Olivia Colman’s royal comedy leads a pack that includes Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince, while Hollywood big-hitter Vice only scores two nods

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The Favourite has maintained its early season momentum in the awards race as it emerged at the head of the pack in the nominations for the London Film Critics’ Circle awards. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, the comedy drama of 18th-century court intrigue scooped 10 nods, including film, director and screenwriter of the year. Colman and Weisz were also nominated for actress and supporting actress of the year respectively.

Four films, with five nominations each, followed in its wake: Pawel Pawlikowski’s decades-spanning romance Cold War, Rupert Everett’s Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince, Alfonso Cuarón’s Mexico City memoir Roma and Lynne Ramsay’s mercenary thriller You Were Never Really Here. All four are nominated for film of the year, with Pawlikowski, Cuarón and Ramsay up for the director prize and Cuarón also for screenwriter of the year.

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The list is notable for the poor showing of a number of Hollywood big-hitters who presumably will be in the mix in the American awards lists: political comedy Vice, leader of the Golden Globes list, only scored two nods here, both for lead actor Christian Bale, while music-business romance A Star Is Born and feelgood race drama Green Book are entirely absent. On the other hand, space-exploration biopic First Man secured four nominations, as did Steve McQueen’s heist yarn Widows.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on 20 January.

Full list of nominations

Film of the year

BlacKkKlansman

Cold War

The Favourite

First Man

First Reformed

The Happy Prince

Leave No Trace

Roma

Shoplifters

You Were Never Really Here

Foreign-language film of the year

120 Beats per Minute

Cold War

A Fantastic Woman

Roma

Shoplifters

Documentary of the year

Faces Places

McQueen

They Shall Not Grow Old

Three Identical Strangers

Whitney

British/Irish film of the year

Apostasy

Beast

The Favourite

The Happy Prince

You Were Never Really Here

Director of the year

Alfonso Cuarón - Roma

Debra Granik - Leave No Trace

Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite

Pawel Pawlikowski - Cold War

Lynne Ramsay - You Were Never Really Here

Screenwriter of the year

Alfonso Cuarón - Roma

Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara - The Favourite

Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk

Steve McQueen & Gillian Flynn - Widows

Paul Schrader - First Reformed

Actress of the year

Yalitza Aparicio - Roma

Glenn Close - The Wife

Toni Collette - Hereditary

Olivia Colman - The Favourite

Joanna Kulig - Cold War

Actor of the year

Christian Bale - Vice

Rupert Everett - The Happy Prince

Ben Foster - Leave No Trace

Ethan Hawke - First Reformed

Joaquin Phoenix - You Were Never Really Here

Supporting actress of the year

Elizabeth Debicki - Widows

Cynthia Erivo - Bad Times at the El Royale

Claire Foy - First Man

Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk

Rachel Weisz - The Favourite

Supporting actor of the year

Adam Driver - BlacKkKlansman

Richard E Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Michael B Jordan - Black Panther

Daniel Kaluuya - Widows

Alessandro Nivola - Disobedience

British/Irish actress of the year

Emily Blunt - Mary Poppins Returns, A Quiet Place, Sherlock Gnomes

Jessie Buckley - Beast

Olivia Colman - The Favourite

Claire Foy - First Man, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Unsane

Rachel Weisz - Disobedience, The Favourite

British/Irish actor of the year

Christian Bale - Mowgli, Vice

Steve Coogan - Holmes & Watson, Ideal Home, Stan & Ollie

Rupert Everett - The Happy Prince

Richard E Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Daniel Kaluuya - Black Panther, Widows

Young British/Irish performer of the year

Liv Hill - Jellyfish, The Little Stranger

Noah Jupe - Holmes & Watson, A Quiet Place, That Good Night, The Titan

Anya Taylor-Joy - Glass, The Secret of Marrowbone, Thoroughbreds

Fionn Whitehead - The Children Act

Molly Wright - Apostasy

Breakthrough British/Irish film-maker

Deborah Davis - The Favourite

Rupert Everett - The Happy Prince

Deborah Haywood - Pin Cushion

Daniel Kokotajlo - Apostasy

Michael Pearce - Beast

British/Irish short film

Little Shit - Richard Gorodecky

Night Out - Amelia Hashemi

Salt & Sauce - Alia Ghafar

Three Centimetres - Lara Zeidan

Under Growth - Evin O’Neill

Technical achievement award

American Animals - film editing,

BlacKkKlansman - costume design

Cold War - cinematography

The Favourite - production design

First Man - visual effects

If Beale Street Could Talk - music

Mission: Impossible Fallout - stunts

A Quiet Place - sound design

Suspiria - music

You Were Never Really Here - film editing

Dilys Powell award for excellence in film

Pedro Almodóvar