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The Zone of Interest and All of Us Strangers triumph at London Critics’ Circle Awards


Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz drama takes best film, director and technical achievement prizes at annual ceremony, while Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal amongst a trio of winners for All of Us Strangers

Homegrown experimentalism reigned supreme at the London Critics’ Circle awards, which gave its top honours to Jonathan Glazer’s radical Holocaust film, The Zone of Interest – and an equal number to Andrew Haigh’s devastating ghost romance, All of Us Strangers. The film also took the technical achievement prize for music and sound, awarded to Mica Levi and Johnnie Burn for their extraordinary soundtrack, which seeks to convey the unseen horrors behind the camp walls. Photograph: Dave Benett/Getty ImagesJustine Triet and Arthur Harari took the screenwriting award for Anatomy of a Fall, while Mstyslav Chernov accepted the documentary prize for 20 Days in Mariupol.

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