The Artist and A Separation were the big winners at the 32nd London Film Critics’ Circle Awards with each taking home three awards.

Silent film THE ARTIST received Film of the Year, Director of the Year and Actor of the Year. Director Michel Hazanavicius and actor Jean Dujardin were both at the event to collect their awards.

Asghar Farhadi’s Berlin winner A SEPARATION also took home three awards winning Foreign Language Film of the Year, Screenwriter of the Year for Asghar Farhadi and Supporting Actress of the Year for Sareh Bayat.

THE IRON LADY took home two awards, Meryl Streep tying the award for Actress of the Year and Olivia Colman winning The Moët & Chandon Award: British Actress of the Year for her performances in THE IRON LADY and TYRANNOSAUR, collecting the award in person. Anna Paquin was the other recipient of the Actress of the Year award for her performance in Kenneth Lonergan’s drama MARGARET.

Kenneth Branagh collected his Supporting Actor of the Year award for his turn as Laurence Olivier in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN. Michael Fassbender collected the British Actor of the Year award for his performances as Carl Jung in A DANGEROUS METHOD and as a sex addict in SHAME.

Director Lynne Ramsay was present to collect The Attenborough Award: British Film of the Year for WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. Asif Kapadia collected his Documentary of the Year award for SENNA. Andrew Haigh collected The Virgin Atlantic Award: Breakthrough British Film-maker for WEEKEND. Craig Roberts collected the Young British Performer of the Year for his lead role in SUBMARINE. Maria Djurkovic was present to receive The Sky 3D Award for Technical Achievement for her production design in TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY.

The winners in full:

FILM OF THE YEAR
The Artist

TOP 10 FILMS
1. The Artist
2. A Separation
3. Drive
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
5. The Tree of Life
6. We Need to Talk About Kevin
7. Melancholia
8. Shame
9. Margaret
10. The Descendants

The Attenborough Award:
BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR
We Need to Talk About Kevin

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
A Separation

DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
Senna

DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist

SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Asghar Farhadi – A Separation

The Virgin Atlantic Award:
BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILM-MAKER
Andrew Haigh – Weekend

ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Jean Dujardin – The Artist

ACTRESS OF THE YEAR (TIE)
Anna Paquin – Margaret and
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady

SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Kenneth Branagh – My Week With Marilyn

SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Sareh Bayat – A Separation

BRITISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Michael Fassbender – A Dangerous Method, Shame

The Moët & Chandon Award:
BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Olivia Colman – The Iron Lady (Fox/Pathé), Tyrannosaur

YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Craig Roberts – Submarine

The Sky 3D Award:
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Maria Djurkovic, production design – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Dilys Powell Award:
EXCELLENCE IN FILM
Nicolas Roeg