By Rebecca Brando x The Big Magazine
The Palme d’Or winner Anora and the indie drama The Brutalist lead the nominations for the London Critics’ Circle film awards, each securing seven nominations.
Both films are anticipated to be strong contenders throughout the awards season in the coming months and have largely paralleled each other here. Anora and The Brutalist are nominated for film of the year and director of the year (Sean Baker for Anora and Brady Corbet for The Brutalist), with their lead actors also receiving nominations: Mikey Madison for actress of the year for Anora and Adrien Brody for The Brutalist. Madison, portraying a sex worker who impulsively marries the son of a Russian oligarch, is also nominated for breakthrough performer.
Close behind, with six nominations each, are the papal drama Conclave and the feminist body horror The Substance. Conclave, featuring Ralph Fiennes as a British cardinal participating in the election of a new pope, has earned nominations for actor of the year for Fiennes and screenwriter of the year for Peter Straughan, who adapted Robert Harris’s novel. In a significant comeback, Demi Moore is nominated for actress of the year for The Substance, while its creator, Coralie Fargeat, is recognized in both the writing and directing categories. Emilia Pérez, the trans gangster musical directed by Jacques Audiard and already being touted as a major Oscar contender, has five nominations, including film of the year and foreign-language film of the year.
Conclave leads the British/Irish films in terms of nominations; following it, each with four nominations, are Mike Leigh’s newest drama, Hard Truths, and the Belfast-based rap comedy Kneecap. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, the star of Hard Truths, is nominated for actress of the year and British/Irish performer of the year (the latter for her “body of work”, including her role in The Book of Clarence). Meanwhile, Kneecap is poised for a successful awards season, having emerged as the leading contender for the British independent film awards (Bifas) and making the shortlist for the best international feature film Oscar.
The winners of the Critics’ Circle awards will be revealed on 2 February during a ceremony in London.
Full list of Critics’ Circle awards nominations
Film of the year
All We Imagine As Light
Anora
The Brutalist
La Chimera
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Kneecap
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
The Substance
Foreign-language film of the year
All We Imagine As Light
La Chimera
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Kneecap
Documentary of the year
Dahomey
Grand Theft Hamlet
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
No Other Land
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Animated feature of the year
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Attenborough award for British/Irish film of the year
Bird
Conclave
Hard Truths
Kneecap
Love Lies Bleeding
Director of the year
Sean Baker - Anora
Brady Corbet - The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat - The Substance
RaMell Ross - Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two
Screenwriter of the year
Sean Baker - Anora
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold - The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg - A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat - The Substance
Peter Straughan - Conclave
Actress of the year
Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Hard Truths
Nicole Kidman - Babygirl
Mikey Madison - Anora
Demi Moore - The Substance
Saoirse Ronan - The Outrun
Actor of the year
Adrien Brody - The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig - Queer
Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
Supporting actress of the year
Michele Austin - Hard Truths
Danielle Deadwyler - The Piano Lesson
Margaret Qualley - The Substance
Isabella Rossellini - Conclave
Zoe Saldaña - Emilia Pérez
Supporting actor of the year
Yura Borisov - Anora
Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain
Guy Pearce - The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong - The Apprentice
Denzel Washington - Gladiator II
Breakthrough performer
Marisa Abela - Back to Black
Nykiya Adams - Bird
Karla Sofía Gascón - Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison - Anora
Maisy Stella - My Old Ass
Philip French award for Breakthrough British/Irish film-maker
Luna Carmoon - Hoard
Naqqash Khalid - In Camera
Amy Liptrot - The Outrun
Dev Patel - Monkey Man
Rich Peppiatt - Kneecap
British/Irish performer of the year (for body of work)
Cynthia Erivo - Drift/Wicked: Part I
Marianne Jean-Baptiste - The Book of Clarence/Hard Truths
Nicholas Hoult - Juror #2/Nosferatu/The Order
Josh O’Connor - La Chimera/Challengers/Lee
Saoirse Ronan - Blitz/The Outrun
Young British/Irish performer of the year (for body of work)
Nykiya Adams - Bird
Elliott Heffernan - Blitz
Raffey Cassidy - The Brutalist/Kensuke’s Kingdom
Dan Hough - Speak No Evil
Alisha Weir - Abigail/Buffalo Kids/Wicked Little Letters
British/Irish short film of the year
Iranian Yellow Pages
Karavidhe
Push
Wander to Wonder
We Beg to Differ
Technical achievement award
Anora - stunts, Manny Siverio, Christopher Colombo & Roberto Lopez
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - visual effects, Angus Bickerton
The Brutalist - production design, Judy Becker
A Complete Unknown - costumes, Arianne Phillips
Conclave - film editing, Nick Emerson
Dune: Part Two - visual effects, Paul Lambert
Emilia Pérez - music, Clément Ducol & Camille
Nickel Boys - cinematography, Jomo Fray
Nosferatu - cinematography, Jarin Blaschke
The Substance - makeup, Stéphanie Guillon & Pierre-Olivier Persin
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