{"id":159115,"date":"2025-11-25T16:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159115\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:51:16","slug":"emily-watson-to-be-honored-at-british-independent-film-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159115\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Watson to Be Honored at British Independent Film Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEmily Watson<\/a> will be honored with the Richard Harris Award at this year\u2019s British Independent Film Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe award celebrates an actor\u2019s outstanding contribution to British film and has previously been bestowed upon Samantha Morton, Riz Ahmed, Kristin Scott Thomas, Daniel Day-Lewis, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julie Walters, Stephen Graham and Sophie Okonedo. <\/p>\n

\n\tWatson began her career on stage in the \u201990s as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She received her first Oscar best actress nomination for her debut film role in Lars von Trier\u2019s \u201cBreaking the Waves\u201d (1996), and was also nominated two years later for Anand Tucker\u2019s \u201cHilary and Jackie.\u201d Her other memorable films include \u201cThe Boxer\u201d (1997), \u201cPunch-Drunk Love\u201d (2002), \u201cRed Dragon\u201d (2002), \u201cCorpse Bride\u201d (2005), \u201cSynecdoche, New York\u201d (2008), \u201cWar Horse\u201d (2011), \u201cThe Theory of Everything\u201d (2014) and \u201cSmall Things Like These.\u201d More recently, Watson starred alongside Cillian Murphy in the Netflix drama \u201cSteve\u201d and opposite Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley in Chloe Zhao\u2019s Oscar-tipped \u201cHamnet.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEmily\u2019s first film was Lars von Trier\u2019s epic \u2018Breaking the Waves,\u2019 which is like saying the first mountain she climbed was Everest,\u201d Richard Harris\u2019 children Damian, Jared and Jamie Harris said in a statement. \u201cIt was a fearless and devastating performance and was rightly recognized with multiple honors, and her first Oscar nomination. Since then, there have been a succession of Emily Watson performances that have again rightly been acknowledged with nominations, honors and awards, including a BIFA. Emily is too young to be called a national treasure, but any performance of hers is a cultural event and she enhances the quality of everything in which she appears. She rightly takes her place alongside the past recipients of the Richard Harris Award.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Watson: \u201cI\u2019m delighted and deeply honored to be receiving this award. I\u2019ve had the great privilege of spending time with Jared as an actor and raconteur, hearing thrilling wild tales of his dad and the force that he was. I\u2019m so grateful to the Harris family for thinking of me. Truly an honor. Thank you BIFA.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 28th BIFA Awards ceremony will take place Nov. 30 at London\u2019s Roundhouse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily Watson will be honored with the Richard Harris Award at this year\u2019s British Independent Film Awards. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[89274,89275,321,89276,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-159115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bifas","tag-british-independent-film-awards","tag-celebrities","tag-emily-watson","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}