Emily Watson will obtain the honorary Richard Harris Award on the 2025 British Impartial Movie Awards (BIFAs).
Launched in 2002, the BIFAs hand out the Richard Harris Award to recognise an impressive contribution by an actor to British movie. Earlier honorees embrace Samantha Morton, Riz Ahmed, Kristin Scott Thomas, Daniel Day-Lewis, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julie Walters, Stephen Graham, and Sophie Okonedo.
“I’m delighted and deeply honoured to be receiving this award,” Watson stated in a press release. “I’ve had the nice privilege of spending time with Jared as an actor and raconteur, listening to thrilling wild tales of his dad and the drive that he was. I’m so grateful to the Harris household for considering of me. Really an honour. Thanks, BIFA.”
The twenty eighth BIFA awards ceremony takes place on November 30 on the Roundhouse in London. Akinola Davies Jr.’s debut function, My Father’s Shadow, led this yr’s nominations with 12 nods, together with Finest Director and Finest Screenplay.
Directed by Davies Jr. from a screenplay he wrote together with his brother, Wale, the movie’s spectacular haul additionally included nods within the Finest British Impartial Movie, Finest Debut Director, and Finest Debut Screenwriter classes, alongside a number of craft nods, together with Finest Cinematography and Finest Costume Design. Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye profiled Davies Jr. out of Cannes, the place the movie debuted. You'll be able to take a look at that profile right here.
BIFA introduced its craft winners final week. Harry Lighton’s Pillion and Die My Love, the newest function from Scottish auteur Lynne Ramsay, every had two wins. See the total record of winners right here.