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The London Film Critics' Circle is the name by which the Film Section of The Critics' Circle

The Critics' Circle

The Critics' Circle is a professional association of British critics of dance, drama, film, music, visual arts and architecture. It was established in 1913 as an offshoot of the Society of Dramatic Critics, which had been formed six years earlier but had become inactive.For many years the Circle...

is known internationally.

The word London was added because it was thought the term Critics' Circle Film Awards lacked meaning — for people in LA for example — and the Film Section 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 critic

Critic

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s. Film critics first became eligible for membership of the Circle in 1926. The Film section now has more than 120 members drawn from publications and the broadcasting media throughout the United Kingdom.

Film section members of the Critics' Circle will have worked as a critic or have written or broadcast informed analytical features or programmes about film for British publications and media for at least a year, their income mostly derived from reviewing and writing about film.

Critics' Circle Film Awards

The Critics' Circle Film Awards, instituted in 1980 and known for several years as the ALFS, 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. Since 1995 they have been a charity event in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC

NSPCC

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is a United Kingdom charity campaigning and working in child protection.-History:...

Award categories

Over time the Award categories have gradually changed, some added, some dropped. For some categories this means that winners were not necessarily declared or listed in each of the Awards year.

In 2007, following widespread objections from Irish actors and filmmakers at being nominated for "Best British" awards, it was decided that Irish filmmakers, actors and others involved in the film industry would be eligible for awards which do not have the word "British" in the title. To that end the titles of several of the awards were amended to exclude the word "British". The Attenborough Award now goes to the best "British" and/or "Irish" film of the year, while the two British Supporting Actor awards lost the word "British" so that actors who regard themselves as either British and Irish (or both) are eligible for the supporting acting awards. Since 2007, the Newcomer Award was divided into two Breakthrough Awards, one for Acting, the other for Filmmaking. Previously filmmakers and actors had competed against each other for the Newcomer award.

Past and present award categories include:

Film of the Year
Foreign Language Film of the Year
Director of the Year
Screenwriter of the Year
Actor of the Year
Actress of the Year
International Newcomer of the Year
The Attenborough Award for the Best British or Irish Film of the Year
British Director of the Year
British Screenwriter of the Year
British Producer of the Year
British Technical Achievement of the Year
British Actor of the Year
British Actress of the Year
Actor of the Year in a Supporting Role
Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role
The Dilys Powell Award
British Newcomer of the Year (now divided into two Breakthrough awards for Acting and Filmmaking)

Awards Ceremonies

(Partial list of ceremonies):

London Film Critics Circle Awards 2010
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2010
The nominees for the 31st London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2010 were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on December 20, 2010.-Actor of the Year:*Jeff Bridges – True Grit*Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2009
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2009
The 30th Critics' Circle Awards, will be given by the London Film Critics Circle on 18 February 2010, honouring the best in film for 2009.-Actor of the Year:*Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man*Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2008
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2008
The 29th Critics' Circle Awards, given by the London Film Critics Circle in February 2009, honoured the best in film for 2008.-Actor of the Year:Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler*Sean Penn - Milk*Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2007
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2007
The 28th Critics' Circle Awards, given by the London Film Critics Circle in February 2008, honoured the best in film for 2007.-Actor of the Year:Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood *Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2006
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2006
The 27th Critics' Circle Awards, given by the London Film Critics Circle in February 2007, honoured the best in film for 2006.-Actor of the Year:Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland *Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2005
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2005
The 26th Critics' Circle Awards, given by the London Film Critics Circle on February 8, 2006, honored the best in film for 2005.-Actor of the Year: Bruno Ganz - Downfall *Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2004
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2004
The 25th Critics' Circle Awards, given by the London Film Critics Circle on 9 February 2005, honored the best in film for 2004.-Actor of the Year: Jamie Foxx - Ray *Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland*Paul Giamatti - Sideways...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2003
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2003
The 24th London Film Critics' Circle Awards, held on 12 February 2004 at the Dorchester Hotel in London, honoured the best in film for 2003.-Actor of the Year:Sean Penn - Mystic River *Nicolas Cage - Adaptation*Ed Harris - The Hours...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2002
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2002
The 23rd London Film Critics' Circle Awards, held on 13 February 2003 at the Dorchester Hotel in London, honoured the best in film for 2002.-Actor of the Year: Michael Caine - The Quiet American *Al Pacino - Insomnia...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2001
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2001
The 22nd London Film Critics' Circle Awards, given by the London Film Critics Circle in 2002, honoured the best in film for 2001.-British:*Actor of the Year: Ewan McGregor — Moulin Rouge!*Actress of the Year: Judi Dench — Iris...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 1999
London Film Critics Circle Awards 1999
The 1999 London Film Critics Circle Awards, held on 2 March 2000, honoured the best filmmaking of 1999.-Winners:*Actor of the YearKevin Spacey - American Beauty*Actress of the YearAnnette Bening - American Beauty*British Director of the Year...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 1998
London Film Critics Circle Awards 1998
The 1998 London Film Critics Circle Awards, held on 4 March 1999, honoured the best filmmaking of 1998.-Actor of the Year:Jack Nicholson - As Good as It Gets *Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan*Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting...
London Film Critics Circle Awards 1997
London Film Critics Circle Awards 1997
The 1997 London Film Critics Circle Awards, held on 5 March 1998, honoured the best filmmaking of 1997.-Winners:*Actor of the YearGeoffrey Rush - Shine*Actress of the YearClaire Danes - Romeo + Juliet*Director of the Year...

1986 Winners

Actor of the Year (tie)

William Hurt

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- Kiss of the Spider Woman

Bob Hoskins

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- Mona Lisa

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Screenwriter of the Year

Woody Allen

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- Hannah and Her Sisters

Hannah and Her Sisters

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Director of the Year

Akira Kurosawa

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- Ran

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Film of the Year

A Room with a View

A Room with a View (film)

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1987 Winners

Actor of the Year (tie)

Sean Connery

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- The Untouchables

Gary Oldman

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- Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears

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Screenwriter of the Year

Alan Bennett

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- Prick Up Your Ears

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Director of the Year

Stanley Kubrick

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- Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket

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Film of the Year

Hope and Glory

1988 Winners

Actor of the Year (tie)

Stephane Audran

Stéphane Audran

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- Babette's Feast

Babette's Feast

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Leo McKern

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- Traveling North

Screenwriter of the Year

David Mamet

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- House of Games

House of Games

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Director of the Year

John Huston

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- The Dead

Film of the Year

House of Games

1989 Winners

Actor of the Year

Daniel Day-Lewis

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- My Left Foot

My Left Foot (film)

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Screenwriter of the Year

Christopher Hampton

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- Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

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Film of the Year

Distant Voices, Still Lives

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1990 Winners

Actor of the Year

Philippe Noiret

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- Cinema Paradiso

Screenwriter of the Year

Woody Allen

- Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crimes and Misdemeanors

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Director of the Year

Woody Allen

- Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Film of the Year

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1991 Winners

Actor of the Year

Gerard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu

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- Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film)

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Actress of the Year

Susan Sarandon

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- Thelma & Louise, White Palace

British Actor of the Year

Alan Rickman

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- Close My Eyes

Close My Eyes (film)

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, Truly, Madly, Deeply

Truly, Madly, Deeply

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, Quigley Down Under

Quigley Down Under

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, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

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British Director of the Year

Alan Parker

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- The Commitments

The Commitments (film)

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British Screenwriter of the Year

Dick Clement

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, Ian La Frenais

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, Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle

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- The Commitments

The Commitments (film)

British Film of the Year

Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet (film)

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Screenwriter of the Year

David Mamet

- Homicide

Homicide (1991 film)

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Director of the Year

Ridley Scott

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- Thelma & Louise

Film of the Year

Thelma & Louise

1992 Winners

Actor of the Year

Robert Downey Jr.

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- Chaplin

Actress of the Year

Judy Davis

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- Husbands and Wives

Husbands and Wives

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, Barton Fink

Barton Fink

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, Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch (film)

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British Actor of the Year

Daniel Day-Lewis

- The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)

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British Director of the Year

Neil Jordan

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- The Crying Game

The Crying Game

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British Film of the Year

Howards End

Howards End (film)

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British Screenwriter of the Year

Neil Jordan

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- The Crying Game

The Crying Game

Director of the Year

Robert Altman

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- The Player

The Player

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Film of the Year

Unforgiven

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Newcomer of the Year

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- Strictly Ballroom

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Screenwriter of the Year

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- The Player

The Player

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1993 Winners

Actor of the Year

Anthony Hopkins

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- The Remains of the Day

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Actress of the Year

Holly Hunter

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- The Piano

The Piano

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British Actor of the Year

David Thewlis

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- Naked

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British Actress of the Year

Miranda Richardson

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- Fatale

British Director of the Year

Ken Loach

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- Raining Stones

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British Film of the Year

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day (film)

British Screenwriter of the Year

Roddy Doyle

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- The Snapper

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Director of the Year

James Ivory

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- The Remains of the Day

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Film of the Year

The Piano

Newcomer of the Year

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- Reservoir Dogs

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Screenwriter of the Year

Harold Ramis

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, Danny Rubin

Danny Rubin

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- Groundhog Day

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Special Award

Kate Maberly

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- The Secret Garden

1994 Winners

Actor of the Year

John Travolta

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- Pulp Fiction

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Actress of the Year

Linda Fiorentino

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- The Last Seduction

The Last Seduction

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British Actor of the Year

Ralph Fiennes

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- Schindler's List

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British Actressof the Year

Crissy Rock

Crissy Rock is an English actress and author, most notable for her role as Maggie Conlan in the 1994 film Ladybird, Ladybird and as Janey York in Benidorm whom she played from 2007, until 2011 when she was axed from the show...

- Ladybird, Ladybird

Ladybird, Ladybird (film)

Ladybird, Ladybird is a 1994 British drama film directed by Ken Loach.It is a drama-documentary about a British woman's dispute with Social Services over the care and custody of her four children. The title comes from a traditional nursery verse...

British Director of the Year

Mike Newell

Mike Newell (director)

Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television. After the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, Newell became the third most commercially successful British director in recent years, behind Christopher Nolan...

- Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant...

British Film of the Year

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant...

British Producer of the Year

Duncan Kenworthy

Duncan H. Kenworthy, OBE is a British film and television producer, and co-founder of the production company DNA Films. He is currently a producer at Toledo Productions....

- Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant...

British Screenwriter of the Year

Richard Curtis

Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director, known primarily for romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually and The Girl in the Café, as well as the hit...

- Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant...

Director of the Year

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

- Schindler's List

Schindler's List

Film of the Year

Schindler's List

Newcomer of the Year

Jim Carrey

James Eugene "Jim" Carrey is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and has also been nominated on four occasions. Carrey began comedy in 1979, performing at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, Ontario...

- The Mask

The Mask (film)

The Mask is a 1994 American superhero comedy film based on a series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. This film was directed by Chuck Russell, and produced by Dark Horse Entertainment and New Line Cinema, and originally released to movie theatres on July 29, 1994 through New Line...

, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Jim Carrey. It co-stars Courteney Cox, Tone Loc, Sean Young and former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino....

Screenwriter of the Year

Quentin Tarantino

- Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction (film)

Special Award

Hugh Grant

Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His films have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's...

- Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant...

1995 Winners

Actor of the Year

Johnny Depp

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is an American actor, producer and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol...

- Ed Wood

Ed Wood (film)

Ed Wood is a 1994 American comedy-drama biopic directed and produced by Tim Burton, and starring Johnny Depp as cult filmmaker Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau...

, Don Juan DeMarco

Don Juan DeMarco

Don Juan DeMarco is a 1995 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Johnny Depp as John Arnold DeMarco, a man who believes himself to be Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and domino mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Marlon Brando's character, Dr. Jack...

Actress of the Year

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...

- To Die For

To Die For

To Die For is a 1995 dark comedy film, made in a mockumentary format, directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Buck Henry, based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Maynard, which in turn was based on the Pamela Smart story. It stars Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, and Joaquin Phoenix...

British Actor of the Year

Nigel Hawthorne

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. For this role he won four BAFTA Awards during the 1980s in the...

- The Madness of King George

The Madness of King George

The Madness of King George is a 1994 film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own play, The Madness of George III. It tells the true story of George III's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his son, the Prince of Wales, particularly...

British Actress of the Year

Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress and occasional singer. She has received multiple awards and nominations. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader...

- Heavenly Creatures

Heavenly Creatures

Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his wife Fran Walsh, about the notorious 1954 Parker-Hulme murder case in Christchurch, New Zealand. Filmed on location in Christchurch, it features Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet in their screen debuts...

British Director of the Year

Michael Radford

Michael Radford is an English film director and screenwriter.-Early life and career:Radford was born on 24 February 1946, in New Delhi, India, to a British father and an Austrian Jewish mother. He was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford...

- Il Postino

Il Postino

Il Postino is a 1994 Italian film directed by Michael Radford. The film was originally released in the U.S. as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title...

British Film of the Year

The Madness of King George

British Newcomer of the Year

Danny Boyle

Daniel "Danny" Boyle is an English filmmaker and producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Trainspotting. For Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle won numerous awards in 2008, including the Academy Award for Best Director...

- Shallow Grave

Shallow Grave

-Track listing:# Leftfield – "Shallow Grave" – 4:38# Simon Boswell – "Shallow Grave Theme" – 3:30# Nina Simone – "My Baby Just Cares for Me" – 3:38# Simon Boswell – "Laugh Riot" – 3:02# Leftfield – "Release the Dubs" – 5:45...

British Screenwriter of the Year

Alan Bennett

- The Madness of King George

The Madness of King George

Director of the Year

Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy , adapted from the novel by J. R. R...

- Heavenly Creatures

Heavenly Creatures

Film of the Year

Babe

Babe (film)

Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by Chris Noonan. It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by Dick King-Smith and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog...

Screenwriter of the Year

Paul Attanasio

Paul Albert Attanasio is an American screenwriter and producer of film and television, who is currently an executive producer on the television series House.-Life and career:...

- Quiz Show

Quiz Show

Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film produced and directed by Robert Redford. Adapted by Paul Attanasio from Richard Goodwin's memoir Remembering America, the film is based upon the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s...

, Disclosure

Disclosure (film)

Disclosure is a 1994 thriller directed by Barry Levinson, starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. It is based on Michael Crichton's novel of the same name.The cast also includes Donald Sutherland, Rosemary Forsyth and Dennis Miller...

1996 Winners

Actor of the Year

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won...

- Seven

Seven (film)

Seven is a 1995 American thriller film, which also contains horror and neo-noir elements, directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It was distributed by New Line Cinema and stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, R...

Actress of the Year

Frances McDormand

Frances Louise McDormand is an American film and stage actress. She has starred in a number of films, including her Academy Award-winning performance as Marge Gunderson in Fargo, in 1996...

- Fargo

Fargo (film)

Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy-crime film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant police chief who investigates a series of homicides, William H...

British Actor of the Year

Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction...

- Richard III

Richard III (1995 film)

Richard III is a 1995 drama film adapted from William Shakespeare's play of the same name, starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, John Wood and Dominic West....

Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish actor. He has had success in mainstream, indie, and art house films. McGregor is perhaps best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting , young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy , and poet Christian in the...

- Trainspotting

Trainspotting (film)

Trainspotting is a 1996 British satirical/drama film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh. The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life...

, Brassed Off

Brassed Off

Brassed Off is a 1996 British film written and directed by Mark Herman. The film, a British-American co-production made between Channel Four Films, Miramax Films and Prominent Films, is about the troubles faced by a colliery brass band, following the closure of their pit...

, Emma

Emma (1996 film)

Emma is a 1996 period film based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Directed by Douglas McGrath, it stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Toni Collette, and Ewan McGregor.- Synopsis :...

, The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book (film)

The Pillow Book is a 1996 film by United Kingdom director Peter Greenaway, which stars Vivian Wu as Nagiko, a Japanese model in search of pleasure and new cultural experience from various lovers...

British Actress of the Year

Brenda Blethyn

Brenda Anne Blethyn, OBE is an English actress who has worked in theatre, television and film. Blethyn has received two Academy Award nominations, two SAG Award nominations, two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one...

- Secrets & Lies

British Director of the Year

Mike Leigh

Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s...

- Secrets & Lies

British Newcomer of the Year

Emily Watson

Emily Watson is an English actress. She gave an acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves.- Early life :...

- Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it tells the story of an unusual young woman, Bess McNeill, and of the love she has for Jan, her husband. The film is an international co-production led by Lars...

British Producer of the Year

Andrew Macdonald

Andrew Macdonald (producer)

Andrew Macdonald is a Scottish film producer, best known for his collaborations with screenwriter John Hodge and director Danny Boyle, including Shallow Grave , Trainspotting and 28 Days Later ....

- Trainspotting

Trainspotting (film)

British Screenwriter of the Year

Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the British drama Howards End...

- Sense and Sensibility

Director of the Year

Joel Coen - Fargo

Fargo (film)

Film of the Year

Secrets & Lies

Screenwriter of the Year

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - Fargo

Fargo (film)

External links

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