by Jane Campion The power of the dog continued its critics’ reign this season, winning four awards from the London Film Critics Circle (LFCC), including Film of the Year and Director of the Year.
The film also won Lead Actor of the Year (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Supporting Actor of the Year (Kodi Smit-McPhee), while two other Netflix properties, The lost girl and Who passedwon Lead Actress (Olivia Colman) and Supporting Actress (Ruth Negga) respectively, wiping out the acting awards.
At Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s drive my car was a double winner, for Foreign Language Film of the Year and Screenwriter of the Year, which he shared with Takamasa Oe. Who passed also won a second prize, for director Rebecca Hall, winning the Philip French Award for Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker. The Body of Work awards for actor and actress went to Andrew Garfield and Tilda Swinton. by Joanna Hogg Remembrance Part II won the Attenborough Award for British Film/Iris of the Year – two years after its first part won the same honour.
Here is the full list of winners of the 42nd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, which took place virtually on the London Critics’ Circle YouTube channel, avoiding an in-person event, which is expected to take place later this year.
FILM OF THE YEAR
Belfast
drive my car
Dunes
Licorice Pizza
The lost girl
Memory
The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Remembrance Part II
Titanium
West Side Story
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
Drive My Car – WINNER
God’s hand
Little mom
Titanium
The worst person in the world
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
To run away
Gunda
The most beautiful boy in the world
Summer of Soul – WINNER
The Velvet Underground
The Attenborough Award for BRITISH/IRISH FILM OF THE YEAR
After Love
Belfast
The green knight
Limbo
The Remembrance Part II – WINNER
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive my car
Joanna Hogg – The Remembrance Part II
Céline Sciamma – Little Mom
Denis Villeneuve – Dune
SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Wes Anderson – The French Dispatch
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Girl
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe – Drive My Car – WINNER
LEADING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Olivia Colman – The Lost Girl – WINNER
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Renate Reinsve – Worst person in the world
Joanna Scanlan – After Love
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
LEADING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Adam Driver – Annette
Andrew Garfield – Tick, tick… Boom!
Oscar Isaac – The Card Counter
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Girl
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Rita Moreno – West Side Story
Ruth Negga – Pass – WINNER
SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Richard Ayoade – The Remembrance Part II
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch
BRITISH/IRISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR (for lifetime achievement)
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Girl
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter/Mothering Sunday/Ron’s Gone Wrong/The Mitchells vs The Machines/The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Ruth Negga – Passing/Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche
Joanna Scanlan – After Love
Tilda Swinton – Memoria/The Souvenir Part II/The French Dispatch – WINNER
BRITISH/IRISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR (for lifetime achievement)
Riz Ahmed – Meeting
Adeel Akhtar – Ali & Ava/The Nest/The Electric Life of Louis Wain/Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Benedict Cumberbatch – The power of the dog/
The Electric Life of Louis Wain/The Courier
Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick… Boom!/The Eyes of Tammy Faye/Mainstream – WINNER
Stephen Graham – Boiling Point/Venom: Let There Be Carnage
The Philip French Award for BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH/IRISH FILMAST
Prano Bailey-Bond – Censor
Rebecca Hall – Pass – WINNER
Aleem Khan – After Love
Marley Morrison – Sweetheart
Ben Sharrock – Limbo
YOUNG BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER
Max Harwood – Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Jude Hill – Belfast
Emilia Jones – Coda
Daniel Lamont – Nowhere Special
Woody Norman – C’mon C’mon – WINNER
BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM
Sick and messy – dir. Andrew Kotting
Dear shit – dir. Adura Onashile
Knowing the Grass – dir. Sophie Litman
Play it safe – dir. Mitch Kalisa – WINNER
Precious hair & beauty – dir. John Ogunmuyiwa
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Cruella – Jenny Beavan, costumes
Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer, visual effects – WINNER
Flee – Kenneth Ladekjær, animation
The French Dispatch – Adam Stockhausen, Production Design
The Green Knight – Andrew Droz Palermo, director of photography
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmão – Hélène Louvart, director of photography
Martin Eden – Fabrizio Federico and Aline Hervé, film editing
No time to die – Olivier Schneider, stunts
The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood, music
West Side Story – Justin Peck, choreography
Photo: Kirsty Griffin/Netflix
