Souvenir

Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir leads the way with seven nominations for the 40th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, including best film, actor (Tom Burke), supporting actress (Tilda Swinton) and young performer (Honor Swinton Byrne).

Close behind are Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Sam Mendes’ 1917 with six nods, while Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory and Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite have five. 

The winners will be announced on Sunday, 30 January at The May Fair Hotel. Sally Potter and Sandy Powell will both receive the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film, with Aardman collecting the 40th Anniversary Award.

Full list of nominations

Film of the year

  • The Irishman
  • Joker
  • Knives Out
  • Marriage Story
  • Midsommar
  • 1917
  • Pain and Glory
  • Parasite
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • The Souvenir 

Foreign-language film of the year

  • Happy as Lazzaro
  • Monos
  • Pain and Glory
  • Parasite
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Documentary of the year

  • Amazing Grace
  • Apollo 11
  • The Cave
  • For Sama
  • Varda by Agnès

Director of the year

  • Pedro Almodóvar - Pain and Glory
  • Bong Joon Ho - Parasite
  • Sam Mendes - 1917
  • Céline Sciamma - Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Martin Scorsese - The Irishman

Screenwriter of the year

  • Pedro Almodóvar - Pain and Glory
  • Noah Baumbach - Marriage Story
  • Bong Joon Ho & Han Jin Wan - Parasite
  • Joanna Hogg - The Souvenir
  • Steven Zaillian - The Irishman

Actress of the year

  • Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story
  • Lupita Nyong’o - Us
  • Florence Pugh - Midsommar
  • Charlize Theron - Bombshell
  • Renée Zellweger – Judy

Actor of the year

  • Antonio Banderas - Pain and Glory
  • Tom Burke - The Souvenir
  • Robert De Niro - The Irishman
  • Adam Driver - Marriage Story
  • Joaquin Phoenix – Joker 

Supporting actress of the year

  • Laura Dern - Marriage Story
  • Jennifer Lopez - Hustlers
  • Florence Pugh - Little Women
  • Margot Robbie - Bombshell
  • Tilda Swinton - The Souvenir

Supporting actor of the year

  • Tom Hanks - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
  • Shia LaBeouf - Honey Boy
  • Al Pacino - The Irishman
  • Joe Pesci - The Irishman
  • Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood

British/Irish film: the Attenborough award

  • Bait
  • 1917
  • Rocketman
  • The Souvenir
  • Wild Rose

British/Irish actress (for body of work)

  • Jessie Buckley - Wild Rose/Judy
  • Cynthia Erivo - Harriet
  • Lesley Manville - Ordinary Love/Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
  • Florence Pugh - Fighting With My Family/Midsommar/Little Women
  • Saoirse Ronan - Little Women

British/Irish actor (for body of work)

  • Tom Burke - The Souvenir
  • Taron Egerton - Rocketman
  • George MacKay - 1917/Where Hands Touch/Ophelia
  • Robert Pattinson - The Lighthouse/High Life/The King
  • Jonathan Pryce - The Two Popes

Young British/Irish performer (for body of work)

  • Raffey Cassidy - Vox Lux
  • Dean-Charles Chapman - 1917/The King/Blinded by the Light
  • Roman Griffin Davis - Jojo Rabbit
  • Noah Jupe - Honey Boy/Le Mans ’66
  • Honor Swinton Byrne - The Souvenir

Breakthrough British/Irish filmmaker: the Philip French award

  • Waad Al-Khateab & Edward Watts - For Sama
  • Richard Billingham - Ray & Liz
  • Mark Jenkin - Bait
  • Owen McCafferty - Ordinary Love
  • Nicole Taylor - Wild Rose

British/Irish short film of the year

  • Appreciation
  • Beyond the North Winds: A Post-Nuclear Reverie
  • The Devil’s Harmony
  • Kingdom Come
  • Pompeii

Technical achievement award

  • Ad Astra - Allen Maris, visual effects
  • Apollo 11 - Todd Douglas Miller, film editing
  • Judy - Jeremy Woodhead, makeup and hair
  • Little Women - Jacqueline Durran, costumes
  • Motherless Brooklyn - Daniel Pemberton, music
  • Monos - Jasper Wolf, cinematography
  • 1917 - Oliver Tarney, sound design
  • Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood - Barbara Ling, production design
  • Parasite - Lee Ha Jun, production design
  • A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon - Will Becher & Richard Phelan, animation