Tár( by Todd Field in the 43rd London Critics’ Choice Taking home the top prize at Sunday night’s Circle Film Awards, it was named Film of the Year. Meanwhile, Cate Blanchett won Actress of the Year – her third – and Field won Director’s Award.
Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin is another A big London winner with five awards including the Attenborough Award for British/Irish Film of the Year, Screenwriter of the Year, Actor of the Year for Colin Farrell and Supporting Actor for Barrie Keohan and Kerry Condon Award and Supporting Actress Award. Another Irish film The Quiet Girl tied for Foreign Language Film of the Year with Park Chan-wook’s noir thriller Decision to Leave. Laura Poitras Sharp Nan Goldin’s film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was named Documentary of the Year.
The ceremony presented film icon Michelle Yeoh with the Dilys Powell Outstanding Film Award, sponsored by her Everything Everywhere All On Once partner Ke Huiquan accompanied. Danny Boyle presented the award that night.
Also in attendance were Florence Pugh and Bill Nighy, both of . Pugh reunited with her The Wonder co-stars Tom Burke and Kíla Lord Cassidy at the event. Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio are also reunited as father and daughter in Aftersun. Leo won the British/Irish Young Actor Award for her role, while Paul was on hand to accept the Philippe France Award for Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker from writer-director Charlotte Wells.
The Technical Achievement Award was awarded to Pinocchio of Guillermo del Toro For animation, collected by Gregory Mann, who voiced the title character. The UK/Irish Short Film of the Year is A Fox in the Night by Keeran Anwar Blessie.
Award awarded by – Member of the UK’s oldest film critics’ organization, the Film Critics Society.
See the full list of 2022 winners below.
Movie of the Year Asphalt
Foreign Language Film of the Year Decision to leave Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin)
Documentary of the Year All the Beauty and the Bleeding London
British/Irish Film of the Year The Banshees of Inisherin
Director of the Year Award sponsored by The House of Koko Todd Field – Tár
Screenwriter of the Year
Martin McDonagh – Banshee Nyscherin
sponsored by Nyman Libson Paul Actress of the Year Award 2023 Cate Blanchett – Tár
by Actor of the Year Award sponsored by Coco House Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Supporting Actress of the Year Kerry Condon – Banshee of Inisherin
Best Supporting Actor of the Year Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin
British/Irish Actress of the Year Florence Pugh – Don’t Worry Darling, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Wonder
British/Irish Actor of the Year Bill Nighy – Life
Breakthrough UK/Irish filmmaker sponsored by MetFilm 2023 Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
Young British/Irish performerFrankie Corio – Aftersun
British/Irish Short Film of the Year A fox at night – dir Keeran Anwar Blessie
Science and Technology Achievement Award2023Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro and Brian Leif Hansen, Animation
Dillis Powell Award for Excellence in Film 2023Michelle Yeoh
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