Senna, the documentary film about the life of three-time Formula 1 world champion Ayrton Senna, won two prestigious accolades at Sunday night's BAFTA Awards in London.
The film beat Martin Scorsese's biopic of George Harrison; Living in the Material World and chimpanzee movie Project Lim to take the award, which is voted for by members of the British Academy of Film and Television.
It also won the Best Editing prize, beating silent movie The Artist, Drive, Hugo and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
The film's screenwriter and executive producer Manish Pandey said: "We'd just really wanted to thank the Senna family for trusting us with his legacy.
"When your son dies in circumstances like that, and you get a bunch of guys who turn up and say, listen, we want to tell the story, we think we're very sensitive, we think we will absolutely tell it right... It takes a lot of guts to support people like that, and I'd like to thank them for doing that."
The film, which was directed by Asif Kapadia and produced by James Gay-Rees, was also nominated for the Outstanding British Film award, but lost out to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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i know people may argue fangio or schumi but senna was truly a superior racer and for some of us we have been blessed to have seen him and/or even met him. legendary and timeless
Senna stand's on the same level as Muhammed Ali, Eddy Merxs, Pele and Borg.
If there's one thing this film realy showed is that Senna was never a cheat. When he drove Prost of the track in Suzuka, probably his one low, he did that by telling Prost in advance he would do that if Prost kept begging to move the pole possition to the dirty side of the track so Senna would have never come clean of the starting grit.
We all know that Balestre moved the pole to the dirty side on request of Prost who knew he could never win against the better Senna. So, to conclude, Senna never did anything backhanded, he told everybody up front what was going to happen and he was a genius, he told the engeneers of Honda once where, at what point in time, the engine of Berger, that to him sounded sick while the engeneers did not believe him, would blow, he was one lap wrong.
well done to the directors
Ayrton Senna was the absolute definition of a legend, i was young enough to remember watching the last years and remember the day he died, what a shocking memory. people will still talk about him 100 years from now. the real weight of him dying was F1 has been gerbage ever since.. a bunch of boy racers not fit to lace his boots.
FLIM is a ski area in Switzerland, although normally it has an "s" at the end, as in Flims.
Selena...you comment on spelling mistakes, you did not even start you comment with a capital letter, use hyphens or punctuation!
I was lucky enough to have met Ayrton Senna on a few occasions and will never forget just how special he was. He had a talent like nobody else and raced on another level to his peers. The movie was amazing and those people that didn't enjoy it, obviously didn't understand such a special person and the issues within F1 at that time. It was a very honest and open account of the underhanded going-ons behind the scenes on race days and how biased a certain top French official was! Ayrton Senna was a 'one-off', a true gentleman and fantastic human being and I for one miss him terribly.
Very average at best. Seen 90% of the film on various documentaries but noticed no coverage of his Donnington race in the actual film.
Would have been heavily criticised as a cheat today but obviously was a very talented driver and was particularly good in average cars at the start of his F1 career. The film could have been better but perhaps the footage was all they had to go on. There was recently a tv documentary about Jackie Stewart (Not a fan of his at all) that was in a different league. If you saw it, you would agree.
would be nice if it was released here in the states. Guess it will be next month but it has been out everywhere else for over a year already
a true legend
a sporting great and a fine ambassador to F1
does it really matter so much that they made a little spelling mistake?
how many people do yahoo hire who cant spell . its FILM .. whats is a FLIM
Well deserved BAFTA and nominated for an Oscar to, not that the Oscars are so important. Sinds the Oscars no longer are being broadcasted by the free to air tv channels they realy lost a lot of their glammer. Thank's to the BBC the BAFTA's can be watched all over the world and thereby they gain the upperhand on Oscar. I agree with Mick Bushell on the quality of the story told about Senna, it give's, undisputed, insight on the sometimes, to say it mildely, questionable politics in sport and in F1 in particullar.
After watching both the film & buying the DVD this is truely a fantastic insight into what was behind Senna's Stoney face & as I thought arrogant behaviour. How wrong I was this film shows Senna as a caring family man with strong convictions on & off the Track alot of trying to get the rules changed to benifit not only himself but other F1 Drivers. A lot of injustice was done to Senna during his time in F1, due to I think a certain drivers friendship with the at the time FIA President. After seeing this film on Senna it completly changed my attitude to him & not only (as I new) a great Driver but a great Human being also. A film that any F1 fan must see, a much deserved Bafta award, Well done. Mick Bushell.
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