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“All of Us Strangers” was the big winner at Sunday’s British Independent Film Awards, coming away with seven wins including Best Film, but it was Stephen Graham who was the most celebrated artist in attendance. The Liverpudlian actor, who has starred in a variety of films and TV shows from “Gangs of New York” and “The Irishman” to “Help” and “Boiling Point,” received he Richard Harris Award. This prize, named after the Oscar-nominated legend who played Dumbledore in the first two “Harry Potter” movies, is given to an actor or actress whom the academy believes has contributed significantly to British independent films throughout their career.

The inaugural winner was John Hurt (coincidentally also a two-time Oscar nominee who featured in “Harry Potter” — as Ollivander) in 2003 while last year’s recipient was “The Walking Dead” star Samantha Morton. Other winners have included Tilda Swinton, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ralph Fiennes, Emma Thompson,...

Actor Stephen Graham, who made his mark on the popular crime-thriller show ‘Boardwalk Empire’ as Al Capone, will be receiving the top award at the British Independent Film Awards called ‘The Richard Harris Award’.

The award named after the late star, recognises an outstanding contribution by an actor to British film and sees Graham join a list of fellow honorees that includes the likes of Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave and Riz Ahmed, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The six-time BAFTA TV nominee recently landed his first BAFTA film nomination for his lead turn in hit 2022’s one-shot kitchen drama ‘Boiling Point’, which was also the first project from Graham’s own banner Matriarch Productions.

The studio was set up with his wife and fellow actor Hannah Walters with the aim of providing opportunities for underrepresented talent. The film has since been spun off into a BBC mini-series,...

Actor Stephen Graham, who made his mark on the popular crime-thriller show ‘Boardwalk Empire’ as Al Capone, will be receiving the top award at the British Independent Film Awards called ‘The Richard Harris Award’.

The award named after the late star, recognises an outstanding contribution by an actor to British film and sees Graham join a list of fellow honorees that includes the likes of Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave and Riz Ahmed, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The six-time BAFTA TV nominee recently landed his first BAFTA film nomination for his lead turn in hit 2022’s one-shot kitchen drama ‘Boiling Point’, which was also the first project from Graham’s own banner Matriarch Productions.

The studio was set up with his wife and fellow actor Hannah Walters with the aim of providing opportunities for underrepresented talent. The film has since been spun off into a BBC mini-series,...

Award recognises outstanding contribution by an actor to British film.

Stephen Graham will be awarded the honorary Richard Harris award at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards.

The actor will receive the award at the ceremony on Sunday, December 3. The award, which has been given since 2003 at the annual ceremony, is given in the name of UK actor Harris, recognising ‘an outstanding contribution by an actor to British film.

Liverpudlian Graham received a Bifa nomination in 2007 for his breakthrough role as neo-Nazi Andrew ‘Combo’ Gascoigne in Shane Meadows’ This Is England; Graham went on to reprise the role in three This Is England TV series.

Stephen Graham To Receive Richard Harris Award At BIFAs

Boardwalk Empire and Boiling Point star Stephen Graham is to receive the Richard Harris Award at this year’s BIFAs. The award recognises an outstanding contribution by an actor to British film. Previous winners include Riz Ahmed, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Daniel Day-Lewis, Helena Bonham Carter, John Hurt and Emma Thompson. Graham’s film and TV career has included hits such as This Is England, Snatch, Boardwalk Empire, Rocketman, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, The Virtues, and Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical. In 2020, multi-bafta nominee Graham co-founded Matriarch Productions with his wife and fellow actor Hannah Walters. Matriarch’s first project was Phillip Barantini’s 2021 BIFA-winning movie Boiling Point, which also spawned a TV series. Matriarch is currently working on A Thousand Blows with Disney+. He can currently be seen starring in Netflix’s Bodies and will next be seen...

Stephen Graham, one of the most acclaimed actors on U.K. TV and a regular in both major studio titles and smaller indie features, is set to receive the highest honor at this year’s British Independent Film Awards.

The Richard Harris Award, named after the late star, recognizes an outstanding contribution by an actor to British film and sees Graham join a list of fellow honorees that includes the likes off Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave and Riz Ahmed.

A six-time BAFTA TV nominee, Graham recently landed his first BAFTA film nomination for his lead turn in 2022’s hit, one-shot kitchen drama Boiling Point, which was also the first project from Graham’s own banner Matriarch Productions, set up with his wife and fellow actor Hannah Walters with the aim of providing opportunities for underrepresented talent. The film has since been spun off into a BBC miniseries,...

Dominic Cooper, Tamsin Greig and Eddie Marsan are among the names joining Anne-Marie Duff on season 2 of Channel 4 and BritBox International drama series Suspect.

Filming on the drama’s second run is underway, with Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point, The Lazarus Project), Celine Buckens (Showtrial, The Ex-Wife), Nicholas Pinnock (Top Boy, For Life) and Gina McKee (Bodyguard, Our Friends in the North) joining Cooper (Preacher, Mamma Mia!), Greig (Friday Night Dinner, Belgravia) and Marsan.

Duff stars in the series as Dr Susannah Newman. In the eight-part series, she is on a desperate quest to track down a self-confessed serial killer before he kills again that night. When a mysterious new client Jon (Cooper) admits under hypnosis that he is a murderer and intends on killing another young female that evening, Susannah knows he must be stopped at all costs.

“Mamma Mia!” star Dominic Cooper has joined the second season of U.K. police drama “Suspect.”

Fronted by Anne-Marie Duff (“Bad Sisters”), “Suspect” tells the story of bereaved psychotherapist Dr Susannah Newman (Duff) as she tries to track down a serial killer before he strikes again. The Channel 4 show is an adaptation of Danish series Forhøret (“Face to Face”) created by Christoffer Boe.

Cooper joins as a mysterious new client, Jon Fallow, who claims under hypnosis to be a murderer. When he reveals his plan to kill again, Susannah knows he must be stopped. Before the police arrive Jon escapes and Susannah sets out on a deadly mission to save his next victim’s life.

“I’m so pleased to be returning to ‘Suspect’ to be able to dig deeper into the character of Dr Susannah Newman,” said Duff. “Expect lots of twists, turns and revelations alongside more questions to be answered.

The initiative will award the winning writer £5,000, and help them obtain an agent.

Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters’ Matriarch Productions is teaming up with Phil Temple’s Studiocanal-backed Birdie Pictures on Grass Routes, a competition for TV writers from “socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds”.

The programme aims to help those writers “kickstart their careers and gain proper access to the TV industry.”

The winner of the annual competition will receive a £5,000 prize, with Matriarch and Birdie paying a further amount to option the script. The writer will then develop their project with the two companies before pitching it to buyers.

Matriarch and...

The initiative will award the winning writer £5,000, and help them obtain an agent.

Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters’ Matriarch Productions is teaming up with Phil Temple’s Birdie Pictures on Grass Routes, a competition for TV writers from “socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds”.

The UK programme aims to help those writers “kickstart their careers and gain proper access to the TV industry.”

The winner of the annual competition will receive a £5,000 prize, with Matriarch and Birdie paying a further amount to option the script. The writer will then develop their project with the two companies before pitching it to buyers.

Matriarch and...

On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 9:00 Pm, CW will air Season 1, Episode 6 of “Sullivan’s Crossing” titled “Boiling Point.” In this episode, the story unfolds with two main characters facing different challenges.

Sully, who is at Sullivan’s Crossing, works hard to keep things together in the face of various issues. Meanwhile, Maggie is dealing with complications back in Boston, Massachusetts.

The show “Sullivan’s Crossing” follows the lives of its characters and the situations they encounter in a small town setting. It explores the dynamics and challenges of their daily lives and relationships.

Tune in to CW at 9:00 Pm to watch “Boiling Point” and see how Sully and Maggie navigate their respective challenges. It’s an opportunity to follow their stories and witness the complexities of their lives as they unfold in the series.

Release Date & Time: 9:00 Pm Wednesday 8 November 2023 on CW

Sullivan’s Crossing Boiling Point Cast – Season 1 Episode 6 Main...

UK director George Amponsah’s thriller Gassed Up has won the London Film Festival (Lff) Audience Award for Best Feature in the 67th edition running from October 4 to 15, as the event also posts record participation.

Further Audiences Award winners, which were announced on Monday, went to The Taste of Mango for Best Documentary, Festival of Slaps for Best British Film/Work and Murals for Best Immersive Work/Xr.

Amponsah’s London-set thriller stars Stephen Odubola as a member of a moped street crime gang, who gets on the wrong side of an Albanian crime family.

Archie Maddocks co-wrote the screenplay with One Piece breakout Taz Skylar, who also appears in the film, with other cast including including Steve Toussaint (House Of The Dragon) and Tobias Jowett, soon to be seen in Nick Hamm’s upcoming epic William Tell.

The thriller marks Amponsah’s first fiction feature...

The BAFTAs have a soft spot for home-grown talent. Earlier this year, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” scored four bids at the British Academy Film Awards, including Best Actor (Daryl McCormack) and Best Actress (Emma Thompson). Before that, in 2022, Adeel Akhtar snuck into the Best Actor lineup for “Ali & Ava” and Joanna Scanlan won Best Actress for “After Love.”

This pattern of Brits recognizing Brits could bode well for Daniel Kaluuya this year, who makes his directorial debut with the new Netflix drama “The Kitchen.” The film depicts a dystopian London in which all social housing has been eliminated. The focus in the story are the residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to leave their homes despite their struggles. At the heart of the film is Kane Robinson‘s (also known as Kano) Izi, who takes Jedaiah Bannerman‘s young boy under his wing and tries...

In 2014 and 2015, Vertigo published Si Spencer’s eight-issue graphic novel Bodies, a mind-bending mystery about four police officers from different historical eras who discover the same corpse in the same London location, decades apart. Featuring detectives from the present day, the 1940s, the 1890s and 2053, it’s a complex conspiracy thriller about a very dark future. Originally illustrated by four artists – Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick and Tula Lotay – each era had its own distinct feel and look.

Spencer, who had also written on other Vertigo titles including Judge Dredd and Books of Magick: Life During Wartime, sadly passed away in February 2021, meaning he wasn’t able to see Paul Tomalin’s eight-part Netflix series adapted from his work. It’s out now, with a sprawling cast of characters including Boiling Point and This Is England’s Stephen Graham, several established actors and a handful of newcomers. Here’s more about them.

Exclusive: Following the massive success of his Netflix series One Piece, Taz Skylar has found his next big project as he is set to co-star opposite Daisy Ridley in Cleaner. Martin Campbell is directing. The film will shoot at the top of 2024 and falls under the British Equity act allowing it to shoot during the current SAG strike.

The timely action-thriller, set in present-day London, will see radical activists take over an energy company’s annual gala at the Shard – the tallest skyscraper in Western Europe – seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by a zealous extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world. It falls to an ex-soldier turned window cleaner, Joey Locke (Daisy Ridley) – suspended 90 stories up on the outside of the building – to save those...

Aimee Lou Wood for ‘Living’, ‘Rye Lane’ team and ‘Aftersun’ director Charlotte Wells among the nominees

The Big Screen Awards can unveil the shortlists for best British film as well as the nominees for breakthrough British actor and filmmaker.

The nominees for British film, which will be decided by a public vote, include Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin, Matthew Warchus’s Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical and Sam Mendes’ Empire Of Light.

Vote for Best British Film of the Year here

Also among the nominees is Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun and Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane – both of...

Murder is the name of the game this week, as the gang try to decide which fictional TV detectives they'd like to unpick their own sticky ends, plus there's a disproportionate amount of public transport discussion (sorry).

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Filming has begun in Manchester, U.K., on “Boiling Point,” the five-part BBC series that follows on from the award-winning film of the same name.

The one shot film followed head chef Andy (Stephen Graham), who wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year. The series picks up six months on from where the film left off and sees sous chef Carly (Vinette Robinson) as head chef at her own restaurant, with many of Andy’s original team alongside her. As the pressure mounts to keep the restaurant full, Carly begins to feel the magnitude of responsibility that comes with running her own place.

As previously revealed, Robinson, Graham and Hannah Walters will reprise their roles from the multi award-winning film. They will be joined by the film’s co-stars Ray Panthaki, Gary Lamont, Áine Rose Daly, Taz Skylar, Daniel Larkai, Stephen McMillan, Hannah Traylen and Izuka Hoyle.