Last Night the The London Film Critics’ Circle announced their 30th annual award winners at a ceremony hosted by their chair Jason Solomons. The nights big winner was Andrea Arnolds Fish Tank which won four awards, the Attenborough Film of the Year award, British Director of the Year for Andrea and stars Michael Fassbender and Katie Jarvis both won a prize for British Actor in a Supporting Role and The NSPCC Award for Young British Performance of the Year respectively. Kathryn Bigelow also continued picking up diretorial awards for The Hurt Locker with the Director of the Year Award while one filmmaker that many feel has been left out of major award ceremonys got some recongition as Duncan Jones picked up the award for Breakthrough British Film Maker for Moon. Meanwhile the Film of the Year Prize went to French Drama A Prophet at one of the only awards ceremonies where Avatar hasn’t picked up any awards and its a great victory to try and show to American awards ceremonies that foreign films dont just have to be placed in the foreign category as they should also be put in the best film category sometimes and could win.
Quentin Tarantino was also at the ceremony in person as he recieved the Dilys Powell award for Excellence in Cinema. His latest film Inglourious Basterds also got an award for Christoph Waltz who won best actor. In an award to mark its 30th anniversary, the awards also gave out a special award for the best film to have won in the ceremonies history and they went with the film that won its very first award in 1980 – Apocalypse Now.
Full Winners of the 2010 London Film Critics Circle Awards and all Nominees (Winners in Bold)
FILM OF THE YEAR
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
A Prophet
The White Ribbon
Up in the Air
THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR
Bright Star
An Education
Fish Tank
In the Loop
Moon
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
The Class
Katyn
Let the Right One In
A Prophet
The White Ribbon
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Jacques Audiard – A Prophet
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
James Cameron – Avatar
Michael Haneke – The White Ribbon
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
BRITISH DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Andrea Arnold – Fish Tank
Armando Iannucci – In the Loop
Duncan Jones – Moon
Kevin Macdonald – State of Play
Sam Taylor-Wood – Nowhere Boy
ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Tahar Rahim – A Prophet
Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Abbie Cornish – Bright Star
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Mo’Nique – Precious
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
BRITISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Peter Capaldi – In the Loop
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Tom Hardy – Bronson
Christian MacKay – Me and Orson Welles
Andy Serkis – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Katie Jarvis – Fish Tank
Kristin Scott Thomas – Nowhere Boy
BRITISH ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Michael Fassbender* – Fish Tank
John Hurt – 44 Inch Chest
Jason Isaacs – Good
Alfred Molina – An Education
Timothy Spall – The Damned United
BRITISH ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Emily Blunt – Sunshine Cleaning
Anne-Marie Duff – Nowhere Boy
Rosamund Pike – An Education
Kierston Wareing – Fish Tank
Olivia Williams – An Education
SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche – In the Loop
Thomas Bidegain & Jacques Audiard – A Prophet
Joel & Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
Michael Haneke – The White Ribbon
Nick Hornby – An Education
THE NSPCC AWARD: YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Katie Jarvis – Fish Tank
Aaron Johnson – Nowhere Boy and Dummy
George MacKay – The Boys Are Back
Bill Milner – Is Anybody There? and Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Saoirse Ronan* – The Lovely Bones
BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILM-MAKER
Daniel Barber – Harry Brown
Armando Ianucci – In the Loop
Duncan Jones – Moon
Peter Strickland – Katalin Varga
Sam Taylor-Wood – Nowhere Boy
DILYS POWELL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CINEMA
Quentin Tarantino
30TH ANNIVERSARY AWARD: BEST OF OUR WINNERS SINCE 1980
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1980)
