London Film Critics Circle Awards 2019

Edition of British film award

40th London Film Critics' Circle Awards

30 January 2020

Film of the Year:
Parasite

British/Irish Film of the Year:
The Souvenir

The 40th London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2019, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 30 January 2020 at The May Fair Hotel, in Mayfair, London. The nominations were announced on 17 December 2019. The event was hosted by actor and writer Sally Phillips.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.

Film of the Year	Director of the Year
Parasite 1917 The Irishman Joker Knives Out Marriage Story Midsommar Pain and Glory Portrait of a Lady on Fire The Souvenir	Bong Joon-ho – Parasite Pedro Almodóvar – Pain and Glory Sam Mendes – 1917 Céline Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady on Fire Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
Actor of the Year	Actress of the Year
Joaquin Phoenix – Joker Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory Tom Burke – The Souvenir Robert De Niro – The Irishman Adam Driver – Marriage Story	Renée Zellweger – Judy Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story Lupita Nyong'o – Us Florence Pugh – Midsommar Charlize Theron – Bombshell
Supporting Actor of the Year	Supporting Actress of the Year
Joe Pesci – The Irishman Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Shia LaBeouf – Honey Boy Al Pacino – The Irishman Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Laura Dern – Marriage Story Jennifer Lopez – Hustlers Florence Pugh – Little Women Margot Robbie – Bombshell Tilda Swinton – The Souvenir
Screenwriter of the Year	Foreign Language Film of the Year
Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story Pedro Almodóvar – Pain and Glory Joanna Hogg – The Souvenir Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won – Parasite Steven Zaillian – The Irishman	Portrait of a Lady on Fire Happy as Lazzaro Monos Pain and Glory Parasite
Documentary of the Year	British/Irish Film of the Year
For Sama Amazing Grace Apollo 11 The Cave Varda by Agnès	The Souvenir 1917 Bait Rocketman Wild Rose
British/Irish Actor of the Year	British/Irish Actress of the Year
Robert Pattinson – High Life, The King, and The Lighthouse Tom Burke – The Souvenir Taron Egerton – Rocketman George MacKay – 1917, Ophelia, and Where Hands Touch Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes	Florence Pugh – Fighting with My Family, Little Women, and Midsommar Jessie Buckley – Judy and Wild Rose Cynthia Erivo – Harriet Lesley Manville – Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Ordinary Love Saoirse Ronan – Little Women
Young British/Irish Performer of the Year	Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker of the Year
Honor Swinton Byrne – The Souvenir Raffey Cassidy – Vox Lux Dean-Charles Chapman – 1917, Blinded by the Light, and The King Roman Griffin Davis – Jojo Rabbit Noah Jupe – Ford v Ferrari and Honey Boy	Mark Jenkin – Bait Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts – For Sama Richard Billingham – Ray & Liz Owen McCafferty – Ordinary Love Nicole Taylor – Wild Rose
British/Irish Short Film of the Year	Technical Achievement Award
The Devil's Harmony Appreciation Beyond the North Winds: A Post-Nuclear Reverie Kingdom, Come Pompeii	*Barbara Ling – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, production design* Will Becher and Richard Phelan – A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, animation Jacqueline Durran – Little Women, costume design Lee Ha-jun – Parasite, production design Allen Maris – Ad Astra, visual effects Todd Douglas Miller – Apollo 11, film editing Daniel Pemberton – Motherless Brooklyn, music Oliver Tarney – 1917, sound design Jasper Wolf – Monos, cinematography Jeremy Woodhead – Judy, makeup and hair

Special awards

The Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film

Sally Potter
Sandy Powell

The 40th Anniversary Award

Aardman

References

Cline, Rich (30 January 2020). "London Critics name Parasite film of 2019". London Film Critics' Circle. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
Cline, Rich (17 December 2019). "The Souvenir Lead Nominees for Critics' Circle Film Awards". London Film Critics' Circle. Retrieved 30 December 2021.

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