The long and versatile career of actor Michael Caine has been recognized by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), which held in London demonstrate its twelfth edition. Caine, 76, received the Variety Award “for his darkfall gold, which has won two Oscars for the Academy Awards as Best Supporting Actor for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Rules of the House of cider (1999).
Another British film star, Daniel Day-Lewis, 52, was awarded the Richard Harris Award “for his great contribution as a movie actor of his country. Day-Lewis, winner of two Oscars for best actor for There Will Be Blood (2008), and My Left Foot (1989), has promoted this weekend in London his latest film, Nine, which also serves the Spanish Penelope Cruz .
Among the winners of the evening also highlighted Tom Hardy, who won the award for best actor for Bronson, and Carey Mulligan, who received the award for best actress for An Education.
The award for best British independent film went to the sci-fi thriller developed on the Moon Moon, who also earned Duncan Jones Award for darkfall power leveling. The trophy for best director went to Andrea Arnold’s hands by Fish Tank, drama centered on a troubled teenager from Essex, east London
Without Spanish participation, the only Latin American presence in the awards was conducted by the US-Mexican film No name, in the category of best foreign independent film. Sin Nombre is headed by Californian of Japanese descent and has Cary Joji Fukunaga, as executive producers, with Mexican actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna. The film, which recounts the odyssey of Central American migrants crossing Mexico hidden in freight trains in search of a better future in the U.S., had no luck and the prize took him Let the Right One In, a Swedish vampire film.
After its modest inception in 1998, the British Independent Film Awards have gained prestige over the years and often gather in their finery to a number of stars.
who received the award for best actress for An Education?