International politics creeps into LFF Awards
At an unusually political set of awards at the 2014 London Film Festival, it’s almost as if the BFI is trying to solve
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Al Pacino becomes a BFI Fellow
One of Hollywood’s most respected actors, Al Pacino, has been honoured with a BFI Fellowship. At a ceremony at the Corinthia Hotel in
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LFF opener Imitation Game wins over Toronto audiences
Benedict Cumberbatch’s starring role as the mathematician Alan Turing, who broke the Nazi Enigma code during the Second World War but then led
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Brit Timothy Spall among Cannes winners
Timothy Spall wins best actor prize for portraying the painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh’s biopic With two British films among the eighteen
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Tributes paid as Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead
The Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead in his apartment in New York from a suspected drug overdose. The star,
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Metro Manila tops a big budget night for low budget films at BIFAs
A Philippine-set thriller, in the little-known language of Tagalog, has won the most awards – including the top awards – at this year’s
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Record LFF ticket sales but who’ll remember 2013?
The BFI has hailed the success of Clare Stewart’s second London Film Festival at the helm, with last year’s record audience attendance being
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Master and pupil honoured by LFF on the same night
Best Film winner Pawel Pawlikowski A visiting tutor at the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire has won the top prize at
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BFI Fellowship for Sir Christopher Lee
The BFI has announced that the veteran actor Sir Christopher Lee will be awarded a Fellowship of the British Film Institute at the awards ceremony towards the end of this year’s London Film Festival.
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BAFTA turbocharges “Breakthrough Brits”
A group of seventeen up and coming British creatives from the fields of film, television and gaming have been named as BAFTA’s first
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Berberian Sound Studio and Broken dominate BIFAs
Peter Strickland’s critically acclaimed follow-up to his 2009 debut Katalin Varga, Berberian Sound Studio, has picked up four prizes at the British Independent Film Awards, including Best Director and Best Actor.
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Broken and Sightseers lead BIFA nominations
The drama behind closed doors in an English cul-de-sac and a comedy thriller about a camping holiday with a dark side are among the most nominated films for next month’s British Independent Film Awards.
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Audiard makes it 2 out of 4 at the LFF Awards
The French director Jacques Audiard has won the top prize at the London Film Festival, for the second time in the four years
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BFI honours Burton and Bonham Carter
Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie is the 2012 London Film Festival opener The British Film Institute has used the London Film Festival to bestow Fellowships
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Raindance boasts record audiences in 20th year
The 20th Raindance Film Festival has come to an end with ticket sales up a third on last year’s event, which itself had
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2011 “amazing year for British film”
British films have taken their biggest ever share of the cinema box office — thanks to the success of The King’s Speech and The Inbetweeners. New figures from the BFI also show that total box office takings in the UK topped one billion pounds for the first time, in 2011.
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Tyrannosaur is the King of the BIFAs
Peter Mullan in Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur With three of the top awards at the 14th British Independent Film Awards, the dark drama Tyrannosaur
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Lynne Ramsay’s Kevin takes top prize at LFF 2011
Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk about Kevin won the top prize at LFF 2011 The London Film Festival has drawn to a
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BFI says box office up, production down
The latest figures from the British Film Institute show that UK cinemas took a record £988 million last year – with 24 of
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New BFI Fellow Danny Boyle ends LFF 2010
The organisers of the London Film Festival say this year’s event had an outstanding British presence – including the opening and closing night
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