Amour Tops London Film Critics Awards

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Amour Tops London Film Critics Awards

by James White |
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Michael Haneke’s fake Twitter accountwill be LOL-ing in celebration today, because the real life director took home several prizes for Amour at this year’s London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.

Amour went home with Film Of The Year, plus the writing award and Best Actress for Emmanuelle Riva. But there was plenty of love to go around, with** Life Of Pi**’s Ang Li snatching Best Director and the Technical Achievement gong for its awards team.

Berberian Sound Studio took Best British Film and Best British Actor for Toby Jones, while The Master won both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Sightseers co-writers/stars Alice Lowe and Steve Oram nabbed Breakthrough British Filmmaker.

Take a look at the full results below.

FILM OF THE YEAR

**Amour **

Argo

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Life of Pi

The Master

**FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR **

Rust And Bone

Amour

Holy Motors

Once Upon A Time In Anatolia

Tabu

DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR

The Imposter

London: The Modern Babylon

Nostalgia For The Light

The Queen Of Versailles

Searching For Sugar Man

**BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR

**Berberian Sound Studio

The Imposter

Les Miserables

Sightseers

Skyfall

**ACTOR OF THE YEAR

**Joaquin Phoenix – The Master

Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln

Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables

Mads Mikkelsen – The Hunt

Jean-Louis Trintignant – Amour

**ACTRESS OF THE YEAR

**Emmanuelle Riva – Amour

Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty

Marion Cotillard – Rust And Bone

Helen Hunt – The Sessions

Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook

**SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR

**Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

Alan Arkin – Argo

Javier Bardem – Skyfall

Michael Fassbender – Prometheus

Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

**SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR

**Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables

Amy Adams – T**he Master

Judi Dench – Skyfall

Sally Field – Lincoln

Isabelle Huppert – Amour

**BRITISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR

**Toby Jones – Berberian Sound Studio

Daniel Craig – Skyfall

Charlie Creed-Miles – Wild Bill

Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln

Steve Oram – Sightseers

**BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR

Andrea Riseborough – Shadow Dancer

Emily Blunt – Looper &* Your Sister’s Sister*

Judi Dench – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel & Skyfall

Alice Lowe – Sightseers

Helen Mirren – Hitchcock

**YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR

**Tom Holland – The Impossible

Samantha Barks –* Les Miserables*

Fady Elsayed – My Brother The Devil

Will Poulter – Wild Bill

Jack Reynor – What Richard Did

**DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

**Ang Lee – Life Of Pi

Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master

Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty

Nuri Bilge Ceylan –* Once Upon A Time In Anatolia*

Michael Haneke – Amour

**SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

**Michael Haneke – Amour

Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master

Mark Boal – Zero Dark Thirty

Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained

Chris Terrio – Argo

**BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILMMAKER

**Alice Lowe & Steve Oram – Sightseers

Ben Drew –* Ill Manners*

Sally El Hosaini –* My Brother The Devil*

Dexter Fletcher – Wild Bill

Bart Layton – The Imposter

**TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

**Life Of Pi – visual effects, Bill Westenhofer

Anna Karenina – costumes, Jacqueline Durran

Argo – editing, William Goldenberg

Beasts Of The Southern Wild – cinematography, Ben Richardson

Berberian Sound Studio – sound design, Joakim Sundstrom & Stevie Haywood

Holy Motors – makeup, Bernard Floch

Life Of Pi – cinematography, Claudio Miranda

The Master – production design, Jack Fisk & David Crank

My Brother The Devil – cinematography, David Raedeker

Rust And Bone – music, Alexandre Desplat

**DILYS POWELL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM

**Helena Bonham Carter

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