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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/italian-job-voted-best-britflick.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Michael Caine starred in The Italian Job" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-italian-job-voted-best-britflick.jpg" alt="Michael Caine starred in The Italian Job"/></a></p>
<p>Sixties film classic The Italian Job has been voted the greatest British film of all time in a survey of film fans.</p>
<p>The original 1969 version of the film, which famously saw a gang of criminals take to the streets of Turin in Minis to steal a van full of gold, took 15% of the votes in the poll of 1,000 film fans putting it ahead of Monty Python&#8217;s Life of Brian (7%) and The Full Monty (6%).</p>
<p>Sir Anthony Hopkins was voted the greatest British actor with 12% of the vote followed closely by Laurence Olivier (10%) and The Italian Job&#8217;s original lead Michael Caine (9%).</p>
<p>Dame Judi Dench was firm favourite as the greatest British actress and collected a quarter of the votes with her closest rival, Dame Helen Mirren, winning 14% of the votes.</p>
<p>Colin Firth, tipped to pick up an Oscar later this year for his performance in The King&#8217;s Speech, and Keira Knightley won Best supporting actor and actress respectively.</p>
<p>Master of suspense Hitchcock was voted the best British director.</p>
<p>The man behind classics like Psycho, The Birds and Rear Window, picked up a quarter of the votes cast.</p>
<p>The poll was commissioned by Sky Movies HD to mark the launch of their British Film Season later this month.</p>
<p>Ian Lewis, Director of Sky Movies, said: &#8220;The results of the Greatest British Film poll speak volumes about the nation&#8217;s favourite home-grown talent, and the dream line-up would be a truly spectacular film. As we approach awards season and the competition escalates, we wanted to celebrate the best of British talent with a season dedicated to it.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve chosen a selection of classics and new titles which represent the nation and we are rooting for the likes of Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Christopher Nolan during this year&#8217;s awards.&#8221;</p>
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