Ray And Liz Photo: Courtesy of New York Film Festival
Ray And Liz, 1.45am, Tuesday, Film4
A textbook case of how vital production design can be to creating and sustaining the mood of a movie, Beck Rainford's work on Richard Billingham's film is so intense you can almost smell it. She recreates, alongside Billingham a snapshot of the bleak side of Thatcher's Britain, as he draws on his own childhood and photographic studies of his family to depict a dysfunctional family. Presented as a triptych, we see his alcoholic father Ray (Patrick Romer), in a framing device, elderly and alone after Liz (Deidre Kelly) has left him. The film then flashes back to two more periods in the family's life with the focus falling on Richard's little brother Jason - first seen as a toddler and then as an older child (when he is played by Joshua Millard-Lloyd...
Ray And Liz, 1.45am, Tuesday, Film4
A textbook case of how vital production design can be to creating and sustaining the mood of a movie, Beck Rainford's work on Richard Billingham's film is so intense you can almost smell it. She recreates, alongside Billingham a snapshot of the bleak side of Thatcher's Britain, as he draws on his own childhood and photographic studies of his family to depict a dysfunctional family. Presented as a triptych, we see his alcoholic father Ray (Patrick Romer), in a framing device, elderly and alone after Liz (Deidre Kelly) has left him. The film then flashes back to two more periods in the family's life with the focus falling on Richard's little brother Jason - first seen as a toddler and then as an older child (when he is played by Joshua Millard-Lloyd...
- 1/9/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Awards presented at BFI’s fundraising gala Luminous.
UK filmmakers Baff Akoto, Kathryn Ferguson, Sam Firth and Erfan Saadati have been selected as the winners at the inaugural BFI & Chanel Filmmaker Awards, held this evening (September 29) in London.
The four receive a £20,000 prize each to be used to “expand their craft, develop future projects, gain further skills, explore new ideas, and can also be used to support a residency or entry to a creative programme” according to the BFI.
Akoto was named a Screen UK and Ireland Star of Tomorrow in 2018.
Titled the Filmmaker Awards: Celebrating Creative Audacity, the awards...
UK filmmakers Baff Akoto, Kathryn Ferguson, Sam Firth and Erfan Saadati have been selected as the winners at the inaugural BFI & Chanel Filmmaker Awards, held this evening (September 29) in London.
The four receive a £20,000 prize each to be used to “expand their craft, develop future projects, gain further skills, explore new ideas, and can also be used to support a residency or entry to a creative programme” according to the BFI.
Akoto was named a Screen UK and Ireland Star of Tomorrow in 2018.
Titled the Filmmaker Awards: Celebrating Creative Audacity, the awards...
- 9/29/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Three up-and-coming filmmakers will be awarded £20,000 each.
Three rising UK filmmakers will each receive £20,000 through the new Filmmaker Awards: Celebrating Creative Audacity, launched today by the British Film Institute (BFI) in partnership with fashion company Chanel.
A jury led by Tilda Swinton and comprised of BFI CEO Ben Roberts, Le Cinema club founder and producer Marie-Louise Khondji and British Vogue’s editor-in-chief Edward Enniful, will reward the three filmmakers who display originality and “risk-taking” in their work.
The nominees will be chosen by a panel of industry experts. To be eligible, nominees must have one or two feature or immersive...
Three rising UK filmmakers will each receive £20,000 through the new Filmmaker Awards: Celebrating Creative Audacity, launched today by the British Film Institute (BFI) in partnership with fashion company Chanel.
A jury led by Tilda Swinton and comprised of BFI CEO Ben Roberts, Le Cinema club founder and producer Marie-Louise Khondji and British Vogue’s editor-in-chief Edward Enniful, will reward the three filmmakers who display originality and “risk-taking” in their work.
The nominees will be chosen by a panel of industry experts. To be eligible, nominees must have one or two feature or immersive...
- 8/4/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is on the jury for the key UK film prize.
Lee Haven Jones, Harry Wootliff and Rob Savage, the directors of The Feast, True Things and Dashcam respectively, have been shortlisted for the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with the BFI, which will be presented on Sunday October 17 as part of the BFI London Film Festival (Lff).
Haven Jones has been selected for his debut feature, while Wootliff and Savage are both selected for their second films. This year’s winner will be chosen by writer, actor and producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, alongside BFI CEO Ben Roberts.
Lee Haven Jones, Harry Wootliff and Rob Savage, the directors of The Feast, True Things and Dashcam respectively, have been shortlisted for the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with the BFI, which will be presented on Sunday October 17 as part of the BFI London Film Festival (Lff).
Haven Jones has been selected for his debut feature, while Wootliff and Savage are both selected for their second films. This year’s winner will be chosen by writer, actor and producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, alongside BFI CEO Ben Roberts.
- 10/1/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Pat Murphy’s movie follows a young woman returning to Northern Ireland and a reckoning with sneering soldiers, brutal police and sexist hostility
A steady flame of rapture and pain burns through Pat Murphy’s captivating Maeve from 1981, now rereleased: it is vehemently acted, superbly composed and remarkably shot on the streets of Belfast. It is a fierce, gaunt prose poem of a movie, born of the British Film Institute’s art-cinema aesthetic of that era, starkly realist and yet at the same time mysterious and wan. It is theatrically stylised, always stumbling across dreamlike tableaux of its own devising. There is something of Terence Davies here, and also Ibsen and Beckett. This was an approach that went out of style in British cinema quickly enough, although Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz from 2018 is a potent, intelligent reminder.
Mary Jackson plays Maeve Sweeney, a young woman from a Catholic...
A steady flame of rapture and pain burns through Pat Murphy’s captivating Maeve from 1981, now rereleased: it is vehemently acted, superbly composed and remarkably shot on the streets of Belfast. It is a fierce, gaunt prose poem of a movie, born of the British Film Institute’s art-cinema aesthetic of that era, starkly realist and yet at the same time mysterious and wan. It is theatrically stylised, always stumbling across dreamlike tableaux of its own devising. There is something of Terence Davies here, and also Ibsen and Beckett. This was an approach that went out of style in British cinema quickly enough, although Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz from 2018 is a potent, intelligent reminder.
Mary Jackson plays Maeve Sweeney, a young woman from a Catholic...
- 5/11/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Annual bursary prize is awarded at the BFI London Film Festival.
Diversity standards have been introduced to the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which grants a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director, or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
For the first time, all of the projects by the filmmakers applying for the annual award will have to meet BFI Diversity Standards, in a bid to support underrepresented filmmakers and raise awareness of the drive towards greater inclusion.
The BFI Diversity Standards – which are a requirement for the majority of public funding for film in the UK,...
Diversity standards have been introduced to the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which grants a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director, or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
For the first time, all of the projects by the filmmakers applying for the annual award will have to meet BFI Diversity Standards, in a bid to support underrepresented filmmakers and raise awareness of the drive towards greater inclusion.
The BFI Diversity Standards – which are a requirement for the majority of public funding for film in the UK,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Ray And Liz Photo: Courtesy of New York Film Festival Ray & Liz, 11.20pm, Film4, Monday, April 26
Richard Billingham draws on his own upbringing and his photographic studies of his parents to realise this gritty slice-of-life drama about a dysfunctional family. Presented as a triptych, we see his alcoholic father Ray (Patrick Romer), in a framing device, elderly and alone after Liz (Deidre Kelly) has left him. The film then flashes back to two more periods in the family's life with the focus falling on Richard's little brother Jason - first seen as a toddler and then as an older child, mostly living on pickled beetroot and trying to avoid his parents as much as possible. The strong production design - right down to buzzing flies - captures its points in time perfectly, and if there is a bleakness here, not to mention a heart gut punch to Thatcher's Britain, there...
Richard Billingham draws on his own upbringing and his photographic studies of his parents to realise this gritty slice-of-life drama about a dysfunctional family. Presented as a triptych, we see his alcoholic father Ray (Patrick Romer), in a framing device, elderly and alone after Liz (Deidre Kelly) has left him. The film then flashes back to two more periods in the family's life with the focus falling on Richard's little brother Jason - first seen as a toddler and then as an older child, mostly living on pickled beetroot and trying to avoid his parents as much as possible. The strong production design - right down to buzzing flies - captures its points in time perfectly, and if there is a bleakness here, not to mention a heart gut punch to Thatcher's Britain, there...
- 4/26/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cathy Brady, Aleem Khan, and Francis Lee make the shortlist.
The BFI has revealed the shortlist for the three filmmakers in the running for the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which grants a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director, or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
The 2020 shortlist comprises Cathy Brady, writer-director of Wildfire; Aleem Khan, writer-director of After Love; and Francis Lee, writer-director of Ammonite.
The jury will be led by Michaela Coel, the creator and star of HBO/BBC drama series I May Destroy You, who will be joined by BFI...
The BFI has revealed the shortlist for the three filmmakers in the running for the Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which grants a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director, or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
The 2020 shortlist comprises Cathy Brady, writer-director of Wildfire; Aleem Khan, writer-director of After Love; and Francis Lee, writer-director of Ammonite.
The jury will be led by Michaela Coel, the creator and star of HBO/BBC drama series I May Destroy You, who will be joined by BFI...
- 9/21/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
As a raucous howl of protest at a welfare state disemboweled by decades of unhinged privatization, Ken Loach’s 2016 I, Daniel Blake ended with no exclamation marks, but a wall daubed in white paint. “I, Daniel Blake, demand my appeal date before I starve,” read the graffiti penned by Dave Johns’s eponymous Daniel, a 59-year-old carpenter and widower wrestling with a catch-22 state-enforced conundrum: avoid work or risk another heart attack, look for jobs or lose welfare benefits. It was an intricate, Kafkaesque nightmare of desk people, computers, and unanswered calls, a bureaucratic apparatus that gradually morphed into a dehumanizing Leviathan. But it also echoed as a hymn to the resilience of the downtrodden, and a call for empathy over and against a system designed to strip individuals of their basic rights. Daniel Blake’s paint-splayed offense was the ultimate, hopeless paean of an ever-growing section of society faced...
- 3/3/2020
- MUBI
New Indie
While I didn’t find Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” (Lionsgate/Mrc) as wonderful a whodunit as most audiences (and critics), I do cheer his evident love for the genre and his energy and enthusiasm in revitalizing the all-star murder mystery. (Give me a crisp new story like this over a thousand sludgy remakes like the recent “Murder on the Orient Express.”) And it’s a win for everyone when an original movie — not a sequel, not a remake, not a reboot, not an adaptation — becomes a much-talked-about hit. So let’s hear it for more fresh takes on beloved movie tropes.
Also available: Keep your indies straight — “The Wave” (Echo Wolf/Epic) features Justin Long on a psychedelic trip, while the critically acclaimed “Waves” (Lionsgate) is a powerful tale of race and family featuring powerhouse acting from Sterling K. Brown, Taylor Russell and Kelvin Harrison, Jr.; the...
While I didn’t find Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” (Lionsgate/Mrc) as wonderful a whodunit as most audiences (and critics), I do cheer his evident love for the genre and his energy and enthusiasm in revitalizing the all-star murder mystery. (Give me a crisp new story like this over a thousand sludgy remakes like the recent “Murder on the Orient Express.”) And it’s a win for everyone when an original movie — not a sequel, not a remake, not a reboot, not an adaptation — becomes a much-talked-about hit. So let’s hear it for more fresh takes on beloved movie tropes.
Also available: Keep your indies straight — “The Wave” (Echo Wolf/Epic) features Justin Long on a psychedelic trip, while the critically acclaimed “Waves” (Lionsgate) is a powerful tale of race and family featuring powerhouse acting from Sterling K. Brown, Taylor Russell and Kelvin Harrison, Jr.; the...
- 2/25/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
The Irishman, 1917, Marriage Story also in contention.
Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir leads the way with seven nominations for the 40th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, including best film, actor (Tom Burke), supporting actress (Tilda Swinton) and young performer (Honor Swinton Byrne).
Close behind are Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Sam Mendes’ 1917 with six nods, while Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory and Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite have five.
The winners will be announced on Sunday, 30 January at The May Fair Hotel. Sally Potter and Sandy Powell will both receive the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film,...
Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir leads the way with seven nominations for the 40th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, including best film, actor (Tom Burke), supporting actress (Tilda Swinton) and young performer (Honor Swinton Byrne).
Close behind are Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Sam Mendes’ 1917 with six nods, while Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory and Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite have five.
The winners will be announced on Sunday, 30 January at The May Fair Hotel. Sally Potter and Sandy Powell will both receive the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film,...
- 12/17/2019
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Nominations for the 40th edition of the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards were announced today, with Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir out in front on seven nominations including Film, Screenwriter, Actor (Tom Burke), Supporting Actress (Tilda Swinton) and Young Performer (Honor Swinton Byrne).
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Sam Mendes’ 1917 follow close behind with nominations in six categories apiece. On five were Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain And Glory and Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite.
Lining up alongside the aforementioned in contention for Film Of The Year are Joker, Knives Out, Midsommar and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire.
Florence Pugh received three nominations, lead actress for Midsommar, supporting for Little Women, and British/Irish Actress for her work across the year.
Winners will be announced on January 30. There will also be three special awards presented: animation specialists Aardman (Shaun The Sheep) will receive the 40th Anniversary Award,...
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Sam Mendes’ 1917 follow close behind with nominations in six categories apiece. On five were Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain And Glory and Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite.
Lining up alongside the aforementioned in contention for Film Of The Year are Joker, Knives Out, Midsommar and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire.
Florence Pugh received three nominations, lead actress for Midsommar, supporting for Little Women, and British/Irish Actress for her work across the year.
Winners will be announced on January 30. There will also be three special awards presented: animation specialists Aardman (Shaun The Sheep) will receive the 40th Anniversary Award,...
- 12/17/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Marco Bellocchio’s “The Traitor,” Roman Polanski’s “An Officer and a Spy” and Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory” lead the race for the 32nd European Film Awards with four nominations apiece in the major categories. The awards, voted on by more than 3,600 members of the European Film Academy, will be presented at the awards ceremony on Dec. 7 in Berlin.
Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” followed with three nominations in the top categories each, while Ladj Ly’s “Les Misérables” and Nora Fingscheidt’s “System Crasher” were both short-listed in two major categories.
“The Favourite” picked up an additional nomination in the comedy category, while “Les Misérables” received a further nomination in the Discovery section for newcomers.
A single nomination each went to “A White, White Day,” “And Then We Danced,” “Beanpole,” “Gundermann” and “Queen of Hearts.”
Competing for best documentary are “For Sama,...
Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” followed with three nominations in the top categories each, while Ladj Ly’s “Les Misérables” and Nora Fingscheidt’s “System Crasher” were both short-listed in two major categories.
“The Favourite” picked up an additional nomination in the comedy category, while “Les Misérables” received a further nomination in the Discovery section for newcomers.
A single nomination each went to “A White, White Day,” “And Then We Danced,” “Beanpole,” “Gundermann” and “Queen of Hearts.”
Competing for best documentary are “For Sama,...
- 11/9/2019
- by Leo Barraclough and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s top ten was selected by Screen International’s team of critics.
The nominees for Screen International’s 2019 Best British Film of the Year award have been revealed.
The winner will be voted for by Screen International readers (see below) and will be announced at this year’s Screen Awards ceremony held on November 28 at The Ballroom Southbank in London. Voting closes on October 31. This year’s other Screen Awards nominees have been announced here.
The award launched last year, with Dan Kokotajlo’s Apostasy winning the first edition.
This year’s top 10 was selected by Screen International...
The nominees for Screen International’s 2019 Best British Film of the Year award have been revealed.
The winner will be voted for by Screen International readers (see below) and will be announced at this year’s Screen Awards ceremony held on November 28 at The Ballroom Southbank in London. Voting closes on October 31. This year’s other Screen Awards nominees have been announced here.
The award launched last year, with Dan Kokotajlo’s Apostasy winning the first edition.
This year’s top 10 was selected by Screen International...
- 10/11/2019
- by 14¦Screen staff¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Aniara, Atlantics, Blind Spot, Irina, Les Misérables and Ray & Liz vie for the European Discovery - Prix Fipresci award. The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for the European Discovery 2019 - Prix Fipresci, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a director for a first full-length feature film. This year's nominations were determined by a committee comprised of Efa Board Members Mike Goodridge (UK) and Valérie Delpierre (Spain), festival programmers Azize Tan (Turkey) as well as film critics Marta Bałaga (Finland), Robbie Eksiel (Greece) and Michael Pattison (UK) as representatives of Fipresci, the International Federation of Film Critics. The nominees are: European Discovery - Prix Fiprescianiara - Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja (Sweden)Atlantics - Mati Diop (France/Senegal/Belgium)Blind Spot - Tuva Novotny (Norway)Irina - Nadejda Koseva (Bulgaria)Les Misérables - Ladj Ly (France)Ray & Liz - Richard Billingham (UK) The nominated films will soon be.
Danny Boyle will lead the judging panel for the prize.
The BFI has selected the three filmmakers on the shortlist for its Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which gives a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
The chosen three this year are Rose Glass, writer-director of Saint Maud; Hong Khaou, writer-director of Monsoon; and Peter Mackie Burns, director of Rialto.
All three are previous Screen Stars of Tomorrow: Burns in 2005, Khaou in 2013, and Glass in 2018.
The winner will be chosen by a panel headed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle,...
The BFI has selected the three filmmakers on the shortlist for its Iwc Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award, which gives a £50,000 prize to a UK-based writer, director or writer-director with a first or second film at the BFI London Film Festival.
The chosen three this year are Rose Glass, writer-director of Saint Maud; Hong Khaou, writer-director of Monsoon; and Peter Mackie Burns, director of Rialto.
All three are previous Screen Stars of Tomorrow: Burns in 2005, Khaou in 2013, and Glass in 2018.
The winner will be chosen by a panel headed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle,...
- 9/5/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Mark Jenkin didn’t need a bigger boat as his black-and-white film, set in a fishing village, won the Grand Prix and the Audience Award of the 19th edition of the Polish festival. Mark Jenkin’s UK-produced Bait, presented in Competition at this year’s New Horizons International Film Festival, might have a Cornish fisherman without a boat as its unlikely protagonist — played to poker-faced perfection by comedian Edward Rowe — it still somehow managed to leave everyone else far behind. Winning the main award of the Polish festival, but also emerging as the top choice of the audience, after competing with 11 other titles including the likes of Richard Billingham’s autobiographical drama Ray & Liz, Ena Sendijarević’s Take Me Somewhere Nice or Johannes Nyholm’s Swedish-Danish oddity Koko-di Koko-da. “Through its raw visual and sonic language, playful and almost campy style, this film dexterously revitalizes film heritage, referencing the Nouvelle Vague and.
The first person we meet in “Ray & Liz” is elderly Ray (Patrick Romer). Alone in a tiny room, abandoned by his wife Liz (Deirdre Kelly), he has taken to his bed seemingly permanently, waking only long enough to drink as much as it takes to keep himself drunk. He keeps a photo of himself as a young man with his bride stuck to a mirror next to a religious pamphlet that delivers the only foreshadowing this film feels like giving: a Bible verse instructing children to “obey [their] parents in everything.”
“Ray & Liz,” Richard Billingham’s debut feature, punctuates its main action with visits to this room, with the rest of the quietly downcast story taking place during the 1980s, as Ray and Liz descend into poverty, despair, and alcoholism in a council flat outside of Birmingham, England. Their children — Richard and his younger brother Jason — are along for the ride,...
“Ray & Liz,” Richard Billingham’s debut feature, punctuates its main action with visits to this room, with the rest of the quietly downcast story taking place during the 1980s, as Ray and Liz descend into poverty, despair, and alcoholism in a council flat outside of Birmingham, England. Their children — Richard and his younger brother Jason — are along for the ride,...
- 7/19/2019
- by Dave White
- The Wrap
Chile’s Ignacio Agüero has triumphed in the international competition, Jean-Marc Chapoulie dominated the French competition and Germany’s Ute Adamczewski also scooped a prize. Chaired by Us photographer-director Sharon Lockhart, who was aided by Cecilia Barrinuevo, Richard Billingham, Delphine Chuillot and Katsuya Tomita, the international competition jury at the 30th FIDMarseille handed the 2019 Grand Prix to I Never Climbed the Provincia by Chile’s Ignacio Agüero, who previously won the 2016 edition of the gathering with This Is the Way I Like It 2.As for the French competition (the jury for which was presided over by actress Agathe Bonitzer), victory was claimed by Jean-Marc Chapoulie’s Mittelmeer. The film gathers views found on the internet, provided by strategically placed surveillance cameras facing the Mediterranean sea, all along its north and south shores: on hotel roofs, beaches, along the coasts, in harbours and so on. Chapoulie decides to alter these shots: he changes.
The winners of the 16th edition of Armenia's biggest festival include Beanpole, Horizon and Midnight Traveler, while Carlos Reygadas was honoured with the Parajanov's Thaler Award. The 16th Golden Apricot International Film Festival (8-14 July) wrapped with a closing ceremony that saw Richard Billingham's slow-burning festival hit Ray & Liz pick up the main award, the Golden Apricot for Best Feature Film. The jury, presided over by veteran Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Mindadze (who was himself honoured with the "Let There Be Light" Prize of the Armenian Apostolic Church), and comprising Swiss director Nicolas Wadimoff, Iranian filmmaker and head of Tehran's Fajr International Film Festival Reza Mirkarimi, Tribeca executive producer Amy Hobby, Venice Film Festival programmer Paolo Bertolin, British producer Elizabeth Karlsen, and French actress and director of Georgian descent Nino Kirtadze, gave the trophy for second place, the Silver Apricot Award, to the Russian historical drama Beanpole, which previously garnered.
To mark the release of Ray and Liz on 22nd July, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray.
Renowned photographer Richard Billingham makes his feature-film debut with this intricate family portrait, inspired by his own memories of growing up in the West Midlands in the late 70s and early 80s, and then his father and mother in the late 90s. Billingham revisits the figures of his earlier photographs his alcoholic father Ray; his mother Liz; and his younger brother Jason with a series of family vignettes where life, lived on the margins of society and societal taboos, can spiral out of control.
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Renowned photographer Richard Billingham makes his feature-film debut with this intricate family portrait, inspired by his own memories of growing up in the West Midlands in the late 70s and early 80s, and then his father and mother in the late 90s. Billingham revisits the figures of his earlier photographs his alcoholic father Ray; his mother Liz; and his younger brother Jason with a series of family vignettes where life, lived on the margins of society and societal taboos, can spiral out of control.
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Open to UK residents only The competition will close 25th July 2019 at 23.59 GMT The winner will be picked at random from entries received No cash alternative is available To coincide with Gdpr regulations,...
- 7/15/2019
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The thrill of a great B-movie is its unapologetic commitment to entertain at all costs. With giant killer alligators converging on a hurricane-stricken home, “Crawl” certainly aims to deliver those goods. Once the first gator bursts into the watery Florida basement where ace swimmer Haley (Kaya Scodelario) has arrived to save her ailing dad Dave (Barry Pepper), “Crawl” becomes a claustrophobic pileup of variations on the same harrowing challenges: Evade those jaws as the flood waters rise.
And so they do. Darting through a tangled mess of pipes and cords, weaving through narrow pipes and gasping for every breath, Haley and Dave anchor a taut, bloody survival story that takes no compelling turns whatsoever. Ace genre director Alexandre Aja simply delivers on expectations without the slightest curveballs. Unlike the zany thrill of his cartoonish anything-goes remake “Piranha 3D,” this aquatic monster movie is strictly by the book.
Still, there’s...
And so they do. Darting through a tangled mess of pipes and cords, weaving through narrow pipes and gasping for every breath, Haley and Dave anchor a taut, bloody survival story that takes no compelling turns whatsoever. Ace genre director Alexandre Aja simply delivers on expectations without the slightest curveballs. Unlike the zany thrill of his cartoonish anything-goes remake “Piranha 3D,” this aquatic monster movie is strictly by the book.
Still, there’s...
- 7/12/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
“Ray & Liz” — the haunted and pungent debut feature by photographer Richard Billingham, who’s been dabbling in the form since the late ’90s — feels like watching someone painstakingly build a rusty time machine that only brings them back to their own rotten past. And to what end?
Billingham’s work has always been lauded for its lack of overt beauty; his most acclaimed pictures find his layabout parents cooped up inside the bleakest council flat in all of Thatcher-era Birmingham, the images striking for their deprivation and self-sufficiency. Rather than mine his home life for manufactured poetry, Billingham shot his family with an anthropological flare, as though he’d smuggled a camera into an animal enclosure that the bourgeois art world had only seen from the outside. (Billingham’s 1998 short “Fishtank” has nothing and everything to do with the similarly named Andrea Arnold film that would follow a few years later.
Billingham’s work has always been lauded for its lack of overt beauty; his most acclaimed pictures find his layabout parents cooped up inside the bleakest council flat in all of Thatcher-era Birmingham, the images striking for their deprivation and self-sufficiency. Rather than mine his home life for manufactured poetry, Billingham shot his family with an anthropological flare, as though he’d smuggled a camera into an animal enclosure that the bourgeois art world had only seen from the outside. (Billingham’s 1998 short “Fishtank” has nothing and everything to do with the similarly named Andrea Arnold film that would follow a few years later.
- 7/11/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Ray And Liz Photo: Courtesy of New York Film Festival UK film Ray & Liz and the UK co-produced Cold Case Hammarskjöld were among the ten nominees for the Lux Priz announced at a ceremony at the Grand Hotel Pupp (used as a location for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel) as part of the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
The short list for the prize - supported by the European Parliament as a way of promoting European cinema within the European Union countries - was devised by 21 European film professionals, including fiction, documentaries and first features.
The official line-up was announced by the European Parliament´s Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education Helga Trüpel, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control Martina Dlabajová, Lux Prize coordinator Doris Pack, and Benedikt Erlingsson, director of 2018 Lux Prize winner Woman At War.
The selection of Richard Billingham's Ray & Liz,...
The short list for the prize - supported by the European Parliament as a way of promoting European cinema within the European Union countries - was devised by 21 European film professionals, including fiction, documentaries and first features.
The official line-up was announced by the European Parliament´s Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education Helga Trüpel, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control Martina Dlabajová, Lux Prize coordinator Doris Pack, and Benedikt Erlingsson, director of 2018 Lux Prize winner Woman At War.
The selection of Richard Billingham's Ray & Liz,...
- 7/1/2019
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The first feature film by the photographer Richard Billingham pockets two awards, while Animus Animalis takes home the Directors’ Week Grand Prize. On Saturday evening, the fledgling Brussels International Film Festival (Briff) unveiled the winning titles of its second edition, and whilst the Grand Prix of the International Competition might have been clinched by Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long My Son, European cinema swiftly ran away with all the other prizes. For starters, Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz bagged itself the International Jury Prize, as well as an award from the Belgium-based, French-language public broadcaster Rtbf. The atypical format of the photographer’s first full-length movie, in which Billingham’s parents (who were also the focus of his photographic work and who are played here by Ella Smith and Justin Sallinger) are placed centre stage in a series of sketches, offers a stark yet tender portrayal of working class England in.
The Lithuanian festival also lauded Zsófia Szilágyi’s debut ‘One Day’.
UK filmmaker Richard Billingham’s autobiographical feature Ray & Liz was named best film of the European Debut Competition at the 24th edition of the Vilnius International Film Festival (Viff) in Lithuania on April 7.
Billingham’s feature debut - which is being handled internationally by Luxbox - had its world premiere at last year’s Locarno Film Festival and has since picked up top awards at festivals ranging from Thessaloniki and Seville to Luxembourg and Batumi.
The best director award was presented to Hungary’s Zsófia Szilágyi for her debut...
UK filmmaker Richard Billingham’s autobiographical feature Ray & Liz was named best film of the European Debut Competition at the 24th edition of the Vilnius International Film Festival (Viff) in Lithuania on April 7.
Billingham’s feature debut - which is being handled internationally by Luxbox - had its world premiere at last year’s Locarno Film Festival and has since picked up top awards at festivals ranging from Thessaloniki and Seville to Luxembourg and Batumi.
The best director award was presented to Hungary’s Zsófia Szilágyi for her debut...
- 4/8/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
New openers also include The Kindergarten Teacher, Everybody Knows, and Border.
It has been a tough beginning to 2019 for the UK box office. At the end of February, box office receipts were tracking at 24% down on the same two-month period in 2018, which roughly accounts for £57m ($74m) in ticket sales.
Notably absent from the release calendar so far has been a blockbuster hit – last year had Black Panther, which took a huge £50.6m after being released on Feb 13 – but that could change this weekend with the release of Disney’s Captain Marvel.
According to Screen sources, the film has already...
It has been a tough beginning to 2019 for the UK box office. At the end of February, box office receipts were tracking at 24% down on the same two-month period in 2018, which roughly accounts for £57m ($74m) in ticket sales.
Notably absent from the release calendar so far has been a blockbuster hit – last year had Black Panther, which took a huge £50.6m after being released on Feb 13 – but that could change this weekend with the release of Disney’s Captain Marvel.
According to Screen sources, the film has already...
- 3/8/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Turner Prize-nominated artist Richard Billingham turns his hand to filmmaking with an overwhelmingly personal, intricately observed depiction of his troubled upbringing and neglectful parents. This remarkably assured debut feature was born out of Billingham’s single-screen video artwork Ray and his acclaimed 1996 photography book Ray’s a Laugh, which captured his poverty-stricken domestic life with uncompromising honesty. Shot beautifully on 16mm, Ray & Liz proves just as candid and heralds Billingham as a unique cinematic voice.
The narrative unfurls through several vignettes and snapshots of Billingham’s childhood. We begin on an act that frames the other two set pieces – Ray (Patrick Romer) is a bedridden, old man whiling away the reminder of his life by staring out the window of his council flat and getting drunk by 9am on home-brewed beer. We then flashback to the early 80s where a younger Ray (Justin Salinger) and chain smoking Liz (Ella Smith...
The narrative unfurls through several vignettes and snapshots of Billingham’s childhood. We begin on an act that frames the other two set pieces – Ray (Patrick Romer) is a bedridden, old man whiling away the reminder of his life by staring out the window of his council flat and getting drunk by 9am on home-brewed beer. We then flashback to the early 80s where a younger Ray (Justin Salinger) and chain smoking Liz (Ella Smith...
- 3/8/2019
- by Luke Channell
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Richard Billingham’s new film centres on working-class strife, but it’s no gratuitous wallow
Few subjects trouble film-makers as much as poverty. Go too far one way and you are accused of romanticising hardship; head in the opposite direction and you’re poking sticks at poor people for entertainment. At one extreme, “we were poor but happy” feelgood films such as The Full Monty and Billy Elliot; at the other, television’s Benefits Street. Recently we have seen Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma praised as an apologia for his own privileged upbringing but also criticised for making its servant heroine an opaque, passive character with little in the way of an inner life.
Even Ken Loach, the UK’s patron saint of working-class strife, was accused of overdoing it in his 2016 film I, Daniel Blake by, you know, making the lead characters decent human beings rather than thieving, lazy degenerates who deserved their fate.
Few subjects trouble film-makers as much as poverty. Go too far one way and you are accused of romanticising hardship; head in the opposite direction and you’re poking sticks at poor people for entertainment. At one extreme, “we were poor but happy” feelgood films such as The Full Monty and Billy Elliot; at the other, television’s Benefits Street. Recently we have seen Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma praised as an apologia for his own privileged upbringing but also criticised for making its servant heroine an opaque, passive character with little in the way of an inner life.
Even Ken Loach, the UK’s patron saint of working-class strife, was accused of overdoing it in his 2016 film I, Daniel Blake by, you know, making the lead characters decent human beings rather than thieving, lazy degenerates who deserved their fate.
- 3/4/2019
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The photographer made his name with a series showing his dysfunctional parents, Ray and Liz, in their squalid Black Country flat. Now he’s turned their story into an award-winning film
It is just about 30 years since Richard Billingham picked up a camera and focused it on his alcoholic father, Ray, and his violent mother, Liz, and the Black Country council flat in which they lived. The pictures were intended as studies for paintings, but they took on a life of their own. A tutor on Billingham’s art degree course at Sunderland University came across the photographs in a plastic bag and Billingham ended up displaying them in all their flash-lit squalor: toothless and shirtless Ray cradling pop bottles of home brew; Liz, with her lavishly tattooed slabs of arms and vast floral print frocks, lost in her jigsaw puzzles or TV dinners. Taken together – “Ray’s a Laugh...
It is just about 30 years since Richard Billingham picked up a camera and focused it on his alcoholic father, Ray, and his violent mother, Liz, and the Black Country council flat in which they lived. The pictures were intended as studies for paintings, but they took on a life of their own. A tutor on Billingham’s art degree course at Sunderland University came across the photographs in a plastic bag and Billingham ended up displaying them in all their flash-lit squalor: toothless and shirtless Ray cradling pop bottles of home brew; Liz, with her lavishly tattooed slabs of arms and vast floral print frocks, lost in her jigsaw puzzles or TV dinners. Taken together – “Ray’s a Laugh...
- 2/23/2019
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
Roma wins best film and best director, The Favourite wins seven awards including best actress for Olivia Colman.
Roma took home best film at the 2019 Baftas, as well as best foreign film, best director and best cinematography.
The Favourite won the most awards in total, seven, including best actress for Olivia Colman.
The ceremony took place on Feb 10 at the Royal Albert Hall and was hosted by Joanna Lumley for a second time.
The full list of winners Best Film BLACKkKLANSMAN Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele The Favourite Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday Green Book Jim Burke,...
Roma took home best film at the 2019 Baftas, as well as best foreign film, best director and best cinematography.
The Favourite won the most awards in total, seven, including best actress for Olivia Colman.
The ceremony took place on Feb 10 at the Royal Albert Hall and was hosted by Joanna Lumley for a second time.
The full list of winners Best Film BLACKkKLANSMAN Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele The Favourite Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday Green Book Jim Burke,...
- 2/11/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The 2019 BAFTA Award winners have been announced!
The most nominated film of the event, The Favourite, was predictably the night’s big winner, netting seven wins including leading actress for Olivia Colman, supporting actress for Rachel Weisz and outstanding British film. Netflix’s Roma beat out The Favourite for best film as well as best director for Alfonso Cuaron.
Elsewhere, Rami Malek won in the leading actor category for his performance as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, while Green Book‘s Mahershala Ali was recognized as the best supporting actor. Both are considered front-runners at the upcoming 91st Academy Awards,...
The most nominated film of the event, The Favourite, was predictably the night’s big winner, netting seven wins including leading actress for Olivia Colman, supporting actress for Rachel Weisz and outstanding British film. Netflix’s Roma beat out The Favourite for best film as well as best director for Alfonso Cuaron.
Elsewhere, Rami Malek won in the leading actor category for his performance as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, while Green Book‘s Mahershala Ali was recognized as the best supporting actor. Both are considered front-runners at the upcoming 91st Academy Awards,...
- 2/10/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
“The Favourite” lived up to its name until the last minute at the Ee British Academy Film Awards, which were presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) on Sunday in London. Yorgos Lanthimos’ twisted period drama won most of the big awards until the homestretch, when Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” was named the year’s beat picture.
“The Favourite” settled for wins for Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz won a best actress and best supporting actress. The film also took awards in the original screenplay, production design, makeup and hair, costume design and Outstanding British Film categories.
Rami Malek was named best actor for “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Alfonso Cuaron won the best-director award for “Roma,” which also took prizes for its cinematography and for Best Film Not in the English Language.
Mahershala Ali was named best supporting actor for his performance in “Green Book.”
“BlacKkKlansman” won for adapted screenplay.
“The Favourite” settled for wins for Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz won a best actress and best supporting actress. The film also took awards in the original screenplay, production design, makeup and hair, costume design and Outstanding British Film categories.
Rami Malek was named best actor for “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Alfonso Cuaron won the best-director award for “Roma,” which also took prizes for its cinematography and for Best Film Not in the English Language.
Mahershala Ali was named best supporting actor for his performance in “Green Book.”
“BlacKkKlansman” won for adapted screenplay.
- 2/10/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The 2019 Bafta Awards are taking place tonight at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The 2019 Bafta Awards are taking place tonight (10 Feb) at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Screen will be posting all the winners on this page and on Twitter as they are announced.
The ceremony starts at 18:45 UK time and finishes at approximately 21:30, with Joanna Lumley hosting for a second time.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ historical drama The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on seven. Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, with Cold War and Green Book on four each.
The 2019 Bafta Awards are taking place tonight (10 Feb) at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Screen will be posting all the winners on this page and on Twitter as they are announced.
The ceremony starts at 18:45 UK time and finishes at approximately 21:30, with Joanna Lumley hosting for a second time.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ historical drama The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on seven. Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, with Cold War and Green Book on four each.
- 2/10/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
It’s that time of year again when the great and good of the British Film Industry gather and celebrate the greatest cinematic achievements of the past year. The 2019 BAFTA awards took place at the Royal Albert Hall in London and we were on the red carpet to talk with the stars.
The interviews are below, and the full list of winners follow and are marked in Bold.
Related: Hear from some of the nominees from the 2019 BAFTA Sessions
The 2019 BAFTA Red Carpet Interviews
The 2019 BAFTA Winners Press Conferences
The 2019 BAFTA Awards Winners (updated Live) Best Film
BLACKkKLANSMAN
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma – Winner
A Star Is Born
Outstanding British Film
Beast
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite- Winner
McQueen
Stan & Ollie
You Were Never Really Here
Leading Actress
Glenn Close – The Wife
Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Olivia Colman – The Favourite – Winner
Viola Davis...
The interviews are below, and the full list of winners follow and are marked in Bold.
Related: Hear from some of the nominees from the 2019 BAFTA Sessions
The 2019 BAFTA Red Carpet Interviews
The 2019 BAFTA Winners Press Conferences
The 2019 BAFTA Awards Winners (updated Live) Best Film
BLACKkKLANSMAN
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma – Winner
A Star Is Born
Outstanding British Film
Beast
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite- Winner
McQueen
Stan & Ollie
You Were Never Really Here
Leading Actress
Glenn Close – The Wife
Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Olivia Colman – The Favourite – Winner
Viola Davis...
- 2/10/2019
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Will Poulter & Hayley Squires announce the 2019 Ee British Academy Film Awards nominations at BAFTA’s 195 Piccadilly headquarters BAFTA/Jamie Simonds
BAFTA has announced the nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards in 2019.
The Favourite is nominated in 12 categories. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born each have seven nominations; Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, and Cold War and Green Book have four each. Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Mary Poppins Returns, Mary Queen of Scots and Stan & Ollie have three nominations each.
The Favourite is nominated for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, Make Up & Hair, Editing and Yorgos Lanthimos for Director. Olivia Colman is nominated for Leading Actress for her role as Queen Anne, and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are both nominated for Supporting Actress.
Roma is nominated for Best Film, Film Not in the English Language,...
BAFTA has announced the nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards in 2019.
The Favourite is nominated in 12 categories. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born each have seven nominations; Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, and Cold War and Green Book have four each. Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Mary Poppins Returns, Mary Queen of Scots and Stan & Ollie have three nominations each.
The Favourite is nominated for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, Make Up & Hair, Editing and Yorgos Lanthimos for Director. Olivia Colman is nominated for Leading Actress for her role as Queen Anne, and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are both nominated for Supporting Actress.
Roma is nominated for Best Film, Film Not in the English Language,...
- 1/9/2019
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Around The World When You Were My AgeThe titles for the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam are being announced in anticipation of the event running January 23 – February 3, 2018. We will update the program as new films are revealed.Tiger COMPETITIONSons of Denmark (Ulaa Salim)Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević)Present.Perfect. (Shengze Zhu)Sheena667 (Grigory Dobrygin)Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them (Camila José Donoso)Koko-di Koko-da (Johannes Nyholm)Els dies que vindran (Carlos Marqués-Marcet)Bright Future COMPETITIONAlva (Ico Costa)Chèche lavi (Sam Ellison)De nuevo otra vez (Romina Paula)Doozy (Richard Squires)Dreissig (Simona Kostova)Ende der Saison (Elmar Imanov)Fabiana (Brunna Laboissière)The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain (Ridham Janve)Heroes (Köken Ergun)Historia de mi nombre (Karin Cuyul)Last Night I Saw You Smiling (Kavich Neang)Lost Holiday (Michael Kerry Matthews/Thomas Matthews)Maggie (Yi Okseop)Mens (Isabelle Prim)No Data Plan (Miko Revereza...
- 1/9/2019
- MUBI
This morning Hayley Squires and Will Poulter announced the BAFTA nominations for this year’s Ee British Academy Film Awards. Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘The Favourite’ leads the pack with 12 nominations.
Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born each has seven nominations; Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, and Cold War and Green Book have four each. Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Mary Poppins Returns, Mary Queen of Scots and Stan & Ollie have three nominations each.
For ‘The Favourite’ Olivia Colman is nominated for Leading Actress for her role as Queen Anne, and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are both nominated for Supporting Actress.
‘Vice’ has three performance nominees: Christian Bale in Leading Actor for his role as former Us Vice President Dick Cheney, with Amy Adams and Sam Rockwell in the supporting categories.
‘A Star Is Born’ is nominated in seven categories; Leading Actor, Director, Adapted Screenplay,...
Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born each has seven nominations; Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, and Cold War and Green Book have four each. Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Mary Poppins Returns, Mary Queen of Scots and Stan & Ollie have three nominations each.
For ‘The Favourite’ Olivia Colman is nominated for Leading Actress for her role as Queen Anne, and Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are both nominated for Supporting Actress.
‘Vice’ has three performance nominees: Christian Bale in Leading Actor for his role as former Us Vice President Dick Cheney, with Amy Adams and Sam Rockwell in the supporting categories.
‘A Star Is Born’ is nominated in seven categories; Leading Actor, Director, Adapted Screenplay,...
- 1/9/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Fox Searchlight release matches The Shape Of Water’s 2018 tally.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite picked up a healthy 12 nominations as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts set its contenders for the 2019 ceremony on February 10.
The dark period comedy is up for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Director for Lanthimos, Leading Actress for Olivia Colman, and Supporting Actress for both Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone.
The film’s haul of 12 nominations matches The Shape Of Water’s total last year, which itself was the highest number for an individual title since The King’s Speech achieved 14 nods in 2011.
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite picked up a healthy 12 nominations as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts set its contenders for the 2019 ceremony on February 10.
The dark period comedy is up for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Director for Lanthimos, Leading Actress for Olivia Colman, and Supporting Actress for both Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone.
The film’s haul of 12 nominations matches The Shape Of Water’s total last year, which itself was the highest number for an individual title since The King’s Speech achieved 14 nods in 2011.
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- 1/9/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Richard Jordan Jan 9, 2019
Which movies, actors and filmamkers have made the shortlist for this year's British Academy Film Awards?
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Hot on the heels of the Golden Globes, awards season continues apace with the reveal of the nominees for the 2019 Bafta Film Awards. The category shortlists were announced by Brit actors Hayley Squires and Will Poulter (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) live via social media this morning.
The nominees for this year's Bafta Rising Star Award, which is voted for by the public, have already been announced: Letitia Wright, Jessie Buckley, Cynthia Erivo, Barry Keoghan and Lakeith Stanfield.
Here is the full list of this year's nominees:
Best Film
BlacKkKlansman
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star Is Born
Best British Film
Beast
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
McQueen
Stan & Ollie
You Were Never Really Here
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper,...
Which movies, actors and filmamkers have made the shortlist for this year's British Academy Film Awards?
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Hot on the heels of the Golden Globes, awards season continues apace with the reveal of the nominees for the 2019 Bafta Film Awards. The category shortlists were announced by Brit actors Hayley Squires and Will Poulter (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) live via social media this morning.
The nominees for this year's Bafta Rising Star Award, which is voted for by the public, have already been announced: Letitia Wright, Jessie Buckley, Cynthia Erivo, Barry Keoghan and Lakeith Stanfield.
Here is the full list of this year's nominees:
Best Film
BlacKkKlansman
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star Is Born
Best British Film
Beast
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
McQueen
Stan & Ollie
You Were Never Really Here
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper,...
- 1/9/2019
- Den of Geek
Update, writethru: BAFTA has revealed its nominations for this year’s Ee British Academy Film Awards with Fox Searchlight’s The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos leading the list of contenders at 12. Also making strong showings are Netflix’s Roma, Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born, Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Universal’s First Man with seven nominations each. See below for the full roster.
Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma notably is also up here for Best Film Not In The English Language, Director, Cinematography, Editing and Original Screenplay, all of which could repeat at the Oscars.
Along with Roma and The Favourite, the Best Film category includes A Star Is Born, BlackKklansman (the latter from Focus with five nominations total) and Universal’s Green Book (eOne in the UK) which has a total four nods. Bohemian Rhapsody is in Oustanding British Film, but First Man made neither cut despite its big nods haul.
Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma notably is also up here for Best Film Not In The English Language, Director, Cinematography, Editing and Original Screenplay, all of which could repeat at the Oscars.
Along with Roma and The Favourite, the Best Film category includes A Star Is Born, BlackKklansman (the latter from Focus with five nominations total) and Universal’s Green Book (eOne in the UK) which has a total four nods. Bohemian Rhapsody is in Oustanding British Film, but First Man made neither cut despite its big nods haul.
- 1/9/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite,” Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” and Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” are among the top films of 2018 as selected by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), which announced its nominations on Wednesday morning in London.
Those films will compete with “Green Book” and “BlacKkKlansman” in the Best Film category at the Ee British Academy Film Awards, which will take place on Feb. 10 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
“The Favourite” easily led all films in nominations with 12, five more than runners-up “Roma,” “A Star Is Born,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “First Man,” which each received seven. “Vice” received six nominations, “BlacKkKlansman” five, and “Green Book” and “Cold War” four each.
Also Read: Stars Were Born at the Golden Globes - But They Sure Weren't the Ones We Expected
Golden Globe winner “Bohemian Rhapsody” was not nominated in the top BAFTA category, but...
Those films will compete with “Green Book” and “BlacKkKlansman” in the Best Film category at the Ee British Academy Film Awards, which will take place on Feb. 10 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
“The Favourite” easily led all films in nominations with 12, five more than runners-up “Roma,” “A Star Is Born,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “First Man,” which each received seven. “Vice” received six nominations, “BlacKkKlansman” five, and “Green Book” and “Cold War” four each.
Also Read: Stars Were Born at the Golden Globes - But They Sure Weren't the Ones We Expected
Golden Globe winner “Bohemian Rhapsody” was not nominated in the top BAFTA category, but...
- 1/9/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
“The Favourite” has scored 12 nominations at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ movie awards, far outpacing the rest of the pack.
Behind it came “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “First Man,” “Roma” and “A Star Is Born” with seven BAFTA nominations apiece. “Vice” garnered six noms, “BlacKkKlansman” five, and “Cold War” and “Green Book” four each. Earning three nominations each were “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Mary Queen of Scots” and “Stan & Ollie.”
All three main actresses in “The Favourite” – Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone – were recognized with noms, which were unveiled Wednesday. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga landed best actor and actress nods for “A Star Is Born,” and Cooper was one of the five nominees – all men – for best director.
“Roma” continued its awards-season run, landing nominations for both best film and best film in a foreign language, as well as a director nomination for Alfonso Cuaron.
Behind it came “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “First Man,” “Roma” and “A Star Is Born” with seven BAFTA nominations apiece. “Vice” garnered six noms, “BlacKkKlansman” five, and “Cold War” and “Green Book” four each. Earning three nominations each were “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Mary Queen of Scots” and “Stan & Ollie.”
All three main actresses in “The Favourite” – Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone – were recognized with noms, which were unveiled Wednesday. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga landed best actor and actress nods for “A Star Is Born,” and Cooper was one of the five nominees – all men – for best director.
“Roma” continued its awards-season run, landing nominations for both best film and best film in a foreign language, as well as a director nomination for Alfonso Cuaron.
- 1/9/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on nine.
The nominations for the 2019 British Academy Film Awards were revealed today (Jan 9) at London’s Princess Anne Theatre.
The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on seven. Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, with Cold War and Green Book on four each.
The Bafta ceremony will take place on Feb 10 at London’s Royal Albert Hall and will be broadcast on BBC One. Joanna Lumley will once again host the event.
The nominations for the 2019 British Academy Film Awards were revealed today (Jan 9) at London’s Princess Anne Theatre.
The Favourite leads the way with 12 nominations. Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, Roma and A Star Is Born follow on seven. Vice has six, BlacKkKlansman has five, with Cold War and Green Book on four each.
The Bafta ceremony will take place on Feb 10 at London’s Royal Albert Hall and will be broadcast on BBC One. Joanna Lumley will once again host the event.
- 1/9/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Film takes prizes including Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Actress.
Yorgos Lanthimos’s period comedy The Favourite won a record 10 prizes at this year’s British Independent Film Awards.
At a ceremony held in London hosted by actor Russell Tovey – who in his opening monologue declared the night a “Brexit-free zone” - the film took the night’s main prize, Best British Independent Film, as well as Best Director for Lanthimos and Best Screenplay for writers Deborah Davis and Tony Mcnamara.
The Favourite star Olivia Colman continued her perfect record at the BIFAs, taking home Best Actress...
Yorgos Lanthimos’s period comedy The Favourite won a record 10 prizes at this year’s British Independent Film Awards.
At a ceremony held in London hosted by actor Russell Tovey – who in his opening monologue declared the night a “Brexit-free zone” - the film took the night’s main prize, Best British Independent Film, as well as Best Director for Lanthimos and Best Screenplay for writers Deborah Davis and Tony Mcnamara.
The Favourite star Olivia Colman continued her perfect record at the BIFAs, taking home Best Actress...
- 12/3/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The 2018 British Independent Film Awards (The BIFAs) took place at Old Billingsgate in London this evening with The Favourite living up to its name and taking home 10 awards including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz.
Disobedience’s Alessandro Nivola took home Best Supporting Actor while Peaky Blinders’ Joe Cole won Best Actor for A Prayer Before Dawn. American Animals and You Were Never Really Here were winners and won two awards apiece and we said hello to Star Trek Discovery’s Jason Isaacs, Bart Layton, Joe Cole, Black Mirror & Been So Long’s Michaela Coel, The Happy Prince’s Rupert Everett, Yann Demange, Barry Keoghan and Bart Layton on the red carpet.
Attending the event were Emma Stone, Yorgos Lathinmos, Michael Pearce, Lynne Ramsay, Gemma Arterton, Steve Coogan, Jessie Buckley, Maxine Peake, Rachel McAdams, Charlie Plummer, Joaquin Phoenix, Dominic West, Evan Peters, Karen Gillan,...
Disobedience’s Alessandro Nivola took home Best Supporting Actor while Peaky Blinders’ Joe Cole won Best Actor for A Prayer Before Dawn. American Animals and You Were Never Really Here were winners and won two awards apiece and we said hello to Star Trek Discovery’s Jason Isaacs, Bart Layton, Joe Cole, Black Mirror & Been So Long’s Michaela Coel, The Happy Prince’s Rupert Everett, Yann Demange, Barry Keoghan and Bart Layton on the red carpet.
Attending the event were Emma Stone, Yorgos Lathinmos, Michael Pearce, Lynne Ramsay, Gemma Arterton, Steve Coogan, Jessie Buckley, Maxine Peake, Rachel McAdams, Charlie Plummer, Joaquin Phoenix, Dominic West, Evan Peters, Karen Gillan,...
- 12/3/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“The Favourite” lived up to its name at the British Independent Film Awards, picking up 10 of the 13 prizes for which it was nominated. Yorgos Lanthimos’ majestic period drama won Best British Independent Film, Director, Screenplay (Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara), Actress (Olivia Colman), and Supporting Actress (Rachel Weisz), as well as a slew of technical awards.
Others managed to pick up a few prizes as well: “Roma” won Best International Independent Film, while Joe Cole’s performance in “A Prayer Before Dawn” earned him Best Actor laurels and Alessandro Nivola of “Disobedience” was named Best Supporting Actor.
Best British Independent Film: “The Favourite”
Best Director: Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Favourite”
Best Screenplay: Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, “The Favourite”
Best Actress: Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”
Best Actor: Joe Cole, “A Prayer Before Dawn”
Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite”
Best Supporting Actor: Alessandro Nivola, “Disobedience”
Most Promising Newcomer: Jessie Buckley,...
Others managed to pick up a few prizes as well: “Roma” won Best International Independent Film, while Joe Cole’s performance in “A Prayer Before Dawn” earned him Best Actor laurels and Alessandro Nivola of “Disobedience” was named Best Supporting Actor.
Best British Independent Film: “The Favourite”
Best Director: Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Favourite”
Best Screenplay: Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, “The Favourite”
Best Actress: Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”
Best Actor: Joe Cole, “A Prayer Before Dawn”
Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite”
Best Supporting Actor: Alessandro Nivola, “Disobedience”
Most Promising Newcomer: Jessie Buckley,...
- 12/2/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
“The Favourite” proved to be just that at the 2018 British Independent Film Awards, winning a whopping 10 categories including Best Picture. Coming into the evening with a lucky 13 nominations, it lost just two races: Best Film Editing to “American Animals” and Best Sound to “You Were Never Really Here,” which also took home the prize for Best Music. “The Favourite” had two nominees in Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz won over, among others, co-star Emma Stone. (Scroll down to see the complete list of winners and read the full report on the BIFAs)
To be eligible for consideration, films had to be intended for theatrical release, produced or co-produced by a British company and have budgets of under 10 million pounds. This year’s ceremony took place at the Old Billingsgate market.
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To be eligible for consideration, films had to be intended for theatrical release, produced or co-produced by a British company and have budgets of under 10 million pounds. This year’s ceremony took place at the Old Billingsgate market.
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- 12/2/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Yorgos Lanthimos’s acclaimed comedy-drama The Favourite won a record ten awards at the British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) in London tonight.
The film won Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay sponsored by BBC Films. Olivia Colman maintained her perfect record of winning at Bifa every time she is nominated and took home her fourth Bifa trophy.
Her performance as Queen Anne was awarded Best Actress. Her co-star Rachel Weisz was named Best Supporting Actress; Weisz won at Bifa for The Constant Gardener in 2005. The five awards on the night took the tally for The Favourite to ten, added to its five craft awards announced earlier this month for Best Casting, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Make Up & Hair Design and Best Production Design.
The Fox Searchlight charge is rolling into the awards season on a high having garnered acclaim out of the gate at the Venice Film Festival.
The film won Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay sponsored by BBC Films. Olivia Colman maintained her perfect record of winning at Bifa every time she is nominated and took home her fourth Bifa trophy.
Her performance as Queen Anne was awarded Best Actress. Her co-star Rachel Weisz was named Best Supporting Actress; Weisz won at Bifa for The Constant Gardener in 2005. The five awards on the night took the tally for The Favourite to ten, added to its five craft awards announced earlier this month for Best Casting, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Make Up & Hair Design and Best Production Design.
The Fox Searchlight charge is rolling into the awards season on a high having garnered acclaim out of the gate at the Venice Film Festival.
- 12/2/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” definitely lived up to its name at the British Independent Film Awards on Sunday, where it won 10 awards, including best director, best screenplay and best British independent film of 2018.
The awards were handed out at Old Billingsgate in London.
Lanthimos’ twisted period piece won in a category whose other nominees were “American Animals,” “Beast,” “Disobedience” and “You Were Never Really Here.”
Acting awards went to Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz for “The Favourite,” Joe Cole for “A Prayer Before Dawn” and Alessandro Nivola for “Disobedience.”
Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” won the award for the best international indie, beating out the Gotham Awards winner “The Rider” and three other films in the Oscar foreign-language race: “Capernaum,” “Cold War” and “Shoplifters.”
The Bifa’s three breakthrough awards went to “Ray & Liz” producer Jacqui Davies and director Richard Billingham,...
The awards were handed out at Old Billingsgate in London.
Lanthimos’ twisted period piece won in a category whose other nominees were “American Animals,” “Beast,” “Disobedience” and “You Were Never Really Here.”
Acting awards went to Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz for “The Favourite,” Joe Cole for “A Prayer Before Dawn” and Alessandro Nivola for “Disobedience.”
Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” won the award for the best international indie, beating out the Gotham Awards winner “The Rider” and three other films in the Oscar foreign-language race: “Capernaum,” “Cold War” and “Shoplifters.”
The Bifa’s three breakthrough awards went to “Ray & Liz” producer Jacqui Davies and director Richard Billingham,...
- 12/2/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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