It seems fitting that the London Film Critics Circle announced on Super Bowl weekend. In sports, you tend to root for the hometown team. At the Critics Circle awards, they celebrated one of their own giving 12 Years a Slave a sizable boost. That of course didn’t stop them from giving Alfonso Cuaron and not Steve McQueen their award for Best Director.

Award Tallies

(3) 12 Years a Slave
(2) The Selfish Giant

The Awards

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave

Best Director

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity

Best Actor

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Best Supporting Actress

Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave

Best Screenplay

Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Foreign Language Film

Blue Is the Warmest Color

Best Documentary

The Act of Killing

Best British Film

The Selfish Giant

Best British Actor

James McAvoy – Filth / Trance / Welcome to the Punch

Best British Actress

Judi Dench – Philomena

Best Young British Performer

Conner Chapman – The Selfish Giant

Best Breakthrough British Filmmaker

Jon S. Baird – Filth

Technical Achievements

Special Effects: Gravity

Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film

Gary Oldman

London Film Critics Circle Data

Year Founded: 1907
First Awards: 1980 (34)