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Shane in shape for Bafta win10/02/2008
The Bafta award for best British film went to Shane Meadows' This Is England.
The movie is a semi-autobiographical tale of skinhead culture in the early 1980s, seen through the eyes of a young boy.
Shane was last nominated in 2005 for Dead Man's Shoes and joked that he had decided against getting in shape for his red carpet moment.
He told the audience: "Last time I was nominated I took up a regime after Christmas, lots of sit-ups and press-ups and that sort of thing. This year I gave up on that idea and thought I'd go with the man boobs, and it's turned my luck around."
Meadows dedicated the award to the film's young star, Thomas Turgoose, who had never acted before landing the part and who was discovered at a youth project in Grimsby for children excluded from school.
"I was quite a naughty boy at his age and my life turned around over 20 years, a very steady progression. I took him from a worse place than I had ever been in and he turned his life around in six weeks," the director said.
© 2008 The Press Association Limited
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