Gallery: BAFTA Los Angeles' Ronald Neame 100th Birthday Celebration

Saturday 23 April

On Saturday, April 23, 2011, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles celebrated the 100th Birthday of Ronald Neame, CBE at the Directors Guild of America.

As one of the founding members of BAFTA in 1947, and long-serving Governor of BAFTA Los Angeles, members were delighted to celebrate the life of this extraordinary filmmaker and admirable man.

Guest speakers included friends and colleagues such as William Friedkin, Ernest Borgnine, Anne Coates, John Landis, grandson Gareth Neame and wife Donna Neame. The evening also included a special screening of the Stephen Fry-narrated documentary Ronald Neame: A Life In Film and a special Birthday toast from BAFTA Los Angeles co-founder, Marion Rosenberg.

Photographs by Adrian Carr & Getty Images.

BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

Donald Haber, Ernest Borgnine, Donna Neame, Marion Rosenberg and Brian Walton.
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

Donna Neame and Ernest Borgnine
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

Donna Neame
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

Gareth Neame
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

John Landis
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

Ernest Borgnine
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

William Friedkin
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

Leonard Maltin
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

Ernest Borgnine
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

British Consul-General Dame Barbara Hay DCMV LVO MBE
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

William Friedkin
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

Anne Coates
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

Ernest Borgnine and John Landis
BAFTA Los Angeles: Ronald Neame's 100th Birthday Celebration

BAFTA Los Angeles Co-Founder Marion Rosenberg leads guests in a Birthday toast.