‘The Social Network’ Takes the Top Prize at London Film Critics’ Circle Awards

the world’s most English film did not sweep the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. Instead “The Social Network” took the top prize over “The King’s Speech,” and it won best director (David Fincher) and best screenwriter (Aaron Sorkin) to boot. In what could be cold comfort to Londoners, Andrew Garfield won best British actor in a supporting role — for playing a Brazilian-American Harvard student in “The Social Network.” At least the Critics’ Circle’s press release was terrifically British.  “ ‘The Social Network’ and ‘The King’s Speech’ had been neck and neck in the running with seven nominations apiece, but ‘The Social Network’ pipped ‘The King’s Speech’ at the post with four wins to three,” it read. “The King’s Speech” did make a more-than-fair showing, earning Colin Firth a best actor prize, British director of the year for Tom Hooper and the Attenborough award for British film of the year. (Now we’re talking!) Still, if “The Social Network” can win over the Brits, where “The King’s Speech” is a bona fide hit, at the box office and with the Royals, maybe it can make a dent with the Anglophilic Academy as well