Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech won a total of five awards: Best British Independent Film, Best Actor for Colin Firth, Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham Carter, Best Supporting Actor for Geoffrey Rush, and Best Screenplay for David Seidler.
The Best Director award went to Gareth Edwards for Monsters, which also earned awards for Technical Achievement and Best Achievement in Production.
Other winners include A Prophet for Best Foreign Film, Enemies Of The People for Best Documentary, and Son Of Babylon which won the Raindance Award.
The Variety Award was handed by Ralph Fiennes to Liam Neeson, while Helena Bonham Carter also took home the Richard Harris Award for outstanding contribution by an actor to British Film.
(thanks billy) Full list of winners after the cut.
The complete list of winners (via IndieWire).
- BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM The King’s Speech
- BEST DIRECTOR Gareth Edwards – Monsters
- THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR] Clio Barnard – The Arbor
- BEST SCREENPLAY David Seidler РThe King’s Speech
- BEST ACTRESS Carey Mulligan – Never Let Me Go
- BEST ACTOR Colin Firth РThe King’s Speech
- BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Helena Bonham Carter РThe King’s Speech
- BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Geoffrey Rush РThe King’s Speech
- MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER Joanne Froggatt – In Our Name
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION Monsters
- RAINDANCE AWARD Son of Babylon
- BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT Monsters – Visual Effects – Gareth Edwards
- BEST DOCUMENTARY Enemies of the People
- BEST BRITISH SHORT Baby
- BEST FOREIGN FILM A Prophet
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