Winners Announced: The 44th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards
The 44th annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards were held this afternoon at London’s May Fair Hotel.
The awards are given by the 210-member Film Section of the Critics' Circle, the UK's longest-standing and most prestigious critics' organisation. The vast majority of Film Review’s roster of critics are members of the London Film Critics’ Circle, including Executive Editor James Cameron-Wilson, Mansel Stimpson, Michael Darvell, George Savvides and Wendy Lloyd.
This year All of Us Strangers led with 9 nominations, followed by Oppenheimer with 7 nominations. Jonathan Glazer's German-language drama The Zone of Interest and Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers brought home the most wins at three each. In this year's awards, critics voted in two new categories: Animated Film and Breakthrough Performance. The inaugural Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation was presented to cinematic trailblazer Colman Domingo and Jeffrey Wright became the 33rd recipient of the London Critics' top honour, The Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film.
44th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards:
And the winners are…
FILM OF THE YEAR Sponsored by Nyman Libson Paul
The Zone of Interest
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
Past Lives
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
20 Days in Mariupol
ANIMATED FILM OF THE YEAR
The Boy and the Heron
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR Sponsored by Reddit
Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest
SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Justine Triet & Arthur Harari - Anatomy of a Fall
ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Emma Stone - Poor Things
ACTOR OF THE YEAR Sponsored by Cinemadix
Andrew Scott - All of Us Strangers
SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Charles Melton - May December
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Mia McKenna-Bruce - How to Have Sex
THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: BRITISH/IRISH FILM OF THE YEAR
All of Us Strangers
THE PHILIP FRENCH AWARD: BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH/IRISH FILMMAKER
Molly Manning Walker - How to Have Sex
BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR (for body of work)
Paul Mescal - All of Us Strangers/God’s Creatures/Foe/Carmen
YOUNG BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Lola Campbell - Scrapper
BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR
The Veiled City - Nathalie Cubides-Brady, director
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Zone of Interest - music & sound, Mica Levi & Johnnie Burn
THE DILYS POWELL AWARD: EXCELLENCE IN FILM
Jeffrey Wright
THE DEREK MALCOLM AWARD FOR INNOVATION
Colman Domingo
Click here for a list of all the nominees.
About The Critics' Circle:
Established in 1913, the Critics' Circle is the oldest organisation of its kind in the world, with more than 400 members who work in the UK media as critics of art and architecture, books, dance, drama, film, and music. Chaired by Rich Cline, the Film Section membership is made up of 210 UK film critics, broadcasters and writers, including Mark Kermode, Metro's Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw, and Film Review’s Executive Editor James Cameron-Wilson. The awards have been presented annually since 1980. For further information, please visit: https://criticscircle.org.uk/
