Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, led the 44th annual London Critics’ Circle Awards with three wins each.
Andrew Scott was recognised for his lead performance in All of Us Strangers with the Actor of the Year award. The Andrew Haigh film recently reached the top of the Irish box office, which Scott highlighted in his acceptance speech, stating “For a gay love story, it ain’t nothing. Don’t say those films don’t make money”.
His co-star Paul Mescal received the British/Irish Performer of the Year award, which recognised his body of work over the past 12 months, including his performances in All of Us Strangers, God’s Creatures, Foe, and Carmen. All of Us Strangers also won the Attenborough Award for British/Irish film of the year.
The film follows screenwriter Adam (Scott) who, after a chance encounter with his neighbor Harry (Mescal), is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are living and look the same age as the day they died.
IFTN caught up with director Haigh ahead of the film’s Irish gala screening in the Light House Cinema last month to discuss the film’s origins and its production.
Emma Stone was also recognised as Actress of the Year at the London award ceremony for her performance as Bella Baxter in the Element Pictures-produced film Poor Things.
The full list of award recipients is available below:
FILM OF THE YEAR
The Zone of Interest
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
Past Lives
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
20 Days in Mariupol
ANIMATED FILM OF THE YEAR
The Boy and the Heron
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest
SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Justine Triet and Arthur Harari – Anatomy of a Fall
ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Emma Stone – Poor Things
ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers
SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Charles Melton – May December
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Mia McKenna-Bruce – How to Have Sex
THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: BRITISH/IRISH FILM OF THE YEAR
All of Us Strangers
THE PHILIP FRENCH AWARD: BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH/IRISH FILMMAKER
Molly Manning Walker – How to Have Sex
BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR (for body of work)
Paul Mescal – All of Us Strangers, God’s Creatures, Foe, Carmen
YOUNG BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Lola Campbell – Scrapper
BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR
The Veiled City – Natalie Cubides-Brady, director
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Zone of Interest – music and sound, Mica Levi and Johnnie Burn
THE DILYS POWELL AWARD: EXCELLENCE IN FILM
Jeffrey Wright
THE DEREK MALCOLM AWARD FOR INNOVATION
Colman Domingo
