1. That is possibly the most prestigious cinema award as far as artistic merit is concerned, though of course Cannes and the Oscars are bigger for business and for the general public.

2. Gareth Wigan was Georgia Brown's ex-husband and, at that time, 1979, he was the head of a major film studio,

3. When Bethune died in China, Mao Tse Tung wrote an obituary praising Bethune as the exemplary man - the example all good communists should try to emulate. During the Cultural Revolution this eulogy was required readings for everybody. Hence Bethune was one of the three or four most important "people" in China along with Chui En Li and Mao himself.