National Film Awards UK nominees or films must be based in the country of origin except the Best Foreign Film category. 2016, the mobile network O2 (UK) sponsored the awards During the ceremony, National Film Awards UK pauses to pay tribute to those in the industry who died over the previous twelve months, with a montage of images accompanied by music. In 2016 the legendary late actor Alan Rickman was honored. In 2015 Dame Judi Dench was voted by academy members to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award whilst the 2016 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award was Dame Helen Mirren David Jason and Nicholas
Denzil Smith "Jagga Jasoos" (2018) with Ranbir Kapoor, directed by Anurag Basu and the emergency period action film "Baadshaho" (2017) with Ajay Devgn and Emraan Hashmi. Smith has featured in several international productions that have achieved both critical and commercial success – "One Night with the King" (2007) with Omar Sharif and Peter O’Toole, "The Lunchbox" (2013) with Irrfan Khan, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" (2011) and "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" (2015) with Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Dev Patel, Bill Nighy and directed by John Madden and "Brahman Naman" (2016), a Netflix original release sex comedy, directed by Qaushiq Mukherjee,