# London Film Critics Circle Awards 2012

33rd London Film Critics Circle Awards
20 January 2013
Film of the Year:
Amour
British Film of the Year:
Berberian Sound Studio
The 33rd London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2012, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 20 January 2013.

## Winners and nominees
### Film of the Year

Amour
* Argo
* Beasts of the Southern Wild
* Life of Pi
* The Master

### British Film of the Year

Berberian Sound Studio
* The Imposter
* Les Misérables
* Sightseers
* Skyfall

### Foreign Language Film of the Year

Rust and Bone • France/China
* Amour • Austria/France/Germany
* Holy Motors • France/Germany
* Once Upon a Time in Anatolia • Turkey/Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Tabu • Portugal

### Documentary of the Year

The Imposter
* London: The Modern Babylon
* Nostalgia for the Light
* The Queen of Versailles
* Searching for Sugar Man

### 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
* Chris Terrio - Argo
* Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
* Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
* Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty

### Breakthrough British Filmmaker

Alice Lowe and Steve Oram - Sightseers
* Ben Drew - Ill Manors
* Sally El Hosaini - My Brother the Devil
* Dexter Fletcher - Wild Bill
* Bart Layton - The Imposter

### Actor of the Year

Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
* Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
* Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables
* 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 Misérables
* Amy Adams - The 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 and Your Sister's Sister
* Judi Dench - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Skyfall
* Alice Lowe - Sightseers
* Helen Mirren - Hitchcock

### Young British Performer of the Year

Tom Holland - The Impossible
* Samantha Barks - Les Misérables
* Jack Reynor - What Richard Did

### Technical Achievement

Life of Pi - Bill Westenhofer, visual effects
* Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran, costumes
* Argo - William Goldenberg, film editing
* Beasts of the Southern Wild - Ben Richardson, cinematography
* Berberian Sound Studio - Joakim Sundström and Stevie Haywood, sound design
* Holy Motors - Bernard Floch, make-up
* Life of Pi - Claudio Miranda, cinematography
* The Master - Jack Fisk and David Crank, production design
* My Brother the Devil - David Raedeker, cinematography
* Rust and Bone - Alexandre Desplat, music

### Dilys Powell Award

* Helena Bonham Carter