One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, has consolidated its place as the awards-season leader in emerging with the most nominations from the London Critics’ Circle film awards.
One Battle After Another, a counter-culture thriller loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, picked up nine nominations, including film of the year, director and screenwriter of the year for Anderson, and actor of the year for DiCaprio. Co-stars Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn were nominated in the supporting categories while Chase Infiniti was nominated for breakthrough performer.
Shakespearean drama Hamnet, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the playwright and his wife, followed One Battle with eight, including film of the year, director of the year for Chloé Zhao, and actress of the year for Buckley (though Mescal misses out). In third place, with seven nods, is Ryan Coogler’s juke-joint horror-thriller Sinners, including director and writer nods for Coogler.
The awards, which are voted on by more than 200 members of London Critics’ Circle film section, are announced on 1 February at a ceremony in London.
Full list of nominations
Film of the year
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
The Mastermind
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Sirāt
Sorry, Baby
Train Dreams
Weapons
Foreign language film of the year
It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sirāt
Documentary of the year
Cover-Up
One to One: John & Yoko
Orwell: 2+2=5
The Perfect Neighbor
Riefenstahl
Animated feature of the year
Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootropolis 2
British/Irish film of the year
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
I Swear
Pillion
Director of the year
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Óliver Laxe – Sirāt
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Screenwriter of the year
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein – Marty Supreme
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby
Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet
Actor of the year
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Josh O’Connor – The Mastermind
Actress of the year
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby
Supporting actor of the year
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo – Sinners
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Alexander Skarsgård – Pillion
Supporting actress of the year
Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan – Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
Breakthrough performer of the year
Robert Aramayo – I Swear/Palestine 36
Miles Caton – Sinners
Frank Dillane – Urchin/Harvest
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby
Breakthrough British/Irish film-maker of the year
Tom Basden & Tim Key – The Ballad of Wallis Island
Laura Carreira – On Falling
Akinola Davies Jr – My Father’s Shadow
Harris Dickinson – Urchin
Harry Lighton – Pillion
British/Irish performer of the year
Naomi Ackie – Sorry, Baby/Mickey 17/The Thursday Murder Club
Robert Aramayo – I Swear/Palestine 36
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
David Jonsson – Wasteman/The Long Walk
Josh O’Connor – The Mastermind/The History of Sound/Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Young British/Irish performer of the year
Scott Ellis Watson – I Swear
Ebada Hassan – Brides
Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet
Noah Jupe – Hamnet/The Carpenter’s Son
Alfie Williams – 28 Years Later
Technical achievement award
Die My Love – editing, Toni Froschhammer
The Ice Tower – production design, Julia Irribarria
Marty Supreme – casting, Jennifer Venditti
The Mastermind – music, Rob Mazurek
One Battle After Another – editing, Andy Jurgensen
Sinners – music, Ludwig Göransson
Sirāt – sound design, Laia Casanovas
Sound of Falling – costume design, Sabrina Krämer
Train Dreams – cinematography, Adolpho Veloso
Weapons – makeup and hairstyling, Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat and Jason Collins
British/Irish short film of the year
Two Black Boys in Paradise
Leaving Ikorodu in 1999
I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash
Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites
Milk
