Winners Announced: The 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards
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The 45th annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards were held this afternoon at London’s May Fair Hotel where 15 different titles were honoured. Brady Corbet’s epic American immigrant saga The Brutalist won the big prize for Film of the Year.
Films are automatically eligible if they are released in UK cinemas or on premiere streaming services between mid-February 2024 and mid-February 2025. 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.
The Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation was presented to Zoe Saldaña at the ceremony by America Ferrera and last year’s winner Colman Domingo. Daniel Craig became the 34th recipient of the London Critics' top honour, The Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film. The award arrives 20 years after he earned the Circle’s British Actor of the Year award for Enduring Love. After a reunion with his Bond costar Ralph Fiennes, Craig was presented with the award by Lesley Manville, his costar in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, for which he was also an Actor of the Year nominee this year.
45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards:
And the winners are…
FILM OF THE YEAR Sponsored by Seesaw Media
The Brutalist
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
All We Imagine As Light
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
No Other Land
ANIMATED FILM OF THE YEAR
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR Sponsored by Reddit
RaMell Ross - Nickel Boys
SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Jesse Eisenberg - A Real Pain
ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Hard Truths
ACTOR OF THE YEAR Sponsored by Reddit
Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Zoe Saldaña - Emilia Pérez
SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Mikey Madison - Anora
THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: BRITISH/IRISH FILM OF THE YEAR
Conclave
THE PHILIP FRENCH AWARD: BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH/IRISH FILMMAKER
Rich Peppiatt - Kneecap
BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR (for body of work)
Saoirse Ronan - Blitz, The Outrun
YOUNG BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Nykiya Adams - Bird
BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR
Wander to Wonder - directed by Nina Gantz
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Nickel Boys - cinematography, Jomo Fray
THE DILYS POWELL AWARD: EXCELLENCE IN FILM
Daniel Craig
THE DEREK MALCOLM AWARD FOR INNOVATION
Zoe Saldaña
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/
