BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards 2006

Thursday 2nd November 2006 - The Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles

Hosted by Stephen Fry

CLINT EASTWOOD, recipient of the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film

RACHEL WEISZ, recipient of the Britannia Award for Artist of the Year

ANTHONY MINGHELLA, recipient of the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing

SIR SIDNEY POITIER, recipient of the Cunard Britannia Award for Lifetime Contributions to International Film

PRESENTERS: Halle Berry (Sir Sidney Poitier), Dustin Hoffman (Rachel Weisz), Sydney Pollack (Anthony Minghella), Robin Wright Penn (Anthony Minghella), Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Sir Sidney Poitier) Tim Robbins (Clint Eastwood), Michael Sheen (Rachel Weisz), Forest Whitaker (Clint Eastwood)

ALSO PARTICIPATING: Stephen Fry (Master of Ceremonies), Corbin Bernsen (“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”). Jesse Bradford (“Flags of Our Fathers”), Justin Chambers (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Jackie Collins (Top-Selling Novelist), Steve Coogan (“Marie Antoinette”), Tim Daly (“The Nine”), Lucy Davis (“Ugly Betty”), Cat Deely (Host of “So You Think You Can Dance”), David Keith (“The Class”), Justin Kirk (“Weeds”), Nigel Lythgoe (Producer of “American Idol”), Max Minghella (“Art School Confidential”), Parminder Nagra (“ER”), Michael Pena (“World Trade Center”), Barry Pepper (“Flags of Our Fathers”), Lucy Punch (“The Class”), Geoffrey Rush (“Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy), Kate Walsh (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Peta Wilson (“La Femme Nikita”), Owain Yeoman (“The Nine”), Kevin Zegers (“Transamerica”), Christian Slater, Sharon Stone, Josh Jackson, Freddy Rodriguez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Svetlana Metkina (Cast Members of “Bobby”), Michel Litvak, Holly Wiersma, Gary Michael Walters, and David Lancaster (Producers of “Bobby”), Nicholas Hytner (Director of “The History Boys”), Richard Griffiths, Frances De La Tour, Dominic Cooper, and Samuel Barnett (Cast Members of “The History Boys”) and many more.

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