London Film Critics

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FILM OF THE YEAR
The Wrestler

THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR
Slumdog Millionaire

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
Waltz With Bashir

DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

BRITISH DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Kate Winslet – The Reader and Revolutionary Road

BRITISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Michael Fassbender – Hunger

BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Kristin Scott Thomas – I’ve Loved You So Long

BRITISH ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky

BRITISH ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Tilda Swinton – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire

THE NSPCC AWARD: YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Thomas Turgoose – Somers Town and Eden Lake

BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILM-MAKER
Steve McQueen – writer-director: Hunger

DILYS POWELL AWARD FOR
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Dame Judi Dench

Nominations

FILM OF THE YEAR
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Warner)
Frost/Nixon (Universal)
Milk (Momentum)
Wall-E (Disney)
The Wrestler (Optimum)

THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR
Happy-Go-Lucky (Momentum)
Hunger (Pathe)
In Bruges (Universal)
Man on Wire (Icon)
Slumdog Millionaire (Pathe)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
Gomorrah (Optimum)
I’ve Loved You So Long (Lionsgate)
The Orphanage (Optimum)
Persepolis (Optimum)
Waltz With Bashir (Artificial Eye)

DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Darren Aronofsky – The Wrestler (Optimum)
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire (Pathe)
Clint Eastwood – Changeling (Universal)
David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Warner)
Gus Van Sant – Milk (Momentum)

BRITISH DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire (Pathe)
Terence Davies – Of Time and the City (BFI)
Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky (Momentum)
Steve McQueen – Hunger (Pathe)
Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight (Warner)

ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Josh Brolin – W. (Lionsgate)
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon (Universal)
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (Warner)
Sean Penn – Milk (Momentum)
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler (Optimum)

ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Optimum)
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married (Sony)
Angelina Jolie – Changeling (Universal)
Meryl Streep – Doubt (Miramax)
Kate Winslet – The Reader (Entertainment) and Revolutionary Road (Paramount)

BRITISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Michael Fassbender – Hunger (Pathe)
Ralph Fiennes – The Duchess (Pathe)
Ben Kingsley – Elegy (Entertainment)
Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire (Pathe)
Michael Sheen – Frost/Nixon (Universal)

BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Rebecca Hall – Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Optimum)
Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky (Momentum)
Kristin Scott Thomas – I’ve Loved You So Long (Lionsgate)
Tilda Swinton – Julia (Chelsea)
Kate Winslet – The Reader (Entertainment) and Revolutionary Road (Paramount)

BRITISH ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Liam Cunningham – Hunger (Pathe)
Toby Jones – Frost/Nixon (Universal) and W. (Lionsgate)
Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky (Momentum)
Peter O’Toole – Dean Spanley (Icon)
Mark Strong – Body of Lies (Warner)

BRITISH ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Hayley Atwell – The Duchess (Pathe)
Kristin Scott Thomas – Easy Virtue (Pathe)
Tilda Swinton – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Warner)
Emma Thompson – Brideshead Revisited (Miramax)
Alexis Zegerman – Happy-Go-Lucky (Momentum)

SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire (Pathe)
David Hare – The Reader (Entertainment)
Martin McDonagh – In Bruges (Universal)
Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon (Universal)
Eric Roth – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Warner)

THE NSPCC AWARD: YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Asa Butterfield – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Miramax)
Georgia Groome – Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Paramount)
Bill Milner – Son of Rambow (Optimum)
Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire (Pathe)
Will Poulter – Son of Rambow (Optimum)
Thomas Turgoose – Somers Town (Optimum) and Eden Lake (Optimum)

BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILM-MAKER
Joanna Hogg – writer-director: Unrelated (New Wave)
Martin McDonagh – writer-director: In Bruges (Universal)
Steve McQueen – writer-director: Hunger (Pathe)
James Watkins – writer-director: Eden Lake (Optimum)
Rupert Wyatt – director: The Escapist (Vertigo)

DILYS POWELL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Dame Judi Dench

The 29th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, sponsored by first direct, in aid of the NSPCC will take place on 04 February 2009.The awards will be hosted by broadcasters Mariella Frostrup and Paul Gambaccini at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel and are sponsored by first direct, the UK’s leading direct bank.

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

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~ David Simon