London Film Critics' Circle Names The Zone Of Interest Best Film

Tonight the The Zone of Interest was named Film of the Year.

The film also took prizes for director and the mix of music and sound. Andrew Haigh‘s fantastical drama All of Us Strangers for British/Irish Film of the Year, with Andrew Scott named Actor of the Year and co-star Paul Mescal winning British/Irish Performer for his body of work in 2023.

Actress of the Year went to Emma Stone for Poor Things, while ing performance awards were won by Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers and Charles Melton for May December.

Celine Song’s Past Lives was named Foreign-Language Film of the Year, while Hayao Miyazaki‘s The Boy and the Heron won the new Animated Film award.

Jeffrey Wright took the stage to receive the prestigious Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film, presented to him by American Fiction director Cord Jefferson.

Mia McKenna-Bruce received the group’s first international Breakthrough Performance award for How to Have Sex, and the film’s writer-director Molly Manning Walker won the Award for British/Irish Breakthrough Filmmaker.

FILM OF THE YEAR
The Zone of Interest (A24)

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR

Past Lives (StudioCanal)

DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
20 Days in Mariupol (Dogwoof)

ANIMATED FILM OF THE YEAR
The Boy and the Heron (Elysian)

DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest (A24)

SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Justine Triet & Arthur Harari – Anatomy of a Fall (Picturehouse)

ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Emma Stone – Poor Things (Searchlight)

ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)

ING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers (Universal)

ING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Charles Melton – May December (Sky)

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Mia McKenna-Bruce – How to Have Sex (Mubi)

THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: BRITISH/IRISH FILM OF THE YEAR
All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)

THE PHILIP FRENCH AWARD: BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH/IRISH FILMMAKER
Molly Manning Walker – How to Have Sex (Mubi)

BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR (for body of work)
Paul Mescal – All of Us Strangers (Searchlight), God’s Creatures (BFI), Foe (Metfilm), Carmen (Miracle)

YOUNG BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Lola Campbell – Scrapper (Picturehouse)

BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR
The Veiled City – Natalie Cubides-Brady, director

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Zone of Interest – music & sound, Mica Levi & Johnnie Burn (A24)