41st London Critics' Circle Film Awards [read more]
Awards ceremonies looking different this year
British actors Darci Shaw and Henry Lloyd-Hughes will announce the nominations for the 41st London Critics' Circle Film Awards at a virtual lunchtime event on Tuesday 12th January. The critics are currently casting their nominations, with all films released in a UK cinema and direct to streaming services between February 2020 and February 2021 eligible to be nominated. With London's current pandemic restrictions, the nominations event will be held virtually this year for an invited audience of critics and media.
Darci Shaw made her feature film debut in the 2019 biopic Judy, playing the young Judy Garland on the set of The Wizard of Oz (as the film's adult Garland, Renée Zellweger was named the Critics' Circle's Actress of the Year). Shaw went on to land the lead role in the ITV drama The Bay, and will next star in the Netflix series The Irregulars, a supernatural thriller about mystery-solving teens working with Dr Watson in a dystopian version of Victorian London.
Also starring in The Irregulars, Henry Lloyd-Hughes had his breakout role in the C4 cult comedy The Inbetweeners, and has gone on to play Aaron Peel in the international hit series Killing Eve and costar in the BBC's 2018 adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables. On film, he starred in Joanna Hogg's debut feature Unrelated, Joe Wright and Tom Stoppard's Anna Karenina alongside Keira Knightley, and opposite Mia Wasikowska in Madame Bovary.
Since the first edition in 1980, the star-studded Critics' Circle Film Awards have become an anticipated and respected event in the annual film calendar. In recent years special guests have included Olivia Colman, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh, Dafne Keen, Carey Mulligan, Isabelle Huppert, Michael Fassbender, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Cate Blanchett, Christoph Waltz and Pedro Almodóvar.
