Awards for Fish Tank

1. British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), 2009, Andrea Arnold Katie Jarvis

2. Cannes Film Festival, 2009, Andrea Arnold

3. Chicago International Film Festival, 2009, Gold Plaque Michael Fassbender Andrea Arnold

4. Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2009, Best British Performance, Katie Jarvis

5. Motovun Film Festival, 2009, FIPRESCI Prize, Andrea Arnoldια

6. Norwegian International Film Festival, 2009, Norwegian Film Critics, Andrea Arnold

I don't know what this is, but Fish Tank won:

http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2010/02/01/the-last-ever-south-bank-show-awards/

The Last Ever South Bank Show Awards

February 1, 2010 by Jez Sands

The South Bank Show Awards were presented last night at the Dorchester Hotel in London.

The awards ceremony, presented as ever by Melvyn Bragg who has fronted the show since its inception, marks the end of the of the South Bank Show which has been running since 1978 and has racked up more than 110 awards (including 12 BAFTAs).

FILM (presented by Rachel Weisz)

Fish Tank – Andrea Arnold’s second film set on an Essex council estate, featuring an incredible performance by newcomer Katie Jarvis.
An Education
The Damned United

http://www.new-years-eve-manchester.co.uk/duff-and-serkis-scoop-film-awards/

Duff and Serkis scoop film awards

Posted on February 9th, 2010

Fish Tank

Gritty drama Fish Tank has taken the best film prize at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

The film, by Oscar and Bafta winner Andrea Arnold, features newcomer Katie Jarvis as a teenager on an Essex council estate.

Annie-Marie Duff won best actress for Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, beating Carey Mulligan who is Oscar-nominated for her role in An Education.

Andy Serkis won best actor for his Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

Veteran director and cinematographer Nicolas Roeg won a special award for his contribution to film.

He was honoured for his work including Walkabout, The Man Who Fell To Earth, and Don't Look Now. The award was presented at the London Film Museum on Monday by Walkabout star Jenny Agutter.

Sacha Baron Cohen won the Peter Sellers Award for comedy for his alter-ego, the Austrian fashion reporter Bruno. Baron Cohen won the same award in 2006 for Borat.

Revenge saga

Peter Capaldi in In The Loop

Best film Fish Tank is the latest film from Andrea Arnold, who won a Bafta for her 2006 debut Red Road. She won an Oscar for her short film Wasp in 2004. Fish Tank took the jury prize at Cannes in 2009.

The story centres on a feisty young Essex girl (Katie Jarvis) whose life is dramatically altered by the arrival of her mother's new boyfriend, played by Hunger star Michael Fassbender.

Jarvis was cast after being spotted having a row with her boyfriend at a railway station in Essex.

However, Jarvis was beaten to the role of best newcomer by Peter Strickland for his debut film Katalin Varga.

Strickland wrote and financed the revenge saga himself, and then moved from Reading to Romania to direct it.

The technical achievement award went to Barry Ackroyd for his cinematography in Iraq bomb disposal drama The Hurt Locker.

Political satire In The Loop took best screenplay, and Anvil! The story of Anvil won best documentary.

The awards are judged by five film critics, including Derek Malcolm and the Evening Standard's Andrew O'Hagan.

O'Hagan said: "This has been the best year for film in at least a decade. At every level of the business, from the poetic, independent feel of a great film like Fish Tank to the beautiful, humane brilliance of Disney Pixar's Up, there has been a flourishing in the cinematic arts that has everyone excited."

http://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/4997105.Top_award_for_Katie_s_film/

Top award for Katie's film

2:45pm Tuesday 9th February 2010

A FILM starring a Tilbury actress has scooped the top prize at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

Fish Tank, a gritty drama about a young girl growing up on a tough estate in Dartford, picked up the award for best film.

Katie Jarvis, 18, hadn’t acted before she was picked for the starring role of 15-year-old Mia.

She was discovered by a casting agent who spotted her in the midst of a row across the platform of Tilbury Town railway station with her boyfriend.

The film, directed by BAFTA award winner Andrea Arnold, tells the story of how Mia’s life is turned upside down when her heavy drinking mother, played by Leigh actress Kierston Wareingk, brings home a new boyfriend – Inglorious Basterd’s Michael Fassbender.

Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw said: “Jarvis has given a wonderfully honest and open performance to be compared with David Bradley in Kes, or Emilie Dequenne in the Dardenne brothers’ Rosetta. Her relationship with Fassbender is what gives the film its beating heart.”

The young mum, who now lives in Dagenham, was also nominated for the best new comer award, but missed out to Peter Strickland for this debut film Katalin Varga.

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/Anne+Marie+Duff-8192.html

Anne Marie Duff Wins At Evening Standard Awards

Today 10:36

It was a great night for British cinema as Anne-Marie Duff and Andy Serkis took the acting prizes at the Evening Standard Film Awards in London.

Duff took on the role John Lennon's mother in the critically acclaimed Nowhere Boy and she saw off competition from Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan for An Education and Kelly Macdonald for The Merry Gentleman to win Best Actress.

The actress is pregnant with her first child with husband James McAvoy and she thanked him during her speech saying: "I'd really like to be Mrs McAvoy for a minute and say thank you for seriously having to live with a flame-haired broken-hearted banjo player for quite some time."

Best actor was a tough category with Tom Hardy, Christian McKay, Alex McQueen and Andy Serkis all nominated.

But it was the Lord of the Rings actor who triumphed for his performance as Ian Dury in another biopic picture Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

The actor dedicated his award to Dury during his speech: "Ian wherever you are, this is for you."

After great critical acclaim on the festival circuit it was Andrea Arnold's gritty movie Fish Tank that took Best Film, seeing off Bright Star and Helen.

The movie sees a change in the life of teenager Mia when her mother brings home a new boyfriend, played by Michael Fassbender.

The film won rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival throwing it's teenage star Kate Jarvis into the spotlight.

Sacha Baron Cohen made a rare awards appearance to pick up the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy
for Bruno. Ricky Gervais and Peter Capaldi were also nominated for The Invention of Lying and In The Loop.
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Sacha Gervasi won the award for Best Documentary for Anvil! The Story of Anvil which followed the Canadian rock band.

There was success for comedy movie In The Loop as Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche picked up the award for Best Screenplay.

Filmmaker Peter Strickland's work on movie Katalin Varga was recognised as he took home the Most Promising Newcomer.

List of winners:

Best film - Fish Tank

Best actor - Andy Serkis - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Best actress - Anne-Marie Duff - Nowhere Boy

London Film Museum award for technical achievement - Barry Ackroyd cinematographer - The Hurt Locker

Best screenplay - Jesse Armstrong/Simon Blackwell/Armando Iannucci/Tony Roche - In the Loop

Most promising newcomer - Peter Strickland for his direction and screenplay of Katalin Varga

Peter Sellers award for comedy - Sacha Baron Cohen - Bruno

Best documentary - Anvil! The Story of Anvil - Sacha Gervasi

Alexander Walker special award - Nicolas Roeg for his contribution to film.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8504400.stm


Duff and Serkis scoop Standard film awards
By Tim Masters
Entertainment correspondent, BBC News

Anne-Marie Duff and Andy Serkis have won the best acting prizes at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

Duff took the best actress award for her role as John Lennon's mother in Nowhere Boy, beating Carey Mulligan who is Oscar-nominated for An Education.

Andy Serkis won best actor for his role as Ian Dury in the punk biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

Gritty drama Fish Tank, by Oscar and Bafta winner Andrea Arnold, took the best film prize.

The awards took place at the London Film Museum on Monday night.

There was a tense moment when Duff, who is expecting her first child with her husband James McAvoy, slipped as she climbed onto the podium to accept her award.

Duff thanked McAvoy, who was in the audience, for allowing her to take her work "far too seriously".

She said: "I'd really like to be Mrs McAvoy for a minute and say thank you for seriously having to live with a flame-haired broken-hearted banjo player for quite some time."

Duff was one of several actresses to slip on the podium, so Andy Serkis made a joke of it and threw himself down the stairs as he went to collect his best actor gong.

Serkis dedicated his award to Dury, saying: "Ian wherever you are, this is for you."

Serkis told the BBC that the film had been getting a "great response" from hardcore Dury fans.

"It's been a really extraordinary job from the word go - it chimes in with the 10 year anniversary of Ian's death this year.

"It's really great that people start to investigate his music once again - that's actually one of the joys of it."

Veteran director and cinematographer Nicolas Roeg won a special award for his contribution to film.

He was honoured for his work including Walkabout, The Man Who Fell To Earth, and Don't Look Now.

The award was presented by Walkabout star Jenny Agutter, who told the BBC afterwards: "I think he's a brilliant film-maker - you can't help but be affected by the work that he does. He always creates something that is completely different."

Sacha Baron Cohen won the Peter Sellers Award for comedy for his alter-ego, the Austrian fashion reporter Bruno. He received the award from the director and Monty Python star Terry Gilliam.

Baron Cohen, who appeared as himself rather than as one of his comic personas, described how he would smuggle himself into cinemas as a boy to watch Monty Python films.

Other guests at the ceremony included Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, Sarah Brown, Steve Coogan and Eva Green.

Revenge saga

Best film Fish Tank is the latest film from Andrea Arnold, who won a Bafta for her 2006 debut Red Road. She won an Oscar for her short film Wasp in 2004. Fish Tank took the jury prize at Cannes in 2009.

The story centres on a feisty young Essex girl (Katie Jarvis) whose life is dramatically altered by the arrival of her mother's new boyfriend, played by Hunger star Michael Fassbender.

"I'm delighted. It's a huge honour," Arnold told the BBC.

"It's wonderful for the film and all the people who worked hard on the film, but I'd happily sneak away…

"I don't feel any different now to when I did five years ago. It doesn't matter how many awards you get, it still feels like a massive struggle and a challenge to find the truth of what you're doing."
Fish Tank
Fish Tank star Katie Jarvis was spotted by talent scout at a railway station

Arnold said she is now starting pre-production on her new project, an adaptation of Wuthering Heights to be shot on location in Yorkshire.

Fish Tank's lead actress Jarvis was beaten to the prize for best newcomer by Peter Strickland for his debut film Katalin Varga.

Strickland wrote and financed the revenge saga himself, and then moved from Reading to Romania to direct it.

The technical achievement award went to Barry Ackroyd for his cinematography in Iraq bomb disposal drama The Hurt Locker.

Political satire In The Loop took best screenplay, and Anvil! The story of Anvil won best documentary.

The awards are judged by five film critics, including Derek Malcolm and the Evening Standard's Andrew O'Hagan.

O'Hagan said: "This has been the best year for film in at least a decade. At every level of the business, from the poetic, independent feel of a great film like Fish Tank to the beautiful, humane brilliance of Disney Pixar's Up, there has been a flourishing in the cinematic arts that has everyone excited."

http://www.tonightinmycity.com/duff-and-serkis-scoop-film-awards/

Duff and Serkis scoop film awards

Fish Tank

Gritty drama Fish Tank has taken the best film prize at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

The film, by Oscar and Bafta winner Andrea Arnold, features newcomer Katie Jarvis as a teenager on an Essex council estate.

Annie-Marie Duff won best actress for Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, beating Carey Mulligan who is Oscar-nominated for her role in An Education.

Andy Serkis won best actor for his Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

Veteran director and cinematographer Nicolas Roeg won a special award for his contribution to film.

He was honoured for his work including Walkabout, The Man Who Fell To Earth, and Don’t Look Now. The award was presented at the London Film Museum on Monday by Walkabout star Jenny Agutter.

Sacha Baron Cohen won the Peter Sellers Award for comedy for his alter-ego, the Austrian fashion reporter Bruno. Baron Cohen won the same award in 2006 for Borat.

Revenge saga

Peter Capaldi in In The Loop

Best film Fish Tank is the latest film from Andrea Arnold, who won a Bafta for her 2006 debut Red Road. She won an Oscar for her short film Wasp in 2004. Fish Tank took the jury prize at Cannes in 2009.

The story centres on a feisty young Essex girl (Katie Jarvis) whose life is dramatically altered by the arrival of her mother’s new boyfriend, played by Hunger star Michael Fassbender.

Jarvis was cast after being spotted having a row with her boyfriend at a railway station in Essex.

However, Jarvis was beaten to the role of best newcomer by Peter Strickland for his debut film Katalin Varga.

Strickland wrote and financed the revenge saga himself, and then moved from Reading to Romania to direct it.

The technical achievement award went to Barry Ackroyd for his cinematography in Iraq bomb disposal drama The Hurt Locker.

Political satire In The Loop took best screenplay, and Anvil! The story of Anvil won best documentary.

The awards are judged by five film critics, including Derek Malcolm and the Evening Standard’s Andrew O’Hagan.

O’Hagan said: "This has been the best year for film in at least a decade. At every level of the business, from the poetic, independent feel of a great film like Fish Tank to the beautiful, humane brilliance of Disney Pixar’s Up, there has been a flourishing in the cinematic arts that has everyone excited."

http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/fish-tank-anne-marie-duff-andy-serkis-19830/

FISH TANK, Anne Marie Duff, Andy Serkis Win EVENING STANDARD Awards
by Steve Montgomery | Feb 10, 2010 | ShareThis | Leave a Comment

Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank

The winners of London’s Evening Standard awards were announced on Monday, Feb. 8. Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank (above), the tale of a working-class teenager (Katie Jarvis) who resents her mother’s new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender) was chosen as the best British film of 2009. Although it’s been received warmly by critics, Fish Tank is up for only one BAFTA Award: Best British Film.

Anne-Marie Duff was the best actress winner for her performance as young John Lennon’s mother in Sam Taylor-Wood’s film debut Nowhere Boy (Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan was also in the running for An Education). Andy Serkis, best known for his Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, was voted best actor for his impersonation of rocker Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

The other Evening Standard winners were Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche for their In the Loop screenplay; most promising newcomer Peter Strickland for his direction and screenplay of Katalin Varga; and Sacha Gervasi’s Anvil! The Story of Anvil as best documentary.

Also, Bruno’s Sacha Baron Cohen won the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy, while the Alexander Walker Special Award went to veteran filmmaker and cinematographer Nicolas Roeg (Walkabout, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Don’t Look Now) for his contributions to film. Roeg’s latest effort, Night Train, is scheduled to be released later this year. The cop thriller stars Sigourney Weaver, Michael Madsen, and Raoul Bova.

Photo: Fish Tank (Holly Horner / IFC Films)

The winners!!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb/18/london-critics-circle-a-prophet-fish-tank

London critics pick A Prophet and Fish Tank

Jacques Audiard's gripping prison drama and Andrea Arnold's unflinching portrait of an Essex girl were the big winners at the London Critics' Circle awards

* Mark Brown
* guardian.co.uk, Thursday 18 February 2010 22.00 GMT
* Article history

Class acts … Katie Jarvis and Michael Fassbender were given acting awards for Fish Tank

Forget the big blue aliens, the best film of the year – according to 91 of Britain's professional critics – is the brutal, gripping French prison drama A Prophet.

The Jacques Audiard saga was tonight named film of the year at the 30th London Critics' Circle awards in central London, at a ceremony where James Cameron's Avatar did not even get a mention.

Chairman and Observer writer Jason Solomons called it a victory for world cinema and said critics were fed up with "the ghettoisation of films at awards ceremonies". He added: "The overwhelming feeling was that this year, the energy, daring, skill and drama of the best European film-makers should be recognised at the highest level possible. For those who love film, the only real language is that of cinema itself and, in A Prophet, director Jacques Audiard articulates it beautifully."

The win will be welcomed by those who argue that it has been a far from vintage year for English language films, while the three head-and-shoulders best films of the past year have arguably been A Prophet, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In. The latter, a delightful Swedish vampire movie, was awarded best foreign film by the Critics' Circle.

The most awards, however, went to Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold's kitchen sink-style account of a dysfunctional working-class Essex family. It was named best British film while lead actor, newcomer Katie Jarvis, won best young performer for her memorable portrayal of Mia, the confused and angry 15-year-old at the heart of the film, and Michael Fassbender won best British supporting actor.

Arnold herself won best British director, part of a double victory for women directors, as Kathryn Bigelow was named best director for another unflinching film, the Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker.

Quentin Tarantino was at the ceremony in person to receive an outstanding achievement award named in honour of the great Sunday Times critic, Dilys Powell. His highly individual take on the second world war, Inglourious Basterds, brought an award for Christoph Waltz, who won best actor for his portrayal of the sadistic Nazi "Jew hunter".

The best actress award went to Mo'Nique for her extraordinary performance as the mother in Precious. Her win is the latest in a long list of critics' awards and she is odds on to take the best supporting actress category at the Oscars and this Sunday's Baftas.

Other winners included Carey Mulligan, whose best British actress prize was the only one of An Education's seven nominations to bear fruit; Colin Firth was best British actor for A Single Man; Anne-Marie Duff was best British supporting actress for playing John Lennon's mum in Nowhere Boy; Duncan Jones was breakthrough British film-maker for Moon; and Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, and Tony Roche won the screenwriting award for In the Loop.

In a previously announced award to mark its 30th anniversary, the Critics' Circle also named the best film to have won in its history. The candidates included Paris, Texas, Schindler's List and Brokeback Mountain, but the critics decided on the film that won the very first award in 1980 – Apocalypse Now. The 30th London Critics's Circle awards were presented in aid of the NSPCC.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/7266184/Colin-Firth-and-Carey-Mulligan-scoop-Film-Critics-Circle-Awards.html

Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan scoop Film Critics' Circle Awards
British Oscar nominees Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan have been named Best British Actor and Actress at the 30th annual London Film Critics' Circle Awards.

Published: 9:30PM GMT 18 Feb 2010
Quentin Tarantino, the director of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, was given the highest accolade for "Excellence in Cinema".

Firth was honoured for his role as a gay professor in Tom Ford's directorial debut A Single Man, while up-and-coming actress Mulligan received the award for her part in An Education, written by Nick Hornby.

Christoph Waltz, star of Tarantino's latest film Inglourious Basterds, was also honoured at the ceremony, receiving the gong for Actor of the Year.

The Actress of the Year award went to Mo'Nique for her impressive performance as an abusive mother in dark drama Precious.

British drama Fish Tank received four awards, with Andrea Arnold being named British Director of the Year and Michael Fassbender picking up the British Actor in a Supporting Role award.

Newcomer Katie Jarvis, who landed her debut role as troubled teen Mia in Fish Tank after being discovered arguing with her boyfriend at a train station, received the NSPCC Award for Young British Performer of the Year.

French prison drama A Prophet was named Film of the Year and Swedish horror movie Let The Right One In won Foreign Language Film of the Year. Kathryn Bigelow was given the Director of the Year award for Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker.

Screenwriter of the Year went to Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Toni Roche for political satire In The Loop, while Duncan Jones won the Breakthrough British Film-Maker award for sci-fi thriller Moon.

Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now was named the London Film Critics' Circle best film of the last 30 years.

Coppola's film was voted the best previous winner in a poll that took in the winners of all categories, including British and foreign language films, since the ceremony began in 1980.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8522250.stm

Fish Tank hooks four prizes from Critics' Circle

Kate Jarvis and Michael Fassbender both won accolades for their performances

By Tim Masters
Entertainment correspondent, BBC News

Andrea Arnold's gritty drama Fish Tank has won four awards at the London Film Critics' Circle Awards, including British film of the year.

The story centres on a girl on an Essex estate whose life is dramatically altered by her mother's new boyfriend.

Quentin Tarantino was honoured for his outstanding contribution to cinema.

Christoph Waltz was named actor of the year for his role in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, while Mo'Nique won best actress for Precious.

Oscar nominees Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan took the British actor and actress of the year awards for their respective roles in A Single Man and An Education.

Mulligan, who is Oscar-nominated for the same role, admitted she had no dress or speech arranged for ceremony on 7 March.

"It's so crazy to be in the same category as Meryl Streep - it's bizarre," she said.

World cinema

Cannes prize winner A Prophet beat Avatar to take the prize for film of the year.

In a tearful acceptance speech in French, A Prophet's director Jacques Audiard said: "I'm going to call up James Cameron at 4 o' clock in the morning and when he picks up the phone he's going to hear my devilish voice saying 'Loser! Loser!'"

Chairman of the judges Jason Solomons said: "It's hugely significant that the London critics awarded Film of the Year to the French film, A Prophet.

"This is a victory for world cinema and shows a refreshing open-mindedness to judge all film on an equal footing, from giant Hollywood blockbusters to classy European prison movies."

Swedish vampire story Let The Right One In won foreign language film of the year.

Kathryn Bigelow was named director of the year award for the Iraq bomb disposal thriller The Hurt Locker, which is up for nine Oscars against ex-husband James Cameron's Avatar.

The Critics' Circle awards, hosted by Jason Isaacs at London's Landmark Hotel, were held in support of the NSPCC.

As well as best British film, Fish Tank also earned accolades for British director of the year, for Andrea Arnold, and British actor in a supporting role, for Michael Fassbender.

Newcomer Katie Jarvis, who plays the lead role of 15-year-old Mia, received the award for young British performer of the year.

Jarvis was cast after she was spotted by talent scout having a row with her boyfriend at a railway station.

Arnold won a Bafta for her 2006 debut Red Road and an Oscar in 2004 for her short film Wasp. Fish Tank took the jury prize at Cannes in 2009.

Apocalypse honour

Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds has eight Oscar nominations

Screenwriter of the year went to Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Toni Roche for the political satire In the Loop.

And Duncan Jones won the breakthrough British film-maker award for his sci-fi drama Moon.

Quentin Tarantino was given the Dilys Powell award for excellence in cinema for his outstanding contribution to cinema as a director, screenwriter, producer and actor.

Tarantino, who picked up the award in person, said: "Hands down - this is the middle of my career. I like the idea of giving the award to someone where you think their best work might still be in front of them as an encouragement."

Judge Solomons said: "Quentin is the most passionate, daring and exciting director in America and is always engaged with the evolution of cinema."

To mark the 30th year of the awards, Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now was named best film of the last 30 years.

http://jbaker475movies.blogspot.com/2010/02/london-film-critics-award-winners.html

Thursday, February 18, 2010
London Film Critics Award Winners (except one..???)
A Prophet picks up its first Best Picture award and Bigelow still wins Best Director? I'm absolutely loving this. Oh, and special shout out to the LFC members for giving awards to In the Loop, Moon, Mr. Firth, and Ms. Mulligan.

2010 London Film Critics’ Circle Awards
("*" denotes the winner in each category)

FILM OF THE YEAR
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
A Prophet***
The White Ribbon
Up in the Air

THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR
Bright Star
An Education
Fish Tank***
In the Loop
Moon

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
The Class
Katyn
Let the Right One In***
A Prophet
The White Ribbon

DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Jacques Audiard – A Prophet
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker***
James Cameron – Avatar
Michael Haneke – The White Ribbon
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air

BRITISH DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Andrea Arnold – Fish Tank***
Armando Iannucci – In the Loop
Duncan Jones – Moon
Kevin Macdonald – State of Play
Sam Taylor-Wood – Nowhere Boy

ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Tahar Rahim – A Prophet
Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds***

ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Abbie Cornish – Bright Star
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Mo’Nique – Precious***
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

BRITISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Peter Capaldi – In the Loop
Colin Firth – A Single Man***
Tom Hardy – Bronson
Christian MacKay – Me and Orson Welles
Andy Serkis – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education***
Katie Jarvis – Fish Tank
Kristin Scott Thomas – Nowhere Boy

BRITISH ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Michael Fassbender – Fish Tank***
John Hurt – 44 Inch Chest
Jason Isaacs – Good
Alfred Molina – An Education
Timothy Spall – The Damned United

BRITISH ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (???)
Emily Blunt – Sunshine Cleaning
Anne-Marie Duff – Nowhere Boy
Rosamund Pike – An Education
Kierston Wareing – Fish Tank
Olivia Williams – An Education

SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche – In the Loop***
Thomas Bidegain & Jacques Audiard – A Prophet
Joel & Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
Michael Haneke – The White Ribbon
Nick Hornby – An Education

THE NSPCC AWARD: YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Katie Jarvis – Fish Tank***
Aaron Johnson – Nowhere Boy and Dummy
George MacKay – The Boys Are Back
Bill Milner – Is Anybody There? and Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones

BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILM-MAKER
Daniel Barber – Harry Brown
Armando Ianucci – In the Loop
Duncan Jones – Moon***
Peter Strickland – Katalin Varga
Sam Taylor-Wood – Nowhere Boy

http://www.newsbag.org/?p=42234

London critics pick A Prophet and Fish Tank

Posted on 18 February 2010

Jacques Audiard’s gripping prison drama and Andrea Arnold’s unflinching portrait of an Essex girl were the big winners at the London Critics’ Circle awards

Forget the big blue aliens, the best film of the year – according to 91 of Britain’s professional critics – is the brutal, gripping French prison drama A Prophet.

The Jacques Audiard saga was tonight named film of the year at the 30th London Critics’ Circle awards in central London, at a ceremony where James Cameron’s Avatar did not even get a mention.

Chairman and Observer writer Jason Solomons called it a victory for world cinema and said critics were fed up with “the ghettoisation of films at awards ceremonies”. He added: “The overwhelming feeling was that this year, the energy, daring, skill and drama of the best European film-makers should be recognised at the highest level possible. For those who love film, the only real language is that of cinema itself and, in A Prophet, director Jacques Audiard articulates it beautifully.”

The win will be welcomed by those who argue that it has been a far from vintage year for English language films, while the three head-and-shoulders best films of the past year have arguably been A Prophet, Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon and Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In. The latter, a delightful Swedish vampire movie, was awarded best foreign film by the Critics’ Circle.

The most awards, however, went to Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold’s kitchen sink-style account of a dysfunctional working-class Essex family. It was named best British film while lead actor, newcomer Katie Jarvis, won best young performer for her memorable portrayal of Mia, the confused and angry 15-year-old at the heart of the film, and Michael Fassbender won best British supporting actor.

Arnold herself won best British director, part of a double victory for women directors, as Kathryn Bigelow was named best director for another unflinching film, the Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker.

Quentin Tarantino was at the ceremony in person to receive an outstanding achievement award named in honour of the great Sunday Times critic, Dilys Powell. His highly individual take on the second world war, Inglourious Basterds, brought an award for Christoph Waltz, who won best actor for his portrayal of the sadistic Nazi “Jew hunter”.

The best actress award went to Mo’Nique for her extraordinary performance as the mother in Precious. Her win is the latest in a long list of critics’ awards and she is odds on to take the best supporting actress category at the Oscars and this Sunday’s Baftas.

Other winners included Carey Mulligan, whose best British actress prize was the only one of An Education’s seven nominations to bear fruit; Colin Firth was best British actor for A Single Man; Anne-Marie Duff was best British supporting actress for playing John Lennon’s mum in Nowhere Boy; Duncan Jones was breakthrough British film-maker for Moon; and Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, and Tony Roche won the screenwriting award for In the Loop.

In a previously announced award to mark its 30th anniversary, the Critics’ Circle also named the best film to have won in its history. The candidates included Paris, Texas, Schindler’s List and Brokeback Mountain, but the critics decided on the film that won the very first award in 1980 – Apocalypse Now. The 30th London Critics’s Circle awards were presented in aid of the NSPCC.

http://awardscircuit.blogspot.com/2010/02/london-film-critics-circle-announces.html

February 19, 2010
The London Film Critics Circle announces its winners!
Behold:

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”

-Thoughts?
Posted by Joey Magidson at Friday, February 19, 201

Fish Tank won Best British film in the BAFTAs, congrats! Still don't know if Michael went or was invited.

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/duncan-jones-leads-with-win-at-baftas.php



Duncan Jones Leads With Win at BAFTAs

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on February 21, 2010 Share

For those around here (almost all of us) who have been rooting for Duncan Jones’ Moon, today is a day for a bit of celebration. Jones led off today’s ceremony for the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) with a win for Outstanding Debut with his first film, the excellent cerebral piece of sci-fi that it was. Reports say that Jones was very emotional in accepting his award, completing a run that began last year at the Sundance Film Festival. Below you will find both his emotional speech and his post-speech interview:

As for the rest of the awards, The Hurt Locker continued its awards season dominance, taking home six awards, including Best Film. Fish Tank — which features one of the year’s best performances from Michael Fassbender — won the Outstanding British Film award, with Colin Firth (A Single Man) and Carey Mulligan (An Education) taking home best actor and actress awards, respectively. The rest is all very predictable, following suit with the American guild awards. Mark Boal and the Up in the Air duo taking the screenplay awards, with Christoph Waltz and Mo’Nique winning best supporting awards.

The full list of BAFTA winners is below, courtesy of the BAFTA website.

Best Film
The Hurt Locker

Outstanding British Film
Fish Tank

Director
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Leading Actor
Colin Firth, A Single Man

Leading Actress
Carey Mulligan, An Education

Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique, Precious

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer
Duncan Jones, Director of Moon

Original Screenplay
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker

Adapted Screenplay
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Film Not In The English Language
A Prophet

Animated Film
Up

Music
Michael Giacchino, Up

Cinematography
Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker

Editing
Bob Murawski & Chris Innis, The Hurt Locker

Production Design
Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg & Kim Sinclair, Avatar

Costume Design
Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria

Sound
Ray Beckett & Paul N. J. Ottosson, The Hurt Locker

Special Visual Effects
Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham & Andrew R. Jones, Avatar

Make Up & Hair
Jenny Shircore, The Young Victoria

Short Animation
Sally Arthur & Emma Lazenby, Mother Of Many

Short Film
James Bolton & Martina Amati, I Do Air

The Orange Rising Star Award (Voted For By The Public)
Kristen Stewart

http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/colin-firth-carey-mulligan-fish-tank-71712/

Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan, FISH TANK, A PROPHET: BAFTA 2010
by Steve Montgomery | Feb 21, 2010 | ShareThis | 2 Comments

Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank
Carey Mulligan in An Education
Colin Firth in A Single Man
Tahar Rahim in A Prophet
Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank (top); Carey Mulligan in An Education (upper middle); Colin Firth in A Single Man (lower middle); Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (bottom)

The BAFTA surprises weren’t major surprises, except for one: the Outstanding British Film was Andrea Arnold’s gritty Fish Tank instead of the more internationally recognized An Education. Nominated for eight BAFTAs, An Education ended up winning only one: Best Actress for Carey Mulligan, whose victory could be considered "a surprise" only in the sense that across the Atlantic she has no chance — or almost no chance — of winning the Oscar.

But in her home turf, Mulligan’s chances were anything but nil. An Education has been widely praised and the same goes for Mulligan’s performance as a schoolgirl involved with a man twice her age. Admittedly, Meryl Streep was a formidable competitor for her star turn in Julie & Julia — Streep’s one and only BAFTA win took place in 1982 for The French Lieutenant’s Woman — but since the British Academy tends to ignore British talent in its nominations, it’s understandable they’d at least want to honor some local industryites with actual trophies. Perhaps less a matter of nativism than just plain survival.

That also explains Colin Firth’s Best Actor win (his first) for his bereaved gay college professor in Tom Ford’s A Single Man. Like Mulligan, Firth has almost no chance at the Oscars, but he’s both British and an "underappreciated" veteran. Jeff Bridges, the favorite to win the Academy Award for Best Actor is hardly a stellar attraction in Britain and there’s no sentimental reason to honor him as his "underappreciated" career has been decidedly based on the other side of the Atlantic. Come to think of it, see Colin Firth’s BAFTA Award as the mirror image of Jeff Bridges’ Academy Award — which he’ll surely win next March 7.

Jacques Audiard’s prison drama A Prophet beat Michael Haneke’s sociopolitical drama The White Ribbon — again. And for that, it received the most enthusiastic applause of the evening, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Just a few days ago, the London Film Critics’ Circle chose A Prophet as the best film of 2009, defeating not only The White Ribbon, but also The Hurt Locker and Avatar. Could A Prophet surprise at the Oscars as well? Stay tuned — though its tough, brutal atmosphere may turn off the usually conservative voters in the Academy’s Best Foreign Language Film category. But then again, The White Ribbon is no walk in the park…

By the way, Sandra Bullock wasn’t in the running as The Blind Side will only qualify for the 2011 BAFTAs. By then, Bullock and her sleeper blockbuster will likely have been long forgotten. Old news. Passe.

Come next January, when the BAFTA nominations are announced, we shall see if it’s indeed all about timing and having the right p.r. momentum.

http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/bafta-fish-tank-wins-the-best-british-film-2010022237485

BAFTA: Fish Tank wins the Best British Film

* Posted by contributor001

Lone Scherfig’s An Education was the front runner to win the Best British Film in the recently concluded BAFTA but Fish Tank, another coming-of-age story defeated the former.

Directed by Andrea Arnold, Fish Tank tells the story of fifteen-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis) is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her, without any creative outlet for her considerable energies save a secret love of hip-hop dance. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor (Michael Fassbender), she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.

Michael Fassbender who was praised for his role in Inglourious Basterds did a stunning job along with Katie Jarvis as the film currently holds 89% reviews in Rotten Tomatoes and has done pretty good job with its opening in US Box-office.

Director Andrea Arnold who won an Academy Award for his Live Action Short “Wasp” in 2004 earned many more accolades that include the Best Newcomer Award for her debut film “Red Road”. She also won the Jury Award in Cannes Film Festival forFish Tank.

Fish Tank is a must watch movie and Katie Jarvis did a commendable job. The movie explores the clear-eyed, potent portrait of teenage sexuality and vulnerability and the recent accolades justifies its credentials.

http://www.indiantelevision.com/all_about_hollywood/y2k10/aah157.php

Fish Tank bags four critics awards at London fest
By Indiantelevision.com Team
(20 February 2010 1:22 pm)


MUMBAI: Fish Tank picked up four awards at the 30th Annual London Film Critics' Circle Awards including best British film, whilst Jacques Audiard's A Prophet was named film of the year.

While Arnold was named best British director, the best supporting actor award went to Michael Fassbender. Newcomer Katie Jarvis received the NSPCC Award for young British performer of the year.

Oscar nominees Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan scooped the British actor and actress of the year awards for their respective roles in A Single Man and An Education.

Mo'Nique was named actress of the year for her performance in Lee Daniels' Precious, while Christoph Waltz was named best actor for Inglourious Basterds.

MKathryn Bigelow took the director of the year award for her Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker; while Swedish horror Let the Right one In won the foreign language film of the year.

Quentin Tarantino, who attended the ceremony at the Landmark Hotel in London, won the Dilys Powell Award for excellence in cinema. The awards were held in aid of the National Society For The Protection.

Said London Film Critics Circle , chairman Jason Solomin, "This was a brilliant night for both British and international cinema. It's hugely significant that the London critics awarded film of the year to the French film A Prophet.

"This is a victory for world cinema and shows a refreshing open-mindedness to judge all film on equal footing, from giant Hollywood blockbusters to classy European prison movies."