Warp X and Illumination Films co-production Berberian Sound Studio wins two awards at the London Critics' Film Award.

The 33rd annual edition London Critics' Circle Film Awards took place on Sunday 20 January at the May Fair Hotel in London. Berberian Sound Studio received three nominations overall.

Berberian Sound Studio was awarded:

• British Film of the Year
• British Actor of the Year: Toby Jones

Competition came from films Skyfall & Les Miserables for the British Film of the Year Award and Toby Jones' performance as Gilderoy beat Daniel Craig's James Bond and Daniel Day-Lewis' Lincoln for the British Actor of the Year award.

Berberian Sound Studio Synopsis


It's 1976 and Gilderoy, an introverted sound engineer of a very sensitive disposition from Dorking, specialising in local nature documentaries, goes to Italy to work on the horror film ‘The Equestrian Vortex’ by exploitation maestro Giancarlo Santini. Only the cheapest, nastiest and most abhorred films pass through the run-down Berberian Sound Studio doors though and in this crazy, dodgy and alien environment Gilderoy composes bloodcurdling sounds from hacked vegetables, works out how to create chainsaw effects and mixes screams. But soon life begins to imitate art as both time and realities begin to shift – and Gilderoy finds himself lost in an otherworldly spiral of on screen witchcraft, off-screen sexual intrigue and sonic and personal mayhem. From Strickland comes an evocative celebration and delicious deconstruction of the Italian horror genre, full of sly references and a brilliant soundtrack by Broadcast.