Battle after battle defeating its competitors in the London Film Critics Circle Awards nominations | film

“Battle After Battle,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, cemented its place as an awards season leader by emerging with the highest number of nominations from the London Film Critics Circle Awards.

“Battle After Battle,” a countercultural thriller based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Vinland,” received nine nominations, including movie of the year, best director and screenwriter of the year for Anderson, and best actor for DiCaprio. Co-stars Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn were nominated in supporting categories while Chase Infiniti was nominated for Best Performance.

The Shakespearean drama “Hamnet,” starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the playwright and his wife, followed “One Battle” with eight films, including Movie of the Year, Director of the Year for Chloe Zhao, and Actress of the Year for Buckley (although Mescal was absent from the list). In third place, with seven nominations, is director Ryan Coogler’s horror-thriller Sinners, including director and writer nominations for Coogler.

The awards, voted on by more than 200 members of the film section of the London Critics Circle, will be announced on February 1 at a ceremony in London.

Full list of nominations

Movie of the year
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Mastermind
Battle after battle
Emotional value
Sinners
Sirat
Sorry my dear
Train dreams
Weapons

Foreign language film of the year
It was just an accident
There is no other choice
Secret agent
Emotional value
Sirat

Documentary film of the year
Cover up
One-on-One: John and Yoko
Orwell: 2+2=5
The perfect neighbor
Riefenstahl

Animated feature of the year
Arco
Elio
Demon hunters in kpop
Little Amelie or Rain character
Zootropolis 2

British/Irish film of the year
Wallis Island poem
Bugonia
Hamnet
I swear
one billion

Director of the year
Paul Thomas Anderson – Battle after Battle
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Oliver Lax – Sirat
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Chloe Zhao – Hamnet

Screenwriter of the year
Paul Thomas Anderson – Battle after Battle
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein – Marty Supreme
Eva Victor – Sorry dear
Chloe Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet

Representative of the year
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – one battle after another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Wagner Moura – Secret Agent
Josh O’Connor – Mastermind

Actress of the year
Jesse Buckley – Hamnet
Rose Byrne – If I had legs I’d kick you
Jennifer Lawrence – Die Love
Renate Rainsvi – Emotional value
Eva Victor – Sorry dear

Supporting Actor of the Year
Benicio del Toro – one battle after another
Jacob the Pink – Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo – Sinners
Sean Penn – Battle after battle
Alexander Skarsgård – Billion

Supporting Actress of the Year
Odessa Azion – Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilias – Sentimental value
Amy Madigan – Arms
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – Battle after battle

Breakthrough performance for the year
Robert Aramayo – I swear/ Palestine 36
Miles Caton – Sinners
Frank Dylan – Hedgehog/Harvest
Infinity Chase – Battle after Battle
Eva Victor – Sorry dear

British/Irish Film Director of the Year
Tom Basden and Tim Key – The Wallis Island Song
Laura Carrera – On Fall
Akinola Davis Jr. – My father’s shadow
Harris Dickinson-Urshin
Harry Layton – Billion

British/Irish performer of the year
Naomi Ackie – Sorry Baby/Mickey 17/Murder Club Thursday
Robert Aramayo – I swear/ Palestine 36
Jesse Buckley – Hamnet
David Johnson – Garbage Man/Long Walk
Josh O’Connor – Mastermind/Audio History/Dead Man’s Wake: The Knives Mystery

Young British/Irish Artist of the Year
Scott Ellis Watson – I swear
Ebadah Hassan – Brides
Jacobi Jobe – Hamnet
Noah Jobe – Hamnet/Ibn Al-Najjar
Alfie Williams – 28 years later

Artistic Achievement Award
Die My Love – Editing, Tony Froschhammer
Ice Tower – Production Design, Giulia Irebarria
Marty Supreme – Jennifer Venditti
Mastermind – Music, Rob Mazurek
Battle after Battle – Edited by Andy Jorgensen
Sinners – Music, Ludwig Göransson
Sirat – Sound Design, Laia Casanovas
Sound of Falling – Costume Design, Sabrina Kramer
Dream Train – Cinematography, Adolfo Veloso
Weapons – Makeup and Hair, Leo Satkovich, Melissa Witt and Jason Collins

British/Irish short film of the year
Two black boys in heaven
He left Ikorodu in 1999
I saw the face of God in the jet wash
Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites
Milk