Mad Max: Fury Road was the big winner at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards, picking up three gongs.
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road was named Film of the Year at the awards last night and George Miller was named Director of the Year. The film also celebrated a third award as Tom Hardy was named British/Irish Actor of the Year.
Hardy has had a busy year and was recognised for his performances in Mad Max: Fury Road, Legend, London Road, and The Revenant.
It was also a great night for 45 Years as it also scooped three awards; British/Irish Film of the Year, Actor of the Year and Actress of the Year for Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling.
This home success of Rampling came just days after she picked up the first Oscar nomination of her career as she was recognised in the Best Actress category.
There was more awards success for Kate Winslet as she picked up a Supporting Actress of the Year gong for her performance as Joanna Hoffman in biopic film Steve Jobs. The latest award win comes a week after she triumphed at the Golden Globes; she also picked up a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination at the end of last week.
Mark Rylance and Saoirse Ronan picked up gongs as they were recognised in the Supporting Actor Of The Year and British/Irish Actress Of The Year for their performances in Bridge of Spies and Brooklyn.
Adding to its growing list of honours in the US, Asif Kapadia's home-grown Amy Winehouse portrait Amy took the award for Documentary of the Year. Among the films it beat was The Look of Silence: Joshua Oppenheimer's follow-up to The Act of Killing was instead named Foreign Language Film of the Year.
Actor and director Kenneth Branagh was also recognised as he was presented with the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film by Judi Dench.
The full list of winners for the 36th London Critics' Circle Film Awards:
- Film Of The Year: Mad Max: Fury Road
- British/Irish Film Of The Year: 45 Years
- Foreign Language Film Of The Year: The Look of Silence
- Documentary Of The Year: Amy
- Actor Of The Year: Tom Courtenay - 45 Years
- Actress Of The Year: Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years
- Supporting Actor Of The Year: Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies
- Supporting Actress Of The Year: Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs
- Director Of The Year: George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
- Screenwriter Of The Year: Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy - Spotlight
- British/Irish Actor Of The Year: Tom Hardy - Legend, London Road, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant
- British/Irish Actress Of The Year: Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn, Lost River
- Young British/Irish Performer Of The Year: Maisie Williams - The Falling
- Philip French Award For Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker: John Maclean - Slow West
- British/Irish Short Film Of The Year: Stutterer - Benjamin Cleary
- Technical Achievement Award: Ed Lachman, cinematography - Carol
- Dilys Powell Award For Excellence In Film: Kenneth Branagh