Charlotte Rampling, Shirin Neshat, David Morrissey: London 2009

Veteran actress and London Film Festival jury member Charlotte Rampling, the star of Night Porter, The Verdict, and Swimming Pool, arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Venice Film Festival 2009 best director winner Shirin Neshat arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

David Morrissey arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Dominic Cooper, Souleymane Cissé, Anjelica Huston: London 2009

Malinese filmmaker Souleymane Cissé and guest arrive for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. Cissé and actor John Hurt were given BFI Fellowships at the awards ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Actor and award presenter Dominic Cooper, one of the stars of Mamma Mia!, arrives at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony.

Academy Award winner and and London Film Festival jury chair Anjelica Huston arrives at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

John Hurt, Tahar Rahim, Yoav Shamir: London 2009

Tahar Rahim, the star of Jacques Audiard’s widely praised prison drama A Prophet, winner of the best picture award at the London Film Festival and a likely best foreign language film Oscar contender, arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

John Hurt and Ann Rees Meyers arrive for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. Hurt and filmmaker Souleymane Cissé were given BFI Fellowships at the awards ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Filmmaker Yoav Shamir, whose documentary Defamation won the London Film Festival’s top prize in that category, arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. Defamation [...]

Jodie Whittaker, Yaron Shani, Nick Broomfield: London 2009

Actress and award presenter Jodie Whittaker arrives at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Director Yaron Shani, whose Ajami (co-directed with Scandar Copti) won the Israeli Academy Award earlier this year, arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Filmmaker and award presenter Nick Broomfield arrives at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Charlotte Rampling, Souleymane Cissé, Ridley Scott: London 2009

Malinese filmmaker and BFI Fellowship recipient Souleymane Cissé poses with his BFI Fellowship. Veteran actress and presenter Charlotte Rampling is standing next to him at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Mexican filmmaker and award presenter Alfonso Cuarón arrives at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Filmmaker Ridley Scott, best known for Alien, Blade Runner, and Thelma & Louise, and Giannina Facio arrive for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Dominic Cooper, Jodie Whittaker, Tahar Rahim: London 2009

Screenwriter Jack Thorne, voted best British newcomer for The Scouting Book for Boys, poses with his award. Actors Dominic Cooper and Jodie Whittaker are standing next to him at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Documentary filmmaker Yoav Shamir poses with his Grierson Award for Best Documentary Defamation, an European Film Award nominee and a potential Oscar 2010 contender, at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Tahar Rahim, the star of Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, poses with the Best Film award given to Audiard’s gritty prison drama. Academy Award winner and London Film [...]

Charlotte Rampling, Anjelica Huston, John Hurt: London 2009

Veteran actresses Charlotte Rampling and Anjelica Huston attend a cocktail reception at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Filmmaker Yaron Shani poses with the Sutherland award for the film Ajami, voted the most original and imaginative first feature. Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón is standing next to him at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

John Hurt poses with his BFI Fellowship. Next to him are Jeremy Thomas (on his left) and Michael Caton-Jones (on his right) at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Anjelica Huston, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Thorne: London 2009

Academy Award winner and London Film Festival jury chair Anjelica Huston presents the Best Film award during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Screenwriter Jack Thorne poses with his Best British Newcomer award for the film The Scouting Book for Boys during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Veteran actress and award presenter Charlotte Rampling speaks at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

London 2009: Gemma Arterton, Warwick Thornton, Eddie Marsan

Martin Compston, Producer Adrian Sturges, Gemma Arterton, Director J Blakeson, and Eddie Marsan arrive for the premiere of The Disappearance of Alice Creed, a psychological thriller in which Compston and Marsan are apparent kidnappers and Arterton their apparent victim, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 24. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Director Warwick Thornton arrives for the premiere of the drama Samson & Delilah, the tale of two Aboriginal lovers in Central Australia that has been just nominated for the Australian Film Institute’s best film award, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 24. (Photo by Samir [...]

London 2009: Gemma Arterton, Nick Park, Jacques Audiard

Gemma Arterton arrives for the premiere of J Blakeson’s The Disappearance of Alice Creed, in which two men (Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan) kidnap a woman (Arterton is the unlucky one) and tie her to a bed, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 24. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Screenwriter Abdel Raouf Dafri and Director Jacques Audiard attend the photocall for the gritty prison drama A Prophet, winner of the London Film Festival’s best film prize and a strong contender for the 2010 best foreign language film Academy Award, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 24. (Photo [...]

London 2009: Gabourey Sidibe, JJ Feild, Veronica Echegui

Actress Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe, a potential Oscar 2010 best actress contender, arrives at the premiere of Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 23. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

Actor JJ Feild arrives at the premiere of Paul King’s Bunny and the Bull during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 23. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

Actress Veronica Echegui arrives at the premiere of Bunny and the Bull. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

A view from the National Gallery during the London Moves Me Outdoor Screening as part of the Times BFI 53rd London [...]

London 2009: Jamie Doyle, Nichola Burley, Lindy Heymann

Jamie Doyle arrives for the premiere of Lindy Heymann’s Kicks, in which two women do whatever they can to get near their sports idol, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 22. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Nichola Burley at the premiere of Kicks (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Director Lindy Heymann arrives for the premiere of Kicks (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

A view from the National Gallery during the London Moves Me Outdoor Screening as part of the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival held at Trafalgar Square on October 22. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

London 2009: Amanda Seyfried, Julianne Moore, Atom Egoyan

Actresses Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore pose with director Atom Egoyan and producer (and oftentimes director) Ivan Reitman as they attend the Chloe photocall during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 22. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Amanda Seyfried, Julianne Moore (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Julianne Moore (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

London 2009: Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried

Julianne Moore, a potential Oscar 2010 candidate for A Single Man, and Amanda Seyfried at the premiere of Atom Egoyan’s thriller Chloe during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 22. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried attending the Chloe photocall during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 22. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Amanda Seyfried (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

London 2009: George MacKay, Clive Owen, Brian Friedman

George Mackay and Clive Owen attend the photocall for Scott Hicks‘ The Boys Are Back, a dramatic comedy about a sportswriter turned single parent, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 21. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Music supervisor Hal Lindes, George MacKay, Author Simon Carr, Laura Fraser, Clive Owen, Director Scott Hicks, Producer Greg Brenman and Screenwriter Allan Cubitt arrive for the premiere of The Boys Are Back at the Vue West End on October 21. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Brian Friedman arrives for the premiere of The Boys Are Back at the Vue West End. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

London 2009: Amanda Seyfried, Michael Haneke, Thomas Turgoose

Director Michael Haneke attends the photocall for his black-and-white drama The White Ribbon, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and a highly 2010 Oscar contender in the best foreign language film category (and possibly in the best picture category as well), during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 21. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Actress Amanda Seyfried, one of the stars of the UK blockbuster Mamma Mia!, attends the photocall for Atom Egoyan’s psychological thriller Chloe, co-starring Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 22. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Director Tom Harper and [...]

London 2009: Dominic Cooper, Matthew Beard, Kerry Fox

Actor Dominic Cooper attends An Education press conference during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 20. An Education is a potential Oscar 2010 best picture contender. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Director Hans-Christian Schmid, Kerry Fox arrive for the premiere of Storm, winner of the Amnesty International Film Prize at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 20. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

Matthew Beard at the premiere of An Education during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 20. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

London 2009: Clive Owen, George MacKay, Scott Hicks

Clive Owen attends a press conference for Scott Hicks‘ The Boys Are Back during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 21.

George MacKay

George MacKay, Scott Hicks, Clive Owen
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London 2009: Dominic Cooper, Bruno Dumont, Julie Sokolowski

Dominic Cooper kisses director Lone Scherfig at the premiere of An Education during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 20.

Director Bruno Dumont and actress Julie Sokolowski arrive for the premiere of the widely praised religious-fanaticism drama Hadewijch, winner of the International Film Critics’ award at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 20.

Bruno Dumont
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London 2009: Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, Carey Mulligan

Two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson, Carey Mulligan and Dominic Cooper arrive for the premiere of An Education during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 20. Both Thompson and Mulligan are potential Oscar 2010 contenders; the former in the best supporting actress category, the latter as best actress.

Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper, Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson
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London 2009: Ben Whishaw, Jane Campion, Andy Serkis

Composer Mark Bradshaw, Producers Caroline Hewitt, Jan Chapman, Samuel Roukin, Edie Martin (front), Director Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw and Antonia Campbell-Hughes pose at the premiere of potential Oscar 2010 contender Bright Star during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Odeon Leicester Square on October 19.

Andy Serkis, Lorraine Ashbourne

Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox
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London 2009: Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox

Jane Campion attends the premiere of Bright Star, a potential Oscar 2010 best picture contender, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Odeon Leicester Square on October 19.

Kerry Fox

Ben Whishaw
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London 2009: Ben Whishaw, Catherine Breillat, Mary McCartney

Catherine Breillat attends the premiere of Bluebeard during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 19. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Ben Whishaw, Jane Campion at the premiere of potential Oscar 2010 contender Bright Star during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Odeon Leicester Square on October 19. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

Mary McCartney arrives for the premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Odeon West End on October 19. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

London 2009: Dominic Cooper, Carey Mulligan

Actors Dominic Cooper and potential best actress Oscar 2010 contender Carey Mulligan, screenwriter Nick Hornby, director Lone Scherfig, producers Amanda Posey and Finola Dwyer and actor Matthew Beard attend An Education photocall during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 20.

Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper

Dominic Cooper
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Julian Fellowes, Nigel Havers, Prince Michael of Kent: London 2009

Kwayedza Kureya, Eliza Bennett, Douglas Booth and Alex Etel arrive for the premiere of Julian Fellowes‘ ghost tale From Time to Time during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 18.

Emma Kitchener-Fellowes, Prince Michael of Kent, Princess Michael of Kent, Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes, Nigel Havers

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