The British film industry elite have announced their nominations for this year’s BAFTAs and unusually, it’s an American film, The Grand Budapest Hotel,
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With three of the top awards at the 14th British Independent Film Awards, the dark drama Tyrannosaur was the big winner of the night, at the ceremony at Old Billingsgate.
It was voted the Best British Independent Film, with director
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The organisers of the British Independent Film Awards are to give honorary prizes to the actor/directors Kenneth Branagh and Ralph Fiennes at their awards ceremony next month.
Ralph Fiennes – whose directorial debut Coriolanus was premiered at last month’s London Film Festival – will receive the Richard Harris
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The actress and political activist Vanessa Redgrave has been honoured by the Oscar-awarding Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at an unprecedented ceremony in London.
The retrospective of her work at the Curzon Soho cinema – hosted by the
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The cameras have finally started rolling on the next installment of the James Bond Franchise, with the Oscar winning Sam Mendes taking the helm of Skyfall.
Revealing the title at a news conference with the cast and director, the producers described it as “the worst-kept secret in London.”
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The London Film Festival has drawn to a close — with its top prize, the Star of London trophy for Best Film — beging awarded to the director Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s novel, “We Need to Talk About Kevin”.
The jury, chaired by the director John Madden, said the
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Shakespeare is featuring big at this year’s London Film Festival – with Vanessa Redgrave appearing in two films linked to the Bard. As well as starring as Queen Elizabeth in Anonymous, which questions the very authorship of the works linked to Shakespeare, she
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The London Film Festival has announced its 55th programme.The outgoing Artistic Director Sandra Hebrons final festival will start and finish with Rachel Weisz films 360, by Fernando Meirelles, and Terence Davies The Deep Blue Sea and include two Gala presentations starring George Clooney the political thriller
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