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Awards season is here: that time when people you thought you knew start using words like ‘prognostication’ and wondering aloud whether it might ‘finally be Ridley Scott’s year’.
The 42nd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards is the next in the stepping stones to the Academy Awards in late March and offered another big hint that Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog will be the film to beat this year.
The Power of the Dog won Film of the Year, while its stars, Benedict Cumberbatch and Kodi Smit-McPhee, won Actor and Supporting Actor of the Year respectively, and Jane Campion won Director of the Year.
This is Campion’s second Film of the Year win at the UK critics body’s awards ceremony: The Piano triumphed in 1994.
Tilda Swinton, meanwhile, was anointed 2022’s capo di tutti capos – aka British/Irish Actress of the Year – for her performances in Memoria, The Souvenir Part II and The French Dispatch.
Olivia Colman won Best Actress for The Lost Daughter to compensate for last week’s Baftas snub, while Ruth Negga picked up Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rebecca Hall’s Passing.
Other winners include Questlove’s Summer of Soul ...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised for Best Documentary, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s drama Drive My Car for Foreign Language Film of the Year and Screenwriter of the Year (for Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe), and Andrew Garfield as British/Irish Actor of the Year. His work includes Tick, Tick... Boom!, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Spider-Man: No Way Home (spoiler!), and Mainstream.
The winners in full:
FILM OF THE YEAR
The Power of the Dog
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
Drive My Car
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
Summer of Soul ...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised
BRITISH/IRISH FILM OF THE YEAR (The Attenborough Award)
The Souvenir Part II
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe – Drive My Car
ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Ruth Negga – Passing
SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
BRITISH/IRISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Tilda Swinton for her body of work in 2021: including Memoria, The Souvenir Part II, and The French Dispatch
BRITISH/IRISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Andrew Garfield for his body of work in 2021: including Tick, Tick... Boom!, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Mainstream
The Philip French Award
BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH/IRISH FILMMAKER
Rebecca Hall – Passing
YOUNG BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER
Woody Norman – C'mon C'mon
BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM
Play It Safe
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer, visual effects
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