The 32nd London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2011, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 19 January 2012.
Winners and nominees
Film of the Year
The Artist
- Drive
- A Separation
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- The Tree of Life
British Film of the Year
We Need to Talk About Kevin
- The Guard
- Kill List
- Shame
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Foreign Language Film of the Year
A Separation • Iran
- Mysteries of Lisbon • Portugal
- Poetry • South Korea
- Le Quattro Volte • Italy
- The Skin I Live In • Spain
Documentary of the Year
Senna
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- Dreams of a Life
- Pina
- Project Nim
Director of the Year
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
- Asghar Farhadi – A Separation
- Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
- Lynne Ramsay – We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
Screenwriter of the Year
Asghar Farhadi – A Separation
- Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
- Kenneth Lonergan – Margaret
- Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash – The Descendants
- Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Breakthrough British Filmmaker
Andrew Haigh – Weekend
- Richard Ayoade – Submarine
- Paddy Considine – Tyrannosaur
- Joe Cornish – Attack the Block
- John Michael McDonagh – The Guard
Actor of the Year
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
- George Clooney – The Descendants
- Michael Fassbender – Shame
- Ryan Gosling – Drive
- Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Actress of the Year
Anna Paquin – Margaret
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
- Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia
- Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn
Supporting Actor of the Year
Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
- Simon Russell Beale – The Deep Blue Sea
- Albert Brooks – Drive
- Christopher Plummer – Beginners
- Michael Smiley – Kill List
Supporting Actress of the Year
Sareh Bayat – A Separation
- Jessica Chastain – The Help
- Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus
- Octavia Spencer – The Help
- Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom
British Actor of the Year
Michael Fassbender – A Dangerous Method and Shame
- Tom Cullen – Weekend
- Brendan Gleeson – The Guard
- Peter Mullan – Tyrannosaur and War Horse
- Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
British Actress of the Year
Olivia Colman – The Iron Lady and Tyrannosaur
- Carey Mulligan – Drive and Shame
- Vanessa Redgrave – Anonymous and Coriolanus
- Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea
Young British Performer of the Year
Craig Roberts – Submarine
- John Boyega – Attack the Block
- Jeremy Irvine – War Horse
- Yasmin Paige – Submarine
- Saoirse Ronan – Hanna
Technical Achievement
Maria Djurkovic, production design – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Manuel Alberto Claro, cinematography – Melancholia
- Paul Davies, sound design – We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Dante Ferretti, production design – Hugo
- Alberto Iglesias, original score – The Skin I Live In
- Chris King and Gregers Sall, editing – Senna
- Joe Letteri, visual effects – Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Cliff Martinez, original score – Drive
- Robert Richardson, cinematography – Hugo
- Robbie Ryan, cinematography – Wuthering Heights
Dilys Powell Award
- Nicolas Roeg
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