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IMPORTANT DIARY DATES FOR 2000 • FILM AWARDS APRIL 9 • CRAFT AWARDS APRIL 30 • CYMRU AWARDS APRIL 30 •
CHAMPAGNE
1999fizzed by for
BAFTA. The year
saw a record number of nominees for the Film, Television, Interactive Entertainment and Children’s Awards with a record number of guests snap-
ping up tickets at the Design Centre, Grosvenor House, Royal Lancaster and Park Lane Hilton.
The champagne corks mounted up as the year was topped off at the National Film Theatre in December when BAFTA and the BBC paid fulsome tribute to Lord Attenborough. The hour long television programme was packed with stars - Kevin Kline, Cate Blanchett, Sir John Mills, Steven Spielberg, Kenneth Branagh, James Coburn, Alan Parker, John Thaw, Sheila Hancock, Ben Kingsley, Elliot Gould, Prunella Scales, Timothy West.....etc etc!
The sixty minute BAFTA/BBC Tribute took pride of place in a BBC 2 weekend of Attenborough successes. The flim clips added up to a stunning range of achievements
in over fifty years as an actor/pro- ducer/director - including In
Which We Serve, 10 Rillington
Place, The Great Escape, Gandhi, Cry Freedom, Jurassic Park, Brighton Rock, Shadowlands and his latest production Grey Owl.
Top Awards of the year in Film went to Shakespeare in Love (Best Film), Cate
Blanchett and Roberto Benigni (as Best Actress and Actor) and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels won
the Orange audience award. The TV honours went to
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
(Best Light Entertainment Programme), with Father Ted
(Best Comedy) and
Eastenders (Best Soap). Michael Parkinson won the award for
the Best Light Entertainment Performance and Goodnight Mr Tom won the annual Lew Grade Award.
In the Interactive Entertainment World the Berners-Lee Award for Best Personal Contribution to the UK Interactive Industry went to Toby Gard and Paul Douglas whilst Nintendo 64 picked up four awards for the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Winners in the Children’s Awards included Art Attack (winner of the BAFTA Kids Vote). Mark Haddon won the writer’s award for his work on Wild House and Microsoap with Brian Henson picking up the Special Award on behalf of the Jim Henson Company. ■
Photos this page: Ms Michaela Strachan in party spirit. Patron of The Orange Prize For Screenwriting, Dame Judi Dench; Dick Francis (Managing Director - THE Games) wore out the shoe leather at the Interactive Entertainment Awards in October collecting 4 awards. Pictured here with Jeremy Dale, Commercial and Marketing Director - Nintendo. Scott Chisholm and Tim Edmunds, BAFTA Kids’ Vote Winner for Art Attack.
Photos opposite page: BAFTA Council Chairman, Tim Angel escorts the Academy’s President HRH Princess Anne at the Film Awards in April; Dickie Attenborough and Bob Hoskins; A standing ovation at the Design Centre, warmly reflected the Industry’s admiration and respect for Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who was presented with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ Fellowship by Michael Caine; Brian Henson and Mopatop collect the Special Award Silver Mask at the Children’s Awards in November; John Thaw with Nick Robinson. BBC’s famed Gardener, Charlie Dimmock with Esther Rantzen and Desmond Wilcox; Roberto Benigni, winning Best Actor Award; Katy Hill presenting the Children’s Awards; Lord Attenborough receives his Lifetime Achievement Silver BAFTA from Ben Kingsley;
Kenneth Branagh, Lord Attenborough and Kevin Kline; James Coburn and Ben Kingsley.
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