Forget the Oscars, Here Are the Kermodes: A Culture Show Special

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0:00:02 > 0:00:06Ladies and gentlemen, the nominations are in,

0:00:06 > 0:00:07the votes are been cast

0:00:07 > 0:00:10and the most hotly awaited event

0:00:10 > 0:00:14of the film awards season is about to begin.

0:00:14 > 0:00:18Forget the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs, the Oscars.

0:00:18 > 0:00:20Now in their seventh year,

0:00:20 > 0:00:24and bigger, better and, frankly, more bolshy than ever,

0:00:24 > 0:00:26it's the Kermodes!

0:00:30 > 0:00:33Good evening. Good evening, everyone.

0:00:33 > 0:00:34Welcome to the Kermode Awards.

0:00:34 > 0:00:37Good to see so many of you here(!)

0:00:37 > 0:00:40Is this on?

0:00:40 > 0:00:44Here at the Kermode Awards, it's not about posh frocks, red carpets

0:00:44 > 0:00:46and grinning celebrities pretending to be happy

0:00:46 > 0:00:48when someone else wins their award.

0:00:48 > 0:00:50Quite the opposite, in fact.

0:00:50 > 0:00:53The Kermodes were established as an antidote to the Oscars,

0:00:53 > 0:00:56proving that in any given year it's possible to come up with

0:00:56 > 0:00:58a better list of winners from films and film-makers

0:00:58 > 0:01:01who weren't even nominated for an Academy Award.

0:01:01 > 0:01:03The rules are simple.

0:01:03 > 0:01:05You can't win a Kermode for a category

0:01:05 > 0:01:08in which you've been nominated for an Oscar. That's it.

0:01:08 > 0:01:11We work on UK release dates and my decision is final.

0:01:11 > 0:01:13Which means the awards are wantonly partisan,

0:01:13 > 0:01:15wholly unverifiable,

0:01:15 > 0:01:19but still way more reliable than the Oscars.

0:01:19 > 0:01:21And, as ever, this year the American Academy have overlooked

0:01:21 > 0:01:25a bumper crop of fabulous films for me to choose from.

0:01:25 > 0:01:28But before we start, let's look back at who's been awarded

0:01:28 > 0:01:29this coveted statuette

0:01:29 > 0:01:32of Richard Nixon's uglier brother over the years.

0:01:37 > 0:01:39Sorry, I was just reliving moments from King Kong.

0:01:39 > 0:01:41My kids are going to love this.

0:01:41 > 0:01:42Thank you so much.

0:01:42 > 0:01:46This really is the most important award of the year,

0:01:46 > 0:01:48no matter what other people tell you.

0:01:48 > 0:01:51And I'm not just saying that because I won it.

0:01:51 > 0:01:53Although...well, maybe I am.

0:01:53 > 0:01:57- APPLAUSE - Victory! Victory! Yes!

0:01:57 > 0:02:00Fantastic. Thank you so much, Mark.

0:02:00 > 0:02:02Um...you are the man.

0:02:02 > 0:02:05- I'm very proud of this.- Good. - Thank you very much.

0:02:05 > 0:02:07I'm really genuinely moved by it.

0:02:07 > 0:02:10Thank you very much, Mark Kermode.

0:02:10 > 0:02:12That is for real.

0:02:12 > 0:02:15I'm so stoked by this, I can't tell you.

0:02:15 > 0:02:16This is the one.

0:02:16 > 0:02:19This is the one, as far as I'm concerned.

0:02:19 > 0:02:20Thank you so much. It's a big honour.

0:02:20 > 0:02:23And it's much better than getting an Oscar.

0:02:23 > 0:02:25Has it got chocolate inside?

0:02:25 > 0:02:27I think I'll give it a kiss.

0:02:27 > 0:02:29There you go.

0:02:29 > 0:02:31- Ken?- Yeah? - I'm really glad you got it.

0:02:31 > 0:02:34- You know how much I love you. - You do.- Mwah!

0:02:37 > 0:02:38Quite a roll call of talent there.

0:02:38 > 0:02:41But, without further ado, let's get on with this year's awards.

0:02:41 > 0:02:43And we'll start with Best Actor.

0:02:43 > 0:02:46- Have you ever killed anyone?- No.

0:02:46 > 0:02:49Brad Pitt, as the craggy-faced hitman in Killing Them Softly,

0:02:49 > 0:02:53takes his place in the Kermode hopefuls in this category.

0:02:53 > 0:02:55They cry, they plead, they beg,

0:02:55 > 0:02:58they piss themselves, they call for their mothers.

0:02:58 > 0:02:59It gets embarrassing.

0:03:00 > 0:03:02I like to kill them softly.

0:03:04 > 0:03:08Along with Daniel Craig, brilliant as Bond in Skyfall.

0:03:09 > 0:03:12And the magnificent Denis Lavant,

0:03:12 > 0:03:16playing a fiery existential angel in Leos Carax's Holy Motors,

0:03:16 > 0:03:20one of the most breathtakingly bonkers films of the year.

0:03:24 > 0:03:27But, even with such stiff competition, my award goes to a man

0:03:27 > 0:03:31who has become one of the greatest screen presences of our time.

0:03:31 > 0:03:35He played the chillingly evil Le Chiffre in Casino Royale.

0:03:35 > 0:03:37Give our guests five minutes to leave.

0:03:37 > 0:03:39Or throw them overboard.

0:03:41 > 0:03:43And this year he played a teacher

0:03:43 > 0:03:45wrongly accused of child abuse in The Hunt.

0:03:50 > 0:03:54But he bags the award for Best Actor for his role as Friedrich Struensee

0:03:54 > 0:03:58in what, for me, was one of the very best films of 2012.

0:03:58 > 0:03:59A Royal Affair.

0:03:59 > 0:04:04He is, of course, the magnificent Mads Mikkelsen.

0:04:11 > 0:04:15An astonishing historical drama based on true events and set

0:04:15 > 0:04:19at the court of King Christian VII in 18th-century Denmark,

0:04:19 > 0:04:22A Royal Affair features Mikkelsen as the King's rebellious physician

0:04:22 > 0:04:26who falls dangerously in love with his wife Queen Caroline

0:04:26 > 0:04:29and discovers that all power corrupts.

0:04:51 > 0:04:54Hi, everyone. I hope you are having a fantastic evening.

0:04:54 > 0:04:58I'm sitting in Toronto, together with this quite handsome

0:04:58 > 0:05:00and quite intelligent-looking man.

0:05:00 > 0:05:03Thank you for watching our film.

0:05:03 > 0:05:06It's Danish, so we are counting every ticket.

0:05:06 > 0:05:10I would like to share this with everyone who was involved in A Royal Affair.

0:05:10 > 0:05:13Thanks a million, Mark. This is a great honour.

0:05:13 > 0:05:15Takk. Tusen takk.

0:05:19 > 0:05:21Next up, Best Actress.

0:05:21 > 0:05:24Now, there've been several stunning contenders this year,

0:05:24 > 0:05:26including Elizabeth Olsen, who brilliantly portrayed

0:05:26 > 0:05:30a young woman falling under the spell of a Manson-like cult

0:05:30 > 0:05:32in Martha Marcy May Marlene.

0:05:36 > 0:05:37Get over it.

0:05:37 > 0:05:39- You haven't learned anything. - I have.

0:05:39 > 0:05:42- I thought we had a connection. - We do.- Show me.

0:05:42 > 0:05:45Although Olsen has yet to be recognised at the Oscars,

0:05:45 > 0:05:47the Academy were quick off the mark

0:05:47 > 0:05:49with nine-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis,

0:05:49 > 0:05:52the youngest Best Actress nominee ever,

0:05:52 > 0:05:54for her fantastic performance as a headstrong girl

0:05:54 > 0:05:57in Beasts Of The Southern Wild.

0:05:57 > 0:05:59I hope you die!

0:05:59 > 0:06:01And after you die, I'll go to your grave

0:06:01 > 0:06:04and eat birthday cake all by myself.

0:06:07 > 0:06:09At the Academy Awards, Wallis will go head-to-head

0:06:09 > 0:06:12with the oldest ever nominee, Emmanuelle Riva,

0:06:12 > 0:06:15fast becoming an Oscar favourite in Michael Haneke's Amour,

0:06:15 > 0:06:18a heart-wrenching film about love in old age.

0:06:26 > 0:06:29But the Kermode Award goes to a Swedish actress

0:06:29 > 0:06:32who was tipped as a rising star at this year's BAFTAs

0:06:32 > 0:06:36and is utterly mesmerising in her role as Queen Caroline of Denmark

0:06:36 > 0:06:37in A Royal Affair,

0:06:37 > 0:06:40winning its second award of the night.

0:06:40 > 0:06:44The Kermode Award for Best Actress goes to Alicia Vikander.

0:07:00 > 0:07:04Vikander stars as the educated and enlightened Queen

0:07:04 > 0:07:07trapped in a loveless marriage to a mad king.

0:07:12 > 0:07:15I met up with her on a brief visit to London

0:07:15 > 0:07:17to award her the Kermode in person.

0:07:21 > 0:07:23Alicia, welcome to The Culture Show.

0:07:23 > 0:07:26Your Kermode Award for Best Actress of 2012

0:07:26 > 0:07:28for your fantastic performance in A Royal Affair.

0:07:28 > 0:07:30Congratulations. Treasure it.

0:07:30 > 0:07:34I will. It's beautiful. It glitters!

0:07:35 > 0:07:39Well, it's my first big award for A Royal Affair, so I'm very proud.

0:07:39 > 0:07:43I'll find a nice spot for it back home.

0:07:43 > 0:07:44What research did you have to do?

0:07:44 > 0:07:48It's a historical role, you have to know the background. What did you do?

0:07:48 > 0:07:52My biggest treasure was when I found published letters

0:07:52 > 0:07:56that she wrote to her family back in England.

0:08:03 > 0:08:07After reading those letters, I saw this very young woman

0:08:07 > 0:08:09who had to grow up very fast.

0:08:09 > 0:08:11She's a survivor.

0:08:11 > 0:08:13She couldn't find love,

0:08:13 > 0:08:17she couldn't even express any of the thoughts that she had,

0:08:17 > 0:08:20so she had to put on the act and role

0:08:20 > 0:08:23of being the perfect Queen instead.

0:08:23 > 0:08:28And with doing that, she had to, I think, close everything inside.

0:08:41 > 0:08:44Then suddenly, this man arrives,

0:08:44 > 0:08:50and opens up and shows her that he's equal

0:08:50 > 0:08:52in the thoughts and ideas that she has.

0:08:54 > 0:08:57Did you go through a long auditioning process for the role?

0:08:57 > 0:08:59Yeah, it was a long process.

0:08:59 > 0:09:02I remember I got a call from a casting director in Sweden

0:09:02 > 0:09:04and she mentioned this film.

0:09:04 > 0:09:06I got so excited, but then I called her and, like,

0:09:06 > 0:09:09"No, you've made a mistake because I don't speak Danish."

0:09:10 > 0:09:16And she said, "No, no, no, but it's fine, you can, you can try."

0:09:16 > 0:09:19So I called a friend's mom who's half-Danish, half-Swedish,

0:09:19 > 0:09:22who actually recorded the lines on her phone

0:09:22 > 0:09:26so I was able to learn them by listening on my iPhone.

0:09:26 > 0:09:30- That's how you did it?- That's how I did my first reading, yes.- Wow!

0:09:33 > 0:09:36I think it was the same thing when I did Anna Karenina.

0:09:36 > 0:09:38That wasn't a new language, but it was a new accent for me.

0:09:40 > 0:09:41Look at me!

0:09:41 > 0:09:44I'm receiving for Papa and Maman, who are late to dress.

0:09:44 > 0:09:47It's my first reception.

0:09:47 > 0:09:49Princess Ekaterina.

0:09:49 > 0:09:52Listen, as I say, congratulations.

0:09:52 > 0:09:54I think, you know, you're going to be huge.

0:09:54 > 0:09:56Just remember, you know, when you're getting a bit...

0:09:56 > 0:09:58we were there very, very early on.

0:09:58 > 0:10:00- Congratulations. - You can see I've been hugging it.

0:10:00 > 0:10:03- Yeah, you have. Congratulations. - Thank you.

0:10:08 > 0:10:12Every great film starts with a great script.

0:10:12 > 0:10:15I've always been a huge admirer of screenwriter Paul Laverty,

0:10:15 > 0:10:17long-time collaborator of Ken Loach,

0:10:17 > 0:10:20who wrote The Wind That Shakes The Barley and Looking For Eric.

0:10:20 > 0:10:24This year, two of Laverty's screenplays really stood out for me.

0:10:24 > 0:10:27His latest Loach collaboration, The Angels' Share.

0:10:27 > 0:10:29- Up wi' the kilts.- What?!

0:10:29 > 0:10:32A whisky-galore-style Glaswegian comedy drama

0:10:32 > 0:10:34- with real heart and soul. - Up, I said.

0:10:36 > 0:10:38Jesus Christ! What happened to you?

0:10:40 > 0:10:44And his extraordinary film-within-a-film script for Even The Rain,

0:10:44 > 0:10:47which follows a Spanish film crew into the heart of darkness,

0:10:47 > 0:10:50when they go to make a historical drama in Bolivia.

0:10:56 > 0:10:58But my Best Screenplay Award this year

0:10:58 > 0:11:01goes to Alice Lowe and Steve Oram,

0:11:01 > 0:11:03who, along with co-writer Amy Jump,

0:11:03 > 0:11:07conjured one of the darkest, nastiest comedies in years

0:11:07 > 0:11:10in which they star as latter-day Nuts in May,

0:11:10 > 0:11:13combining a caravanning trip with a killing spree.

0:11:19 > 0:11:22- Oh!- Wow!

0:11:22 > 0:11:23Thank you so much.

0:11:23 > 0:11:26This is...an amazing honour

0:11:26 > 0:11:29to win a Kermode Award.

0:11:29 > 0:11:32It's really great to be recognised for something

0:11:32 > 0:11:35that we've spent about 57 years of our lives...

0:11:35 > 0:11:38- Yeah.- ..devoting ourselves to this project.

0:11:38 > 0:11:40Being in a caravan together.

0:11:40 > 0:11:43Yeah. Having sex, killing people, that sort of thing.

0:11:43 > 0:11:46And it's always good when people enjoy that.

0:11:46 > 0:11:49Our idea for the film came from

0:11:49 > 0:11:51a sketch we did a long time ago

0:11:51 > 0:11:53in a live comedy show,

0:11:53 > 0:11:58which was two geeky Brummies going on holiday and killing people.

0:11:58 > 0:11:59Which made us laugh.

0:11:59 > 0:12:02And then that became, over the course of time, a film.

0:12:02 > 0:12:04If you don't pick up this excrement immediately,

0:12:04 > 0:12:07then I'm going to have to inform the National Trust.

0:12:09 > 0:12:12Report that to the National Trust, mate.

0:12:12 > 0:12:13Thank you very much.

0:12:13 > 0:12:15Handsome.

0:12:15 > 0:12:16Handsome, slightly hunched.

0:12:18 > 0:12:21- Oh, God! - THEY LAUGH

0:12:23 > 0:12:26On now to Best Director.

0:12:26 > 0:12:27Now, this category includes

0:12:27 > 0:12:30some typically grievous Academy Awards omissions this year,

0:12:30 > 0:12:32including, perhaps unsurprisingly,

0:12:32 > 0:12:35previous Kermode Award winner Andrew Dominik,

0:12:35 > 0:12:39who directed the gritty, noir gangster movie Killing Them Softly.

0:12:42 > 0:12:44- Argh! - HE LAUGHS

0:12:46 > 0:12:48More annoyingly, Christopher Nolan,

0:12:48 > 0:12:51who has still never been nominated Best Director at the Oscars,

0:12:51 > 0:12:53has been overlooked for the final part

0:12:53 > 0:12:56of his brilliant Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises.

0:12:58 > 0:13:00My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men.

0:13:00 > 0:13:02This isn't a car.

0:13:04 > 0:13:08The real egg on Oscar's face comes from the omission of Ben Affleck

0:13:08 > 0:13:09from their Best Director nominations

0:13:09 > 0:13:13despite the fact that he's won for Argo almost everywhere else.

0:13:13 > 0:13:15You really believe your story will make a difference

0:13:15 > 0:13:17when there's a gun to our heads?

0:13:18 > 0:13:21I think my story's the only thing between you and a gun to your head.

0:13:21 > 0:13:25But the Oscar oversight which overshadows all others this year

0:13:25 > 0:13:27is the Academy's failure to recognise Skyfall

0:13:27 > 0:13:31for anything other than its music and its technical prowess.

0:13:31 > 0:13:34All of which sorely undervalues the narrative qualities of a film

0:13:34 > 0:13:38which not only reinvigorated a 50-year-old franchise,

0:13:38 > 0:13:42but also gave us arguably the very best Bond episode ever,

0:13:42 > 0:13:46blending character, action and good old storytelling.

0:13:46 > 0:13:49Honestly, what does a Bond movie have to do

0:13:49 > 0:13:51to be taken seriously during awards season?

0:13:51 > 0:13:53Well, the answer, at least here at the Kermodes,

0:13:53 > 0:13:56is it has to be helmed by Sam Mendes,

0:13:56 > 0:14:00the worthy winner of my award for Best Director.

0:14:06 > 0:14:08Well, here we are.

0:14:08 > 0:14:12Er...I'm very, very honoured indeed to be getting this award.

0:14:12 > 0:14:17Um...the Kermodes are increasingly important in our culture.

0:14:17 > 0:14:20I'm genuinely thrilled because Mark went on record

0:14:20 > 0:14:23several times over the last few years

0:14:23 > 0:14:26as saying he's never enjoyed a Bond movie.

0:14:26 > 0:14:27And action!

0:14:27 > 0:14:31I make movies that are constantly asking for the support of the critical fraternity.

0:14:31 > 0:14:35And they're like, "We're not sure. It's a difficult movie, it's a grey area, et cetera."

0:14:35 > 0:14:38Finally, you say, "You know what, I don't care what you think.

0:14:38 > 0:14:41"I'm just going to make a commercial film that I love."

0:14:41 > 0:14:42And then you get given one of these.

0:14:42 > 0:14:44I want to say thank you very much

0:14:44 > 0:14:46and thank you to the people who watch The Culture Show

0:14:46 > 0:14:48and to all the people who went to see this movie.

0:14:48 > 0:14:52We had high expectations for it, but it's exceeded all of those.

0:14:52 > 0:14:54And so, to all of you, thank you very much.

0:15:00 > 0:15:02FANFARE

0:15:02 > 0:15:06Next to the Kermode Award for Best Film Not in the English Language.

0:15:06 > 0:15:09And, don't worry, A Royal Affair isn't even eligible here

0:15:09 > 0:15:12because it did sneak into Oscar's Best Foreign Language Film category.

0:15:12 > 0:15:16But my other contenders will include The Hunt, Even The Rain,

0:15:16 > 0:15:19Holy Motors and Once Upon A Time In Anatolia,

0:15:19 > 0:15:22an eerie, hypnotic gem of a film

0:15:22 > 0:15:25in which the hunt for a dead body in the Turkish desert

0:15:25 > 0:15:28becomes a treatise upon the fragility of human life.

0:15:40 > 0:15:45But the Kermode Award goes to a film from the other end of the genre spectrum.

0:15:47 > 0:15:51Incongruously directed in Indonesia by Welshman Gareth Evans,

0:15:51 > 0:15:53The Raid is set in a high-rise Jakarta slum

0:15:53 > 0:15:55through which a SWAT team

0:15:55 > 0:15:58have to battle floor by floor to get to a criminal overlord.

0:15:58 > 0:16:01You know, like Judge Dredd but better.

0:16:01 > 0:16:04The film is a bone-crunching treat, beautifully choreographed,

0:16:04 > 0:16:08splendidly directed and head-crackingly violent.

0:16:18 > 0:16:19BLEEPING

0:16:19 > 0:16:22Sorry, I can't be in the UK to accept this myself,

0:16:22 > 0:16:26but it was very nice to see this arrive on my doorstep the other day.

0:16:26 > 0:16:30The Raid was pretty much a make or break film for me to be honest.

0:16:30 > 0:16:37In Indonesia it was an opportunity to try to exercise as many little genres

0:16:37 > 0:16:41as I could possibly fit into one film. And, thankfully, it seems to have paid off

0:16:41 > 0:16:44and people have responded to it very kindly.

0:16:44 > 0:16:46So I'm very, very proud and very, very happy.

0:16:46 > 0:16:49And this is the icing on the cake. So thank you very, very much.

0:16:53 > 0:16:56And now to the biggie. The Kermode Award for Best Film.

0:16:56 > 0:16:59An award that's become so significant the American Academy

0:16:59 > 0:17:04have actually increased their own Best Film list to up to ten movies,

0:17:04 > 0:17:06just to try and scupper us.

0:17:06 > 0:17:08Well, guess what, it hasn't worked,

0:17:08 > 0:17:14because every year my own very favourite film is notable only by its absence from Oscar's list.

0:17:14 > 0:17:16Last year it was We Need To Talk About Kevin.

0:17:16 > 0:17:20In the past, Pan's Labyrinth, The Assassination Of Jessie James,

0:17:20 > 0:17:23Let The Right One In. All timeless gems.

0:17:23 > 0:17:26This year my favourite films have included Even The Rain

0:17:26 > 0:17:27and, of course, A Royal Affair,

0:17:27 > 0:17:30both of which would have been worthy award winners,

0:17:30 > 0:17:35but they've just been pipped at the post by a British film set in Italy,

0:17:35 > 0:17:39shot in London and staring a previous Kermode Award winner.

0:17:39 > 0:17:41To announce the Best Film Award in style

0:17:41 > 0:17:47and to open the golden envelope, please welcome to the stage the chairman of the Kermode Awards.

0:17:47 > 0:17:48APPLAUSE

0:17:48 > 0:17:50Mark, would you do the honours.

0:17:50 > 0:17:51But of course.

0:17:51 > 0:17:55The Kermode Award for Best Film 2013 goes to...

0:17:55 > 0:17:57DRUM ROLL

0:17:57 > 0:18:00..Berberian Sound Studio.

0:18:00 > 0:18:01CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:18:11 > 0:18:14So Peter Strickland, Toby Jones, for the best film of 2012

0:18:14 > 0:18:18the Kermode Award for Best Film for Berberian Sound Studio. Congratulations.

0:18:18 > 0:18:21- Thank you very much, Mark. - Thank you.

0:18:21 > 0:18:25- Peter, take it quick. - Toby has one already.

0:18:25 > 0:18:29- I have. You have that one. - It's really quite something.

0:18:29 > 0:18:31Thank you very much.

0:18:31 > 0:18:32What's he doing to her?

0:18:37 > 0:18:42Berberian Sound Studio tells the story of Gilderoy, a mousey sound engineer from Dorking,

0:18:42 > 0:18:45who's hired to work on a violent Italian shocker.

0:18:46 > 0:18:50I didn't quite know I'd be working on this sort of film.

0:18:53 > 0:18:54What did you expect?

0:18:54 > 0:18:56It is a visual film about sound.

0:18:56 > 0:19:01All the sounds you normally ignore in real life or in a film,

0:19:01 > 0:19:04the radiator, the industrial sounds around you.

0:19:04 > 0:19:08Even now the air-conditioning has this beautiful choral element to it.

0:19:08 > 0:19:13And I just wanted to make a film that explicitly puts that on the table

0:19:13 > 0:19:15and lays out the mechanics of it,

0:19:15 > 0:19:19but somehow shows you the mystery of it at the same time.

0:19:19 > 0:19:21VIBRATION HUMS

0:19:24 > 0:19:31I guess I was just fascinated by this divide between this very repellent violence on the screen,

0:19:31 > 0:19:37but then this kind of ridiculous pantomime element of grown men smashing vegetables.

0:19:37 > 0:19:42And you're kind of watching it and you think, "Should I laugh? Should I be disturbed?"

0:19:42 > 0:19:44I like the confusion that it creates.

0:19:44 > 0:19:46WOMAN SCREAMS

0:19:46 > 0:19:50SCREAMING CONTINUES

0:19:50 > 0:19:56Gilderoy during the course of making the sound effects is drawn into the world of the film.

0:19:56 > 0:20:00Describe for me what happens to him when he's first confronted with the film that he's working on.

0:20:00 > 0:20:04His first glimpse of the footage,

0:20:04 > 0:20:08he's both aghast and entirely perplexed by what he sees.

0:20:08 > 0:20:14We never see it but we imagine it, because of the sort of lurid sounds

0:20:14 > 0:20:17that are being made at the time by the Foley artist.

0:20:17 > 0:20:22And the division between what he's working on and what is working on him

0:20:22 > 0:20:24sort of becomes blurred.

0:20:25 > 0:20:27It is just a film.

0:20:27 > 0:20:30You are part of it!

0:20:30 > 0:20:32You can see how all this is put together.

0:20:32 > 0:20:35What's... what's your problem with this?!

0:20:35 > 0:20:37Maybe it's best I go home.

0:20:46 > 0:20:50Now it's time for the Kermode Award for Best Documentary.

0:20:50 > 0:20:53And, despite the fact that there's a huge amount of great documentaries out there,

0:20:53 > 0:20:57factual film making still has a traditionally hard time at the box office,

0:20:57 > 0:21:00which makes this award particularly close to my heart.

0:21:00 > 0:21:08One of the most poetic documentaries I saw last year was Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia For The Light.

0:21:08 > 0:21:12It's set in Chile's Atacama Desert, where astronomers come to gaze at the stars

0:21:12 > 0:21:18and victims of the Pinochet regime still search for the buried remains of their loved ones.

0:21:18 > 0:21:22It's a must-see film that ranks alongside the documentaries of Werner Herzog

0:21:22 > 0:21:26in offering a profound insight into the human condition.

0:21:37 > 0:21:40Also in the running, The Last Projectionist,

0:21:40 > 0:21:43a beautiful, timely and ever so slightly heartbreaking account

0:21:43 > 0:21:47of the changing face of cinema in the UK.

0:21:47 > 0:21:48Comfort, courtesy and good cheer

0:21:48 > 0:21:51are available inside for the leisure hour,

0:21:51 > 0:21:55but the artistic neon lighting at night-time

0:21:55 > 0:21:58adds another bright spot to the thoroughfares of Birmingham.

0:22:00 > 0:22:02But the statuette for Best Documentary

0:22:02 > 0:22:08goes to a David and Goliath tale of ordinary people standing up against big business.

0:22:09 > 0:22:12It's my home. I've stayed here for 43 years now

0:22:12 > 0:22:14and he wants to murder it.

0:22:14 > 0:22:18It has a real-life villain in the shape of an appalling American billionaire

0:22:18 > 0:22:23riding roughshod over people and environment alike as he attempts to build a luxury golf resort

0:22:23 > 0:22:29in an area of staggering scientific and natural interest in the dune landscapes of Aberdeenshire.

0:22:29 > 0:22:33I don't think you want the windows looking down into a slum.

0:22:33 > 0:22:37The corruption and collusion between money, politics and the police

0:22:37 > 0:22:41that filmmaker Anthony Baxter uncovered are shocking indeed

0:22:41 > 0:22:43and will make you very angry.

0:22:43 > 0:22:47Although not as angry as they made Donald Trump.

0:22:47 > 0:22:51For which reason the Kermode Award for Best Documentary

0:22:51 > 0:22:54goes to the brilliantly enraging You've Been Trumped.

0:23:00 > 0:23:03Wow! This is a fantastic honour.

0:23:03 > 0:23:05Thank you very much indeed, Mark.

0:23:05 > 0:23:10Also to the great Bill Forsyth, the director of Local Hero,

0:23:10 > 0:23:14who endorsed You've Been Trumped at a crucial moment.

0:23:14 > 0:23:20The real life local heroes that You've Been Trumped follows, the local people,

0:23:20 > 0:23:26have shown extraordinary dignity, courage and commitment to their local environment and the planet.

0:23:26 > 0:23:32So I'd like to dedicate this award, Mark, to them. Thanks very much.

0:23:35 > 0:23:38And, finally, to the very last award of the evening.

0:23:38 > 0:23:41It is, of course, the Kermode Fellowship Award.

0:23:41 > 0:23:43The highest accolade a film-maker can achieve,

0:23:43 > 0:23:48the Fellowship recognises an outstanding contribution to the art of cinema.

0:23:48 > 0:23:53This year the recipient is a film-maker whose work continues to thrill and inspire me.

0:23:53 > 0:23:56His first feature film, That Sinking Feeling,

0:23:56 > 0:24:01made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the cheapest theatrically released feature ever.

0:24:01 > 0:24:05This year marks the 30th anniversary of one of his most famous films

0:24:05 > 0:24:10and a personal favourite, Local Hero, an inspiration as we've just seen for You've Been Trumped.

0:24:10 > 0:24:17The Kermode Fellowship Award goes to a real film-making hero, Bill Forsyth.

0:24:24 > 0:24:26Bill is a pioneer of British cinema

0:24:26 > 0:24:31who first made his mark with a number of bittersweet comedies in the 1980s.

0:24:35 > 0:24:39Bill Forsyth, for outstanding contributions to the art of cinema,

0:24:39 > 0:24:42- welcome to the Kermode Fellowship Award.- Oh, my goodness!

0:24:42 > 0:24:44- That's why you brought me to this pub.- It is.

0:24:44 > 0:24:47That's fantastic. I don't know what to say. I'm very, very touched.

0:24:47 > 0:24:50Raised in post-war Glasgow, he left school at 17

0:24:50 > 0:24:55to take a job with a film company where he made short documentaries,

0:24:55 > 0:24:59but his ambition was to make features.

0:24:59 > 0:25:04We used to joke about the fact that the only way we'd get a feature film

0:25:04 > 0:25:07was if some Hollywood producer saw our film about fishing boats

0:25:07 > 0:25:11and decided we were the guy for his next Doris Day movie!

0:25:11 > 0:25:15So it was pretty remote. So then it was do-it-yourself time.

0:25:15 > 0:25:22Well, not a bad night's work, eh, fella? 93 stainless-steel sinks.

0:25:24 > 0:25:26- And our very own snoring zombie. - MAN SNORES

0:25:26 > 0:25:30Bill's debut film was the wonderful That Sinking Feeling.

0:25:30 > 0:25:36It starred actors from a local youth theatre in a comedy about a gang of unemployed Glaswegian teenagers.

0:25:36 > 0:25:38Oh, aye. And what do you propose?

0:25:38 > 0:25:42We wheel 'em up to the front door and ask for a cashier?

0:25:42 > 0:25:43I wrote that very quickly

0:25:43 > 0:25:47and we shot it in three weeks with, you know, virtually no money.

0:25:47 > 0:25:51And it did work. It worked in many ways for me. It got some exposure.

0:25:51 > 0:25:55Suddenly, I had people who were prepared to read the script for Gregory's Girl.

0:25:55 > 0:25:58And that happened the next year with a proper budget.

0:25:58 > 0:26:03- OK, into twos now.- Gregory's Girl became Bill's breakthrough film.

0:26:03 > 0:26:06A story of adolescence and first love in a Scottish new town,

0:26:06 > 0:26:10it was an instant hit with both the public and with critics.

0:26:10 > 0:26:13What's going on?

0:26:13 > 0:26:16She's gorgeous.

0:26:16 > 0:26:20She is absolutely gorgeous!

0:26:20 > 0:26:24After the success of Sinking Feeling and Gregory's Girl,

0:26:24 > 0:26:27there's this partial move across the Atlantic with Local Hero,

0:26:27 > 0:26:30which is a classic case of a home-grown movie

0:26:30 > 0:26:35but it has aspirations towards an American audience.

0:26:35 > 0:26:38It is, as you know, one of my favourite films of all time.

0:26:38 > 0:26:41What do you think is the key

0:26:41 > 0:26:46to why Local Hero has worked so well for such a large audience?

0:26:46 > 0:26:51When I start a movie, I always put a message to myself in the front of the script.

0:26:51 > 0:26:54A little prologue. And in that case, it was from that poem,

0:26:54 > 0:26:58"What is this life if full of care We have no time to stand and stare?"

0:26:58 > 0:27:02So, I suppose, that was my little message going into it.

0:27:02 > 0:27:07So I don't know if that is part of the response that you created to it.

0:27:07 > 0:27:12Would you give me a pound note for every grain of sand I hold in my hand?

0:27:12 > 0:27:15Now you can have the beach for that.

0:27:15 > 0:27:18There, I've saved you a pound or two, eh?

0:27:18 > 0:27:20Come on, Ben, I don't want to play games.

0:27:20 > 0:27:24- Let's negotiate in a businesslike way.- Oh, dear, oh, dear!

0:27:24 > 0:27:30You could have had a very nice purchase there, Mr McIntyre.

0:27:30 > 0:27:33I find I'm very unsuited to being a film-maker,

0:27:33 > 0:27:39because I think film-makers should be people who are slightly extravagant.

0:27:39 > 0:27:41You know, and slightly out there.

0:27:41 > 0:27:47Throughout my whole film-making time, I think I've been, like, whispering in a crowd.

0:27:47 > 0:27:51And it's not the perfect way to get something across to people,

0:27:51 > 0:27:55whispering in a crowd, but it's what I think that I've done.

0:27:55 > 0:27:57That's what it's amounted to.

0:27:57 > 0:28:00Well, I am really glad that you found the reasons to make the films you make,

0:28:00 > 0:28:04because without them my life would be infinitely less rich.

0:28:04 > 0:28:08- Thank you very much.- Thank you for all your encouragement.

0:28:08 > 0:28:12And if...if I do make another film, it will be for you.

0:28:12 > 0:28:16Really. God bless you.

0:28:21 > 0:28:24And that brings us to the end of tonight's Kermode awards.

0:28:24 > 0:28:28There you have it, the very best of what cinema had to offer last year

0:28:28 > 0:28:30as judged by me.

0:28:30 > 0:28:33So until Oscar drops the ball again next year,

0:28:33 > 0:28:35thank you and goodnight.

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