British film award
The London Film Critics' Circle is the name by which the Film Section of The Critics' Circle is known internationally.
The word London was added because it was thought the term Critics' Circle Film Awards did not convey the full context of the awards' origins; the LFCC wished its annual Awards to be recognised on film advertising, especially in the United States, and in production notes.
The Critics' Circle, founded in 1913, is an association for working British critics. Film critics first became eligible for membership of the Circle in 1926. The Film section now has more than 180 members drawn from publications, broadcast media and the internet throughout the United Kingdom.
Film section members of the Critics' Circle will have worked as critics—writing informed analytical features or broadcasting programmes about film for British publications and media—for at least two years, earning income from reviewing and writing about film.
Critics' Circle Film Awards
The Critics' Circle Film Awards were instituted in 1980 and are awarded annually by the Film Section of the Critics' Circle.
Voted for by all members of the Film Section, the awards have become a major event in London, presented at a dinner dance held in a large West End hotel. From 1995 to 2010 the awards ceremony was a charity event in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
Award categories
Over the years, the Award categories have gradually changed with some categories being added and others dropped. For some categories this means that winners were not necessarily declared or listed in each of the Awards year.
In 2007, it was decided that Irish filmmakers, actors and others involved in the film industry would be eligible in what had previously been called "British" award categories. To that end, the titles of several of the awards were amended as "British/Irish".
Special awards include: The Attenborough Award, which goes to the British/Irish film of the year; The Philip French Award, which goes to the breakthrough British/Irish filmmaker of the year, and The Dilys Powell Award, which is awarded for excellence in cinema.
Past and present award categories include:
Awards ceremonies
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
1986–1990 winners
1986 winners
- William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa
- Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters
- Akira Kurosawa – Ran
- A Room with a View
1987 winners
- Sean Connery – The Untouchables
- Gary Oldman – Prick Up Your Ears
- Alan Bennett – Prick Up Your Ears
- Stanley Kubrick – Full Metal Jacket
- Hope and Glory
1988 winners
- Stephane Audran – Babette's Feast
- Leo McKern – Travelling North
- David Mamet – House of Games
- John Huston – The Dead
- House of Games
1989 winners
- Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot
- Christopher Hampton – Dangerous Liaisons
- Terence Davies – Distant Voices, Still Lives
- Distant Voices, Still Lives
1990 winners
- Philippe Noiret – Cinema Paradiso
- Woody Allen – Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Woody Allen – Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
1991–1996 winners
1991 winners
- Gérard Depardieu – Cyrano de Bergerac
- Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise, White Palace
- British Actor of the Year
- Alan Rickman – Close My Eyes, Truly, Madly, Deeply, Quigley Down Under, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- British Director of the Year
- Alan Parker – The Commitments
- British Screenwriter of the Year
- Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Roddy Doyle – The Commitments
- Life Is Sweet
- David Mamet – Homicide
- Ridley Scott – Thelma & Louise
- Thelma & Louise
1992 winners
- Robert Downey Jr. – Chaplin
- Judy Davis – Husbands and Wives, Barton Fink, Naked Lunch
- British Actor of the Year
- Daniel Day-Lewis – The Last of the Mohicans
- British Director of the Year
- Neil Jordan – The Crying Game
- Howards End
- British Screenwriter of the Year
- Neil Jordan – The Crying Game
- Robert Altman – The Player
- Unforgiven
- Baz Luhrmann – Strictly Ballroom
- Michael Tolkin – The Player
1993 winners
- Anthony Hopkins – The Remains of the Day
- Holly Hunter – The Piano
- British Actor of the Year
- David Thewlis – Naked
- British Actress of the Year
- Miranda Richardson – Fatale
- British Director of the Year
- Ken Loach – Raining Stones
- The Remains of the Day
- British Screenwriter of the Year
- Roddy Doyle – The Snapper
- James Ivory – The Remains of the Day
- The Piano
- Quentin Tarantino – Reservoir Dogs
- Harold Ramis, Danny Rubin – Groundhog Day
- Kate Maberly – The Secret Garden
1994 winners
- John Travolta – Pulp Fiction
- Linda Fiorentino – The Last Seduction
- British Actor of the Year
- Ralph Fiennes – Schindler's List
- British Actress of the Year
- Crissy Rock – Ladybird, Ladybird
- British Director of the Year
- Mike Newell – Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- British Producer of the Year
- Duncan Kenworthy – Four Weddings and a Funeral
- British Screenwriter of the Year
- Richard Curtis – Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Steven Spielberg – Schindler's List
- Schindler's List
- Jim Carrey – The Mask, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction
- Hugh Grant – Four Weddings and a Funeral
1995 winners
- Johnny Depp – Ed Wood, Don Juan DeMarco
- Nicole Kidman – To Die For
- British Actor of the Year
- Nigel Hawthorne – The Madness of King George
- British Actress of the Year
- Kate Winslet – Heavenly Creatures
- British Director of the Year
- Michael Radford – Il Postino: The Postman
- The Madness of King George
- British Newcomer of the Year
- Danny Boyle – Shallow Grave
- British Screenwriter of the Year
- Alan Bennett – The Madness of King George
- Peter Jackson – Heavenly Creatures
- Babe
- Paul Attanasio – Quiz Show, Disclosure
1996 winners
- Morgan Freeman – Seven
- Frances McDormand – Fargo
- British Actor of the Year
- Ian McKellen – Richard III
- Ewan McGregor – Trainspotting, Brassed Off, Emma, The Pillow Book
- British Actress of the Year
- Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies
- British Director of the Year
- Mike Leigh – Secrets & Lies
- British Newcomer of the Year
- Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves
- British Producer of the Year
- Andrew Macdonald – Trainspotting
- British Screenwriter of the Year
- Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility
- Joel Coen – Fargo
- Secrets & Lies
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – Fargo
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