Dominic Cooper, Souleymane Cissé, Anjelica Huston: London 2009

Malinese filmmaker Souleymane Cissé and guest arrive for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. Cissé and actor John Hurt were given BFI Fellowships at the awards ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Actor and award presenter Dominic Cooper, one of the stars of Mamma Mia!, arrives at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony.

Academy Award winner and and London Film Festival jury chair Anjelica Huston arrives at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

by Joan Lister | October 30, 2009   
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Dominic Cooper, Jodie Whittaker, Tahar Rahim: London 2009

Screenwriter Jack Thorne, voted best British newcomer for The Scouting Book for Boys, poses with his award. Actors Dominic Cooper and Jodie Whittaker are standing next to him at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Documentary filmmaker Yoav Shamir poses with his Grierson Award for Best Documentary Defamation, an European Film Award nominee and a potential Oscar 2010 contender, at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Tahar Rahim, the star of Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, poses with the Best Film award given to Audiard’s gritty prison drama. Academy Award winner and London Film [...]

by Joan Lister | October 30, 2009   
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London 2009: Dominic Cooper, Matthew Beard, Kerry Fox

Actor Dominic Cooper attends An Education press conference during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 20. An Education is a potential Oscar 2010 best picture contender. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Director Hans-Christian Schmid, Kerry Fox arrive for the premiere of Storm, winner of the Amnesty International Film Prize at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 20. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

Matthew Beard at the premiere of An Education during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 20. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

by Joan Lister | October 26, 2009   
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London 2009: Dominic Cooper, Bruno Dumont, Julie Sokolowski

Dominic Cooper kisses director Lone Scherfig at the premiere of An Education during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 20.

Director Bruno Dumont and actress Julie Sokolowski arrive for the premiere of the widely praised religious-fanaticism drama Hadewijch, winner of the International Film Critics’ award at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 20.

Bruno Dumont
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by Joan Lister | October 26, 2009   
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London 2009: Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, Carey Mulligan

Two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson, Carey Mulligan and Dominic Cooper arrive for the premiere of An Education during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 20. Both Thompson and Mulligan are potential Oscar 2010 contenders; the former in the best supporting actress category, the latter as best actress.

Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper, Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson
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by Joan Lister | October 26, 2009   
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London 2009: Dominic Cooper, Carey Mulligan

Actors Dominic Cooper and potential best actress Oscar 2010 contender Carey Mulligan, screenwriter Nick Hornby, director Lone Scherfig, producers Amanda Posey and Finola Dwyer and actor Matthew Beard attend An Education photocall during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 20.

Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper

Dominic Cooper
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by Joan Lister | October 25, 2009   
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2007 London Film Critics Awards: Nominations

The 2007 London Film Critics’ Circle nominations were announced on Dec. 14.
On the positive side, the London critics tend to be more international than their American counterparts. On the negative side, the London critics’ nominations — sub-divided into "best" and "best British" this or other — tend to get somewhat redundant.
The Queen, for instance, was nominated as both Film of the Year and Best British Film, while both Helen Mirren (above) and Judi Dench received double best actress nominations as well, for The Queen and Notes on a Scandal, respectively. (Curiously, Stephen Frears, whose The Queen is listed in no less than 7 categories, failed to receive a Best Director nomination. Frears had to content himself with a best [...]

by Andre Soares | December 16, 2006   
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