Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist won the top prize, and the film’s only win, for Film of the Year at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with Nickel Boys, Conclave, and A Real Pain dominating with multiple wins for other awards.
Edward Berger’s Conclave won for British/Irish Film of the Year and Actor of the Year for Ralph Fiennes; Nickel Boys won Director of the Year for RaMell Ross and the Technical Achievement Award for Jomo Fray’s first-person cinematography; and A Real Pain won Screenwriter of the Year for Jesse Eisenberg, and Supporting Actor of the Year for Kieran Culkin.
Other top film prizes went to Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light for Foreign Language Film of the Year, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was named Animated Feature of the Year, and the Palestinian-Israeli collective won Documentary of the Year for No Other Land.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste took Actress of the Year for Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, Mikey Madison won Breakthrough Performer for Anora, Saoirse Ronan won British/Irish Performer of the Year for her performances in The Outrun and Blitz, 14-year-old Nykiya Adams won Young British/Irish Performer of the Year for her screen debut in Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and Rich Peppiatt won the Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker award for writing and directing the hip-hop biopic Kneecap.
Zoe Saldaña won Supporting Actress of the Year for Emilia Pérez, along with the Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation — presented at the ceremony by America Ferrera and last year’s winner Colman Domingo.
The second honorary award, the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film, went to Daniel Craig, presented by Lesley Manville, his costar in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, for which he was also an Actor of the Year nominee this year.
Full list of winners of 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards
FILM OF THE YEAR
The Brutalist – directed by Brady Corbet
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
All We Imagine as Light – directed by Payal Kapadia
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
No Other Land – directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor
ANIMATED FEATURE OF THE YEAR
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – directed by Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham
BRITISH/IRISH FILM OF THE YEAR
Conclave – directed by Edward Berger
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
ACTRESS OF THE YEAR – sponsored by WS Hair Pro
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez
SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER
Mikey Madison – Anora
BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH/IRISH FILMMAKER
Rich Peppiatt – Kneecap
BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR (for body of work)
Saoirse Ronan – Blitz and The Outrun
YOUNG BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Nykiya Adams – Bird
BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR
Wander to Wonder – directed by Nina Gantz
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Nickel Boys – cinematography by Jomo Fray
DILYS POWELL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM
Daniel Craig
DEREK MALCOLM AWARD FOR INNOVATION
Zoe Saldaña