The host for this year’s ceremony is now confirmed as Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw aka ‘Grimmy’

Passionate about new music, Nick Grimshaw presents the prestigious 10pm-midnight show, weekdays on BBC Radio 1 as well as co-hosting the Sunday evening 10-midnight slot alongside Annie Mac.

An Oldham boy, 26 year old Grimmy started out as a radio plugger and DJ promoter. At 22 he began to present for E4 Music and the Channel 4 morning music show “Freshly Squeezed”. Since then he has co-hosted 3 series of the BBC2 music show Sound with his radio partner in crime Annie Mac, and fronted Channel 4’s coverage of the NME Awards and Orange Rockcorps. In 2009 and 2010 he presented BBC1’s Switch Live Awards.

He is currently part of the T4 presenting team and hosts “The Album Chart Show” for Channel 4.

First Light Awards 2011 Sponsors:

The UK Film Council is the Government-backed lead agency for film in the UK ensuring that the economic, cultural and educational aspects of film are effectively represented at home and abroad. It has been supporting First Light for almost nine years under one of it’s four key aims: Widen opportunities to learn about film.

EON Productions has produced twenty two James Bond films since 1962 making it the longest running film franchise in history. Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli took over the 007 franchise from Albert R Broccoli in 1995.

The Broccolii Foundation
The DANA AND ALBERT R. BROCCOLI Charitable Foundation supports the arts, children’s services, medicine, and higher education.

Time Warner is a global leader in film, television and magazine publishing. It creates high-quality, popular entertainment and journalism content for audiences around the globe.

Sony Pictures is one of the leading movie studios in the world releasing such worldwide hits as the Spider-Man franchise, the last two James Bond movies, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. In 2009 its international group grossed over $2b worldwide – only the third studio ever to achieve the mile stone of $2b in one year and only the fifth time in history.

Independent is the UK’s leading talent and literary agency specialising in the representation of talent spanning all areas of the media business from the established sectors of film, television, theatre and publishing to emerging digital technologies.

HBO, Time Warner’s premium television company, bringing programmes such as The Pacific, True Blood and The Wire to audiences in over 150 countries worldwide.

Special Treats Productions has built a reputation for excellence over 20 years, providing the film industry with the highest quality television and internet coverage – from press junkets to broadcast programming.

Deluxe142 is based in Soho and provides London’s feature film and television producers with a world-class post production facility, offering the full spectrum of services from dailies to delivery.

The Sunday Times is Britain’s leading quality Sunday newspaper and plays an important role in the lives of 3 million people every week. Constantly innovating in the publishing of multi-platform content, The Sunday Times is now available in paper, online (www.thesundaytimes.co.uk), and the all-new iPad edition.

Second Light is a new talent development training scheme for young people. Through funding from the UK Film Council and Skillset, as part of A Bigger Future, the training and education strategy for the UK film industry, it is supporting young filmmakers from across the UK.

Vinspired is an organisation that connects 16-25 year olds with valuable volunteering opportunities across England.

Empire magazine, published by Bauer London Lifestyle Ltd, is the World’s biggest movie magazine. Launched in 1989, Empire has now grown to a total circulation of 179,064 (ABC Jan-Jun 10) with a worldwide readership of over 1 million. Empire online has 22 million page impressions per month and 1.4 million unique user’s.