MUMBAI: Director Christopher Nolan and actor Michael Sheen will be feted this year by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles at the BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards on 4 November.

While Nolan, riding on a wave of high acclaim for his box-office and critically acclaimed hit Inception will receive the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for artistic excellence in directing, Sheen will receive the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year. 

Sheen, who had earlier starred in Damned United appeared in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, did voiceover for the white rabbit in Tim Burton‘s Alice in Wonderland and bagged an Emmy nomination for his role of Tony Blair in HBO‘s The Special Relationship.