A Prophet named Film of the Year by London Film Critics

A scene from Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet"

In something of a surprise, Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet (which I will be finally getting around to seeing within a week’s time) took out top honours at the recent London Film Critics awards. Bigelow took yet another director trophy for the stunning The Hurt Locker, while the two supporting powerhouses, Christoph Waltz and Mo’Nique wrestled the Actor and Actress of the Year awards away from a number of ballyhoed leading contenders in their category including Jeff Bridges, Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep and George Clooney. As wisely demonstrated by the London critics, sometimes the performance speaks for itself, lead, supporting or otherwise.

Fish Tank was the big British winner on the night, taking four wins in total including Best British Film, Best British Director (Andrea Arnold), Best British Supporting Actor (for the versatile, talented Michael Fassbender) and Best Young British Performer (for newcomer Katie Jarvis).

Full winners (thanks to In Contention) after the jump:

Film of the Year: “A Prophet”
British Film of the Year: “Fish Tank”
Foreign Language Film of the Year: “Let the Right One In”
Director of the Year: Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”
British Director of the Year: Andrea Arnold, “Fish Tank”
Actor of the Year: Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”
Actress of the Year: Mo’Nique, “Precious”
British Actor of the Year: Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
British Actress of the Year: Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
British Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender, “Fish Tank”
British Supporting Actress: Anne-Marie Duff, “Nowhere Boy”
Screenwriter of the Year: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche, “In the Loop”
Young British Performer of the Year: Katie Jarvis, “Fish Tank”
Breakthrough British Filmmaker: Duncan Jones, “Moon”
Dilys Powell Award: Quentin Tarantino
40th Anniversary Award: “Apocalypse Now”