As a young executive at New Line Cinema and recent Los Angeles arrival from the U.K., Donna Langley recalls becoming a BAFTA member for the first time and attending numerous special screenings put on by the British Academy. One of these was for Ang Lee’s 2000 hit “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”
“And the projector broke,” she says. “But it was really fun, because I got to stick around. I was very young in my career and I just got to talk to a lot of people, and it was, to me, very representative of the community. And of course there were lots of Brits in the room. It was a nice moment.”
More than 25 years on and Langley — now chair of NBCUniversal Entertainment and one of the most powerful and respected execs in the industry — is probably attending fewer BAFTA screenings. But she is about to be celebrated on…
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