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London Film Critics Circle Awards

FILM OF THE YEAR

The Artist

CRITICS' CIRCLE TOP 10 FILMS of 2011

1. The Artist
2. A Separation
3. Drive
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
5. The Tree of Life
6. We Need to Talk About Kevin
7. Melancholia
8. Shame
9. Margaret
10. The Descendants

The Attenborough Award: BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR

We Need to Talk About Kevin

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR

A Separation

DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR

Senna

DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Asghar Farhadi - A Separation

BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILM-MAKER

Andrew Haigh - Weekend

ACTOR OF THE YEAR

Jean Dujardin - The Artist

ACTRESS OF THE YEAR (Tied)

Anna Paquin - Margaret

Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady

SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR

Kenneth Branagh - My Week With Marilyn

SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR

Sareh Bayat - A Separation

BRITISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR

Michael Fassbender - A Dangerous Method, Shame

BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR

Olivia Colman - The Iron Lady, Tyrannosaur

YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR

Craig Roberts - Submarine

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

Maria Djurkovic, production design - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Dilys Powell Award: EXCELLENCE IN FILM

Nicolas Roeg

zedz wrote:As heartthesilence said, Footnote is a decent film, dressing up an academic subject with (too) tricksy stylistic flourishes. Not a patch on A Separation, but I expect the academy would lap it up, even if it is ultimately quite a feel-bad experience. Does it have any sort of profile in the US?

First I've heard of it, but Sony Pictures Classics is distributing and opening it in March.

It must be karma (or a healthy dose of that British humor I've read so much about) that a six-year old performance by 22-year old Anna Paquin in a movie that barely-played in a couple of UK theaters is named Best Actress along with a Meryl Streep performance in a biopic of Thatcher playing everywhere. 'Best Actress 2011, Anna Paquin - London Film Critic's Circle Awards' will probably be the award pull-quote "Margaret" will get in the eventual DVD cover to try and sell it, which could actually confuse some people into thinking the film is British.

Newsweek's Oscar Roundtable: Hear Christopher Plummer tell why he will never work with Malick again, Charlize Theron speaking Afrikaans, Clooney on selling women's shoes, Michael Fassbender's Tarantino impression, etc.

The announcements event can be wached live on Youtube in two and a half hours.

Go Woody! Director, Screenplay and Best Picture. Didn't see that one coming.

eerik wrote:Full list of Oscar nominees

Don't recall a year with so many surprise nominations or omissions. Congrats again to former cf.org regular davebert on getting a nomination for one of his films in the Best Animated Feature category again (Chico and Rita). He previously scored with Secret of the Kells.

Not sure where to place complaints (heh) about the Oscar noms - here or in a film's respective thread - but seriously, my god: no editing, sound or FX (!!!) notices for Tree of Life? Too bad also about Pitt's nom for the more conventional Moneyball over TOL... and why weren't the kids recognized in TOL, being among the best child performances of ALL TIME

Pretty surprised about Fassbender's absence in the acting noms. Agreed too that Pitt was much better in ToL than Moneyball, which I thought was very ordinary.

OMG, Fassbender wasn't nominated for ANYTHING? That's called professional jealousy.

Haha, wow, a Best Picture nomination for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? I've never met anyone, anywhere, who liked that movie.

As far as nominating people for the wrong roles goes, as far as I'm considered they did that for Jessica Chastain and Michelle Williams, too.

No Woodley or Theron? Booooo

People I'm happily stunned to call 'Academy Award Nominees': Jim Rash, Kristin Wiig, Jonah Hill, Melissa McCarthy

...and not so much: Chris Columbus

Charlize Theron, Michael Shannon, and Kirsten Dunst gave the best performances of the year. None were nominated. Poppycock

Didn't even notice Dunst wasn't there. Scandalous really.

Hopefully Chico and Rita will win best animated film - OK, I've not seen the three Hollywood films but Kung Fu Panda 2???

Ditto, mfunk... These sorts of omissions are nothing new, but it still hurts every time.

At least Gary Oldman got his.

And Rooney Mara is nominated for playing Noomi Rapace too.

I can't believe Albert Brooks didn't get nominated. Max Von Sydow and Jonah Hill over him? Really? I like Von Sydow but that Incredibly Loud Movie shouldn't have been nominated at all. It's just a sappy melodrama along the veins of The Blind Side.

TMDaines wrote:And Rooney Mara is nominated for playing Noomi Rapace too.

Not really? They approached the character in wildly different ways.

dx23 wrote:...but that Incredibly Loud Movie shouldn't have been nominated at all. It's just a sappy melodrama along the veins of The Blind Side.

... which basically explains why it was nominated, since The Blind Side was not only a sappy melodramatic Oscar nominee, but was also a sappy melodramatic Oscar winner.

For the record, I'm surprised Brooks wasn't nominated either.

Also, apparently the Academy voters really do not like Fincher.

matrixschmatrix wrote:

TMDaines wrote:And Rooney Mara is nominated for playing Noomi Rapace too.

Not really? They approached the character in wildly different ways.

Yeah, not at all. Just because there was another film adaptation of the same book doesn't forever link the performers and filmmakers, sorry.

Taking a break from not caring about Awards Season to cheerfully point out that the Academy snubbed Pixar in favor of, among other films, a Shrek spinoff. If this can convince Pixar to make a better-written Cars 3 (or better yet, not make one at all), then this whole inane process has been a success this year.

Still not sure why everyone has decided to take the existence of Cars 2 so damn personally