Mussolini - Son of the Century, is a biographical historical drama television series directed by Joe Wright, based on the 2018 novel M: Son of the Century by Antonio Scurati. Starring Luca Marinelli as Benito Mussolini, the series centres on the early political career of Mussolini in the 1920s. It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 5 September 2024 and began airing on Sky Atlantic on 10 January 2025.
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Remi Adefarasin OBE, BSC accepts his Lifetime Achievement Award.
On Saturday 7 February, GBCT member Remi Adefarasin humbly accepted the BSC Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony hosted by Edith Bowman, which took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.
Congratulations Remi.. The GBCT is privileged to have your support as a member.
Extract below taken from Cinematography World (November 2025)
Remi’s journey in the field of Cinematography began in 1968 when he was accepted as a trainee for the BBC’s film department at Ealing Studios. His first summer in the job saw him assisting cinematographer Alan Jonas on the BBC project “The Borderers” an almost-Western set between the frontiers of Scotland and England in the sixteenth century.
Remi became hooked and spent over eleven years as a camera assistant working on documentaries, music programmes and of course his favourite, dramas. During that time he spent five years with Brian Tufano BSC (Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, 2020) who Remi credits as teaching him a great deal.
In 1979 Remi was promoted to cinematographer and stayed working for the BBC until 1995. During his time as an in-house BBC cinematographer, he worked with directors ranging from Mike Leigh, Anthony Minghella, Adrian Shergold and Angela Pope on projects as wide-ranging as “Doctor Who” and “Hi-Di-Hi”, to critically acclaimed Plays- of-the-Week including “Memento Mori” (for which he was nominated for a BAFTA in 1993) and Mike Leigh’s “Home Sweet Home”.
In 1997 Remi shot the BAFTA-nominated “Sliding Doors” and it was this film that brought him to the attention of director Shekhar Kapur who asked if he would shoot “Elizabeth”. “Elizabeth” would go on to win the BAFTA for Best Cinematography, as well as the BSC Cinematography in A Feature Film Award, however it would be his nomination for Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards that would add him to the history books as he became the first black cinematographer to be nominated in the category.
Since “Elizabeth” Remi has continued to build an extraordinary body of work working with some of the biggest directors and stars in our industry including “Band of Brothers” (for which he was Emmy-nominated): “Match Point”; “Onegin”, “About A Boy”; “The House of Mirth” and most recently the BAFTA-winning TV Series “Mr Loverman”.
In 2012 Remi was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
