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Raindance to honour Ken Loach with new award
The Raindance Film Festival is to present its inaugural Auteur Award to the veteran British director Ken Loach.
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12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen to become BFI Fellow
The BFI is to bestow its highest honour, a Fellowship, on the acclaimed British artist and director, Steve McQueen.
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Elvis & Nixon – Competition
The distributors Entertainment One have been good enough to offer our UK readers (sorry foreign visitors) some goodies to coincide with the upcoming release of Elvis & Nixon, as the name would…
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Loach’s anti-austerity film wins him a 2nd Palme d’Or
The British director Ken Loach has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time.
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Woody Allen to open Cannes for a record 3rd time
The Cannes Film Festival has picked one of its most regular visitors – and one of the most prolific directors – to open this year’s event, with Woody Allen returning to take…
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Star Wars dominates Empire Awards
Star Wars: The Force Awakens won the most awards at the Empire Awards, being honoured as the Best Sci-Fi, for its visual effects, for director JJ Abrams and for its lead actors…
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Oscar spoils shared between Revenant, Spotlight, Mad Max – & SPECTRE
At an Oscars ceremony where there was as much talk about who was not nominated as about who was, there were a number of big surprises, not least in the top category.
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A warning of changes to UK Screen from 2016
We’re sorry to have to say that from 2016, we’re having to make some changes to UK Screen, because of staffing, resources and finances. 1.
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Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs to close LFF 2015
Danny Boyle is to close the London Film Festival for the third time, with his eponymous biopic of the Apple founder, Steve Jobs.
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Venice and Toronto pave the way for awards season
The starting gun has been fired on the 2016 film awards season, with the announcement of the line-ups of two of the most prestigious festivals.