The 30th annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards hosted by actor Jason Isaacs are set to receive and honour the very best of British and International film talent this Thursday.
Renowned film director Quentin Tarantino will be in attendance to pick up the London Critics’ Circle’s highest honour, the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Cinema.
Joining Tarantino on the red carpet will be the cream of filmmaking talent including Nick Laws, Katie Jarvis, Kierston Wareing, Andrea Arnold for Fish Tank, which also starred Michael Fassenbender from Inglourious Basterds. Read our Fish Tank review http://bit.ly/9xZUaP
The stars of John Lennon teenage drama sensation Nowhere Boy – Aaron Johnson and Anne-Marie Duff alongside director Sam Taylor-Wood will be making Liverpool proud.
Also in attendance will be Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga); Christian McKay (Me and Orson Welles); George MacKay (The Boys are Back); Andy Serkis (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll); Carey Mulligan, Finola Dwyer, Nick Hornby, Olivia Williams (An Education) and Colin Firth ( A Single Man).
Daniel Barber (Harry Brown); Tomas Alfredsson (Let the Right One In); John Hurt (44 Inch Chest); Tahar Rahim (A Prophet); Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker); Peter Capaldi, Armando Iannucci (In the Loop); Timothy Spall (The Damned United); Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) and Tom Felton to name but a few.
Since its inception in 1980, the awards have become one of the most highly-esteemed and glamorous ceremonies in the film calendar.
In recent years guests and award winners have included Sienna Miller, Peter Mullan, Sir Tom Courtenay, Martin Scorsese, Daniel Craig, Emily Mortimer, Romola Garai, Danny Boyle, James McAvoy, Vanessa Redgrave, Thandie Newton, Sir Michael Caine, Kevin Spacey, Emma Thompson, Dev Patel, Marion Cotillard, Ewan McGregor, Lord Attenborough, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, John Hurt, Anne Reid, Julie Walters and Albert Finney.
To mark the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the awards, the Critics’ Circle is introducing a special award selected from the best of its winners since 1980.
The 30th Anniversary Award will go to Francis Ford Coppola’s highly acclaimed Apocalypse Now and be presented by legendary film critic Barry Norman.
The Critics’ Circle is the oldest critics’ organisation in the world and the London Film Critics Awards ceremony, supporting the NSPCC for 15 years, is the only one of its kind that benefits a charity.