McAvoy to receive outstanding contribution award at hometown film festival

Scottish acting prima James McAvoy is acceptable to person a prestigious grant astatine a movie festival successful his location municipality of Glasgow adjacent month.

In a vocation spanning film, TV and signifier productions, McAvoy’s best-known roles see Dr Nicolas Garrigan successful the 2006 movie The Last King of Scotland, and arsenic Professor Charles Xavier successful the blockbuster X-Men franchise.

Other large roles see Robbie Hunter successful the 2007 adaptation of Atonement,  Lord Asriel successful the His Dark Materials TV series, and the relation of Dennis successful the 2016 thriller Split, directed by M Night Shyamalan.

The 45-year-old histrion is acceptable to to person the Cinema City Honorary Award – established successful 2004 to recognise filmmakers who person made an outstanding publication to cinema –  during this year’s Glasgow Film Festival (GFF).

We are thrilled to invited Glasgow's James McAvoy to person the Cinema City Honorary Award astatine his hometown movie festival

Allison Gardner, Glasgow Film

The festival besides features a sold-out In Conversation lawsuit with McAvoy, wherever helium volition beryllium looking backmost astatine a 20-year vocation that has taken him from Glasgow to the heights of Hollywood stardom.

The lawsuit volition beryllium followed by a peculiar screening of his breakthrough relation successful The Last King of Scotland, introduced by McAvoy himself.

Allison Gardner, main enforcement of Glasgow Film, said: “We are thrilled to invited Glasgow’s James McAvoy to person the cinema metropolis honorary grant astatine his hometown movie festival.

“Ever since James broke retired connected the large surface with his relation arsenic Dr Nicolas Garrigan successful The Last King of Scotland, helium has carved retired a Hollywood vocation spanning 20 years.

“From blockbuster franchises similar X-Men to his caller spine-tingling crook successful Speak No Evil, James is 1 of modern cinema’s astir versatile starring men and we can’t hold to invited him to Glasgow Film Festival to observe his career.”

Last year, the inaugural cinema metropolis honorary grant went to The Lord of the Rings prima Viggo Mortensen.

The grant takes its sanction from a nickname fixed to Glasgow successful the 1930, erstwhile the metropolis was reputedly location to much cinemas per idiosyncratic than anyplace other successful the UK.

Other big-name stars owed to be the 2025 GFF see Ed Harris and Jessica Lange, who volition beryllium astatine the UK premiere of their caller film, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and 1917 histrion George MacKay, who returns to the festival with the Scottish premiere of the post-apocalyptic musical, The End.

The GFF volition tally astatine Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) and venues crossed the metropolis from February 26 to March 9, with a programme featuring 13 World and European premieres, 66 UK premieres and 12 Scottish premieres from 38 countries.

The GFF is 1 of the starring movie festivals successful the UK and is tally by Glasgow Film, a foundation which besides runs GFT.

It is supported by Screen Scotland, the BFI Audience Projects Fund, awarding National Lottery funding, Glasgow Life and EventScotland.

Tickets for the festival connected merchantability astatine glasgowfilm.org and astatine the GFT Box Office.