awards

Check out the shortlist for the Brit Insurance Design Awards at the Design Museum: they’re the Oscars of the design world.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom sequel receives seven nominations for the Laurence Olivier theatre awards.

Manjinder Virk as Lorraine Dunbar It has been a good year for women film directors. First Katherine Bigelow trumped her ex James Cameron at the Oscars with her gritty war drama The Hurt Locker. Now the artist-filmmaker Clio Barnard has won two of the five …

Voluntary and community organisations often do vital work with very little recognition, except from those who benefit. Hackney recognises its unsung heroes with the Adiaha Antigha Community Achievement Awards 2010. Any Hackney-based voluntary or community sector organisations can be nominated in 6 categories. The organisation …

Who is that in the bicycle helmet? London isn’t really short of award ceremonies, but there’s another one on the horizon – The London Lifestyle Awards. Dubbed “A celebration of every aspect of London’s fantastic way of life”, once we get over the emphatic adjectives …

Celebrating not only its 10th year of existence but also the 200th anniversary of curry being served in the UK, 2010’s Brick Lane Curry Festival looks set to be hotter than ever. Running from today until 4th June, the festival will provide a colourful programme …

Last night, a smattering of the cream of the London pub trade gathered at the Lord Clyde on Essex Road to scoff wicked scotch eggs and sausages and cheer the achievements of 13 ace London pubs as recipients of Fancyapint awards. The annual awards are …

Here are some shots from the Fashion Diversity launch held on Thursday night. There were awards for fashion houses Gisella Boutique, Junky Styling and Nico Didonna and a preview of the catwalk shows showcasing emerging and student fashion talent to be held at Museum of …

By mlazopoulou via the Londonist Flickrpool We were moist with anticipation over the 52nd London Film Festival so we’ll be investing in a pack of Tena Lady for this year as the LFF just secured Lottery funding to make it bigger and better than ever. …

Image courtesy of FoxyCoxy under a Creative Commons licence The film world shivered and huddled under brollies on the red carpet outside the Royal Opera House for last night’s BAFTAs, presumably reciting a mantra about the Oscars and sunny LA not being far away. But …