Emma Thompson dedicated her Evening Standard Film Award to ‘dearest Alan Rickman’ who passed away in January.
Picking up the award for Comedy, for playing a 78-year-old chain-smoking prostitute in The Legend of Barney Thomson, Emma told the audience that she would like to commit this moment in time to dearest Alan Rickman who many of us are dearly missing tonight’.
‘It’s so depressing but there it is, it does happen,’ she added.
