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
Julian Curry of interviews with thirteen leading actors focussing on specific Shakespearean roles. It was nominated as 2011 Theatre Book of the Year. In "Shakespeare on Stage" Curry interviews Brian Cox (about the titular role of Titus Andronicus), Judi Dench (Juliet), Ralph Fiennes (about the titular role of Coriolanus), Rebecca Hall (Rosalind from "As You Like It"), Derek Jacobi (Malvolio from "Twelfth Night"), Jude Law ("Hamlet"), Adrian Lester ("Henry V"), Ian McKellen ("Macbeth"), Helen Mirren (Cleopatra), Tim Pigott-Smith (Leontes from "A Winter's Tale"), Kevin Spacey ("Richard II"), Patrick Stewart (Prospero from "The Tempest"), and Penelope Wilton (Isabella from "Measure for Measure. A