Skyfall has won the Best Film prize at the 40th Evening Standard British Film Awards, in a ceremony at the London Film Museum on the Southbank. The paper’s editor, Sarah Sands, said the “truly big British movie, delivered with a panache Hollywood could envy” ensured that 2012 highlighted “the creativity, vision and talent of a […]
The Austrian-French co-production Amour has picked up three of the top prizes at the London Film Critics Circle Awards. It was voted the Best Film, the director Michael Haneke collected the Best Screenplay award and the veteran French actress Emmanuelle Riva was the critics’ choice for the Best Actress. Ever since Amour and fellow-French-language film […]
Peter Strickland’s critically acclaimed follow-up to his 2009 debut Katalin Varga, Berberian Sound Studio, has picked up the most prizes at the British Independent Film Awards. Its haul of four included Best Director for Strickland, Best Actor for Toby Jones, Best Production and Best Technical Achievement, for its Sound Design. Fittingly, in the film, Jones […]