Awards, Festivals

Lifetime Achievement Award for Tilda

This year’s Venice International Film Festival will honour Tilda Swinton and Hong Kong director Ann Hui with lifetime achievement awards. Tilda Swinton is to be honoured “as one of the most original and powerful performers” of the past century at the Venice Film Festival. Tilda and Ann Hui will also receive the Golden Lions for lifetime achievement at the Venice International Film Festival on September 2-12 at Venice Lido. The decision was made by the […]

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Arts, Events

Art Fund campaign saved Prospect Cottage

Tilda Swinton was among the artists that launched an Art Fund campaign to save Prospect Cottage, Derek Jarman’s home & garden, for the nation. Art Fund launched £3.5 million public appeal to save famous filmmaker’s home. National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund and Linbury Trust give major grants in support of innovative partnership with Tate and Creative Folkestone. Leading artists Tilda Swinton, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Michael Craig-Martin, Isaac Julien, Howard Sooley, and Wolfgang Tillmans […]

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General, Movies, News

Tilda shares her favourite films, an hour talk and a poem

After receiving the BFI Fellowship Tilda was interviewed for the Sight & Sound magazine, where she shared her favourite films listed below. Have you watched any of them? I Was Born, But…… / Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu) Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini) La Belle et la Bête (Jean Cocteau) M (Fritz Lang) Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini) My Childhood / My Ain Folk / My Way Home (Bill Douglas) Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) Uncle […]

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Awards, Events

Tilda received BFI Fellowship 2020

A British Film Institute Fellowship is awarded to individuals in recognition of their outstanding contribution to film or television culture. Initiated in 1983, the BFI’s Silver Jubilee year, BFI Fellowships have been given to film and programme-makers from around the world. This year Tilda Swinton received a BFI Fellowship at the BFI Chair’s annual dinner on 2 March 2020. The award honours and celebrates Tilda’s daringly eclectic and striking talents as a performer and filmmaker. […]

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