Highly rated horror film Saint Maud has scooped eight nominations in the 41st annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, announced this morning.
Rose Glass’ (pictured above) lauded spine-tingler was nominated in the Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actress (Morfydd Clark) and Supporting Actress (Jennifer Ehle) categories. In addition, the film has been nominated for British/Irish Film of the Year, with Clark is nominated for British/Irish Actress, a body-of-work award that includes her appearance in Eternal Beauty.
Other leading contenders in this year’s awards include Sarah Gavron’s London coming-of-age story Rocks with six nominations, Chloé Zhao’s improvised American road movie Nomadland with five, and Emerald Fennell’s black comedy thriller Promising Young Woman with four. Also earning four nominations were David Fincher’s Hollywood biopic Mank and Steve McQueen’s house-party drama Lovers Rock. McQueen is up for Director of the Year for his five Small Axe films.
Rounding out the ten nominees for Film of the Year are Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness, Alexander Nanau’s journalism docu Collective, Charlie Kaufman’s existential black comedy I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Kevin Macdonald’s Guantanamo drama The Mauritanian and Lee Isaac Chung’s Korean-American immigrant saga Minari.
Inevitably, films released directly to streaming services in 2020 were made eligible, and the qualifying release dates were extended into March…
Female filmmakers lead nominees for the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards
The late Chadwick Boseman received nominations both for his lead role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and his supporting role in Da 5 Bloods. Other multiple acting nominees include Morfydd Clark, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed, Vanessa Kirby, Sacha Baron Cohen and Rocks’ newcomer Bukky Bakray.
The nominations were announced online today by actors Darci Shaw, who played the young Judy Garland alongside Renée Zellweger in Judy, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes, who appeared opposite Keira Knightley in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina. The two are starring together in Netflix’s upcoming supernatural Sherlock Holmes series The Irregulars, in which Lloyd-Hughes plays the iconic detective.
Inevitably, films released directly to streaming services in 2020 were made eligible, and the qualifying release dates were extended into March, as long as films had been screened in 2020 to critics or at festivals.
“This additional eligibility has put an extra strain on our members this year, watching more films than usual,” says Rich Cline, chair of the Critics’ Circle Film Section. “And indeed we named 224 features across our ballots, out of which 49 were nominated. As always, there are some surprises that make our shortlists stand out, even in this year’s rather unusual awards season. And it’s great to see such a range of talent recognised, spread across genders, ethnicities and production budgets.”
The 41st London Critics’ Circle Film Awards will be presented virtually on Sunday, February 7. A physical event will be held later in the year, working with our long-standing sponsor The MayFair Hotel, to celebrate the winners and present this year’s Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Cinema.
The event is the second major UK-centric Awards celebration this season, following on the South Bank Sky Arts Awards, announced last December.
London Critics’ Circle Film Awards 2021 nominations in full:
Film of the Year About Endlessness Collective I’m Thinking of Ending Things Lovers Rock The Mauritanian Minari Nomadland Promising Young Woman Rocks Saint Maud
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 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 – Rafael Manuel, director Hungry Joe – Paul Holbrook, director Lizard – Akinola Davies Jr, director The Long Goodbye – Aneil Karia, director The Shift – Laura Carreira, director
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 – Phillip Bladh, sound design Tenet – Jennifer Lame, film editing WolfWalkers – Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart
Animation Winners will be announced virtually on Sunday, February 7.
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Highly rated horror film Saint Maud has scooped eight nominations in the 41st annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, announced this morning.
Rose Glass’ (pictured above) lauded spine-tingler was nominated in the Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actress (Morfydd Clark) and Supporting Actress (Jennifer Ehle) categories. In addition, the film has been nominated for British/Irish Film of the Year, with Clark is nominated for British/Irish Actress, a body-of-work award that includes her appearance in Eternal Beauty.
Other leading contenders in this year’s awards include Sarah Gavron’s London coming-of-age story Rocks with six nominations, Chloé Zhao’s improvised American road movie Nomadland with five, and Emerald Fennell’s black comedy thriller Promising Young Woman with four. Also earning four nominations were David Fincher’s Hollywood biopic Mank and Steve McQueen’s house-party drama Lovers Rock. McQueen is up for Director of the Year for his five Small Axe films.
Rounding out the ten nominees for Film of the Year are Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness, Alexander Nanau’s journalism docu Collective, Charlie Kaufman’s existential black comedy I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Kevin Macdonald’s Guantanamo drama The Mauritanian and Lee Isaac Chung’s Korean-American immigrant saga Minari.
The late Chadwick Boseman received nominations both for his lead role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and his supporting role in Da 5 Bloods. Other multiple acting nominees include Morfydd Clark, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed, Vanessa Kirby, Sacha Baron Cohen and Rocks’ newcomer Bukky Bakray.
The nominations were announced online today by actors Darci Shaw, who played the young Judy Garland alongside Renée Zellweger in Judy, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes, who appeared opposite Keira Knightley in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina. The two are starring together in Netflix’s upcoming supernatural Sherlock Holmes series The Irregulars, in which Lloyd-Hughes plays the iconic detective.
Inevitably, films released directly to streaming services in 2020 were made eligible, and the qualifying release dates were extended into March, as long as films had been screened in 2020 to critics or at festivals.
“This additional eligibility has put an extra strain on our members this year, watching more films than usual,” says Rich Cline, chair of the Critics’ Circle Film Section. “And indeed we named 224 features across our ballots, out of which 49 were nominated. As always, there are some surprises that make our shortlists stand out, even in this year’s rather unusual awards season. And it’s great to see such a range of talent recognised, spread across genders, ethnicities and production budgets.”
The 41st London Critics’ Circle Film Awards will be presented virtually on Sunday, February 7. A physical event will be held later in the year, working with our long-standing sponsor The MayFair Hotel, to celebrate the winners and present this year’s Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Cinema.
The event is the second major UK-centric Awards celebration this season, following on the South Bank Sky Arts Awards, announced last December.
London Critics’ Circle Film Awards 2021 nominations in full:
Film of the Year
About Endlessness
Collective
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Lovers Rock
The Mauritanian
Minari
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Rocks
Saint Maud
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
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 – Rafael Manuel, director
Hungry Joe – Paul Holbrook, director
Lizard – Akinola Davies Jr, director
The Long Goodbye – Aneil Karia, director
The Shift – Laura Carreira, director
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 – Phillip Bladh, sound design
Tenet – Jennifer Lame, film editing
WolfWalkers – Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart
Animation Winners will be announced virtually on Sunday, February 7.
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