{"id":13303,"date":"2011-10-26T23:12:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T22:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13303"},"modified":"2012-08-23T00:14:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T23:14:30","slug":"london-film-festival-award-winners-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/10\/26\/london-film-festival-award-winners-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"London Film Festival Award Winners 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/lff\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12891\" title=\"London Film Festival 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/London-Film-Festival-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winners have been announced at this year&#8217;s London Film Festival Awards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEST FILM: We Need To Talk About Kevin<\/strong> (Dir. Lynne Ramsay)<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the jury John Madden (Chair) said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis year\u2019s shortlist for Best Film comprises work that is outstanding in terms of its originality and its stylistic reach. It is an international group, one united by a common sense of unflinching human enquiry and we were struck by the sheer panache displayed by these great storytellers. In the end, we were simply bowled over by one film, a sublime, uncompromising tale of the torment that can stand in the place of love. We Need to Talk About Kevin is made with the kind of singular vision that links great directors across all the traditions of cinema.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>BEST BRITISH NEWCOMER: Candese Reid, Actress in Junkhearts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair of the Best British Newcomer jury, Andy Harries said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCandese is a fresh, brilliant and exciting new talent. Every moment she was on screen was compelling.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>SUTHERLAND AWARD WINNER: Pablo Giorgelli, director of Las Acacias<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The jury commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn a lively and thoughtful jury room debate, Las Acacias emerged as a worthy winner, largely because of the originality of its conception. Finely judged performances and a palpable sympathy for his characters makes this a hugely impressive debut for director Pablo Giorgelli.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>GRIERSON AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY: Into the Abyss: A Tale of Life, A Tale of Death<\/strong> (Dir. Werner Herzog)<\/p>\n<p>The award is co-presented with the Grierson Trust (in commemoration of John Grierson, the grandfather of British documentary) and recognises outstanding feature length documentaries of integrity, originality, technical excellence or cultural significance. The jury this year was chaired by Adam Curtis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BFI FELLOWSHIP: Ralph Fiennes and David Cronenberg<\/strong> (as previously announced)<\/p>\n<p>Greg Dyke, Chair, BFI said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018The BFI London Film Festival Awards pay tribute to outstanding film talent, so we are\u00a0delighted and honoured that both Ralph Fiennes, one of the world\u2019s finest and most respected actors and David\u00a0Cronenberg, one of the most original and ground-breaking film directors of contemporary cinema, have both accepted\u00a0BFI Fellowships &#8211; the highest accolade the BFI can bestow. I also want to congratulate all the filmmakers and industry professionals here tonight, not only on their nominations and awards, but also for their vision, skill, passion and\u00a0creativity.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jurors present at the ceremony included: Best Film jurors John Madden, Andrew O\u2019Hagan. Gillian Anderson, Asif Kapadia, Tracey Seaward and Sam Taylor-Wood OBE; Sutherland jurors Tim Robey, Joanna Hogg, Saskia Reeves, Peter Kosminsky, Hugo Grumbar, and the artist Phil Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Best British Newcomer jurors Anne-Marie Duff, Tom Hollander, Edith Bowman, Stephen Woolley and Nik Powell; and Grierson Award jurors Mandy Chang of the Grierson Trust, Charlotte Moore, Head of Documentary Commissioning at BBC, Kim Longinotto and Adam Curtis.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/lff\/\">LFF official site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BFI_London_Film_Festival#Awards\">Previous winners at the LFF at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winners have been announced at this year&#8217;s London Film Festival Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,38,2],"tags":[2275,2277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}