Critics honoured the year’s leading film
professionals at a star-studded awards ceremony
Some of cinema’s brightest young stars sparkled among
luminaries of the British film industry in the May Fair Hotel at the
40th London Critics’ Circle Awards. Over cocktails, Elle Fanning,
embodying old-school Hollywood glamour in diamonds and a
cream Ralph Lauren gown, delightedly greeted the English
director Sally Potter, to whom she was later to present a prize.
‘Sally reaches parts of your soul you didn’t know existed,’ she said.
During the ceremony, a glowing Jessie Buckley accepted the
Best Actress trophy on behalf of Renée Zellweger with a moving
speech, saluting her friend and Judy co-star’s extraordinary
performance. The last award of the night went to Sandy Powell,
who reminisced about her prolific career designing costumes
for cha rac ters in fi lms f rom The Favourite to Orlando. ‘It doesn’t
come much better than dressing Tilda Swinton as both male
and female,’ she declared from the podium, to the amusement
of Swinton’s daughter, the actress Honor, who was sitting
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Sally PhillipsJessie BuckleyRaffey CassidyHonor Swinton ByrneElizabeth KarlsenHannah GrafSally Potter and
Elle FanningNicole Simone, Suan-Li
Ong and Ruby TurnerJoanna HoggStephen
WoolleySandy PowellLindy King