Some of the UK’s best cinemas found themselves in competition today when the shortlist was announced for the 2016 Screen Awards.
The Awards, the premier such event for the wider UK cinema industry, features a range of categories across distribution, marketing and cinema exhibition. The latter features two separate ‘Cinema of the Year’ categories, one for companies with 24 screens or fewer and one for those with 25 or more screens.
For the smaller operator category, the shortlist was as follows:
- Aldeburgh Cinema
- Edinburgh Filmhouse
- The Electric Cinema, Birmingham
- Electric Cinema, Notting Hill, London
- Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel, London
- HOME, Manchester
- Palace Cinema, Malton
- Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley, London
- Plaza Community Cinema, Liverpool
- The Picture House Uckfield
- Regal Cinema Theatre & Restaurant, Redruth
- Watershed, Bristol
And for larger operators:
- Cinema City, Norwich
- Cineworld Sheffield
- Crouch End Picturehouse
- Curzon Bloomsbury
- Curzon Soho
- East Dulwich Picturehouse
- The Empire Leicester Square
- Everyman Esher
- Picturehouse at National Media Museum, Bradford
- Picturehouse Central
- Showcase Cinema de Lux, Reading
The winners in each category will be announced at the Awards ceremony to be held at The Brewery, London on Thursday 20 October. The full shortlist across all categories can be found here.