Void Film Wins BAFTA!

By Jon

The acclaimed drama documentary of Joe Simpson's Andean epic, Touching The Void has won an Orange British Academy Film Award or BAFTA.

The astonishing film, directed by Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald won the Alexander Korda Award for the best British film of the year beating the likes of Cold Mountain in the process.

The Times said the film was a 'surprise winner' but added that it was 'justifiably' so and that it 'faced some of the stiffest and most expensive competition on offer, including Cold Mountain and Love Actually.'

The FT meanwhile said the award was one of the most popular of the evening and suggested that it might now 'be given a second wind at cinemas'.

Here on OM, all we can add, having scooped the world to a first review on the site, is congratulations to everyone involved in the making of the film and particularly Brian Hall and his climbing filming experts who produced some of the most realistic and gripping mountaineering sequences seen on the big screen. Nice one.

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DaveMycroft

Posted: 15/02/04 21:17:48 48

Touching The Void won the BAFTA for Best British Film of the Year.

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