2012 London Film Festival Award Winners
London Film Festival Awards are presented in the following categories:
- Best Film
- Best British Newcomer Award
- BFI Fellowship; it is presented to honour individuals who have made a major contribution to film or television culture but it is not presented annually
- The Sutherland Trophy; it is presented to the most original and creative film-maker
- The Grierson Award; it is awarded for the best documentary screened during the Festival
Winners of the 2012 London Film Festival are:
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Rust and Bone (De rouille et d’os). The French-Belgian film that was directed by Jacques Audiard won the London Film Festival Award for Best Film. It has also been nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, for two Golden Globes and for Screen Actors Guild Award. The nominees in the category Best Film were After Lucia (directed by Michel France), End of Watch (directed by David Ayer), Fill the Void (directed by Rama Burshtein), Everyday (directed by Michael Winterbottom), Ginger and Rosa (directed by Sally Potter), In the House (directed by Francois Ozon), It was the Son (directed by Daniele Cipri), Lore (directed by Cate Shortland), Midnight’s Children (directed by Deepa Mehta), No (directed by Pablo Larrain) and Seven Psychopaths (directed by Martin McDonagh).
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Sally El Hosaini. Egyptian Welsh director and screenwriter was presented the award for the Best British Newcomer. He convinced the jurors with his feature film My Brother the Devil which also won him the Best European Film Award at Berlinale, Best Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, Worldview/Sundance Impact Award (Sundance London) and the Grand Jury Prize for Best International Feature at the LA Outfest.
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Benh Zeitlin. The American film-maker was awarded the Sutherland Trophy for his feature Beast of the Southern Wild that also won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival, Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle International Film Festival.
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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. The Grierson Award for Best Documentary went to the American documentary film director and producer Alex Gibney for his documentary about the Catholic Church’s attempt to cover up the sexual abuses by the priests.
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Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter. The American film director and producer, and the celebrated English actress were awarded the prestigious British Film Institute Fellowship. For more information about the British Film Institute Fellowship and 2016 winners, please read our article “British Film Institute Fellowship”.