Ken Loach's film The Angels' Share leads the way in this year's Scottish Bafta nominations.
"I suspect Ken Loach could have got everything across that he wanted without having more than one Pygmalion moment, " Mr Bottomley said.
Ken Loach's Scottish comedy-drama, The Angels' Share, is up for two awards.
Their number includes four previous recipients of the festival's highest honour - Jane Campion, Britain's Ken Loach, Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier.
Ken Loach's The Angel's Share, Ben Affleck's Argo and Denmark's A Royal Affair are among the titles shortlisted in the foreign film category.
Previous recipients of the BIFF Lifetime Achievement Award include John Hurt, Jean Simmons, Barbara Windsor, Claire Bloom, Ken Loach, Jack Cardiff and Richard Attenborough.
For the director, Ken Loach, the Fascists barely exist: what matters to him is the comradeship, the daily comedy, and the flurries of panic that unite the volunteers.
The 1920-22 Irish revolt against the English, reimagined by the social realist Ken Loach as an awkwardly violent and sombre old poem made without the usual Irish flourishes of wildness or lyricism.
In his first appearance at court last week, Mr Assange was refused bail on the grounds he could flee - despite the offer of sureties from figures including film director Ken Loach.
Artists taking part in the show include Julian Opie, famed for designing a Blur album cover, film director Ken Loach, designer Zandra Rhodes, Turner Prize nominee Keith Tyson and shoe designer Manolo Blahnik.
Fellow Briton Ken Loach's It's A Free World takes a look at illegal employment in contemporary Britain, while Wes Anderson's comedy The Darjeeling Limited sees Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman as brothers travelling across India.
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Be that as it may, Mr. Mullan, who played the title role in Ken Loach's "My Name Is Joe, " evokes a nightmare world of sadistic nuns and predatory priests, a world in which religious tenets have been twisted into pitiless tyranny.
Ms. Hammerstein, whose acting career included appearances in the BBC TV adaptation of "The Forsyte Saga, " and who worked with '60s star directors Ken Loach and Ken Russell, said that in some ways performing in front of children can be more exciting than doing so for adults.
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