London Critics Shine Spotlight On...No, Not That One!

New day, new awards nominations And the London Critics’ Circle have favoured Carol with seven – including Film Of The Year and, probably cancelling out nods for both Blanchett and Mara in the Actress Of The Year category. But the London lot were keen to spread the wealth with six for 45 Years, and then five each for Fury Road, The Revenant and the so far much neglected Steve Jobs.

Brooklyn failed to land a Film Of The Year nom (but got British Film), Tom Hardy is up for everything he can possibly be up for, The Big Short wasn’t a player due to UK release dates, Spotlight wasn’t a major player (but then again the UK has been aware of paedo priests for quite some time now – so no big news here!), and Paul Dano got some more traction in the leading actor position.

The London Critics’ Circle announce their winners on January 17 - main noms below - 

Film of the year

45 Years
Amy
Carol
Inside Out
The Look of Silence
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

Actor of the year

Tom Courtenay - 45 Years
Paul Dano - Love & Mercy
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
Tom Hardy - Legend

Actress of the year

Cate Blanchett - Carol
Brie Larson - Room
Rooney Mara - Carol
Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn

Director of the year

Andrew Haigh - 45 Years
Todd Haynes - Carol
Alejandro G Iñárritu - The Revenant
George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott - The Martian

Supporting actor of the year

Benicio Del Toro - Sicario
Tom Hardy - The Revenant
Oscar Isaac - Ex Machina
Michael Keaton - Spotlight
Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies

Supporting actress of the year

Olivia Colman - The Lobster
Kristen Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria
Tilda Swinton - Trainwreck
Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs

British film of the year

45 Years
Amy
Brooklyn
The Lobster
London Road

Foreign-language film of the year

Eden
Hard to Be a God
The Look of Silence
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
The Tribe

Documentary of the year

Amy
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
The Look of Silence
Palio
A Syrian Love Story

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