London Film Critics Circle Awards 2011

The nominees for the 32nd London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2011 were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on December 20, 2011.

Nominees

Film of the Year

• The Artist
• Drive
• A Separation
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• The Tree of Life

British Film of the Year

• The Guard
• Kill List
• Shame
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• We Need to Talk About Kevin

Foreign Language Film of the Year

• Mysteries of Lisbon • Portugal
• Poetry • South Korea
• Le Quattro Volte • Italy
• A Separation • Iran
• The Skin I Live In • Spain

Documentary of the Year

• Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Dreams of a Life
• Pina
• Project Nim
• Senna

Director of the Year

• Asghar Farhadi – A Separation
• Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
• Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
• Lynne Ramsay – We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive

Screenwriter of the Year

• Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
• Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash – The Descendants
• Kenneth Lonergan – Margaret
• Asghar Farhadi – A Separation
• Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Breakthrough British Filmmaker

• Richard Ayoade – Submarine
• Paddy Considine – Tyrannosaur
• Joe Cornish – Attack the Block
• Andrew Haigh – Weekend
• John Michael McDonagh – The Guard

Actor of the Year

• George Clooney – The Descendants
• Jean Dujardin – The Artist
• Michael Fassbender – Shame
• Ryan Gosling – Drive
• Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Actress of the Year

• Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia
• Anna Paquin – Margaret
• Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
• Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn

Supporting Actor of the Year

• Simon Russell Beale – The Deep Blue Sea
• Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
• Albert Brooks – Drive
• Christopher Plummer – Beginners
• Michael Smiley – Kill List

Supporting Actress of the Year

• Sareh Bayat – A Separation
• Jessica Chastain – The Help
• Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus
• Octavia Spencer – The Help
• Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom

British Actor of the Year

• Tom Cullen – Weekend
• Michael Fassbender – A Dangerous Method and Shame
• Brendan Gleeson – The Guard
• Peter Mullan – Tyrannosaur and War Horse
• Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

British Actress of the Year

• Olivia Colman – The Iron Lady and Tyrannosaur
• Carey Mulligan – Drive and Shame
• Vanessa Redgrave – Anonymous and Coriolanus
• Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea

Young British Performer of the Year

• John Boyega – Attack the Block
• Jeremy Irvine – War Horse
• Yasmin Paige – Submarine
• Craig Roberts – Submarine
• Saoirse Ronan – Hanna

Technical Achievement

• Manuel Alberto Claro, cinematography – Melancholia
• Paul Davies, sound design – We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Maria Djurkovic, production design – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Dante Ferretti, production design – Hugo
• Alberto Iglesias, original score – The Skin I Live In
• Chris King and Gregers Sall, editing – Senna
• Joe Letteri, visual effects – Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Cliff Martinez, original score – Drive
• Robert Richardson, cinematography – Hugo
• Robbie Ryan, cinematography – Wuthering Heights

Excellence in Film

• Nicolas Roeg

References

• 32nd London Critics' Circle Film Awards nominations announced criticscircle.org.uk
• 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,' 'Drive' Lead London Critics’ Circle Nominations The Hollywood Reporter