title: London Film Critics Circle Awards 2012
text: # London Film Critics Circle Awards 2012
  
  33rd London Film Critics Circle Awards
  
  20 January 2013
  
  Film of the Year:
  
  Amour
  
  British Film of the Year:
  
  Berberian Sound Studio
  
  The 33rd London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2012, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 20 January 2013.
  
  ## Winners and nominees
  
  ### Film of the Year
  
  Amour
  
  * Argo
  * Beasts of the Southern Wild
  * Life of Pi
  * The Master
  
  ### British Film of the Year
  
  Berberian Sound Studio
  
  * The Imposter
  * Les Misérables
  * Sightseers
  * Skyfall
  
  ### Foreign Language Film of the Year
  
  Rust and Bone • France/China
  
  * Amour • Austria/France/Germany
  * Holy Motors • France/Germany
  * Once Upon a Time in Anatolia • Turkey/Bosnia and Herzegovina
  * Tabu • Portugal
  
  ### Documentary of the Year
  
  The Imposter
  
  * London: The Modern Babylon
  * Nostalgia for the Light
  * The Queen of Versailles
  * Searching for Sugar Man
  
  ### Director of the Year
  
  Ang Lee - Life of Pi
  
  * Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
  * Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
  * Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  * Michael Haneke - Amour
  
  ### Screenwriter of the Year
  
  Michael Haneke - Amour
  
  * Chris Terrio - Argo
  * Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
  * Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
  * Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty
  
  ### Breakthrough British Filmmaker
  
  Alice Lowe and Steve Oram - Sightseers
  
  * Ben Drew - Ill Manors
  * Sally El Hosaini - My Brother the Devil
  * Dexter Fletcher - Wild Bill
  * Bart Layton - The Imposter
  
  ### Actor of the Year
  
  Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
  
  * Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
  * Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables
  * Mads Mikkelsen - The Hunt
  * Jean-Louis Trintignant - Amour
  
  ### Actress of the Year
  
  Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
  
  * Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
  * Marion Cotillard - Rust and Bone
  * Helen Hunt - The Sessions
  * Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
  
  ### Supporting Actor of the Year
  
  Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
  
  * Alan Arkin - Argo
  * Javier Bardem - Skyfall
  * Michael Fassbender - Prometheus
  * Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
  
  ### Supporting Actress of the Year
  
  Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
  
  * Amy Adams - The Master
  * Judi Dench - Skyfall
  * Sally Field - Lincoln
  * Isabelle Huppert - Amour
  
  ### British Actor of the Year
  
  Toby Jones - Berberian Sound Studio
  
  * Daniel Craig - Skyfall
  * Charlie Creed-Miles - Wild Bill
  * Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
  * Steve Oram - Sightseers
  
  ### British Actress of the Year
  
  Andrea Riseborough - Shadow Dancer
  
  * Emily Blunt - Looper and Your Sister's Sister
  * Judi Dench - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Skyfall
  * Alice Lowe - Sightseers
  * Helen Mirren - Hitchcock
  
  ### Young British Performer of the Year
  
  Tom Holland - The Impossible
  
  * Samantha Barks - Les Misérables
  * Jack Reynor - What Richard Did
  
  ### Technical Achievement
  
  Life of Pi - Bill Westenhofer, visual effects
  
  * Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran, costumes
  * Argo - William Goldenberg, film editing
  * Beasts of the Southern Wild - Ben Richardson, cinematography
  * Berberian Sound Studio - Joakim Sundström and Stevie Haywood, sound design
  * Holy Motors - Bernard Floch, make-up
  * Life of Pi - Claudio Miranda, cinematography
  * The Master - Jack Fisk and David Crank, production design
  * My Brother the Devil - David Raedeker, cinematography
  * Rust and Bone - Alexandre Desplat, music
  
  ### Dilys Powell Award
  
  * Helena Bonham Carter
  