FILM AWARDS INFORMATION

British Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the British Film Institute awards, Standard British Film Award and the Evening London Film Critics Circle Awards. BAFTA awarded eight prizes within thirty (Best Film, Best Actress and Best Actor in a year) acquired the British talent in 1990. Since 1960 the UK's top three major awards at film festivals in Cannes, Berlin and Venice. Awards in Cannes in 1993 for best director Mike Leigh (Nude), the Palme d'Or in 1996, Leigh's Secrets and Lies, and the same year for Best Actress Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies). Berlin 1994 Golden Bear in the Father and the Golden Bear in 1996, Sense and Sensibility. Venice better acress Award 1991 Tilda Swinton (Edward II). Britain's leaders received the highest awards at the festival are Lindsay Anderson, Terence Davies, Isaac Julien, Neil Jordan, Carol Reed, Richard Lester, Ken Loach, Alan Parker, Tony Richardson, John Schlesinger, Ridley Scott and Peter Watkins.

Kingdom ranked second (after the US), three at the most prestigious awards (Oscars, New York Critics Awards and the Cannes festivals), 25 percent of awards in New York, 20 percent of Oscar and 15 per cent in Cannes since 1980 Academy Awards (granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), the British tend to getting supporting roles in American movies and done. But four of the fifteen people is the most nominated for the British Academy Awards: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Deborah Kerr and Laurence Olivier. Three members of the Redgrave family has been appointed. During the decade 1986-1995 Emma Thompson has a record four nominations, seven people in the Merchant Ivory films receive nominations, and The Last Emperor (UK / Italy 1987) are in all nine Oscars for which it was nominated.
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