London Film Critics Circle Awards 2016



37th London Film Critics Circle Awards 22 January 2017

Film of the Year: La La Land

British Film of the Year: I, Daniel Blake

The 37th London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2016, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 22 January 2017.

Film of the Year
La La Land
 * American Honey
 * Fire at Sea
 * I, Daniel Blake
 * Love & Friendship
 * Manchester by the Sea
 * Moonlight
 * Nocturnal Animals
 * Son of Saul
 * Toni Erdmann

Foreign Language Film of the Year
Toni Erdmann
 * Fire at Sea
 * Son of Saul
 * Things to Come
 * Victoria

British/Irish Film of the Year
I, Daniel Blake
 * American Honey
 * High-Rise
 * Love & Friendship
 * Sing Street

Documentary of the Year
Fire at Sea
 * The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
 * Cameraperson
 * The Eagle Huntress
 * Life, Animated

Actor of the Year
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
 * Adam Driver – Paterson
 * Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge
 * Jake Gyllenhaal – Nocturnal Animals
 * Peter Simonischek – Toni Erdmann

Actress of the Year
Isabelle Huppert – Things to Come
 * Amy Adams – Arrival
 * Kate Beckinsale – Love & Friendship
 * Sandra Hüller – Toni Erdmann
 * Emma Stone – La La Land

Supporting Actor of the Year
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight

Tom Bennett – Love & Friendship
 * Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
 * Shia LaBeouf – American Honey
 * Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals

Supporting Actress of the Year
Naomie Harris – Moonlight
 * Viola Davis – Fences
 * Greta Gerwig – 20th Century Women
 * Riley Keough – American Honey
 * Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea

British/Irish Actor of the Year
Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge and Silence
 * Tom Bennett – Love & Friendship and David Brent: Life on the Road
 * Hugh Grant – Florence Foster Jenkins
 * Dave Johns – I, Daniel Blake
 * David Oyelowo – A United Kingdom and Queen of Katwe

British/Irish Actress of the Year
Kate Beckinsale – Love & Friendship
 * Rebecca Hall – Christine
 * Naomie Harris – Moonlight, Our Kind of Traitor, and Collateral Beauty
 * Ruth Negga – Loving and Iona
 * Hayley Squires – I, Daniel Blake

Young British/Irish Performer of the Year
Lewis MacDougall – A Monster Calls
 * Ruby Barnhill – The BFG
 * Sennia Nanua – The Girl with All the Gifts
 * Anya Taylor-Joy – The Witch, Morgan, and Split
 * Ferdia Walsh-Peelo – Sing Street

Director of the Year
László Nemes – Son of Saul
 * Maren Ade – Toni Erdmann
 * Damien Chazelle – La La Land
 * Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
 * Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea

Screenwriter of the Year
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
 * Maren Ade – Toni Erdmann
 * Damien Chazelle – La La Land
 * Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
 * Whit Stillman – Love & Friendship

Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker
Babak Anvari – Under the Shadow
 * Mike Carey – The Girl with All the Gifts
 * Guy Hibbert – Eye in the Sky and A United Kingdom
 * Peter Middleton and James Spinney – Notes on Blindness
 * Rachel Tunnard – Adult Life Skills

British/Irish Short Film
Brady Hood – Sweet Maddie Stone
 * Duncan Cowles and Ross Hogg –Isabella
 * Rene Pannevis – Jacked
 * Sofia Safanova – Tamara
 * Natasha Waugh – Terminal

Technical Achievement
Victoria – Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, cinematography
 * American Honey – Robbie Ryan, cinematography
 * Arrival – Sylvain Bellemare, sound design
 * High-Rise – Mark Tildesley, production design
 * Jackie – Mica Levi, music
 * Jason Bourne – Gary Powell, stunt coordination
 * La La Land – Justin Hurwitz, music
 * Moonlight – Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon, editing
 * Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Neal Scanlan, visual effects
 * Sing Street – Gary Clark and John Carney, music

Dilys Powell Award

 * Isabelle Huppert