(n.) A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.
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(1) "This Bafta was won not by me or them but by the production team.
(2) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(3) Like 90% of the population, all I knew about him was that he was that bloke who’d worn a dress to the Baftas.
(4) ITV stars Ant and Dec also won their first ever Bafta, beating Harry Hill, Stephen Fry and the comedian Michael McIntyre to the entertainment performance gong for I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!.
(5) The four-minute video, directed by Bafta award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, seeks to reconstruct the specific force-feeding instructions set out in standard operating guidelines from Guantánamo leaked to al-Jazeera .
(6) It remains to be seen what Ross, 49, will do next, although he has said he will continue to host the Bafta film awards, which he presented on BBC1 last month, as well as BBC1's Comic Relief and his regular end of year appearances on Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz of the Year, which is produced by his production company, HotSauce, which also makes his BBC1 show.
(7) • The Golden Globe awards take place on 13 January, the Baftas on 10 February and the Academy Awards on 24 February.
(8) Life in short Born February 18 1946 Family Wife Christine, twin sons Career : Thomson Newspapers, Cardiff, 1967-69; reporter, Daily Mail, 1969-70; producer, BBC radio, 1970-71; reporter: HTV (West), 1971-72; BBC TV, 1973-76; correspondent, BBC TV: industrial, 1976-77; energy, 1977-79; Scotland, 1979-81; special correspondent and newscaster, 1981-83; Southern Africa, 1983-87; presenter, BBC TV News, 1988-2002; chairman, The Moral Maze Awards RTS TV Journalist of the Year and RTS News Award, 1984; UN Hunger Award, 1984; Bafta News Award, 1985; James Cameron Award, 1988; Science Writer of the Year Award, 1989; Mungo Park Award, RSGS, 1994.
(9) The loser So far the 2014 awards race has produced few casualties, with even The Railway Man – which has failed to engage the attention of Oscar and BAFTA voters – powering its way to £4.65m to date.
(10) Based on Terry Deary’s children’s publishing franchise, its Python-esque sketches won its numerous Bafta awards and a devoted fanbase among adults as well as younger viewers.
(11) He’d been at the Baftas the previous evening, and still had his glitter on.
(12) Why not just bite the bullet and say, ‘OK, let’s do a completely different way of funding’ rather than having a switch forced on them by circumstances or legislation.” Armando Iannucci interview: 'We didn't want Alpha Papa to be the equivalent of Holiday on the Buses' Read more Iannucci’s idea, outlined in his Bafta lecture, was for the BBC to aggressively market itself with paid-for subscription abroad – “prostitute itself to blue buggery” – which would help subsidise subscription services in the UK at a lower level than the current licence fee.
(13) Pawel Pawlikowski [a Bafta-winning film-maker] was there, and Paul Lee, now the head of ABC in America.
(14) Tarantino himself recently told a Bafta audience that the violence and horrific conditions depicted in Django Unchained were nothing compared to the historical reality.
(15) Despite Hooper's triumph at the Directors Guild of America awards a month ago , which are generally considered an accurate barometer of the Academy's intentions (only six times in their 63-year history have they not correlated), momentum had seemed to be falling back into the hands of David Fincher, who took both the Golden Globe and the Bafta two weeks ago.
(16) Greengrass was speaking before delivering the annual David Lean Lecture at Bafta (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), an honour accorded in previous years to the likes of Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch and Ken Loach.
(17) But Thorne’s working life has been spent subverting genres, through his Bafta-winning work on supernatural thriller The Fades and Shane Meadows’s bleak, beautiful coming-of-age miniseries This Is England ’86 and ’88.
(18) For the screenplay of their first production, The Angry Silence (1960), Forbes received an Oscar nomination and a Bafta award.
(19) June Brown, the favourite to become the first soap actress to win the best actress Bafta for her role as EastEnders' doleful launderette attendant Dot Branning, lost to Anna Maxwell Martin, who won her second Bafta in a row after last year's surprise win for Bleak House.
(20) Best of times Winning two Baftas for Last Tango in Halifax in 2013, although it made her wonder why it had taken so long.
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Definition:
(n.) Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
(n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.
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(1) That’s what they do.” Additional reporting by Zach Stafford and Phillipp Batta in Chicago and the Guardian US interactive team