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
Paul Englishby include "Death Of A Salesman" (starring Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter), "Twelfth Night" (starring Richard Wilson), "Hamlet" (starring David Tennant), "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (starring Judi Dench), "Love's Labour's Lost" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". In 2013, Englishby scored Peter Morgan's "The Audience", starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II. "The Audience", with Mirren, transferred to Broadway in 2015, with Kristin Scott Thomas taking up the role in the West End. In 2014, Englishby wrote the music for David Hare's "Skylight", starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan, which also transferred to Broadway from the West End in 2015. Other