Andy Serkis has been announced by the BAFTA Film Awards as recipient of the 2020 Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award honoree. The honor will be done him during the live telecast of the award ceremony on February 2.
According to BAFTA organizers, Serkis has pioneered both the evolving of art of performance capture and widened the parameters of what it means to be an actor in the 21st century.
“I’m deeply honored and thrilled to receive this award, and count myself extremely lucky to be on such a continually fascinating journey in visual storytelling, one that has given me the opportunity to collaborate with many of the world’s greatest artists, technologists and craftspeople, with whom I’d like to share this wonderful accolade,” said Serkis
Serkis is best known in Hollywood for playing cinematic characters such as Gollum in ‘Lord of the Rings’, Caesar in ‘Planet of the Apes’ trilogy, Titular gorilla in ‘King Kong’ Snoke in the ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, and Ulysses Klause in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ and ‘Black Panther’.
Establishing his own production house ‘The Imaginarium’ in 2011 alongside producer Jonathan Cavendish, Serkis made his directorial debut in 2017 with ‘Breathe’ and has since followed up with several directorial roles for films such as ‘Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle’. He returns in the director’s spotlight with ‘Venom 2’ which stars Tom Hardy.
Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Angela Allen, John Hurt, Tessa Ross, Peter Greenaway are amongst past recipients of the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award honorees.
