Precursor: 38th London Critics Nominations (2017)

Here we have the London Film Critics Circle’s nominations. With films releasing in the UK well after releasing in the US, oftentimes films like Elle end up bumped into the next year, which in turn bumps people out of the acting categories. There are a few original selections here, but most of them are more of the same. With their separate British/Irish categories, certain films build up extra padding in terms of nominations, but Three Billboards managed to top the list without that help. Also of note that the technical achievement awards are not nominations, but awards. I have, nonetheless, included them in the tallies.

Nominations Tallies

(7) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(6) Lady Macbeth, Phantom Thread
(5) Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, God’s Own Country, Paddington 2
(4) Get Out, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water
(3) The Florida Project

The Nominations

Best Picture

Call Me by Your Name
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Get Out
God’s Own Country
Lady Bird
Loveless
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Director

Sean Baker – The Florida Project
Guillermo Del Toro – The Shape of Water
Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk

Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour

Best Actress

Annette Bening – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Isabelle Huppert – Elle
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Florence Pugh – Lady Macbeth

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name

Best Supporting Actress

Lily Gladstone – Certain Women
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird

Best Screenplay

Call Me by Your Name
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Foreign-Language Film

Aquarius
Elle
The Handmaiden
Loveless
Raw

Best Documentary

78/52
Human Flow
I Am Not Your Negro
Jane
The Work

Best British / Irish Film

Dunkirk
God’s Own Country
Lady Macbeth
Paddington 2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best British / Irish Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Colin Farrell – The Killing of a Sacred Deer/The Beguiled
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Josh O’Connor – God’s Own Country
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour/The Space Between Us

Best British / Irish Actress

Emily Beecham – Daphne
Judi Dench – Victoria & Abdul/Murder on the Orient Express
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water/Maudie/Paddington 2
Florence Pugh – Lady Macbeth
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird/Loving Vincent

Best Young British / Irish Performer

Harris Dickinson – Beach Rats
Tom Holland – The Lost City of Z/Spider-Man: Homecoming
Noah Jupe – Suburbicon/Wonder/The Man With the Iron Heart
Dafne Keen – Logan
Fionn Whitehead – Dunkirk

Breakthrough British / Irish Filmmaker

Alice Birch – Lady Macbeth
Simon Farnaby – Paddington 2/Mindhorn
Francis Lee – God’s Own Country
Rungano Nyoni – I Am Not a Witch
William Oldroyd – Lady Macbeth

British / Irish Short Film

The Cloud of Unknowing – Mike Hannon
The Dog and the Elephant – Mike Sharpe
Tuesday – Charlotte Wells
We Love Moses – Dionne Edwards
Your Mother and I – Anna Maguire

Technical Achievements

Music: Dunkirk
Cinematography: God’s Own Country
Cinematography: The Lost City of Z
Production Design: Blade Runner 2049
Costume Design: Lady Macbeth
Costume Design: Phantom Thread
Hair & Makeup: The Love Witch
Visual Effects: Paddington 2
Visual Effects: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Stunt Coordination: Baby Driver