BFI London Film Festival Awards Announced

Following the inaugural 2009 Awards ceremony, the 54th BFI London Film Festival is delighted to announce the shortlists and juries for the 2010 Awards which will take place at Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s on 27 October.

Director Danny Boyle will also be presented with the BFI Fellowship, the highest accolade the British Film Institute can bestow.

This year’s Best Film Award will be presented in partnership with the festival’s headline sponsor American Express. The Best Film Award celebrates original, inventive and distinctive filmmaking in the festival. An initial shortlist was drawn up by Sandra Hebron, the festival’s Artistic Director and the programming team, which will be judged by a jury representing the breadth of the international film community.

This year’s jury will be chaired by Patricia Clarkson and includes Gabriel Byrne, Sandy Powell and Shekhar Kapur. Last year’s winner was Jacques Audiard’s powerful drama, A Prophet, which went on to receive world-wide recognition and awards success.

This year’s shortlist is:

127 Hours (Danny Boyle)

Another Year (Mike Leigh)

Archipegalo (Joanna Hogg)

Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)

How I ended this summer (Alexei Popogrebsky)

The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper)

Meek’s Cut-off (Kelly Reichardt)

Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek)

Of Gods And Men (Xavier Beauvois)

The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat)

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)

Patricia Clarkson said: “It’s an honour to be on such a prestigious Film jury, and a pleasure to be judging a shortlist which showcases such a diverse range of films from some of the most exciting filmmakers around.”

Director Danny Boyle will receive the highest accolade that the British Film Institute bestows, the BFI Fellowship. This award is given to individuals whose body of work has made an outstanding contribution to film culture. Boyle, whose latest feature 127 Hours closes this year’s festival, said of the award “A significant helping of humility is called for in the face of this honour and that is not difficult considering those awarded it before. I am shocked, flattered and delighted to receive the Fellowship on behalf of everyone who has helped me make the films, the successful ones and the not so successful ones, and on behalf of all runts in every litter.”

Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire closed the 2008 festival and screened to huge acclaim on its way to worldwide box office and awards success.

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