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Inside 195 Piccadilly
SIR SYDNEY SAMUELSON’S
CHRISTMAS QUIZ
MORRELL’S
“baftalk”
JOHN
These are heady times for the Academy as we ease towards the end of a memorable Awards year. Back in April, Leicester Square became BAFTA Square for the night as 1800 guests strolled down the red carpet in glorious Spring sunshine into the Odeon. Michael Caine (not yet Sir), Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Hugh Grant, Kevin Spacey, Dame Maggie Smith, Joseph and Ralph Fiennes, Sam Mendes... the list went on. Live coverage was on
Sky with the highlights net-
worked on ITV.
The following day, nine front pages. Hans Snook, Denise Lewis, Peter Raymond and the team at Orange were delighted. We owe them a great deal, not just for sponsoring the Orange British Academy Film Awards itself, but also for the huge amount of cash and commitment they put in around the edges.
Across London to the
Grosvenor House in May for
the Television Awards broadcast on BBC 1 to a UK wide audience of not far short of 10 million. Another triumph for Amanda Berry, Donna Bell and the team and most grateful thanks to Nick Brett and his people at Radio Times for their unstinting financial and enthusiastic support.
The experiment to create a separate awards ceremony to properly celebrate the outstanding editors, camera people, make- up, hair, design, sound... was also a suc- cess – if a controversial one. Next year, Hilary Bevan Jones is spearheading the team who have decided the event has out- grown the 200 capacity at the Academy and are looking for a central London venue to accommodate twice that number.
The autumn ‘double-whammy’ – Interactive and Children’s - could not have been more impressive. Both far exceeded expectations in terms of entries, demand for tickets, stars and key industry players. ICL for Interactive and new spon- sors Lego for Children’s, gave us the crucial financial foundations on which to build. Press coverage was terrific. Sue Thexton, Joy Barrett, John Richmond, Lisa Prime and their teams deserve enormous praise.
In Hollywood, too, the British Academy profile was centre stage. BAFTA LA’s Britannia Awards in early November cele- brated the career of Steven Spielberg. Over a thousand guests paid handsomely to be part of the evening leading to Prince Andrew handing over the silver mask to one of the world’s greatest film talents.
And our decision to place next year’s Film Awards a month ahead of the Oscars has gone down amazingly well on both sides of the Atlantic. But for two people specifically, it is quite simply an absolute and total nightmare. Academy Assistant Director Doreen Dean and Film Assistant, Katie Hart, are not happy budgies. A well-
meaning “How’s it going, Doreen?” could get you hospitalised. But with Doreen at the helm, and Amanda on high-octane, you just know that, somehow, it WILL happen. Just don’t ask “How’s it going?”
So things are looking rosy on the Awards front. On the financial side, Peter Allen got quite above himself on a couple of occasions when we crept – for the first time in his memory – into the
black. By early summer next year, the red should have been banished for the foreseeable future.
And at 195, having recently fitted a new kitchen, replaced the Servery with Café @ 195, removed a staircase to open up an elegant recep- tion space on the second floor, upgraded facilities and fitted state of the art safety systems, we are now in the midst of a
Feasibility Study conduct- ed by architects, structural engineers, ser-
vice engineers and quantity surveyors. Before Christmas, they will provide
the Academy with robust figures on which Trustees and Council can take intelligent long-term decisions.
As we repair the roof should we devel- op 195 creating a fourth floor? Should we acknowledge that the building is simply too restricting for a growing organisation; should we move into the new South Bank complex alongside the BFI?
Sadly, I shall be on the fringes of these decisions with my new Consultant’s hat on. But Simon Relph, Amanda Berry, Michael Attwell, Sue Thexton, Stephen Woolley, Duncan Kenworthy, Lords Attenborough and Puttnam and Sir Sydney and others will be in the thick of it.
No one is underestimating the need to focus on the fundamental question: “What kind of Academy do we want for the next 25 years? How best can we add value to membership and continue to nurture and celebrate excellence in our various multi-media industries?”
Please contribute to the deliberations, as input from the members is essential and is greatly appreciated.
In the meantime, it’s farewell from me, a huge thank you to Ruth Grenville and very very best wishes to Amanda and all of the staff at 195. ■ JOHN MORRELL
Academy Assistant Director Doreen Dean
WINNING ENTRY WILL RECEIVE A CHAMPAGNE DINNER FOR TWO AT THE ACADEMY’S SENSATIONAL AND ROMANTIC CAFE@195
FEATURE FILMS
Q1: A successful 1998 film saw a shy young woman impersonating the voices of singing superstars Bassey, Dietrich, Garland and others:
a) What was the film?
b) Who was the actress who gave a brilliant performance on both stage and screen and provided all the voices her- self?
c) Which co-star was Oscar nominated?
Q2: A talented unseen vocalist provided the singing voices for three classical musicals:
(a) The King and I, (b) West Side Story, (c) My Fair Lady.
What is her name?
Q3: Re Q2 above - name the three star actresses whose singing voices were dubbed in each film, a,b & c?
Q4: Tom Hanks won Best Actor awards (Oscars) two years running. It was widely predicted that he would be the first actor in history to win three in a row but, in the event he was not even nominated. The film was nevertheless a huge box- office success. Name it?
Q5: Queen Elizabeth 1 was portrayed in two top films in 1998:
a) Elizabeth
b) Shakespeare In Love
Which two actresses played the part?
Q6: What were Krzystof Kieslowski’s three colours?
Q7: Three great directors made three great films with a fruit in the title:
a) John Ford
b) Stanley Kubrick c) Ingmar Bergman
Name the films.
TELEVISION
Q1: In 1966, public outrage caused a charity for the homeless to be set up imme- diately after the showing of a gritty BBC television play:
a)Nametheplay
b) Name the charity
c) Name the lead actress
Q2: Where was the set for Big Brother located?
Q3: In Dad’s Army name the army rank of the characters played by:
a) Arthur Lowe
b) Clive Dunn
c) John LeMesurier
Q4: Name the make of vehicle used by:
a) Roger Moore in The Saint b) John Thaw in Inspector Morse
c) David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst in Only Fools and Horses
Q5: There were two series of Fawlty Towers:
a) How many episodes were there in total?
b) Who were the two writers?
Q6: The Naked Civil Servant (1975)
a) On whose life was the pro- gramme based?
b) Who played the part?
Please write your answers on a separate sheet of paper and post direct to BAFTA Quiz 195 Piccadilly London W1J 9LN by 1 January 2001
John Morrell Executive Director BAFTA
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