London Film Critics Circle Awards 2013
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34th London Film Critics Circle Awards
2 February 2014
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Film of the Year:
12 Years a Slave ----
British Film of the Year:
The Selfish Giant
The 34th London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for
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, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 2 February 2014.


Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.


Film of the Year

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12 Years a Slave ''Twelve Years a Slave'' is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., ...
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Blue Is the Warmest Colour ''Blue Is the Warmest Colour'' (french: link=yes, La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2; ) is a 2013 romance film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and starring Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. The film foll ...
'' *'' Blue Jasmine'' *'' Frances Ha'' *'' Gravity'' *'' The Great Beauty'' *'' Her'' *''
Inside Llewyn Davis ''Inside Llewyn Davis'' () is a 2013 period black comedy musical drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1961, the film follows one week in the life of Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac in his breakthr ...
'' *'' Nebraska'' *'' The Wolf of Wall Street''


British Film of the Year

'' The Selfish Giant'' *''
A Field in England ''A Field in England'' is a 2013 British historical psychological horror film directed by Ben Wheatley. The film, shot in black-and-white, is set during the mid-17th-century English Civil War. The film was released on 2013 on multiple platform ...
'' *'' Filth'' *'' Philomena'' *''
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Foreign Language Film of the Year

''Blue Is the Warmest Colour'' *'' Caesar Must Die'' *''
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'' *''The Great Beauty'' *'' A Hijacking''


Documentary of the Year

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The Act of Killing ''The Act of Killing'' ( id, Jagal, meaning "Butcher") is a 2012 documentary film about individuals who participated in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966. The film is directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and co-directed by Christine Cynn and ...
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Beware of Mr. Baker ''Beware of Mr. Baker'' is a 2012 American documentary film by Jay Bulger about the jazz and rock drummer Ginger Baker. Background For Bulger's article "The Devil and Ginger Baker" in ''Rolling Stone magazine'', Bulger lived with Baker in South ...
'' *'' Leviathan'' *''
Stories We Tell ''Stories We Tell'' is a 2012 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Sarah Polley and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The film explores her family's secrets—including one intimately related to Polley's own identi ...
'' *'' We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks''


Director of the Year

Alfonso Cuarón Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ( , ; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. He is known for directing films in a variety of genres including the family drama ''A Little Princess (1995 film), A Little Princess'' (1995), the romantic drama ''Gre ...
– ''Gravity'' * Paul Greengrass – '' Captain Phillips'' *
Steve McQueen Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw for his films of the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1 ...
– ''12 Years a Slave'' * Paolo Sorrentino – ''The Great Beauty'' * Martin Scorsese – ''The Wolf of Wall Street''


Screenwriter of the Year

Joel and Ethan Coen – ''
Inside Llewyn Davis ''Inside Llewyn Davis'' () is a 2013 period black comedy musical drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1961, the film follows one week in the life of Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac in his breakthr ...
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Steve Coogan Stephen John Coogan (; born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter. He is most known for creating original characters such as Alan Partridge, a socially inept and politically incorrect media personality, which ...
and Jeff Pope – '' Philomena'' *
Spike Jonze Adam H. Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American filmmaker, actor, musician, and photographer. His work includes commercials, film, music videos, skateboard videos and television. Jonze began his ca ...
– '' Her'' * John Ridley – ''
12 Years a Slave ''Twelve Years a Slave'' is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., ...
'' * Terence Winter – '' The Wolf of Wall Street''


Breakthrough British Filmmaker

Jon S. Baird Jon S. Baird (born 9 November 1972) is a BAFTA winning Scottish film director. Born and raised in Aberdeenshire, he began his career at BBC Television. Education Baird studied at the University of Aberdeen in the 1990s, where he graduated ...
– '' Filth'' * Scott Graham – '' Shell'' * Marcus Markou – '' Papadopoulos & Sons'' * Rufus Norris – '' Broken'' *Paul Wright – '' For Those in Peril''


Actor of the Year

Chiwetel Ejiofor – ''
12 Years a Slave ''Twelve Years a Slave'' is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., ...
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Bruce Dern Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor. He has often played supporting villainous characters of unstable natures. He has received several accolades, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and the Silver B ...
– '' Nebraska'' * Leonardo DiCaprio – '' The Wolf of Wall Street'' * Michael Douglas – '' Behind the Candelabra'' * Tom Hanks – '' Captain Phillips''


Actress of the Year

Cate Blanchett Catherine Elise Blanchett (; born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actor. Regarded as one of the finest performers of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage. She has received nu ...
– '' Blue Jasmine'' *
Sandra Bullock Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and producer. The recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Sandra Bullock, various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, Bullock was ...
– '' Gravity'' * Judi Dench – '' Philomena'' *
Adèle Exarchopoulos Adèle Exarchopoulos (; born 22 November 1993 in Paris) is a French actress. She is best known for her leading role as Adèle in '' Blue Is the Warmest Colour'' (2013), for which she earned international attention and critical acclaim; at the 20 ...
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Blue Is the Warmest Colour ''Blue Is the Warmest Colour'' (french: link=yes, La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2; ) is a 2013 romance film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and starring Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. The film foll ...
'' * Greta Gerwig – '' Frances Ha''


Supporting Actor of the Year

Barkhad Abdi Barkhad Abdi ( so, Barkhad Cabdi; born April 10, 1985) is a Somali-American actor. He made his acting debut as Somali pirate Abduwali Muse in the biographical drama film '' Captain Phillips'' (2013), which earned him a British Academy Film Awar ...
– ''Captain Phillips'' *
Michael Fassbender Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is an Irish actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Award ...
– ''12 Years a Slave'' * James Gandolfini – '' Enough Said'' *Tom Hanks – ''
Saving Mr. Banks ''Saving Mr. Banks'' is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock from a screenplay written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. Centered on the development of the 1964 film ''Mary Poppins'', the film stars Emma Thompson as author ...
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Jared Leto Jared Joseph Leto ( ; born December 26, 1971) is an American actor and musician. Known for his method acting in a variety of roles, he has received numerous accolades over a career spanning three decades, including an Academy Award and a Golde ...
– '' Dallas Buyers Club''


Supporting Actress of the Year

Lupita Nyong'o – ''12 Years a Slave'' * Naomie Harris – '' Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'' * Sally Hawkins – ''Blue Jasmine'' *
Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. The world's highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016, her films have grossed over $6 billion worldwide to date. She appeared in ''Time''s 100 most influential people i ...
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American Hustle ''American Hustle'' is a 2013 American historical black comedy crime film directed by David O. Russell. It was written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell, inspired by the FBI Abscam operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It stars Christia ...
'' * June Squibb – ''Nebraska''


British Actor of the Year

James McAvoy – ''Filth'', '' Trance'', and '' Welcome to the Punch'' * Christian Bale – ''American Hustle'' and '' Out of the Furnace'' *
Steve Coogan Stephen John Coogan (; born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter. He is most known for creating original characters such as Alan Partridge, a socially inept and politically incorrect media personality, which ...
– '' Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'', '' The Look of Love'', ''Philomena'', and ''
What Maisie Knew ''What Maisie Knew'' is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in ''The Chap-Book'' and (revised and abridged) in the ''New Review'' in 1897 and then as a book later that year. It tells the story of the sensitive daughter of divorc ...
'' *Chiwetel Ejiofor – ''12 Years a Slave'' *Michael Fassbender – '' The Counselor'' and ''12 Years a Slave''


British Actress of the Year

Judi Dench – ''Philomena'' * Lindsay Duncan – '' About Time'', ''
Last Passenger ''Last Passenger'' is a 2013 British suspense thriller film directed by Omid Nooshin. Starring Dougray Scott, Kara Tointon and Iddo Goldberg, this film follows the man; a doctor and a widower, and their commuters' efforts to stop the train after ...
'', and '' Le Week-End'' *Naomie Harris – ''Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'' *Sally Hawkins – ''Blue Jasmine'' *Emma Thompson – '' Beautiful Creatures'' and ''Saving Mr. Banks''


Young British Performer of the Year

Conner Chapman – '' The Selfish Giant'' * Saoirse Ronan – ''
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'', '' The Host'', and ''
How I Live Now ''How I Live Now'' is a novel by Meg Rosoff, first published in 2004. It received generally positive reviews and won the British Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the American Printz Award for young-adult literature. Plot Fifteen-year-o ...
'' *Eloise Laurence – ''Broken'' * George MacKay – ''Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson'', ''For Those in Peril'', ''How I Live Now'', and '' Sunshine on Leith'' *Shaun Thomas – ''The Selfish Giant''


Technical Achievement

''Gravity'' –
Tim Webber Tim Webber is a Welsh visual effects supervisor. He is known for his work on ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' (2005), ''The Dark Knight (film), The Dark Knight'' (2008), ''Avatar (2009 film), Av ...
, visual effects *''12 Years a Slave'' – Sean Bobbitt, cinematography *''American Hustle'' – Judy Becker, production design *''Behind the Candelabra'' – Howard Cummings, production design *''Filth'' – Mark Eckersley, editing *''Frances Ha'' – Sam Levy, cinematography *'' The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'' – Trish Summerville, costumes *''Inside Llewyn Davis'' – T-Bone Burnett, music *''
Stoker Stoker may refer to: Arts and entertainment * "The Stoker", a 1927 short story by Franz Kafka * ''The Stoker'' (1932 film), an American drama/romance film directed by Chester M. Franklin * ''The Stoker'' (1935 film) , a British comedy film direc ...
'' – Kurt Swanson and Bart Mueller, costumes *''
Upstream Color ''Upstream Color'' is a 2013 American experimental science fiction film written, directed, produced by, and starring Shane Carruth. The film is the second feature directed by Carruth, following his 2004 debut '' Primer''. It stars Amy Seimetz, C ...
'' – Johnny Marshall, sound design


Dilys Powell Award

* Gary Oldman


References

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