2007 BAFTA Film Awards Portraits

Wednesday 14 February

Portraits of winners and citation readers taken backstage at the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2007 by official BAFTA photogrpaher Ian Derry .

Ian Derry
"It seems a very straightforward portrait of Forest Whitaker but in the circumstances it was anything but! I had created a studio along with Vanity Fair and Esquire where we shot the Bafta Nominees and winners. It was chaotic with so many publicists, PRs, A list celebs etc and then Forest just wandered in clutching his BAFTA for The King of Scotland. He had a bizarre air of calm and looked genuinely humbled and overjoyed with his award. Nobody with him just Forest wandering around with his BAFTA enjoying the night! When I was asked by BAFTA to shoot for them I wanted to light it in a slightly more old fashioned Hollywood style which I think you really get with this shot. It could have been taken 50 years ago or the present day."

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