London,
(ANI):
Colin
Firth
and
Carey
Mulligan
have
been
named
Best
British
Actor
and
Actress
at
the
30th
annual
London
Film
Critics" Circle
Awards.
Firth,
49,
was
honoured
for
his
role
as
a
gay
professor
in
Tom
Ford"s
directorial
debut
A
Single
Man,
while
Mulligan,
24,
received
the
award
for
her
part
in
An
Education,
written
by
Nick
Hornby,
reports
the
Telegraph.
Others
awarded
included
director
Quentin
Tarantino,
who
was
given
the
highest
accolade
for
Excellence
in
Cinema,
while
Christoph
Waltz,
star
of
Inglourious
Basterds,
received
the
gong
for
Actor
of
the
Year.
The
Actress
of
the
Year
award
went
to
Mo"Nique
for
her
impressive
performance
as
an
abusive
mother
in
dark
drama
'Precious".
British
drama
Fish
Tank
received
four
awards,
with
Andrea
Arnold
being
named
British
Director
of
the
Year
and
Michael
Fassbender
picking
up
the
British
Actor
in
a
Supporting
Role
award.
French
prison
drama
A
Prophet
was
named
Film
of
the
Year
and
Swedish
horror
movie
Let
The
Right
One
In
won
Foreign
Language
Film
of
the
Year.
Kathryn
Bigelow
was
given
the
Director
of
the
Year
award
for
Iraq
war
drama
The
Hurt
Locker.
Screenwriter
of
the
Year
went
to
Jesse
Armstrong,
Simon
Blackwell,
Armando
Iannucci
and
Toni
Roche
for
political
satire
In
The
Loop,
while
Duncan
Jones
won
the
Breakthrough
British
Film-Maker
award
for
sci-fi
thriller
Moon.Francis
Ford
Coppola"s
Vietnam
War
film
Apocalypse
Now
was
named
the
London
Film
Critics" Circle
best
film
of
the
last
30
years.