Trust us posh London lot to go ham on the year's bougiest movie - the whole Hogg, indeed. The Souvenir is 2019's most-nominated movie at the London Critics' Circle film awards, with seven mentions total. Naturally, its haul is inflated by its eligibility in the British/Irish-only categories - remove those, and The Irishman instead leads with six.
We'll have to wait until the 30th of January, when the LCC hosts its annual awards ceremony, to find out who wins and where. Until then, we can gladly savour the slate below, as it's a typically excellent selection from these smart, thoughtful critics.
Film of the Year
1917
The Irishman
Joker
Knives Out
Marriage Story
Midsommar
Pain & Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Souvenir
Director of the Year
Pedro Almodovar (Pain & Glory)
Bong Joon Ho (Parasite)
Sam Mendes (1917)
Celine Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)
Actress of the Year
Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
Lupita Nyong'o (Us)
Florence Pugh (Midsommar)
Charlize Theron (Bombshell)
Renee Zellweger (Judy)
Actor of the Year
Antonio Banderas (Pain & 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 Neighbourhood)
Shia LaBeouf (Honey Boy)
Al Pacino (The Irishman)
Joe Pesci (The Irishman)
Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood)
Screenwriter of the Year
Pedro Almodovar (Pain & Glory)
Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story)
Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won (Parasite)
Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir)
Steven Zaillian (The Irishman)
Technical Achievement Award
Will Becher and Richard Phelan (A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon) - animation
Jacqueline Durran (Little Women) - costumes
Lee Ha Jun (Parasite) - production design
Barbara Ling (Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood) - production design
Allen Maris (Ad Astra) - visual effects
Todd Douglas Miller (Apollo 11) - editing
Daniel Pemberton (Motherless Brooklyn) - music
Oliver Tarney (1917) - sound design
Jasper Wolf (Monos) - cinematography
Jeremy Woodhead (Judy) - makeup and hair
Documentary of the Year
Amazing Grace
Apollo 11
The Cave
For Sama
Varda by Agnes
Foreign-Language Film of the Year
Happy as Lazzaro
Monos
Pain & Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Attenborough Award for British / Irish Film of the Year
1917
Bait
Rocketman
The Souvenir
Wild Rose
British / Irish Actress of the Year
Jessie Buckley (Judy / Wild Rose)
Cynthia Erivo (Harriet)
Lesley Manville (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil / Ordinary Love)
Florence Pugh (Fighting with My Family / Little Women / Midsommar)
Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)
British / Irish Actor of the Year
Tom Burke (The Souvenir)
Taron Egerton (Rocketman)
George MacKay (1917 / Ophelia / Where Hands Touch)
Robert Pattinson (High Life / The King / The Lighthouse)
Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes)
The Philip French Award for Breakthrough British / Irish Filmmaker
Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts (For Sama)
Richard Billingham (Ray & Liz)
Mark Jenkin (Bait)
Owen McCafferty (Ordinary Love)
Nicole Taylor (Wild Rose)
Young British / Irish Performer of the Year
Raffey Cassidy (Vox Lux)
Dean-Charles Chapman (1917 / Blinded by the Light / The King)
Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit)
Noah Jupe (Ford v. Ferrari / Honey Boy)
Honor Swinton Byrne (The Souvenir)
British / Irish Short Film of the Year
Appreciation
Beyond the North Winds: A Post-Nuclear Reverie
The Devil's Harmony
Kingdom Come
Pompeii
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