LONDON - Brad Pitt was bringing the London Film Festival to a storming conclusion Sunday.
The star was due on the red carpet for the closing-night screening of "Fury," David Ayer's brutal tale of a tank crew in the closing months of World War II.
On Saturday the 58th London festival handed out its prizes, recognizing films that tackled corruption, gang violence, honor killing and war.
Andrey Zvyagintsev's "Leviathan," a tragic satire of small-town Russian corruption, was named best picture. Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy won the first-feature award for "The Tribe," a teen-gang drama set at a school for the deaf and performed entirely in sign language, without subtitles.
Actress Sameena Jabeen Ahmed was named best British newcomer for her performance as a British-Pakistani teenager on the run from her family in "Catch Me Daddy."
The documentary prize went to "Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait," a searing look at the country's civil war by Paris-based director Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan, a schoolteacher who filmed life in the besieged city of Homs.
Director Stephen Frears was awarded the British Film Institute's Fellowship, a lifetime achievement honor.
He was recognized for a career that has traveled from the battered streets of Margaret Thatcher's Britain in "My Beautiful Laundrette," to 18th-century France in "Dangerous Liaisons," seedy Los Angeles in "The Grifters" and Buckingham Palace in "The Queen." Frears is currently at work on a biopic of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.
