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Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong> will be receiving a special award at the 17th Annual Moet British Independent Film Awards<\/em>.<\/p>\n The actor has already been nominated for an award in the Best Actor<\/em> category for his work in The Imitation Game.<\/em><\/p>\n “The British Independent Film Awards<\/em> set out to celebrate merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking, to honor new talent, and to promote British filmmaking and British talent to a wider public.”<\/p>\n Cumberbatch will be receiving the Variety Award<\/em>, which “recognizes a director, actor, writer or producer who has helped to focus the international spotlight on the UK.”<\/p>\n Past Variety Award<\/em> winners include Paul Greengrass, Jude Law, Kenneth Branagh, Liam Neeson, Sir Michael Caine, Daniel Craig, Dame Helen Mirren<\/strong>, and Richard Curtis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “I am delighted to receive this prestigious award and would like to thank Variety<\/em> and The Mo\u00ebt British Independent Film Awards<\/em> for this incredible honor,” said Cumberbatch. “It is made even more special by the recognition of The Imitation Game<\/em> in this year’s nominations, a film I am very proud to be a part of.”<\/p>\n Cumberbatch will receive his award at a ceremony to be held Sunday, December 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Benedict Cumberbatch will be receiving a special award at the 17th Annual Moet British Independent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2484,8024,8027,3928],"class_list":["post-37787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-award","tag-bifa","tag-british-independent-film-awards","tag-cumberbatch"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37793,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37787\/revisions\/37793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}