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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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