3 h. ago The lifetime achievement prize for Edinburgh author Kate Atkinson dubbed 'superb ambassador for Scotland'

Kate Atkinson is the author of 13 novels

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3 h. ago Kate Atkinson honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award from Saltire Society

‘It’s a pleasure to be recognised alongside so many gifted writers,’ said the author best knowd for her novels ‘Life After Life’ and ‘Case Histories’

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11 h. ago Sir Bob Geldof will be honoured with Lifetime Achievement prize at the Rolling Stone Awards

Sir Bob Geldof has said he is ‘thrilled’ to receive the award

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57 h. ago ‘Making films is who I am’: Tom Cruise gets lifetime achievement Oscar

The Hollywood star – who had been nominated for multiple Oscars but never previously won – was honoured at the Academy’s annual Governors awards, along with Dolly Parton, Wynn Thomas and Debbie AllenTom Cruise finally received an Oscar on Sunday night in Los Angeles – though not for a specific acting role. The star of Top Gun, Jerry Maguire and the Mission: Impossible series was given an honorary Academy Award at the annual Governors awards, which are designed to reward lifetime achievement.In a statement before the event, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) president Janet Yang cited “Cruise’s incredible commitment to our film-making community, to the theatrical experience, and to the stunts community has inspired us all”. Recalling his efforts to shoot the seventh Mission: Impossible in 2020, Yang added that Cruise “helped to usher the industry through a challenging time during the Covid-19 pandemic”. Continue reading...

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61 h. ago Tom Cruise finally gets his Oscar moment with a lifetime achievement trophy at the Governors Awards

Tom Cruise finally has an Academy Award

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3 d. ago Sir Billy Connolly, 82, pictured in rare public appearance as he picks up lifetime achievement award

SIR Billy Connolly has made a rare public appearance to receive a lifetime achievement award from a film festival in his adopted home of Florida. The Big Yin had an audience at the Key West Film Festival in fits of laughter as he made a hilarious speech after being honoured with the Golden Key Award...

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3 d. ago Sir Billy Connolly receives lifetime achievement award at a film festival in Florida

The Big Yin had an audience at the Key West Film Festival in fits of laughter as he made a hilarious speech after being honoured and joked about the terrible trousers his wife made him wear for the event.

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3 d. ago Sir Billy Connolly receives lifetime achievement award at Florida film festival

The Big Yin had an audience at the Key West Film Festival in fits of laughter as he made a hilarious speech after being honoured and joked about the terrible trousers his wife made him wear for the event.

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6 d. ago Feminist History for Every Day of the Year by Kate Mosse review – the women who helped change the world

The bestselling author champions female trailblazers in an enjoyable anthology for all agesWomen make up roughly 50% of the population but only feature in about 0.5% of recorded history. In Feminist History for Every Day of the Year, Kate Mosse, the bestselling author of Labyrinth, celebrates can-do women and gives history’s trailblazers their due. Aimed at teenage readers but just as enjoyable for adults, this anthology comprises bite-sized stories of female achievement and the centuries-old fight for equality. As Mosse notes in the introduction, it is about women “who refused to accept the limitations put on them, who campaigned and marched, battled and challenged the status quo to change the world for the better”.The book features a mixture of famous and lesser-known figures: artists, writers, scientists, academics, sportswomen, educators and politicians. There’s primatologist Dian Fossey; avant garde painter Amrita Sher-Gil; Britain’s first black headteacher Beryl Gilroy; Pakist...

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7 d. ago Sir Grayson Perry ‘American Dream’ artwork acquired for nation

The print can be seen at the Modern One gallery in Edinburgh.

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9 d. ago Salman Rushdie honoured with Dayton peace prize lifetime achievement award

Prestigious prize celebrates both literary merit and writers' commitment to promoting peace through their work

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9 d. ago Salman Rushdie is being honored with a Dayton peace prize lifetime achievement award

Salman Rushdie is among those being honored at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize event in Ohio

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1 week ago Inside the 'needlessly cruel' cancellation of Scottish author Kate Clanchy and why I'm glad I'm not the BBC

A common misconception about ‘cancel culture’ in the literary arts is, if a writer is still scraping a living, in print, and occasionally able to be vertical, they haven’t been subjected to ‘cancellation’.

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2 w. ago Helen Mirren to receive Golden Globe lifetime achievement award

The multiple Bafta, Emmy, Globe and Oscar-winning actor will receive the film prize in recognition of her ‘transcendent performances and commitment to her craft’Helen Mirren, the British actor who is already the winner of awards including an Oscar, four Baftas, three Golden Globes, five Emmys and a Tony is to add another to the shelf: the Cecil B DeMille Golden Globe for lifetime achievement.Mirren, 80, who was given a damehood in 2003 and made a Bafta fellow in 2014, will pick up the award in a ceremony on 8 January, three days before the main Golden Globes take place, as part of an event billed by the Globes as the “Golden Eve”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Helen Mirren will receive the Golden Globes' Cecil B. DeMille award

Helen Mirren's latest role is Golden Globe lifetime achievement honoree

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3 w. ago Emotional moment Sally Becker reunites with woman she saved from war at Pride of Britain awards

This is the moment Sally Becker reunited with a woman she saved from war as she received the Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement award on Thursday (23 October).

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3 w. ago Pride of Britain Awards viewers 'gone' after emotional reunion for Lifetime Achievement winner

Pride of Britain viewers watched as some of the most inspirational people in the country were honoured at the emotional awards ceremony in London

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4 w. ago Meet the mother who has saved dozens of children ravaged by war

A mother who has saved dozens of children ravaged by war in Bosnia and Gaza has been awarded a Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement award for her three decades of work.

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4 w. ago Kelly Osbourne breaks down in tears as she pays emotional tribute to late father Ozzy as she accepts Lifetime Achievement Award on his behalf

The TV personality, 40, took to the stage to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of her late father, who passed away in July aged 76.

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last month Sally Becker's emotional reunion with girl whose life she saved as she wins Pride of Britain

Humanitarian Sally Becker, who tonight has won the Pride of Britain's Lifetime Achievement award, opens up about her three decades of work in war zones - and her sadness that her work is still needed

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