He even won the best director prize at the British Academy Awards.

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Luxury brand 88 Rue Du Rhone (which is owned by Raymond Weil) has designed a 50-piece limited edition specifically to celebrate the 2013 British Academy Film and Television Arts awards as its official time partner.

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The first British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards were made 50 years ago in 1947 and were for achievement in film.

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Meryl Streep lost her Jimmy Choo pump as she climbed the stairs at the 2012 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, to claim her statuette.

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Starring a relatively unknown Scottish actor, "Dr. No" had been largely forgotten by the time the following year's Academy Awards came around, when another British film, the 18th-century romp "Tom Jones, " took best picture honors.

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Presented by Basca (the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) in association with the Performing Right Society (PRS), the annual awards celebrate British and Irish songwriting and composing.

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