45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards: ‘Anora’, ‘The Brutalist’ among top contenders

The London Critics’ Circle Film Awards has announced its 45th slate of nominees, with Sean Baker’s Anora and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist leading the list, each earning seven nominations.

Edward Berger’s Conclave and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance follow closely behind with six nominations apiece, while Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez secured five nods. Rounding out the frontrunners are Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap, each with four nominations.

These films are all contesting for the coveted Film of the Year award, alongside All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia, La Chimera by Alice Rohrwacher, Nickel Boys by RaMell Ross, and Robert Eggers’ much-anticipated Nosferatu.

In the performance categories, Actress of the Year nominees include Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance), and Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun). Competing for Actor of the Year are Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Daniel Craig (Queer), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave).

The awards ceremony will take place on 2 February, 2025, at London’s May Fair Hotel, which will be hosted by renowned critic Mark Kermode.

The Critics’ Circle Film Awards, voted on by the 210-member Film Section of the Critics’ Circle, remains the UK’s longest-standing critics’ organization. Eligibility spans films released in UK cinemas or on premier streaming platforms between mid-February 2024 and mid-February 2025.

Check the full list of nominations below:

FILM OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Seesaw Media
All We Imagine As Light
Anora
The Brutalist
La Chimera
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Kneecap
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
The Substance

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
All We Imagine As Light
La Chimera
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Kneecap

DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
Dahomey
Grand Theft Hamlet
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
No Other Land
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

ANIMATED FEATURE OF THE YEAR
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

The AttenboroughAward
BRITISH/IRISH FILM OF THE YEAR
Bird
Conclave
Hard Truths
Kneecap
Love Lies Bleeding

DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Sean Baker – Anora
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two

SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Sean Baker – Anora
Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Peter Straughan – Conclave

ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Nicole Kidman – Babygirl
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun

ACTOR OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Reddit
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig – Queer
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave

SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
Michele Austin – Hard Truths
Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER
Marisa Abela – Back to Black
Nykiya Adams – Bird
Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison – Anora
Maisy Stella – My Old Ass

The Philip French Award
BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH/IRISH FILMMAKER
Luna Carmoon – Hoard
Naqqash Khalid – In Camera
Amy Liptrot – The Outrun
Dev Patel – Monkey Man
Rich Peppiatt – Kneecap

BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR (for body of work)
Cynthia Erivo – Drift/Wicked: Part I
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – The Book of Clarence/Hard Truths
Nicholas Hoult – Juror #2/Nosferatu/The Order
Josh O’Connor – La Chimera/Challengers/Lee
Saoirse Ronan – Blitz/The Outrun

YOUNG BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Nykiya Adams – Bird
Elliott Heffernan – Blitz
Raffey Cassidy – The Brutalist/Kensuke’s Kingdom
Dan Hough – Speak No Evil
Alisha Weir – Abigail/Buffalo Kids/Wicked Little Letters

BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR
Iranian Yellow Pages – directed by Anna Snowball
Karavidhe – directed by Eoin Doran
Push – directed by Elly Condron
Wander to Wonder – directed by Nina Gantz
We Beg to Differ – directed by Ruairi Bradley

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Anora – stunts, Manny Siverio, Christopher Colombo & Roberto Lopez
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – visual effects, Angus Bickerton
The Brutalist – production design, Judy Becker
A Complete Unknown – costumes, Arianne Phillips
Conclave – film editing, Nick Emerson
Dune: Part Two – visual effects, Paul Lambert
Emilia Pérez – music, Clément Ducol & Camille
Nickel Boys – cinematography, Jomo Fray
Nosferatu – cinematography, Jarin Blaschke
The Substance – makeup, Stéphanie Guillon & Pierre-Olivier Persin

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