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The Brutalist wins best film at London Critics’ Circle awards
Epic drama takes top prize, Ralph Fiennes and Marianne Jean-Baptiste win best actors and RaMell Ross best director
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who missed out on an Oscar nomination last month, took actress of the year for her performance in Mike Leigh’s uncompromising portrait of rage and depression, Hard Truths. Photograph: Simon Mein/APPayal Kapadia’s Mumbai-set drama All We Imagine as Light, which will miss out at the Oscars as India chose not to select it as its entry, was named foreign language film of the year, while No Other Land, by Israeli and Palestinian co-directors, took the documentary prize. However, Audiard’s film has faced an increasing backlash from the Mexican and trans communities, and last week there was a fresh furore after offensive tweets from its star Karla Sofía Gascón were unearthed.
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