London film festival 2011 awards – in pictures

The British film industry's great and good assembled at LSO St Luke's in London last night to hand out the awards for the BFI London film festival, which closes tonight with a screening of Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea. Here's best film award jury member Gillian Anderson working the red carpet
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And here's Terry Gilliam, who was down to present one of the awards, rather than receive, damn it Photograph: Jon Furniss/WireImage

A Guardian favourite, Unrelated/Archipelago director Joanna Hogg, turns up next – she's on the jury for the Sutherland award for 'the most original and imaginative feature debut'
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You couldn't keep perennial red-carpetees Sam Taylor-Wood and Aaron Johnson away from something like this: Nowhere Boy director Taylor-Wood joined Gillian Anderson on the best film award jury, while Kick-Ass star Johnson presumably acted as some kind of seat-filler
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The big award of the night, best film, went to We Need to Talk About Kevin. Jury president John Madden said it 'is made with the kind of singular vision that links great directors across all the traditions of cinema'. No argument there Photograph: Nicole Rivelli photography/PR

And here's We Need to Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay with her award – looking justifiably pretty pleased about it
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The best British newcomer award went to Candese Reid for her performance as a street kid in the tough drama Junkhearts. Again, she looks pretty pleased Photograph: Jon Furniss/WireImage

And here's a still of Candese in Junkhearts, which is released in the UK on 4 November Photograph: PR

The Sutherland award for a debut feature went to Argentinian film Las Acacias, directed by Pablo Giorgelli. The jury said: 'Finely judged performances and a palpable sympathy for his characters makes this a hugely impressive debut' Photograph: PR

And here's Pablo Giorgelli with award Photograph: Jon Furniss/WireImage

The Grierson award for best documentary went to Into the Abyss, Werner Herzog's chilling study of Texas death row Photograph: PR

Herzog didn't make it to the ceremony, so the best documentary award was accepted by Into the Abyss's executive producer, Andre Singer
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No surprise for these two awards: it was announced some time back that David Cronenberg, left, and Ralph Fiennes would receive BFI fellowships. The only surprise is Fiennes's rabbinical beard – presumably grown for his role as Magwitch in the Great Expectations adaptation currently being filmed
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Hold on, what's this? Cronenberg and Fiennes can't keep their hands off each other. They're not, are they ...? Photograph: Jon Furniss/WireImage

They are! Cronenberg goes for it, but Ralphie chickens out at the last second. Still, it's a lovely way to end the night
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