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Special jury award went to Attacking the Devil [pictured], while Lifetime Achievement was presented to Roger Graef.

Sheffield Doc/Fest has unveiled the winners of this year’s awards.

The Inspiration Award was presented to Laura Poitras, while Roger Graef received the Lifetime Achievement award. Accepting the award, Graef paid tribute to “those souls who have been brave enough to let us capture them”.

Judged by Mark Cousins, Eugene Hernandez, Kate Kinninmont, Karolina Lidin and Dawn Porter, the Special Jury prize went to Jacqui Morris & David Morris’ Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime.

Porter commented: “We unanimously found this film to be an elegant examination of complex themes. We appreciated his film on all levels - it is a work approached with relevance and rigor, a historical film that feels contemporary and engaging, blossoms like a novel, and is surprising when least expected, epic in its scope, traversing decades...

The 2014 Sheffield Doc/Fest awards were presented this morning at The Crucible Theater in Sheffield, UK, with the Special Jury Award going to Jacqui Morris & David Morris's "Attacking The Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime,". Read More: Here's What We Learned from Joe Berlinger's Master ClassThe Special Jury consisted of Mark Cousins (Filmmaker, UK), Eugene Hernandez (Film Society of Lincoln Center, USA), Kate Kinninmont (MBE, Chief Executive of Women in Film & TV, UK), Karolina Lidin (Film Consultant, Denmark) and Dawn Porter (Director/Producer, USA). Of "Attacking The Devil," jury member Dawn Porter said, "We unanimously found this film to be an elegant examination of complex themes. We appreciated his film on all levels - it is a work approached with relevance and rigor, a historical film that feels contemporary and engaging, blossoms like a novel, and is surprising when least...

As Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 draws to a close (with some outro parties still to take place over the weekend of course), it’s time to take a look at this year’s award winners. In a ceremony held this morning at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre, the top-doc Special Jury Award was won by Jacqui Morris and David Morris’ combative documentary on Sir Harold Evans and The Sunday Times’ decade-long campaign to gain compensation for victims of Thalidomide. It’s thrilling to see a special mention handed out to Andre Singer’s Night Will Fall – and that both documentaries deal with the gruesome legacies of the Nazis. For the full list of winners, see below.

Special Jury Award

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (Jacqui Morris, David Morris)

Special mention to Night Will Fall (Andre Singer)

In The Dark Sheffield International Audio Award

Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel...

Detailing the life and work of acclaimed war photographer Don McCullin, the seminal photo-journalist of the 1970s and 1980s, Jacqui and David Morris' documentary film shows the truth behind McCullin's hard hitting and controversial images. To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of this celebrated, cinematic portrait of one of the 20th century's key artistic figures, we have Three Blu-ray copies of McCullin to offer out to our loyal fanbase, courtesy of the hardworking team at Artificial Eye. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.

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Affleck wins again! Can Argo be stopped? What a year of awards! This weekend in London, the BAFTA (or British Academy of Film and Television Arts) held their annual show, the BAFTA Awards, honoring the finest in film and television from 2012. This year's biggest winner was quite a surprise, but nonetheless yet another sweet victory. Ben Affleck and Argo won Best Director and Best Film, along with Best Editing, but nothing else. Most of the other technical wins were split up between Tom Hooper's Les Miserables and Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, with a few for Amour and Silver Linings Playbook snuck in there. Here's the complete list of film winners (listed in bold) for the 2013 BAFTA Awards, via BAFTA.org: Best Film: Argo Les Misérables Life of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film: Anna Karenina The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Les Misérables Seven Psychopaths Skyfall Outstanding Debut by a British Writer,...

Argo was named Best Film at tonight’s Ee British Academy Film Awards hosted by Stephen Fry, held at London’s Royal Opera House. And the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award winners are… Best Film Winner – Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney Les MISÉRABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh Life Of Pi Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark Lincoln Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison Outstanding British Film Anna Karenina Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker Les MISÉRABLES Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin Winner – Skyfall Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan...

Best Film Argo - Winner Les Misérables Life of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film Anna Karenina The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Les Miserables Seven Psychopaths Skyfall - Winner Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) - The Imposter - Winner David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) - McCullin Dexter Fletcher (director/writer), Danny King (writer) - Wild Bill James Bobin (director) - The Muppets Tina Gharavi (director/writer) - I Am Nasrine Film Not in the English Language Amour - Winner Headhunters The Hunt Rust and Bone Untouchable Documentary The Imposter Marley McCullin Searching for Sugarman - Winner West of Memphis Animated Film Brave - Winner Frankenweenie Paranorman Director Michael Haneke - Amour Ben Affleck - Argo - Winner Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained Ang Lee - Life of Pi Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty Original Screenplay...

With awards season truly underway, it is time to dust off the gowns and practice the speeches (not to mention the he-deserved-it-more look) and make out predictions for the BAFTAs.

Part 1 will cover the following categories:

- Best Documentary

- Best Animated Feature

- Best Film not in the English Language

- Best Adapted Screenplay

- Best Original Screenplay

- Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

Best Documentary

The Imposter Marley McCullin Searching for Sugarman West of Memphis

After the cruel snub of Chasing Ice, the Academy has played it safe with their choices. It is good to see British films The Imposter and Marley in the running, not to mention hard-hitting documentary West of Memphis. My hopes are with Searching For Sugarman for being more than an almost-biographical documentary.

Best Animated Film

Brave Frankenweenie Paranorman

Hopes of a British nominee in the shape of Aardman’s Pirates!

Steven Spielberg's presidential biopic heads into Oscar nominations with the most nods from both the Golden Globe awards and the Baftas, while Tom Hooper's Les Miserables and Ang Lee's Life of Pi trail with nine and Skyfall follows with eight

The British films Les Miserables, Tom Hooper's crowd-pleasing adaptation of the West End musical, and Skyfall, the critically acclaimed 23rd outing for James Bond, were both widely rewarded in the nominations for the British Academy film awards on Wednesday.

But the biggest number of nominations went to Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's biopic of the 16th president, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. That film, which opens in the UK on 25 January, picked up 10 nominations while Les Miserables took nine and Skyfall eight (although the Bond film failed to make the best film category).

Lincoln therefore heads into the Oscar race (which begins proper on Thursday when the nominations are announced) as clear frontrunner,...

The nominations for the 2013 Ee British Academy Film Awards were unveiled by Alice Eve and Jeremy Irvine at BAFTA's Piccadilly headquarters this morning (January 9). The ceremony will take place on Sunday 10 February 2013 at London's Royal Opera House, hosted by Stephen Fry, and will be broadcast by the BBC. Video: Alice Eve, Jeremy Irvine and Mark Kermode discuss the BAFTA nominations:

Best Film

Argo

Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film

Anna Karenina

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Les Miserables

Seven Psychopaths

Skyfall Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) - The Imposter

David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) - McCullin

Dexter Fletcher (more)...

The nominations for the 2013 Ee British Academy Film Awards were unveiled by Alice Eve and Jeremy Irvine at BAFTA's Piccadilly headquarters this morning (January 9). The ceremony will take place on Sunday 10 February 2013 at London's Royal Opera House, hosted by Stephen Fry, and will be broadcast by the BBC. Video - Watch the BAFTA nominations announcement below (starts at 22m30s): Best Film

Argo

Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film

Anna Karenina

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Les Miserables

Seven Psychopaths

Skyfall Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) - The Imposter

David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) - McCullin

Dexter Fletcher (director/writer), Danny (more)...

The Impossible | Quartet | Hors Satan | McCullin | Playing For Keeps | Repulsion | Texas Chainsaw 3D

The Impossible (12A) (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2012, Spa) Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Tom Holland, Oaklee Pendergast, Samuel Joslin. 114 mins

It was less than ten years ago, but already the Indian Ocean Tsunami has passed from a documentary subject to disaster-movie material. To injurious timing, though, this epic adds the insult of assuming we're only interested in how it affected white people. It's firmly focused on the plight of a British family, separated by the disaster. It's based on a true story, and impressively mounted, but that's no excuse for the myopic tastelessness.

Quartet (12A) (Dustin Hoffman, 2012, UK) Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, ichael Gambon. 98 mins

Theatricality is built into Hoffman's directing debut, a gentle senior-centric comedy set in a country home for retired musicians. Opera diva Smith's arrival ruffles feathers and stirs up ancient memories.

Hors Satan (15) (Bruno Dumont,...

★★★★☆ The world-renowned Don McCullin spent over three decades of his illustrious career on the frontline of human conflict. From 1969 to 1984, he was the celebrated photographer for The Sunday Times, where he covered an assortment of wars, a number of famines around the world, and even the plight of the homeless in sixties London. Unsurprisingly, all of the above makes for an enthralling documentary - as it does with 2013's McCullin - but filmmakers David Morris and Jacqui Morris have gone one better than a simple biopic of this great figure by actually calling on the man himself to offer a haunting retrospective of his work.

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With the advent of digital technology, the possibilities and liberties available to filmmakers is pretty limitless. Whatever dreams fill a director’s head – some people really shouldn’t bother. This goes especially to brother/sister, writer/director combo Jacqui and David Morris.

Whilst their intentions may be good (don’t forget the road to hell is paved with them), their debut film; described as a “hom-rom-com” (wonder how long it took them to come up with that?), is a cheap, poorly-executed endeavour, filled with former soap actors. And unfortunately, it’s unintentionally hilarious from start to finish.

Beginning with one of the most irritating title sequences ever dreamed up, it would be no shock to discover the Us administration use it as a form of torture at Guantanamo Bay. Even before discussing the plot and characters, on a technical level, the film is a bloody shambles: from over-lit cinematography to continuity issues.

James Lance as Harry

At the beginning of Mr. Right, a world premiere movie airing this Sunday as part of Logo’s Sunday night Fall Film Festival, Louise has just one small request of her video dating service:

That her next date not be gay!

Unfortunately, she’s drawn to gay men and that isn't especially helpful when trying to date. All of Louise's close friends are gay, and soon we meet them: Harry, who hates his job as a TV producer and is, more or less, in love with Alex, an aspiring actor with determination, but not much luck or talent.

William is a rugby player in love with Larrs, a soap opera star, but his nine-year-old daughter is determined to sabotage their relationship. Finally, there’s Tom, a successful artist, and his handsome “kept boy” Tom who happens to be in love with Harry.

We also meet Paul,...

New British gay feature film "Mr. Right" is set to premiere in Hollywood at the Laemmle's Sunset Five Cinema on October 9.

The romantic comedy movie about same-sex relationships tells the story of a group of several gay men in London who deal with issues not exclusive to the gay community.

David Morris wrote the script, while his sister Jacqui Morris directed.

"Mr. Right" includes promotions such as "Mom's Go Free," which means literally.