With less than a month to go until the Oscars, Michael Haneke‘s fabulous french drama Amour has had yet another victory on the awards circuit. At the 33rd annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, the Palme d’Or winning film took home Film of the Year and Actress of the Year for Emmanuelle Riva – strengthening her Oscar claims. But it wasn’t all one-way traffic. Haneke missed out on the Director of the Year to Ang Lee (Life of Pi).
There were a couple of big surprises. Les Miserables missed out on British Film of the Year to the largely unknown (at least to us Kiwis) Berberian Sound Studio. Anne Hathaway picked up Best Supporting Actress of the Year though for her portrayal of Fantine in Les Mis. Surely she’ll take Oscar home come Feb? And another Oscar certainty, Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln), missed out on his umpteenth best actor win, with Joaquin Phoenix picking up Actor of the Year for his impressive performance in The Master. Day-Lewis didn’t even win British Actor of the Year!
More than 120 publication and broadcast media from throughout the UK vote for the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, the biggest British film awards outside the BAFTAs.
Here’s the full list of winners:
Film of the Year:
Amour – WINNER
Argo
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Life of Pi
The Master
Foreign Language Film of the Year:
Rust And Bone – WINNER
Amour
Holy Motors
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Tabu
Documentary of the Year:
The Imposter – WINNER
London: The Modern Babylon
Nostalgia For The Light
The Queen Of Versailles
Searching For Sugar Man
British Film of the Year:
Berberian Sound Studio – WINNER
The Imposter
Les Miserables
Sightseers
Skyfall
Actor of the Year:
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master) – WINNER
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables)
Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt)
Jean-Louis Trintignant (Amour)
Actress of the Year:
Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) – WINNER
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone)
Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Supporting Actor of the Year:
Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) – WINNER
Alan Arkin (Argo)
Javier Bardem (Skyfall)
Michael Fassbender (Prometheus)
Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
Supporting Actress of the Year:
Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables) – WINNER
Amy Adams (The Master)
Judi Dench (Skyfall)
Sally Field (Lincoln)
Isabelle Huppert (Amour)
British Actor of the Year:
Toby Jones (Berberian Sound Studio) – WINNER
Daniel Craig (Skyfall)
Charlie Creed-Miles (Wild Bill)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Steve Oram (Sightseers)
British Actress of the Year:
Andrea Riseborough (Shadow Dancer) – WINNER
Emily Blunt (Looper & Your Sister’s Sister)
Judi Dench (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel & Skyfall)
Alice Lowe (Sightseers)
Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)
Young British Performer of the Year:
Tom Holland (The Impossible) – WINNER
Samantha Barks (Les Miserables)
Fady Elsayed (My Brother The Devil)
Will Poulter (Wild Bill)
Jack Reynor (What Richard Did)
Director of the Year:
Ang Lee (Life of Pi) – WINNER
Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia)
Michael Haneke (Amour)
Screenwriter of the Year:
Michael Haneke (Amour) – WINNER
Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Chris Terrio (Argo)
Breakthrough British Filmmaker:
Alice Lowe & Steve Oram (Sightseers) – WINNER
Ben Drew (Ill Manners)
Sally El Hosaini (My Brother The Devil)
Dexter Fletcher (Wild Bill)
Bart Layton (The Imposter)
Technical Achievement Award:
Life Of Pi – visual effects, Bill Westenhofer – WINNER
Anna Karenina – costumes, Jacqueline Durran
Argo – editing, William Goldenberg
Beasts of the Southern Wild – cinematography, Ben Richardson
Berberian Sound Studio – sound design, Joakim Sundstrom & Stevie Haywood
Holy Motors – makeup, Bernard Floch
Life of Pi – cinematography, Claudio Miranda
The Master – production design, Jack Fisk & David Crank
My Brother The Devil – cinematography, David Raedeker
Rust and Bone – music, Alexandre Desplat
DILYS POWELL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM
Helena Bonham Carter
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As the Oscar race heats up, will ‘Amour’ take home the big one?
