Monday, January 27, 2014

Helen Mirren to Get Top BAFTA Honor

The actress, who won an Oscar and a BAFTA film award for her role in "The Queen" in 2007, gets a fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Helen Mirren will next month be presented with a fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the organization's highest honor.

The Oscar and BAFTA winning actress will receive the British Academy fellowship in recognition of her "exceptional contribution" to film, BAFTA said. She will get the honor during this year's British Academy film awards on Feb. 16.
The presentation will see Mirren join the star-studded roster of BAFTA fellows that already includes the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave and Martin Scorsese.