BAFTA/LA will honor Cruise with Kubrick
Tom Cruise will be honored by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles when it awards him its highest honor, the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film, at its 14th annual Britannia Awards set for Nov. 10 at the Beverly Hilton. "Tom Cruise is the very embodiment of the consummate acting professional," BAFTA/LA chairman Gary Dartnall said in announcing the award. "For more than 20 years, he has been that rarest of them all: an unparalleled movie star who has attained both global fame and the most prestigious recognition of his acting talents." The Britannia has been awarded to Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli, Peter Ustinov, Michael Caine, Martin Scorsese, Anthony Hopkins, Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Dustin Hoffman, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Hugh Grant. Last year, the award went to Tom Hanks. BAFTA/LA is a professional, independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1987 that operates as an affiliate of BAFTA, headquartered in London, and is the largest British professional industry organization outside of the U.K.
