The Brutalist takes home best film award at London Critics’ Circle Film Awards
The Brutalist takes home best film award at London Critics’ Circle Film Awards
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Conclave, Nickel Boys, and A Real Pain also took home major prizes. Brady Corbet’s period drama film The Brutalist has won the best picture at the London Critics’ Circle awards. Held at the May Fair Hotel and hosted by Mark Kermode, the event saw 15 films honoured across 18 categories. In a video message, Corbet thanked Universal Pictures and the Critics Circle for the award, adding: “I’m genuinely touched by the recognition – it means a lot to us.”.
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However, best picture was The Brutalist’s only award this evening, with best director going to RaMell Ross for his adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys, which also won the technical achievement award for Jomo Fray’s cinematography. “I feel very delighted to receive this, but I think in my heart I scratch my head about the concept [of] there being winners when you are acting,” Fiennes said at the ceremony.
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“I look at the wonderful work of my fellow nominees, Daniel [Craig], Adrien [Brody], Timothée [Chalamet], Colman [Domingo], I’m blown away. I’m moved by their artistry and the depth in the way they inhabit their characters. So I feel honoured to be included with them, among them.”. Marianne Jean-Baptiste won actor of the year for her role in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, while Saoirse Ronan took home British/Irish performer of the year for her work in The Outrun and Blitz.
Indian director Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light won the award for foreign language film of the year, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl won the animated feature of the year prize, and documentary No Other Land, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, took home documentary of the year. Madison has also been nominated for best actress at the Academy Awards, set to be held on 2 March. The 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards were voted on by the 210 members of the Film Section of the Critics’ Circle, the UK’s longest standing and most prestigious critics’ organisation. Films are eligible if they are released in UK cinemas or on streaming services between mid-February 2024 and mid-February 2025.
