{"id":2000,"date":"2010-02-20T13:42:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T12:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2011-08-03T10:41:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T10:41:56","slug":"london-critics-circle-awards-pick-some-real-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=2000","title":{"rendered":"London Critics’ Circle awards pick some real winners"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Best young performer Katie Jarvis in best British film 'Fish Tank'<\/p><\/div>\n

By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n

My votes had little bearing on the outcome at the London Critics\u2019 Circle Film Awards for movies released in 2009 but there\u2019s no argument that several winners deserved their prizes, especially \u201cFish Tank.\u201d\u00a0It claimed honors as best British film plus Andrea Arnold as best British director, Michael Fassbender as best British supporting actor and Katie Jarvis, as best young performer for her outstanding job as an angry and confused teenager.<\/p>\n

Arnold and Fassbender had my vote but I picked Jane Campion\u2019s beautiful \u201cBright Star\u201d as best British film and wanted to draw attention to young performer Bill Milner as Ian Dury\u2019s son in \u201cSex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.\u201d I thought Katie Jarvis deserved the best British actress award. The film is out on DVD now and due on Blu-ray on March 22 from Artificial Eye.<\/p>\n

Others in which the majority of the Critics\u2019 Circle agreed with me were \u201cMoon\u201d director Duncan Jones as breakthrough British filmmaker and Kathryn Bigelow as best director for \u201cThe Hurt Locker.”<\/p>\n

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Niels Arestrup and Tahar Rahim in best film 'A Prophet'<\/p><\/div>\n

Jacques Audiard\u2019s French prison drama \u201cA Prophet\u201d was named film of the year whereas I had chosen Jason Reitman\u2019s \u201cUp In the Air\u201d and voted for Audiard\u2019s film in the foreign-language category, which was won by Swedish vampire film \u201cLet the Right One In\u201d.<\/p>\n

My votes cut no ice for George Clooney as best actor for \u201cUp In the Air,\u201d Abbie Cornish as best actress for \u201cBright Star,\u201d Andy Serkis as best British actor for \u201cSex & Drugs & Rock & Roll,\u201d Kierston Wareing for best supporting actress for \u201cFish Tank,\u201d and Thomas Bidegain and Jacques Audiard for the screenwriting award for \u201cA Prophet.\u201d<\/p>\n

I voted for Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s 1980 classic \u201cApocalypse Now\u201d and it was duly named the best of the Critics\u2019 Circle\u2019s film winners over the last 30 years. I was still at the Berlin International Film Festival when the awards were handed out on Thursday. Quentin Tarantino picked up the Dilys Powell Award for outstanding achievement, but I wasn\u2019t asked about that.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s The Guardian\u2019s report on the London Critics\u2019 Circle 2009 Awards<\/a> with all the winners plus my review of ‘Fish Tank’ <\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0more about the film at Artificial Eye<\/a>. Here’s more about ‘A Prophet’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ray Bennett My votes had little bearing on the outcome at the London Critics\u2019 Circle Film Awards for movies released in 2009 but there\u2019s no argument that several winners deserved their prizes, especially \u201cFish Tank.\u201d\u00a0It claimed honors as best … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[27,87,324,751,752,797,860],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-film","tag-a-prophet","tag-fish-tank","tag-andrea-arnold","tag-kathryn-bigelow","tag-katie-jarvis","tag-london-film-critics-circle-2009-awards","tag-michael-fassbender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}