Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts

Friday, 14 October 2016

King Edward VI College Student wins 2 Awards @ WJEC Moving Image Awards 2015


Film, Media and Photography student Matt Sedgley was the major winner at the WJEC Moving Image Awards 2015 at  BFI’s London Southbank event on Friday 11th December.

Matt won 2 Awards at the event: (There were 734 entries)

Best Music Video 2015
Overall Winner 2015

"The standard of work submitted was once again exceptionally high, making it extremely difficult for the judges to shortlist. I have been overwhelmed by the volume and quality of entries this year.” Jeremy Points, Head of Creative Media Arts

You can watch Matt’s award winning video below:




Pictures from the event can be seen below:
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Lizzie Pickering, ex Ch4 producer and now film producing, passed on Matt's video to Philip Selway from Radiohead (whom Matt had cited as band who had inspired him) and got the following congratulations!
  
Hi Matt
Congratulations on your award - really well deserved. You capture the energy and personality of the band brilliantly. Radiohead once did a video in a disused swimming pool for a song called Anyone Can Play Guitar - yours is better!
All the best
Philip

Friday, 1 May 2015

Why are films so long nowadays?


All the films in contention for awards this year seem to have long runtimes. 
It seems that many awards contenders this year have bought into the idea that long runtimes gives the film a certain 'worthiness', like previous Oscar winners such as Lawrence of Arabia which ran at 227 mins. But are these running times justified?

We're in an age where the box set is a norm. From series such as Homeland, Breaking Bad and Boardwalk Empire to comedies such as The Thick of It and Curb Your Enthusiasm, audiences nowadays will happily watch hours of TV.

Do audiences take account of runtimes when they want to see a film? It's certainly one of the first questions critics consider – and there's no doubt that films with a duration of 85-95 minutes are greeted with a grin of appreciation even before they've begun. But you do get a sense with all these long films that they could also go on indefinitely. As TV shows look to extend their seasons, so too now movies are looking for franchise and seem wary of drawing to a close.

Sourced and edited from: guardian.co.uk/film

Whatever happened to the American blockbuster?


It used to be that a film set in the US with strong American themes was a box-office winner. Now it's the culturally neutral backdrops that are cornering the global market.

"American" was an evocative word for a movie title as recently as 1999, when American Beauty and American Pie were riding high at the global box office. It indicated supremacy, with a hint of kitsch. But something was about to happen to films about America. You could glimpse it in the worldwide top five that year: Tarzan, The Matrix, Toy Story 2, The Sixth Sense and the dreaded Phantom Menace. Three movies unfolding on American soil, one in the African rainforest, the last in a galaxy far, far away.
Of the US-set films, which were Yankee to the bone? Toy Story, yes, but merchandise boy Buzz Lightyear pointed the route away from the rough textures of Americana towards the sterile corporate lobbies and digital anywhere-cities of The Matrix. Which really left M Night Shyamalan's debut as the only unabashed, old-school, all-American film.
We could have used a warning from the future about Shyamalan, but who knew one might be needed about the demise of the American blockbuster? The USA of the collective unconscious – LA storm drains, NYC fire escapes, Midwest horizon roads and speedboat-parted Florida wetlands – is almost extinct at the global box office. Last year's top five had one film, the fourth Twilight, with a US setting; two, if you count the last Transformers, which really belongs to the multimillion-dollar globetrotters that rule the roost now. The new orthodoxy is: if a film is set in America, with strong American themes, the less chance it stands in the new globalised mainstream. What's happened over the last 20 years becomes obvious if you take a scan at the top five for 1990: Ghost, Home Alone, Pretty Woman, Dances with Wolves, Total Recall. All as American (well, and a bit Martian) as George Bush Sr's ringtone.

What's slowly driving out all-American blockbusters are films with culturally neutral backdrops that travel better: exotic animations such as Ice Age and Madagascar, mythological epics like Immortals, and science-fiction. American films are almost becoming ghettoised in the "local film" bracket. The Help, like The Blind Side a couple of years before it, has been swinging for the global consciousness, but in vain: it did 83% of its business in the US. A couple of decades ago, The Grey would have been a high-performing genre pic, the kind of thing that might scrape into the worldwide top 20; no chance. True Grit was the hardest-riding straight western for years, but even the Coens' name couldn't get it any further up than number 30 in the international charts. But the western is the most American of all genres.
Edited from: the guardian

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

'Moonrise Kingdom' triumphs at Gotham awards


Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson's Cannes smash about two runaway child lovers living on a remote New England island, won the top prize at the 2012 Gotham independent film awards on Monday night.

Young leads Jared Gilman, 13, and Kaya Howard, 14, accepted the best feature award at a ceremony in New York attended by Oscar winners and Hollywood glitterati. Marion Cotillard and Matt Damon received honorary awards celebrating their careers, and there was a tribute to The Fighter director David O Russell. The awards are held annually to celebrate independent film-making and represent a prelude to the coming awards season.

Of the films currently tipped for Oscars success, Benh Zeitlin won the breakthrough director prize for his sun-kissed, rain-drenched tale of life on the flood-threatened Louisiana bayou, Beasts of the Southern Wild. Zeitlin also took home the Bingham Ray award for his micro-budget drama, which used an entirely untrained cast.

Russell's own Silver Linings Playbook, which is tipped to be a rare romantic comedy success at next year's Academy Awards, lost out toYour Sister's Sister, starring Emily Blunt. The British actor was on hand to pick up the ensemble acting award with co-stars Mark Duplass and Rosemarie DeWitt. Duplass also produced the comedy – about a man who sleeps with his girlfriend's sibling – and he thanked the cast for working for just $100 a day.

The audience award went to Jared Leto's documentary Artifact, about the making of the album This Is War by the actor's band 30 Seconds to Mars and their battle with record label Virgin/EMI in 2008 and 2009. Breakthrough actor went to Emayatzy Corinealdi for Sundance-winning drama The Middle of Nowhere, ahead of Beasts of the Southern Wild's six-year-old (at the time of filming), Oscar-tipped Quvenzhané Wallis.

David France's Aids-themed How to Survive a Plague won best documentary feature, while Terence Nance's romance An Oversimplication of Her Beauty won the "best film not playing at a theater near you" award.

The Gotham awards are staged each year by the non-profit-making Independent Feature Project, which supports independent film-making. Last year's winners (sharing best feature) included Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Mike Mills' romantic comedy Beginners, about an octogenarian who comes out as gay. Malick went home empty handed at the Oscars earlier this year despite three nominations, but Beginners' Christopher Plummer won best supporting actor.

guardian.co.uk/film/2012

Sunday, 28 October 2012

The Master - video review


The Master is a 2012 American drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. It tells the story of Freddie Quell (Phoenix), a World War II veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society who meets Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), a leader of a philosophical movement known as "The Cause" who sees something in Quell and accepts him into the movement. Freddie takes a liking to "The Cause" and begins traveling with Dodd along the East Coast to spread the teachings.

It was produced by Annapurna Pictures and Ghoulardi Film Company, and distributed by The Weinstein Company. With a budget of $30 million, filming began in June 2011. Cinematography was provided by Mihai Malaimare, Jr., Jonny Greenwood composed the score, and Leslie Jones and Peter McNulty worked as editors. The film was partly inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, but also used early drafts of There Will Be Blood, stories Jason Robards had told Anderson about his drinking days in the Navy during the war, and the life stories of John Steinbeck.

Initially the film was set up with Universal, but fell through due to problems with the scripts and the budget. It was first publicly shown on August 3, 2012 at the American Cinematheque in 70 mm and screened in various other cities in the format prior to its official premiere. The film officially premiered on September 1, 2012 at the Venice Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Film. The Master was released on September 14, 2012, in the United States to critical acclaim.


Saturday, 10 March 2012

Cannes 2012: Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom' to open festival


Director's seventh feature, starring Ed Norton and Bruce Willis, follows a teenager who abandons his scout troupe to run away with his girlfriend

Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom will open the 65th Cannes film festival on 16 May.

The director of The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore will bring the kook to the Croisette with his seventh feature, which was co-written with Roman Coppola and will screen in the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals, the largest Cannes venue. Guests will include Nanni Moretti, the Italian director who is presiding over this year's jury.
"Wes Anderson is one of the rising powers of American cinema, to which he brings a highly personal touch, particularly in Moonrise Kingdom, which once again is a testimony to the creative freedom in which he continues to evolve," said Thierry Frémaux, Cannes' artistic director. "Sensitive and independent, this admirer of Fellini and Renoir is also in his own right a brilliant and inventive film-maker."

Set in the mid-60s, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of Sam, a teenager who abandons his scout troupe to run away with his girlfriend, Suzy. Hot on the pair's trail are the rest of the scouts from Camp Ivanhoe (including scout leader Edward Norton), a commanding police sheriff (Bruce Willis) and Suzy's parents, played by Frances McDormand and Anderson regular Bill Murray. A number of the film's stars are expected to attend the Cannes premiere.

In similar style to last year's festival opener – Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris'Moonrise Kingdom will be released across France on the same day as the Cannes screening. The rest of the Cannes lineup will be officially announced on 19 April, but there has been speculation that new films from David Cronenberg, Paul Thomas Anderson and Michael Haneke will be among the high-profile work at the festival. Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, an adaptation of a Don Delilo novel starring Robert Pattinson, will be looking for a big launch; Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master – in which Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as a the charismatic leader of faith-based organisation – could be set for general release in October; Haneke, winner of the Palme d'Or in 2009 for The White Ribbon, will be looking to extend his run of Cannes success with Love, a drama about two retired music teachers, starring Isabelle Huppert.

The 65th Cannes film festival runs from Wednesday 16 May to Sunday 27 May 2012.



Friday, 24 February 2012

Oscars 2012 debate: what will win best picture? - video


Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard discuss the merits of the nine films in contention for this year's best picture Oscar. Filmed in front of our very own Academy at the Guardian's Kings Cross HQ, our film team give their verdict on what they think should win, and what they think will.


Monday, 30 January 2012

'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' cancelled in India

Oscar-nominated crime thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will not be shown in India after director David Fincher refused to cut scenes depicting rape and sexual intercourse.

India's Central Board of Film Certification had insisted five scenes be excised, including two in which actors Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara make love and another in which Mara's character Lisbeth Salander is raped by her legal guardian, the Wrap reports. Fincher refused to make changes to his film, and Sony Pictures abandoned plans for a 10 February release.

"Sony Pictures will not be releasing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in India," read a statement from the company's Mumbai office. "The censor board has judged the film unsuitable for public viewing in its unaltered form and, while we are committed to maintaining and protecting the vision of the director, we will, as always, respect the guidelines set by the board."

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the second adaptation of the first book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, has not been an enormous box-office hit but picked up five Oscar nominations last week and is well on its way to a $200m global haul against a budget of $90m. Despite predictions to the contrary, production on the sequel, The Girl Who Played with Fire, is reportedly under way, with Mara and Craig set to return.

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Baftas 2012 shortlist: 'It reflects the quality of films out this year'

The Guardian's film team, Catherine Shoard, Xan Brooks, Andrew Pulver and Henry Barnes, round up the nominations for the 65th British Academy film awards, which will see The Artist, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and My Week with Marilyn in the running for multiple gongs on 12 February.

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Golden Globes 2012: a film-by-film guide

Starting Sunday 15 Jan with the Golden Globes and ending at the 84th Oscars on 26 Feb, Hollywood is about to go red carpet crazy. Read Charlie Lyne's top tips in The Guardian film guide here.

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Bryony Dixon: Expert on the rewards of silent film

The film, The Artist, was part of the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and it is now being positioned as an Oscar contender.

If it does get a nomination for best picture, it will be the first time since 1928 that a silent film has been in the running for a best picture Academy Award.

Bryony Dixon, a silent film expert from the BFI, told BBC News that because silent films require more concentration, the rewards of watching them are richer than action blockbusters.

Saturday, 7 January 2012

'The Artist' and the rise of retrovision

Suddenly, brand-new vintage pictures are everywhere. But is cinema's great leap backwards more suited to cult concerns such as 'Grindhouse' and 'Darkplace'?

Future historians sifting through the cinematic detritus of the last 100 years might find themselves wondering whether some dozy assistant had mislabelled the reels for the early 21st century. After an orderly progression from silent cinema, through the talkies, Technicolor, right up to the digital era, it suddenly starts to get messy. What's this 1950s melodrama doing in the 2002 pile? Why were a bunch of 1970s horror movies apparently made in the noughties? And which idiot thought that this silent movie belonged to 2011?

Movies set in the past are nothing new, but in recent years we've seen a boom in films made in the style of their particular era. It's a new level of vintage: not just getting the period details right onscreen, but getting the whole mode of presentation correct, too … ideally so you can't tell the difference. Let's call it retrovision. Retrovision is more than just "doing" retro; it's being retro, it's seeing retro. You could think of it as a special effect like 3D, only cheaper and more convincing. Retrovision isn't a new invention; how could it be? But at a time when history is continually repeating itself with every new costume drama, mythological epic or reminiscence of British royalty, retrovision could represent a great cinematic leap, er, backwards.

Somehow, retrovision fits perfectly with "cult" viewing material. Perhaps it's down to film-makers trying to reconnect with something "real", in these cases the golden age of video nasties and their own adolescent horror freakery. But it could also be down to the fact that viewers too are pop culture-literate enough to know what's going on, in the same way that pop fans can easily detect, say, the influence of mid-80s Simple Minds in the Horrors' last album, or the Lynchian retro twang of Chris Isaak in Lana Del Rey.

But the film that's taking retrovision overground and upmarket right now is The Artist, the new French-made "silent movie". For those readers stubbornly living in the 21st century, The Artist is supreme 1920s retrovision: a black-and-white Hollywood melodrama, made in the old-fashioned 1.33:1 screen ratio, with intertitles, a continuous orchestral score, and (almost) no dialogue. The film wasn't made with hand-cranked cameras (in fact they shot it in colour), but the lenses, the lighting, the camera moves – all the technical details – were carefully calibrated to get the look just right. "I watched and re-watched many silent films to try to assimilate the rules of the form," says director Michel Hazanavicius. "What people usually do when they make a period movie is recreate what they are shooting, but they aren't recreating the way they're shooting."


Monday, 19 December 2011

'The Raid': Indonesian action picture

Toronto Midnight Madness winning martial arts film 'The Raid' is coming to punch you in the face in the spring of 2012.

Gareth Huw Evans' reunion with his 'Merantau' star Iko Uwais has been stirring up huge buzz on the festival circuit - the film is currently part of the main competition in Torino - with the driving question from fans being when they will be able to see it in local cinemas. The answer is soon.

Though they have not yet put a firm date on it it has just been announced that Sony Pictures Classics will be handling the release of the film in spring of 2012 in Sony controlled territories. The goal of producers and distributors around the world is to go day and date - or as close to it as possible - worldwide so expect other territories to follow suit.

Want to know what to expect? Check out the trailer below and read reviews @ twitchfilm.com

Saturday, 17 December 2011

Inbetweeners takes outstanding achievement prize & is set for record DVD sales

Kylie Minogue presented the cast of The Inbetweeners with the outstanding achievement award at the British Comedy Awards, held on Friday night at Fountain Studios in north London.

The Channel 4 school sitcom became a hit feature film this year. Actor Simon Bird said of the win: "It's not really our award; we're just in the show."

One of his co-stars, Joe Thomas, also appeared in Channel 4's student comedy, Fresh Meat, which picked up the first award of the night.

The big-screen spin-off of The Inbetweeners is on course to become one of the biggest-selling comedy DVDs of all time after shifting nearly 600,000 copies on its first day on sale.

The Inbetweeners Movie, which was released on DVD on Monday, is expected to top 1m sales by the end of this week.

It would be the third biggest first-week sales of any DVD released this year, behind the all-conquering Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows parts one and two.

The E4 spin-off, in which the four teenage school friends go on holiday in Malia, has already pulled in more than £45m at the box office.

It sold 575,000 copies of the DVD on its first day of release, and 660,000 by the end of Tuesday, more than double The Hangover Part 2 managed in its first week.

HMV said it expected combined DVD and Blu-ray sales to top 1m by the end of the week.

The high street retailer said if the sales pattern continued in the run-up to Christmas, it would become the biggest-ever film comedy release in DVD history. HMV has also sold more than a 250,000 Inbetweeners box sets.

HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo said: "We're seeing record sales of the Inbetweeners Movie, which is shaping up to become our biggest-ever week-one release on DVD and Blu-ray.

"We've always done really well with the TV series – particularly among its core audience of teens and young adult males, but with the movie coming so close to Christmas we're also seeing huge demand from gift shoppers right now."

Written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, The Inbetweeners ran for three series on E4, although plans for two one-off specials were abandoned.

The success of the film, however, may prompt a rethink – or a big-screen sequel.

The DVD and Blu-Ray launch was backed by a major advertising campaign which included a TV ad in the X Factor final on Sunday, national newspaper adverts and an outdoor advertising push.

Target Media, the entertainment media agency which has worked on the launch, said that the aim is to "transition the TV fanbase as well as broadening [its appeal] to a new audience who can help to push this all the way to a Christmas number one".


Monday, 12 December 2011

US critics' awards help The Artist and Drive open throttle on road to Oscars

The Artist, Terrence Malick, Bridesmaids' Melissa McCarthy and Drive's Albert Brooks were among the big winners at the weekend as awards season hit full stride with the announcement of four influential critics bodies' end-of-year lists.

The New York Film Critics Online joined the San Francisco Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Boston Society of Film Critics in naming its best movies of the year. There was relative disappointment for films such as The Help, Tate Taylor's adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel about downtrodden black maids in 1960s Mississippi, and Steven Spielberg's first world war-themed War Horse, two films which were tipped for Oscars success but failed to figure in any of the major categories.

The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius's black-and-white, silent romance about Hollywood's golden era, continued its push for the best film gong at the Oscars with honours from the New York and Boston critics in that category. The New York critics also chose Hazanavicius as best director. San Francisco and LA plumped for Malick's The Tree of Life and Alexander Payne's The Descendants, the Sideways director's George Clooney-starring comedy-drama about a property owner trying to relate to his daughters after his wife falls into a coma.

Malick was also named best director by both the San Francisco and LA critics. The Tree of Life, his sprawling Palme d'Or-winning drama about a middle-aged man's memories of growing up in 1950s Texas, is emerging as one of the frontrunners for Oscars glory next February.

In an outpouring of critical opinion not seen since … well, this time last year … the American Film Institute also named its top 10 movies of the year at the weekend. Both The Help and War Horse made it in this time, and there were also places for Martin Scorsese's 3D fantasy Hugo, Clint Eastwood's J Edgar (another film that missed out elsewhere despite early buzz), Moneyball, David Fincher crime remake The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Bridesmaids, The Tree of Life, Woody Allen comedy Midnight in Paris and The Descendants.


Monday, 5 December 2011

'Tyrannosaur' takes hat trick at British Independent Film Awards

Paddy Considine collects best film and best debut director awards while Olivia Colman is best actress.

Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine's gripping and gruelling study of rage, has become the biggest winner at the 14th British Independent Film Awards.

Starring Peter Mullan as a drinking, gambling, washed-up widower, it was surprise winner of the best film award from a particularly strong shortlist that included Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Shame, Senna and We Need to Talk About Kevin.

It is not a first date movie, or rather would be one for unusual people. The tone is set in the first minutes when Mullan's character kicks his dog to death after he is kicked out of the bookies. While it is not easy to watch, critics have showered the film with praise.

Considine, best known as an actor, was given the Douglas Hickox award for best debut director. The film's hat trick of prizes was completed by Olivia Colman – who won best actress for her portrayal of Hannah, a charity shop manager who befriends Mullan's character.



Best actor was Michael Fassbender for his lead role in Shame, Steve McQueen's second feature film after Hunger. The award joins his best actor prize from the Venice film festival for his portrayal of a desperately unhappy sex addict. Fassbender, who spends much of the film naked, beat strong competition that included Mullan, Gary Oldman, Neil Maskell and Brendan Gleeson.

Lynne Ramsay won best director for We Need to Talk About Kevin, based on Lionel Shriver's 2003 novel about a school massacre. For film enthusiasts it was a welcome return to the spotlight for Ramsay who made her name with her debut feature Ratcatcher in 1999.

There were two awards for Weekend, a film made on a tiny budget about two men who embark on a love affair which has generated considerable buzz. The unknown Cardiff actor Tom Cullen won best newcomer while the film was rewarded with best achievement in production.

Other awards at a ceremony hosted by Chris O'Dowd at Old Billingsgate in London included best supporting actress, won by Vanessa Redgrave in Coriolanus; best supporting actor, Michael Smiley for Kill List; and best screenplay, Richard Ayoade from The IT Crowd for Submarine.

The Bifas have a record of rewarding films which go on to more glamorous prize success, such as The King's Speech last year and Slumdog Millionaire in 2008, although only the most optimistic would predict such success for Tyrannosaur.

Special awards were also made to two of Britain's finest actors.

Ralph Fiennes, who this year made his directorial debut with Coriolanus, was given the Richard Harris award for outstanding contribution to British film by an actor. He follows Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Broadbent and, last year, Helena Bonham-Carter.

Kenneth Branagh was given the Variety award for someone who has helped focus the international spotlight on the UK, a prize previously awarded to Liam Neeson, JK Rowling and Michael Caine.

The prizes were completed by Senna winning best documentary and Chalk the best British short, while Maria Djurkovic won best technical achievement for production design on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Leaving Baghdad won the Raindance award and the Iranian drama A Separation won best foreign independent film. A special jury prize was given to film financier Graham Easton.

Saturday, 3 December 2011

Steve McQueen's Shame issued with NC-17 rating

Studio chiefs hope adults-only rating – for 'explicit sexual content' – will help rather than hinder film's success.

'Shame', Steve McQueen's acclaimed New York drama starring Michael Fassbender, has been issued with an NC-17 rating by the MPAA in the US on account of its "explicit sexual content". The certification, which will make Shame officially off-limits to anyone under 18, would seem to limit the film's awards-season potential, as well as its possible audience reach.

But the decision of studio Fox Searchlight not to appeal the decision, nor to offer edits which might mean it could be reclassified as an R-rated film, suggests that the adults-only status may be one of the tools being used in the film's publicity drive.

"I think NC-17 is a badge of honour, not a scarlet letter. We believe it is time for the rating to become usable in a serious manner," Searchlight joint president Steve Gilula told the Hollywood Reporter. "The sheer talent of the actors and the vision of the film-maker are extraordinary. It's not a film that everyone will take easily, but it certainly breaks through the clutter and is distinctive and original. It's a game-changer."

The strategy is in contrast to that adopted by the producers of 'Blue Valentine', Derek Cianfrance's divorce drama which last year was issued with an NC-17 by the MPAA, only for them to downgrade it to an R without cuts after distributor Harvey Weinstein mounted a successful campaign against their decision.

That film, however, failed to pick up the awards many predicted for it, earning just one Oscar nomination, for Michelle Williams.

'Shame' has already won Fassbender a best actor award at the Venice film festival 2011, where it premiered in September. It marks the second collaboration between Fassbender and McQueen, following 2008's 'Hunger'.



Monday, 28 November 2011

Harry Potter wins big at Bafta children's awards

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two was one of a host of double winners at the Bafta children's awards on Sunday night.

The movie adaptation of the boy wizard's final adventure scooped the feature film prize, beating the likes of Kung Fu Panda 2, Tangled and its own predecessor, Deathly Hallows Part 1.

The blockbusting release also triumphed in the film category of the Bafta kids' vote, chosen by more than 400,000 7- to 14-year-olds in an online poll.

"Harry Potter is part of popular culture," said Warwick Davis, who played the role of Professor Filius Flitwick in the films, and who accepted the award.

"The series is going to leave a legacy for generations of children to enjoy. Look at Star Wars; the original movies are 30 years old, but we talk about them as though they were released recently. The Harry Potter films will be the same."