Rose Glass’ debut feature Saint Maud heads the nominations at the 41st London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with eight nominations including film of the year and director of the year.
The horror film is also up for British/Irish film of the year, with further nominations for Glass in screenwriter and breakthrough British/Irish filmmaker, and Morfydd Clark in both actress and British/Irish actress of the year (the latter also for her role in Eternal Beauty).
Rocks, another UK title directed by Sarah Gavron with associate director Anu Henriques, received six nominations including film of the year, British/Irish film of the year and British/Irish actress of the year for Bukky Bakray.
The three most-nominated titles were all directed by women, with five nominations for Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland.
Emerald Fennell’s dark comedy Promising Young Woman, David Fincher’s Mank and Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock each received four nominations.
Netflix led the list of distributors with 22 nominations, followed by the BBC with 11 and Altitude with 10.
The nominations were announced online by actors Darci Shaw and Henry Lloyd-Hughes, who will star together in Netflix’s Sherlock Holmes series The Irregulars, which is scheduled for release later this year.
The release date eligibility period for this year’s awards was extended to March, as long as films had been screened in 2020 to critics or at festivals. 224 films were named on the ballots, out of which 49 were nominated.
“This additional eligibility has put an extra strain on our members this year, watching more films than usual,” said Rich Cline, chair of the Critics’ Circle Film Section.
The awards will be presented virtually on Sunday February 7, with a physical event held later in the year at a date to be confirmed.
London Critics’ Circle Film Awards 2021 nominations
Film Of The Year
About Endlessness (Swe-Fr-Ger-Nor) dir. Roy Andersson
Collective (Ro-Lux-Ger) dir. Alexander Nanau
I’m Thinking Of Ending Things (US) dir. Charlie Kaufman
Lovers Rock (UK) dir. Steve McQueen
The Mauritanian (US-UK) dir. Kevin Macdonald
Minari (US) dir. Lee Isaac Chung
Nomadland (US) dir. Chloé Zhao
Promising Young Woman (US) dir. Emerald Fennell
Rocks (UK) dir. Sarah Gavron
Saint Maud (UK) dir. Rose Glass
Foreign-Language Film Of The Year
About Endlessness
Another Round
Collective
Les Misérables
Minari
Documentary Of The Year
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Collective
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Time
The Truffle Hunters
The Attenborough Award British/Irish Film Of The Year
The Father
Lovers Rock
Mangrove
Rocks
Saint Maud
Director Of The Year
David Fincher - Mank
Rose Glass - Saint Maud
Kevin Macdonald - The Mauritanian
Steve Mcqueen - Small Axe
Chloé Zhao - Nomadland
Screenwriter Of The Year
Jack Fincher - Mank
Rose Glass - Saint Maud
Charlie Kaufman - I’m Thinking Of Ending Things
Aaron Sorkin - The Trial Of The Chicago 7
Chloé Zhao - Nomadland
Actress Of The Year
Morfydd Clark - Saint Maud
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Vanessa Kirby - Pieces Of A Woman
Frances Mcdormand - Nomadland
Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman
Actor Of The Year
Riz Ahmed - Sound Of Metal
Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins - The Father
Delroy Lindo - Da 5 Bloods
Tahar Rahim - The Mauritanian
Supporting Actress Of The Year
Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Ellen Burstyn - Pieces Of A Woman
Essie Davis - Babyteeth
Jennifer Ehle - Saint Maud
Amanda Seyfried - Mank
Supporting Actor Of The Year
Sacha Baron Cohen - The Trial Of The Chicago 7
Chadwick Boseman - Da 5 Bloods
Aldis Hodge - Clemency
Ben Mendelsohn - Babyteeth
Shaun Parkes - Mangrove
British/Irish Actress Of The Year (for body of work)
Bukky Bakray - Rocks
Jessie Buckley - I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, Misbehaviour
Morfydd Clark - Eternal Beauty, Saint Maud
Vanessa Kirby - Pieces Of A Woman, The World To Come
Carey Mulligan - The Dig, Promising Young Woman
British/Irish Actor Of The Year (for body of work)
Riz Ahmed - Mogul Mowgli, Sound Of Metal
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, The Trial Of The Chicago 7
John Boyega - Red, White And Blue
Anthony Hopkins - The Father
Cosmo Jarvis - Calm With Horses, Nocturnal
The Philip French Award for Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker
Henry Blake - County Lines
Fyzal Boulifa - Lynn + Lucy
Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
Rose Glass - Saint Maud
Remi Weekes - His House
Young British/Irish Performer
Kosar Ali - Rocks
Bukky Bakray - Rocks
Millie Bobby Brown - Enola Holmes
Conrad Khan - County Lines
Molly Windsor - Make Up
British/Irish Short Film
Filipiñana – dir. Rafael Manuel
Hungry Joe – dir. Paul Holbrook
Lizard – dir. Akinola Davies Jr
The Long Goodbye – dir. Aneil Karia
The Shift – dir. Laura Carreira
Technical Achievement
Ammonite - Stéphane Fontaine, cinematography
Birds Of Prey - Deborah Lamia Denaver & Adruitha Lee, makeup & hair
Lovers Rock - Mica Levi, music
Mank - Donald Graham Burt, production design
Nomadland - Joshua James Richards, cinematography
Rocks - Lucy Pardee, casting
Soul - Pete Docter, animation
Sound Of Metal - Nicolas Becker, sound design
Tenet - Jennifer Lame, film editing
Wolfwalkers - Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart, animation
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