USA: FILM DIRECTOR STEPHEN SPIELBERG AWARDED STANLEY KUBRICK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM BY THE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS (BAFTA) IN LOS ANGELES

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  • Title: USA: FILM DIRECTOR STEPHEN SPIELBERG AWARDED STANLEY KUBRICK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM BY THE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS (BAFTA) IN LOS ANGELES
  • Date: 4th November 2000
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 4, 2000) (REUTERS- ACCESS ALL) SMV (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) JANE SEYMOUR AND HUSBAND JAMES KEACH. SEYMOUR SAYING, " Well I was particularly moved by 'Schindler's List' and of course I love 'E.T.' cause I watch that with my kids. It's hard to pick one. (KEACH SAYS, "I like 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind', and 'The Color Pu
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA , UNITED STATES AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
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  • Story Text: At the Tenth Annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (B.A.F.T.A. L.A.) awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday (November 4), Steven Spielberg became the first recipient of the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film. The award was presented to Mr.
    Spielberg by His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.
    The British Film Industry brought out many of its top stars in L.A. on Saturday including Oscar winner Ben Kingsley and Brenda Blethyn to honor Spielberg with the Britannia Award for Excellence in Film.
    Britain's Prince Andrew was on hand to give the award -- handed out each year by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles -- to the director of such films as "Jaws," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" the "Indiana Jones"
    movies, "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan."
    Accepting the honor while his wife Kate Capshaw, business partner Jeffrey Katzenberg, director Robert Zemeckis and actors Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Stewart, Jane Seymour and many of Hollywood's top stars looked on, Spielberg acknowledged the Influence the British film industry has had on movies.
    He pointed to the impact of films like "Lawrence of Arabia," "Ghandi," for which Kingsley was named best actor in 1982, "Chariots of Fire," "A Clockwork Orange," and the recent "Trainspotting."
    "(The British Film Industry) has truly created more than a ripple for the last 65 years. It has been a tidal wave of creativity," Spielberg said.
    The award was renamed this year as the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award in honour of the late director, who died in 1999 just before his film "Eyes Wide Shut," opened in theatres.
    During his acceptance speech, which was not open to members of the broadcast media, Spielberg thought it noteworthy that he was only two weeks away from finishing filming of his new film "Artificial Intelligence" or "AI", which was to have been Kubrick's film.
    He said he had been friends with the legendary director of films including "Clockwork Orange", "Lolita" and "Paths of Glory" for 18 years, which meant some very expensive phone bills.
    The American-born Kubrick lived many of his later years in England and was notorious for calling colleagues at a moment's notice to talk for hours about films and filmmaking.
    The gathering of about 1000 of Hollywood's top producers, directors and actors filled a room at the posh Century Plaza Hotel in West Los Angeles to pay tribute to Spielberg, paying as much as $500 a plate to be at the event.
    BAFTA Los Angeles has nearly 700 members. It holds several events in Hollywood each year, but the Brittania award is one of its grandest events.
    Prince Andrew joked that he had been in Los Angeles for only a short time, but had seen a tremendous amount of work by Hollywood's elite at the event. "I believe the term is schmoozing," he said.
    The awards ceremony was to have been hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, but the comedienne was suffering from the 'flu and failed to show. She was replaced at the last minute by British actor Ian Abercrombie and Blethyn.
    --ENDS--
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