John Hurt receives lifetime achievement award
John Hurt receives lifetime achievement award
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Sunday, 21, Mar 2010 12:44
By inthenews.co.uk staff.
John Hurt has been awarded a lifetime achievement award at the Bradford International Film Festival (BIFF).
The star of The Elephant Man championed independent films before accepting the award, which took place at the National Media Museum.
Hurt said: "I am absolutely delighted to be receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at Bradford International Film Festival this year. It is a Festival that I have long admired for its eclectic mix of films and innovative programming and am very much looking forward to visiting the world's first City of Film in March."
Hurt's films which will be screened at the BIFF include John Huston's Sinful Davey, 10 Rillington Place, Alan Parker's Midnight Express, David Lynch's The Elephant Man, 1984, Scandal, Love and Death on Long Island, Jim Sheridan's The Field, Shooting Dogs and Ridley Scott's Alien.
Hurt received his lifetime accolade from BIFF artistic director Tony Earnshaw.
Mr Earnshaw said: "John Hurt has been leading man, supporting player and scene-stealer.
"Always he has breathed vivid life into believable, plausible and credible characters, often against a backdrop of fancy, whimsy or plain bafflement.
"He appears in the final films in the Harry Potter franchise, thus enchanting an entirely new generation of admirers. It's what going to the cinema is all about."
The festival runs until March 28th at venues across Bradford and Yorkshire.