Friday, January 20, 2012

Awards Watch: London Film Critics Circle Announce Winners


Here are the winners from the 32nd London Critics' Circle Film Awards. The Artist was named Film of the Year, while Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin was named British Film of the Year.

Film of the Year - The Artist
British Film of the Year - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Foreign Language Film of the Year - A Separation
Documentary of the Year - Senna
Director of the Year - Michael Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Screenwriter of the Year - Asghar Farhadi (A Separation)
Breakthrough British Filmmaker - Andrew Haigh (Weekend)
Actor of the Year - Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Actress of the Year - Anna Paquin (Margaret) and Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) TIE
Supporting Actor of the Year - Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn)
Supporting Actress of the Year - Areh Bayat (A Separation)
British Actor of the Year - Michael Fassbander (Shame, A Dangerous Method)
British Actress of the Year - Olivia Colman (Tyrannosaur, The Iron Lady)
Young British Performer of the Year - Craig Roberts (Submarine)
Technical Achievement - Marla Djurkovic, production designer (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)

Critics's Circle Top 10 Films of 2011

The Artist
A Separation
Drive
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Tree of Life
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Melancholia
Shame
Margaret
The Descendants

What are your thoughts on these winners? No real surprises, perhaps with the exception of Anna Paquin tying with Meryl Streep. Great to see A Separation receive multiple awards and a win for We Need to Talk About Kevin.

5 comments:

  1. As long as We Need to Talk About Kevin gets something and acknowledgement on The Tree of Life in that top 10 list. I'm cool.

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  2. I like these. I sort of squealed with joy for the Craig Roberts win. Submarine and Oliver Tate *love*.

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  3. I really want to catch Margaret but can't find it anywhere .. DVD release at some point I guess. Did you see it?

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    1. Yeah, there is no scheduled release her in Australia. It took something like four years to get a release or something. I haven't seen it, but I really want to also.

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