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BBC Four BBC Four is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002

World Cinema Award is an annual prize given out to celebrate the best in world cinema. A shortlist of up to six films is made by the UK's leading critics, film-school heads and festival directors from the foreign language films released in that year in the UK. The winner is selected by a panel of judges whose decision making process is screened as part of the award ceremony, screened live on

BBC Four BBC Four is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002

, and since the beginning hosted by

Jonathan Ross Jonathan Stephen Ross (born 17 November 1960) is an English broadcaster, film critic, comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He presented the BBC One chat show '' Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'' during the 2000s and early 2010s, hosted his ow ...

History

2008 was its seventh year, with the BBC Four World Cinema Award ceremony hosted by Jonathan Ross from the

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. The winner of the 2008 award was announced on 30 January 2008, and the event was broadcast on BBC Four on 2 February 2008. In 2009, a new Achievement award for an international film-maker of great distinction was added to the ceremony in addition to the existing best film award., which was awarded was given to

Werner Herzog Werner Herzog (; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusu ...

. The 2009 award ceremony took place on 27 January 2009, again at the BFI Southbank. The seventh annual ceremony took place in October 2010. As the BBC needed to make budgetary cut backs, 2011 was the last BBC Four World Cinema Awards was held.

Award winners

BBC Four World Cinema Award

BBC Four World Cinema Achievement Award

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*2010 –

Bernardo Bertolucci Bernardo Bertolucci ( ; ; 16 March 1941 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. Considered one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, Bertolucci's work achieved inte ...

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Bernardo Bertolucci To Receive The 2010 Achievement Award. *2011 –

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References

External links

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World Cinema World cinema is a term in film theory in the United States that refers to films made outside of the American motion picture industry, particularly those in opposition to the aesthetics and values of commercial American cinema.Nagib, Lúcia. ...

Awards established in 2004 Awards disestablished in 2011 2004 establishments in the United Kingdom 2011 disestablishments in the United Kingdom