Queer star Daniel Craig will be awarded the U.K.’s leading film critics’ top honor, the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film. The James Bond actor will receive the prize at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards on Feb. 2 at London’s May Fair Hotel. Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist and Sean Baker’s Anora lead the nominees .

Daniel Craig is a lead actor contender for his performance in 'Queer.' But the film is unlikely to scale the box-office heights of his Bond movies.

The London Film Critics’ Circle will hand Daniel Craig the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film, the organization’s top honor, at this year's London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. "This is such an immense honor and I'm incredibly grateful to the London Film Critics' Circle,