Carey Mulligan in red, white and blue on the red carpet at the film awards.
Pictures from our 2011 Film, Dance and Drama Awards presented in January 2012
William Russell
The Gallery opens with a selection of pictures from the first of our January awards, the Critics’ Circle Film Awards held at the BFI Southbank on January 19, 2012. They include recipients and those who presented them as this is part of our archive. Pictures from the Circle’s National Dance Awards, held at The Place on January 23 follow, and then come pictures from the Circle’s Theatre Awards held at the Prince of Wales Theatre on January 24.

Roeg Males: Luc Roeg, producer of We Need to Talk About Kevin, and his father, Nicolas Roeg, winner of the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film.

Donald Sutherland bestows his congratulations on Nicolas Roeg after presenting him with the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film

Sutherland in full flow

Jean Dujardin receives the Best Actor Award for his performance in The Artist from critic Nick James.

Lynne Ramsay, director of We Need to Talk About Kevin, and producer Luc Roeg go up to receive the Attenborough Award for Best British Picture

Negar Eskandarfar, executive producer of A Separation, Foreign Film of the Year, collecting the award

Film section chairman Jason Solomons with Olivia Colman, winner of the Best British Actress Award

Rich Cline, Film section Secretary, presenting the Technical Achievement Award for production design on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to Maria Djurkovic

Michael Fassbender, winner of the Best British Actor Award for Shame and A Dangerous Method

Critic Pauline Macleod with Michael Hazanavicius, award winning director of The Artist

Best Supporting Actor Kenneth Branagh signing autographs

Critic Hilary Oliver presenting the Best Documentary Award for Senna
The second of our January Awards
The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards held for the first time at The Place on Monday, January 23. These are some of the winners.

Steven McRae of the Royal Ballet, winner of the Dancing Times Award for Best Male Dancer © John Ross

Steven McRae in Manon. © Johan Persson

Sophie Martin of Scottish Ballet, winner of the Outstanding Female Performance (Classical) Award. © John Ross

Sophie Martin in Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth. © Andrew Ross

Daria Klimentova of the English National Ballet winner of the Grishko Award for Best Female Dancer given in memory of Richard Sherrington with Dance section chairman, Graham Watts © John Ross

Kenneth Tharp. Chief Executive of The Place, who was Master of Ceremonies for the second year running. © John Ross

Gary Avis, winner of the Outstanding Male Performance (Classical) with Sarah Lamb in Polyphonia.© Johan Persson

The winners of the awards © John Ross
Theatre Awards
The Third of our January Awards they were held at the Prince of Wales Theatre.

Eddie Redmayne as Richard II. © Johan Persson

Drama section chairman Mark Shenton with Anthony Pins from sponsors Nyman Libson Paul. © Critics’ Circle

Richard Bean, winner of Best New Play for One Man, Two Guvnors © Catherine Ashmore

The cast of London Road winner of the Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical © Vicki Peter

Best actor winner Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature.