Richard Schiff as Jerry Wexler. (Others in the excellent cast include Clifton Powell, Aunjanue Ellis, Harry Lennix, Terrence Howard, Larenz Tate and David Krumholtz.) Although the filmmakers were constrained by a limited budget, you'd never know it from Stephen Altman's resourceful production design, or Pawel Edelman's scintillating cinematography.

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Helena Bonham Carter, star of A Room with a View, Sweeney Todd and the Harry Potter films, will receive the Circle's highest honour, the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence, at this year's event.

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Harry then took the stage, admitting it was a "truly humbling and a little terrifying" to follow Powell and that he did not "feel that I have done nearly enough to deserve" the award.

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