16/12/2015 - 45 Years close behind with six nods, while Mad Max, The Revenant and Steve Jobs have five each

The 36^th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards have announced nominations and Todd Haynes’ Carol [+see also:
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Rich Cline, chair of the Critics’ Circle Film Awards, said, “Our critics nominated more than 200 titles for Film of the Year alone, representing the range of wide opinions and the sheer number of movies critics watch each year. There was love for everything from Tangerine and Tangerines [+see also:
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The full list of nominees:

Film of the Year
45 Years [+see also:
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Amy [+see also:
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Carol [+see also:
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Inside Out
The Look of Silence [+see also:
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Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room [+see also:
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Spotlight

British/Irish Film of the Year
45 Years
Amy
Brooklyn [+see also:
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The Lobster [+see also:
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Q&A: Yorgos Lanthimos
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London Road [+see also:
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Foreign-Language Film of the Year
Eden [+see also:
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interview: Mia Hansen-Løve
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Hard to Be a God
The Look of Silence
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
The Tribe [+see also:
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Documentary of the Year
Amy
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
The Look of Silence
Palio
A Syrian Love Story [+see also:
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Actor of the Year
Tom Courtenay - 45 Years
Paul Dano - Love & Mercy
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
Michael Fassbender -Steve Jobs [+see also:
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Tom Hardy – Legend [+see also:
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Actress of the Year
Cate Blanchett – Carol
Brie Larson – Room
Rooney Mara – Carol
Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn

Supporting Actor of the Year
Benicio Del Toro – Sicario
Tom Hardy - The Revenant
Oscar Isaac - Ex Machina [+see also:
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Michael Keaton – Spotlight
Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies

Supporting Actress of the Year
Olivia Colman - The Lobster
Kristen Stewart - Clouds of Sils Maria [+see also:
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Tilda Swinton – Trainwreck
Alicia Vikander - Ex Machina
Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs

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

Screenwriter of the Year
Emma Donoghue – Room
Nick Hornby – Brooklyn
Phyllis Nagy – Carol
Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
Aaron Sorkin - Steve Jobs

British/Irish Actor of the Year
Michael Caine - Kingsman: The Secret Service [+see also:
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interview: Paolo Sorrentino
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Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation, Second Coming [+see also:
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Colin Farrell - The Lobster, Miss Julie [+see also:
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interview: Liv Ullmann
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Michael Fassbender – Macbeth [+see also:
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interview: John Maclean
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Tom Hardy - Legend, London Road, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant

British/Irish Actress of the Year
Emily Blunt – Sicario
Carey Mulligan - Far From the Madding Crowd [+see also:
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 [+see also:
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Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn, Lost River
Kate Winslet - The Dressmaker, A Little Chaos [+see also:
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interview: Alan Rickman
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Young British/Irish Performer
Asa Butterfield - X + Y [+see also:
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Milo Parker - Mr Holmes [+see also:
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interview: Bill Condon
interview: Laura Linney
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Florence Pugh - The Falling [+see also:
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interview: Carol Morley
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Liam Walpole - The Goob [+see also:
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interview: Guy Myhill
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Maisie Williams - The Falling

Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker
Tom Browne – Radiator [+see also:
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Mark Burton & Richard Starzak - Shaun the Sheep Movie [+see also:
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Emma Donoghue – Room
Alex Garland - Ex Machina
John Maclean - Slow West

British/Irish Short Film
Directed by Tweedie - Duncan Cowles
Leidi - Simon Mesa Soto
Over - Jorn Threlfall
Rate Me - Fyzal Boulifa
Stutterer - Benjamin Cleary

Technical Achievement Award
Carter Burwell, music – Carol
Wade Eastwood, stunts - Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation
Colin Gibson, production design - Mad Max: Fury Road
Elliott Graham, editing - Steve Jobs
Edward Lachman, cinematography – Carol
Tom Ozanich, sound design – Sicario
Sandy Powell, costumes – Cinderella [+see also:
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John Seale, cinematography - Mad Max: Fury Road
Alistair Sirkett and Markus Stemler, sound design – Macbeth
Andrew Whitehurst, visual effects - Ex Machina