London Film Critics Circle Awards 2018 Explained

39th London Film Critics' Circle Awards

20 January 2019

Film of the Year:
Roma----
British/Irish Film of the Year:
The Favourite

The 39th London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2018, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 20 January 2019 at The May Fair Hotel, in Mayfair, London.^[1] The nominations were announced on 18 December 2018.^[2] The event was hosted by British comedian Judi Love.^[3]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.

Film of the Year	Director of the Year
Roma BlacKkKlansman Cold War The Favourite First Man First Reformed The Happy Prince Leave No Trace Shoplifters You Were Never Really Here	Alfonso Cuarón – Roma Debra Granik – Leave No Trace Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite Paweł Pawlikowski – Cold War Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Actor of the Year	Actress of the Year
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed Christian Bale – Vice Rupert Everett – The Happy Prince Ben Foster – Leave No Trace Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here	Olivia Colman – The Favourite Yalitza Aparicio – Roma Glenn Close – The Wife Toni Collette – Hereditary Joanna Kulig – Cold War
Supporting Actor of the Year	Supporting Actress of the Year
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther Daniel Kaluuya – Widows Alessandro Nivola – Disobedience	Rachel Weisz – The Favourite Elizabeth Debicki – Widows Cynthia Erivo – Bad Times at the El Royale Claire Foy – First Man Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
Screenwriter of the Year	Foreign Language Film of the Year
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara – The Favourite Alfonso Cuarón – Roma Gillian Flynn and Steve McQueen – Widows Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk Paul Schrader – First Reformed	Cold War BPM (Beats per Minute) A Fantastic Woman Roma Shoplifters
Documentary of the Year	British/Irish Film of the Year
Faces Places McQueen They Shall Not Grow Old Three Identical Strangers Whitney	The Favourite Apostasy Beast The Happy Prince You Were Never Really Here
British/Irish Actor of the Year	British/Irish Actress of the Year
Rupert Everett – The Happy Prince Christian Bale – Mowgli and Vice Steve Coogan – Holmes & Watson, Ideal Home, and Stan & Ollie Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms Daniel Kaluuya – Black Panther and Widows	Jessie Buckley – Beast Emily Blunt – A Quiet Place, Mary Poppins Returns, and Sherlock Gnomes Olivia Colman – The Favourite Claire Foy – First Man, The Girl in the Spider's Web, and Unsane Rachel Weisz – Disobedience and The Favourite
Young British/Irish Performer of the Year	Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker of the Year
Molly Wright – Apostasy Liv Hill – Jellyfish and The Little Stranger Noah Jupe – Holmes & Watson, A Quiet Place, That Good Night, and The Titan Anya Taylor-Joy – Glass, The Secret of Marrowbone, and Thoroughbreds Fionn Whitehead – The Children Act	Michael Pearce – Beast Deborah Davis – The Favourite Rupert Everett – The Happy Prince Deborah Haywood – Pin Cushion Daniel Kokotajlo – Apostasy
British/Irish Short Film of the Year	Technical Achievement Award
Three Centimetres Little Shit Night Out Salt & Sauce Under Growth	Łukasz Żal – Cold War, cinematography Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn – A Quiet Place, sound design Will Becher and Richard Phelan – , animation Joe Bini – You Were Never Really Here, film editing Nicholas Britell – If Beale Street Could Talk, music Fiona Crombie – The Favourite, production design Wade Eastwood – , stunts Nick Fenton, Chris Gill, and Julian Hart – American Animals, film editing Paul Lambert – First Man, visual effects Marci Rodgers – BlacKkKlansman, costume design Thom Yorke – Suspiria, music

Special awards

The Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film

• Pedro Almodóvar

Notes and References

1. News: London Critics name Roma as Film of the Year . Cline . Rich . January 20, 2019 . . February 25, 2020 . en-GB.
2. News: The Favourite leads nominees for CC Film Awards . Cline . Rich . December 18, 2018 . . February 25, 2020 . en-GB.
3. News: British comic Judi Love to host CC Film Awards . Cline . Rich . January 8, 2019 . . February 25, 2020 . en-GB.