London Film Critics Circle Awards 2011



32nd London Film Critics Circle Awards 19 January 2012

Film of the Year:  The Artist 

British Film of the Year:  We Need to Talk About Kevin 

The 32nd London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2011, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 19 January 2012.

Film of the Year
The Artist
 * Drive
 * A Separation
 * Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
 * The Tree of Life

British Film of the Year
We Need to Talk About Kevin
 * The Guard
 * Kill List
 * Shame
 * Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Foreign Language Film of the Year
A Separation • Iran
 * Mysteries of Lisbon • Portugal
 * Poetry • South Korea
 * Le Quattro Volte • Italy
 * The Skin I Live In • Spain

Documentary of the Year
Senna
 * Cave of Forgotten Dreams
 * Dreams of a Life
 * Pina
 * Project Nim

Director of the Year
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
 * Asghar Farhadi – A Separation
 * Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
 * Lynne Ramsay – We Need to Talk About Kevin
 * Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive

Screenwriter of the Year
Asghar Farhadi – A Separation
 * Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
 * Kenneth Lonergan – Margaret
 * Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash – The Descendants
 * Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Breakthrough British Filmmaker
Andrew Haigh – Weekend
 * Richard Ayoade – Submarine
 * Paddy Considine – Tyrannosaur
 * Joe Cornish – Attack the Block
 * John Michael McDonagh – The Guard

Actor of the Year
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
 * George Clooney – The Descendants
 * Michael Fassbender – Shame
 * Ryan Gosling – Drive
 * Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Actress of the Year
Anna Paquin – Margaret

Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
 * Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia
 * Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
 * Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn

Supporting Actor of the Year
Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
 * Simon Russell Beale – The Deep Blue Sea
 * Albert Brooks – Drive
 * Christopher Plummer – Beginners
 * Michael Smiley – Kill List

Supporting Actress of the Year
Sareh Bayat – A Separation
 * Jessica Chastain – The Help
 * Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus
 * Octavia Spencer – The Help
 * Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom

British Actor of the Year
Michael Fassbender – A Dangerous Method and Shame
 * Tom Cullen – Weekend
 * Brendan Gleeson – The Guard
 * Peter Mullan – Tyrannosaur and War Horse
 * Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

British Actress of the Year
Olivia Colman – The Iron Lady and Tyrannosaur
 * Carey Mulligan – Drive and Shame
 * Vanessa Redgrave – Anonymous and Coriolanus
 * Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
 * Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea

Young British Performer of the Year
Craig Roberts – Submarine
 * John Boyega – Attack the Block
 * Jeremy Irvine – War Horse
 * Yasmin Paige – Submarine
 * Saoirse Ronan – Hanna

Technical Achievement
Maria Djurkovic, production design – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
 * Manuel Alberto Claro, cinematography – Melancholia
 * Paul Davies, sound design – We Need to Talk About Kevin
 * Dante Ferretti, production design – Hugo
 * Alberto Iglesias, original score – The Skin I Live In
 * Chris King and Gregers Sall, editing – Senna
 * Joe Letteri, visual effects – Rise of the Planet of the Apes
 * Cliff Martinez, original score – Drive
 * Robert Richardson, cinematography – Hugo
 * Robbie Ryan, cinematography – Wuthering Heights

Dilys Powell Award

 * Nicolas Roeg