12 Years beats Gravity to BAFTA’s Best Picture 17 February 201418 February 2014Jason Korsner Gravity has come off the biggest winner of the night at the British Academy Film Awards, taking six trophies, but the top prize [...]
London Critics hail 12 Years a Slave 3 February 20144 February 2014Jason Korsner The British-led US slave drama 12 Years a Slave has come away from the annual London Film Critics Circle awards as the big [...]
UK film production and box office take both top £1bn 31 January 201431 January 2014Jason Korsner Cinema audiences in the UK and the Irish Republic spent more than a billion pounds to see films released in 2013. It’s the [...]
American Hustle, Gravity and 12 Years a Slave lead Oscar nominations 17 January 201418 January 2014Husam Sam Asi Last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters shocked the film industry when they overlooked Ben Affleck in the best [...]
I’m So Excited by Gravity: UK Screen’s best and worst of 2013 1 January 20145 January 2015Jason Korsner 2013 has been another busy year for UK Screen, with more than a hundred theatrical releases reviewed and the usual mix of big [...]
Starred Up and Selfish Giant lead BIFA nods 11 November 201311 November 2013Jason Korsner A prison drama that won the Best Newcomer honour for its first-time writer at the London Film Festival last month has scooped the [...]
‘EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON’: PHILOMENA’S 50 YEAR SEARCH FOR SON STOLEN BY NUNS 5 November 20135 November 2013john hiscock While I was in London I had a fascinating talk with Dame Judi Dench and an Irish lady named Philomena Lee whom the [...]
Record LFF ticket sales but who’ll remember 2013? 24 October 201324 October 2013Jason Korsner 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 [...]
12 Years a Slave Wins Toronto Film Festival 15 September 201315 September 2013Husam Sam Asi British director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave has won the 38th Toronto Film Festival’s audience prize. Produced by Brad Pitt and Starring [...]
Coogan wins screenplay prize at Venice 7 September 20137 September 2013Jason Korsner The comedian Steve Coogan has won the Best Screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival. He and co-writer Jeff Pope penned the well-received [...]