title: London Film Critics Circle Awards 2009
text: # London Film Critics Circle Awards 2009
  
  30th London Film Critics Circle Awards
  
  18 February 2010
  
  Film of the Year:
  
  A Prophet
  
  British Film of the Year:
  
  Fish Tank
  
  The 30th London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2009, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 18 February 2010.
  
  ## Winners and nominees
  
  ### Film of the Year
  
  A Prophet
  
  * Avatar
  * The Hurt Locker
  * Up in the Air
  * The White Ribbon
  
  ### British Film of the Year
  
  Fish Tank
  
  * Bright Star
  * An Education
  * In the Loop
  * Moon
  
  ### Foreign Language Film of the Year
  
  Let the Right One In • Sweden
  
  * The Class • France
  * Katyń • Poland
  * A Prophet • France
  * The White Ribbon • Austria
  
  ### Director of the Year
  
  Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
  
  * Jacques Audiard - A Prophet
  * 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
  
  ### Screenwriter of the Year
  
  Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche - In the Loop
  
  * Nick Hornby - An Education
  * Jacques Audiard - A Prophet
  * Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
  * Michael Haneke - The White Ribbon
  
  ### Breakthrough British Filmmaker
  
  Duncan Jones - Moon
  
  * Daniel Barber - Harry Brown
  * Armando Iannucci - In the Loop
  * Peter Strickland - Katalin Varga
  * Sam Taylor Wood - Nowhere Boy
  
  ### Actor of the Year
  
  Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
  
  * Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
  * George Clooney - Up in the Air
  * Tahar Rahim - A Prophet
  * Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man
  
  ### Actress of the Year
  
  Mo'Nique - Precious
  
  * Abbie Cornish - Bright Star
  * Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
  * Carey Mulligan - An Education
  * Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
  
  ### British Actor of the Year
  
  Colin Firth - A Single Man
  
  * Peter Capaldi - In the Loop
  * Tom Hardy - Bronson
  * Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles
  * Andy Serkis - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
  
  ### British Actress of the Year
  
  Carey Mulligan - An Education
  
  * Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria
  * Katie Jarvis - Fish Tank
  * Helen Mirren - The Last Station
  * Kristin Scott Thomas - Nowhere Boy
  
  ### British Supporting Actor of the Year
  
  Michael Fassbender - Fish Tank
  
  * John Hurt - 44 Inch Chest
  * Jason Isaacs - Good
  * Alfred Molina - An Education
  * Timothy Spall - The Damned United
  
  ### British Supporting Actress of the Year
  
  Anne-Marie Duff - Nowhere Boy
  
  * Emily Blunt - Sunshine Cleaning
  * Rosamund Pike - An Education
  * Kierston Wareing - Fish Tank
  * Olivia Williams - An Education
  
  ### Young British Performer of the Year
  
  Katie Jarvis - Fish Tank
  
  * Aaron Johnson - Nowhere Boy and Dummy
  * Bill Milner - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and Is Anybody There?
  * George MacKay - The Boys Are Back
  * Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones
  
  ### 30th Year Anniversary Award (Best of the winners since 1980)
  
  * Apocalypse Now
  * Schindler's List
  * The Lives of Others
  * Unforgiven
  * Brokeback Mountain
  * Cinema Paradiso
  * L.A. Confidential
  * Fargo
  * Distant Voices, Still Lives
  * The King of Comedy
  
  ### Dilys Powell Award
  
  * Quentin Tarantino
  