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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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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, actor, writer and stand-up received the BFI’s highest award…
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Hawking biopic and Hotel comedy lead the way at the BAFTAs
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, that has the most nods, eleven.
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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 the world’s conflict through film; its main honours have…
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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.
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Brad Pitt war film Fury to close London Film Festival
Returning to the Second World War for the first time since Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Brad Pitt will close the London Film Festival with Fury, in which he stars as a sergeant,…
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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 the British film business.
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Cumberbatch and Knightley to open London Film Festival with Turing biopic
The BFI has picked The Imitation Game, about the life of the wartime code-breaker Alan Turing, top open the 58th London Film Festival in October.
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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 head of the BFI Film Find, Ben Roberts, proudly…
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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.