London Film Critics Circle Awards 2012 Explained

33rd London Film Critics Circle Awards

20 January 2013

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Film of the Year:
Amour ----
British Film of the Year:
Berberian Sound Studio

The 33rd London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2012, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 20 January 2013.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Winners and nominees

Film of the Year

Amour

• Argo
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Life of Pi
• The Master

British Film of the Year

Berberian Sound Studio

• The Imposter
• Les Misérables
• Sightseers
• Skyfall

Foreign Language Film of the Year

Rust and Bone • France/China

• Amour • Austria/France/Germany
• Holy Motors • France/Germany
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia • Turkey/Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Tabu • Portugal

Documentary of the Year

The Imposter

• London: The Modern Babylon
• Nostalgia for the Light
• The Queen of Versailles
• Searching for Sugar Man

Director of the Year

Ang Lee - Life of Pi

• 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

• Chris Terrio - Argo
• Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
• Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
• Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty

Breakthrough British Filmmaker

Alice Lowe and Steve Oram - Sightseers

• Ben Drew - Ill Manors
• Sally El Hosaini - My Brother the Devil
• Dexter Fletcher - Wild Bill
• Bart Layton - The Imposter

Actor of the Year

Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

• Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
• Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables
• Mads Mikkelsen - The Hunt
• Jean-Louis Trintignant - Amour

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Actress of the Year

Emmanuelle Riva - Amour

• 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

• Alan Arkin - Argo
• Javier Bardem - Skyfall
• Michael Fassbender - Prometheus
• Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

Supporting Actress of the Year

Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables

• Amy Adams - The Master
• Judi Dench - Skyfall
• Sally Field - Lincoln
• Isabelle Huppert - Amour

British Actor of the Year

Toby Jones - Berberian Sound Studio

• Daniel Craig - Skyfall
• Charlie Creed-Miles - Wild Bill
• Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
• Steve Oram - Sightseers

British Actress of the Year

Andrea Riseborough - Shadow Dancer

• Emily Blunt - Looper and Your Sister's Sister
• Judi Dench - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Skyfall
• Alice Lowe - Sightseers
• Helen Mirren - Hitchcock

Young British Performer of the Year

Tom Holland - The Impossible

• Samantha Barks - Les Misérables
• Jack Reynor - What Richard Did

Technical Achievement

Life of Pi - Bill Westenhofer, visual effects

• Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran, costumes
• Argo - William Goldenberg, film editing
• Beasts of the Southern Wild - Ben Richardson, cinematography
• Berberian Sound Studio - Joakim Sundström and Stevie Haywood, sound design
• Holy Motors - Bernard Floch, make-up
• Life of Pi - Claudio Miranda, cinematography
• The Master - Jack Fisk and David Crank, production design
• My Brother the Devil - David Raedeker, cinematography
• Rust and Bone - Alexandre Desplat, music

Dilys Powell Award

• Helena Bonham Carter

External links

• Official Critics' Circle nomination press release

Notes and References

1. Web site: 'The Master,' 'Amour,' 'Sightseers' Lead London Critics Circle Nominations. 2012-12-18. IndieWire. 2012-12-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20121230184006/http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/london-critics-circle-nominations. 30 December 2012. dead.
2. Web site: Amour and The Master lead charge for London Film Critics' Circle awards. 2012-12-18. The Guardian. 2012-12-19.
3. Web site: 'Amour' & 'Rust And Bone' Top London Critics' Circle Awards. 2013-01-20. IndieWire. 2013-01-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20130122231035/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/amour-rust-and-bone-top-london-critics-circle-awards-20130120. 22 January 2013. dead.
4. Web site: Amour bags hat-trick of London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. 2013-01-20. BBC News. 2013-01-20.