The Last King of Scotland (film) Association, the National Board of Review and many other critics awards, for a total of at least 23 major awards, with at least one more nomination. The film received a 2007 BAFTA Award for Best British Film and the BAFTA award for Best Adapted Screenplay, in addition to receiving nominations for Best Film. McAvoy was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. The film was received well in Uganda, where it premiered two days before Whitaker won the Best Actor Academy Award. While the character of Idi Amin and the events surrounding him in the film are mostly based on fact, Garrigan
Macbeth (1971 film) Macbeth (1971 film) Macbeth (or The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a 1971 British-American historical period drama film directed by Roman Polanski and co-written by Polanski and Kenneth Tynan. A film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, it retells the story of the Highland lord who becomes King of Scotland through treachery and murder. The film stars Jon Finch as the title character and Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth, noted for their relative youth as actors. Themes of historic recurrence, greater pessimism and internal ugliness in physically beautiful characters are added to Shakespeare's story of moral decline, which