Warner Brothers UK boss to be first US-born BFI chairman
The Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has confirmed that Greg Dyke will be replaced as the Chairman of the BFI by the President and
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Ex Machina scoops 4 BIFAs as acting honours shared
The former novelist and Danny Boyle collaborator Alex Garland has come away as the big winner at the 18th annual British Independent Film
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BFI relieved at Spending Review settlement for film
While everyone from politicians and journalists to low-income families and buy-to-let landlords are considering the implications of the Chancellor George Osborne’s Spending Review,
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What’s Worth Seeing from LFF 2015
After a preview of upcoming releases at this year’s London Film Festival, here’s our look at What’s Worth Seeing in the weeks ahead.
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Women reign supreme at London Film Festival
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
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London Film Festival director tells us What’s Worth Seeing
The head of the London Film Festival saves you the effort of studying the brochure, by telling us what’s worth seeing, with five picks that might otherwise get overlooked
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Cate Blanchett to be honoured at London Film Festival
Cate Blanchett stars as the celebrated TV journalist Mary Mapes in Truth The BFI is to bestow its highest honour, a Fellowship, on
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New British film tax incentive approved by EU
The European Union has approved the government’s plans to extend tax breaks to the British film industry. The Chancellor George Osborne says he
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Mel Brooks honoured by BFI
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,
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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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BFI explains diversity requirements for film funding
BFI bosses have been meeting film producers in London today, to explain its new “Three Ticks” policy that aims to ensure diversity in
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BFI’s pride at best of British in Cannes
BFI staff posing in “Pits and Perverts” T-shirts to promote Pride, closing the Directors Fortnight at Cannes 2014 On Monday over lunch, the
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UK film production and box office take both top £1bn
Cinema audiences in the UK and the Irish Republic spent more than a billion pounds to see films released in 2013. It’s the
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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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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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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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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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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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