<div style="float: right; font-size: smaller; background-color:#E6E6FA; padding: 12px; margin-left: 5em; margin-bottom: 2em; width: 180px" align="center"> **29th London Film Critics Circle Awards** 4 February 2009 Film of the Year: ** The Wrestler ** British Film of the Year: ** Slumdog Millionaire ** The **29th [London Film Critics Circle](https://bliptext.com/articles/london-film-critics-circle) Awards**, honouring the best in film for [2008](https://bliptext.com/articles/2008-in-film), were announced by the [London Film Critics Circle](https://bliptext.com/articles/london-film-critics-circle) on 4 February 2009.

Winners and nominees

Film of the Year

The Wrestler

British Film of the Year

Slumdog Millionaire

Foreign Language Film of the Year

Waltz with Bashir • Israel

Director of the Year

David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

British Director of the Year

Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

Screenwriter of the Year

Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire

Breakthrough British Filmmaker

Steve McQueen – Hunger

Actor of the Year

Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Actress of the Year

Kate Winslet – The Reader and Revolutionary Road

British Actor of the Year

Michael Fassbender – Hunger

British Actress of the Year

Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long

British Supporting Actor of the Year

Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky

British Supporting Actress of the Year

Tilda Swinton – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Young British Performer of the Year

Thomas Turgoose – Somers Town and Eden Lake

Dilys Powell Award