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Harry Potter franchise wins BAFTA honorary award

By Susan Kingwriter 
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The ‘Harry Potter’ film series, which is winding up its franchise with the release of its final installment, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2’ on July 15, is set to receive the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema at this year’s Orange British Academy Awards on Feb. 13 at London’s Royal Opera House.

‘Harry Potter’ novelist J.K. Rowling and producer David Heyman will receive the award.

The first six films in the wizarding franchise have grossed $5.4 billion worldwide. The first part of ‘Deathly Hallows’ has earned nearly $950 million internationally -- an outstanding contribution to film indeed.

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For more information, go to www.bafta.org.

-- Susan King

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Susan King

Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories. She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. Born in East Orange, N.J., she received her master’s degree in film history and criticism at USC. She worked for 10 years at the L.A. Herald Examiner and came to work at The Times in January 1990. She left in 2016.

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