The Critics’ Circle (U.K.) announced their nominations today (Wednesday) at an event hosted by actors Jing Lusi and Ényì Okoronkwo at The May Fair Hotel in London. This year’s winners in all categories will be announced at London’s May Fair Hotel on February 4, where actor Jeffrey Wright will be honored with The Dillys Powell Award for Excellence in Film, named after the celebrated critic.
Andrew Haigh’s drama All of Us Strangers led the field with nine nominations, followed by Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic Oppenheimer with seven and a trio of powerhouse festival films with six: Celine Song’s Past Lives, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie received five nominations.
In the new Animated Film category, Spain’s Robot Dreams by Pablo Berger is contending with two films from Japan, The Boy and the Heron by Hayao Miyazaki and Suzume by Makoto Shinkai, plus inventive genre hits Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Jeff Rowe & Kyler Spears).
Outside this category, The Boy and the Heron represents animation in the Foreign-Language Film of the Year competition (up against Anatomy of a Fall, Fallen Leaves, Past Lives and Zone of Interest), while The First Slam Dunk sound designer Kôji Kasamatsu is nominated for the Technical Achievement Award.
The 44th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards are voted by the 210-member Film Section of the Critics’ Circle, the U.K.’s longest-standing and critics’ organization. See all film nominees at criticscircle.org.uk.
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