BFI Fellowship – What's Worth Seeing…

Olivia Colman adds BFI Fellowship to a slew of awards

6th March 20197th March 2019Jason Korsner

After collecting an Oscar, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for her leading role in The Favourite, Olivia Colman has rounded off Awards Season by being honoured with the BFI’s most prestigious accolade, its Fellowship, at a star-studded event in London. [click for more...]

Olivia Colman to become a BFI Fellow

7th February 20197th February 2019Jason Korsner

The Oscar-nominated star of The Favourite, Olivia Colman, will be made a fellow of the British Film Institute at a ceremony in London [click for more...]

Harvey Weinstein stripped of BFI Fellowship amid harassment scandal

19th October 20178th July 2018Jason Korsner

The BFI has become the latest industry body to punish the disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein over the allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape that have been emerging over the past few weeks. [click for more...]

Harvey Weinstein’s shadow hangs over London Film Festival awards

14th October 201712th February 2018Jason Korsner

One of Britain’s most successful directing exports, Paul Greengrass, has been honoured with the British Film Institute’s highest accolade, the BFI Fellowship, at [click for more...]

Bourne director Paul Greengrass to be honoured with BFI Fellowship

29th August 201729th August 2017Jason Korsner

The BFI is to bestow its highest honour, its Fellowship, to the British film-maker Paul Greengrass. [click for more...]

Diversity reigns at the London Film Festival Awards

15th October 201617th October 2016Jason Korsner

The awards handed out by the London Film Festival are known as the London Star The London Film Festival has failed to give [click for more...]

12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen to become BFI Fellow

24th August 201628th August 2016Jason Korsner

The BFI is to bestow its highest honour, a Fellowship, on the acclaimed British artist and director, Steve McQueen. All 3 of Steve [click for more...]

Hugh Grant honoured with a BFI Fellowship

23rd February 201623rd February 2016Jason Korsner

The epitome of Englishness to many, Hugh Grant has been made a Fellow of the BFI for his contribution to British film. Hugh [click for more...]

Women reign supreme at London Film Festival

17th October 201511th April 2022Jason Korsner

BFI Fellow Cate Blanchett The Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett has joined the debate about women’s equality in the film industry – by saying that [click for more...]

Mel Brooks honoured by BFI

22nd March 20157th October 2016Jason Korsner

One of America’s best loved comedians, Mel Brooks, has been honoured by the BFI with a Fellowship. The eighty-eight year old director, producer, [click for more...]

International politics creeps into LFF Awards

19th October 201412th February 2018Jason Korsner

At an unusually political set of awards at the 2014 London Film Festival, it’s almost as if the BFI is trying to solve [click for more...]

Al Pacino becomes a BFI Fellow

25th September 20147th October 2016Jason Korsner

One of Hollywood’s most respected actors, Al Pacino, has been honoured with a BFI Fellowship. At a ceremony at the Corinthia Hotel in [click for more...]

BFI Fellowship for Sir Christopher Lee

9th October 20137th October 2016Jason Korsner

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. [click for more...]

Audiard makes it 2 out of 4 at the LFF Awards

20th October 201219th October 2017Jason Korsner

The French director Jacques Audiard has won the top prize at the London Film Festival, for the second time in the four years [click for more...]

BFI honours Burton and Bonham Carter

10th October 20127th October 2016Jason Korsner

Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie is the 2012 London Film Festival opener The British Film Institute has used the London Film Festival to bestow Fellowships [click for more...]