London Film Critics Circle Awards 2013 Explained

34th London Film Critics Circle Awards

2 February 2014

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Film of the Year:
12 Years a Slave----
British Film of the Year:
The Selfish Giant

The 34th London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2013, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 2 February 2014.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.^[2]

Film of the Year

12 Years a Slave

• Blue Is the Warmest Colour
• Blue Jasmine
• Frances Ha
• Gravity
• The Great Beauty
• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Nebraska
• The Wolf of Wall Street

British Film of the Year

The Selfish Giant

• A Field in England
• Filth
• Philomena
• Rush

Foreign Language Film of the Year

Blue Is the Warmest Colour

• Caesar Must Die
• Gloria
• The Great Beauty
• A Hijacking

Documentary of the Year

The Act of Killing

• Beware of Mr. Baker
• Leviathan
• Stories We Tell

Director of the Year

Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity

• Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
• Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
• Paolo Sorrentino – The Great Beauty
• Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Screenwriter of the Year

Joel and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis

• Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena
• Spike Jonze – Her
• John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave
• Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

Breakthrough British Filmmaker

Jon S. Baird – Filth

• Scott Graham – Shell
• Marcus Markou – Papadopoulos & Sons
• Rufus Norris – Broken
• Paul Wright – For Those in Peril

Actor of the Year

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

• Bruce Dern – Nebraska
• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
• Michael Douglas – Behind the Candelabra
• Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

Actress of the Year

Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

• Sandra Bullock – Gravity
• Judi Dench – Philomena
• Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour
• Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha

Supporting Actor of the Year

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

• Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
• James Gandolfini – Enough Said
• Tom Hanks – Saving Mr. Banks
• Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Supporting Actress of the Year

Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave

• Naomie Harris –
• Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine
• Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
• June Squibb – Nebraska

British Actor of the Year

James McAvoy – Filth, Trance, and Welcome to the Punch

• Christian Bale – American Hustle and Out of the Furnace
• Steve Coogan – , The Look of Love, Philomena, and What Maisie Knew
• Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
• Michael Fassbender – The Counselor and 12 Years a Slave

British Actress of the Year

Judi Dench – Philomena

• Lindsay Duncan – About Time, Last Passenger, and Le Week-End
• Naomie Harris – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
• Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine
• Emma Thompson – Beautiful Creatures and Saving Mr. Banks

Young British Performer of the Year

Conner Chapman – The Selfish Giant

• Saoirse Ronan – Byzantium, The Host, and How I Live Now
• Eloise Laurence – Broken
• George MacKay – Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson, For Those in Peril, How I Live Now, and Sunshine on Leith
• Shaun Thomas – The Selfish Giant

Technical Achievement

Gravity – Tim Webber, visual effects

• 12 Years a Slave – Sean Bobbitt, cinematography
• American Hustle – Judy Becker, production design
• Behind the Candelabra – Howard Cummings, production design
• Filth – Mark Eckersley, editing
• Frances Ha – Sam Levy, cinematography
• – Trish Summerville, costumes
• Inside Llewyn Davis – T-Bone Burnett, music
• Stoker – Kurt Swanson and Bart Mueller, costumes
• Upstream Color – Johnny Marshall, sound design

Dilys Powell Award

• Gary Oldman

Notes and References

1. Web site: '12 Years a Slave' Leads London Critics' Circle Film Awards Nominations . 17 December 2013 . The Hollywood Reporter . 21 December 2013.
2. Web site: '12 Years a Slave' Nabs Top Prize at London Critics' Circle Awards . Variety . Penske Business Media, LLC . 2 February 2014 . 3 February 2014.