday’s awards event “in solidarity with and support for refugees and displaced people throughout the world.”

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees announced that “now over 103 million forcibly displaced people around the world” and inviting “artists to wear the #WithRefugees ribbon as an emblem of compassion and solidarity for those who have been forced to flee their homes because of war, conflict, and persecution.”

According to NBC News, 35,000 people have perished as a result of recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, as well as the ongoing conflict in Syria.

The ribbon, according to Mbatha-Raw, 39, “is a symbol of our support to all people who have been forced to escape their homes, whoever they are and wherever they have come from.”

The 24-year-old Syrian Mardini continued, “It is truly amazing to see so many artists wear a blue ribbon tonight in solidarity with refugees and displaced people around the world.” “Many people, including my people, are in pain. They require our help. Everyone needs peace.”

The Swimmers, Bad Axe, and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On were also included by the organisation in its statement, along with the observation that “the human themes of displacement, separation, and loss are prevalent in several of the films nominated this awards season.”

What I adore about film is the way it draws us into intriguing human topics to find the connective thread that unites us all, said Blanchett, 53, who added her appreciation to these works.

“What has impressed me whenever I have met refugees — in places like Lebanon, Jordan, or Bangladesh, here in the UK, or back home in Australia — has not been their ‘otherness,’ but rather how many things we share in common,” she continued.

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