When the BBC profiled George Harrison as one of the hundred greatest Britons last week they talked about his time in the Beatles and his solo work, but they didn’t talk about the fact he ploughed much of his Beatles fortune back into the arts. But now his support of the British film industry will be recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented at the British Independent Film Awards on Wednesday. Harrison’s film company Handmade Films rescued a cash strapped ‘Life of Brian’ in the late seventies, as well as producing a number of films, perhaps most notably the seminal classic ‘Withnail and I’.
Oct 28, 2002
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George Harrison to receive award for support of British film
George Harrison will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Independent Film Awards for supporting British film through Handmade Films.