Once again, it is time for the least anticipated part of the awards season: the “Braddies”, my personal top 10 film nominations in the categories: film of the year, best director, best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best screenwriter and best cinematographer. The nominations are in no particular order. You are, of course, invited to vote in the comment section below and complain about any omissions.
Film of the year
Paterson (Dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Nocturnal Animals (Dir. Tom Ford)
American Honey (Dir. Andrea Arnold)
I, Daniel Blake (Dir. Ken Loach)
The Childhood of a Leader (Dir. Brady Corbet)
Divines (Dir. Houda Benyamina)
Anomalisa (Dirs. Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson)
Son of Saul (Dir. László Nemes)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Dir. David Yates)
Fire at Sea (Dir. Gianfranco Rosi)
Best director
Andrea Arnold for American Honey
Ken Loach for I, Daniel Blake
Ira Sachs for Little Men
Quentin Tarantino for The Hateful Eight
Miguel Gomes for Arabian Nights
Sebastian Schipper for Victoria
Babak Anvari for Under the Shadow
Matteo Garrone for Tale of Tales
Whit Stillman for Love & Friendship
Lorenzo Vigas for From Afar
Best actor
Dave Johns for I, Daniel Blake
Tim Roth for Chronic (Dir. Michel Franco)
Ralph Fiennes for A Bigger Splash (Dir. Luca Guadagnino)
Jake Gyllenhaal for Nocturnal Animals
Nilbio Torres for Embrace of the Serpent (Dir. Ciro Guerra)
Antonio Bolívar for Embrace of the Serpent
Hugh Grant for Florence Foster Jenkins (Dir. Stephen Frears)
Don Cheadle for Miles Ahead (Dir. Don Cheadle)
Mark Rylance for The BFG (Dir. Steven Spielberg)
Vincent Lindon for The Measure of a Man (Dir. Stéphane Brizé)
Best actress
Amy Adams for Nocturnal Animals and Arrival (Dir. Denis Villeneuve)
Sasha Lane for American Honey
Hayley Squires for I, Daniel Blake
Elle Fanning for The Neon Demon (Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
Narges Rashidi for Under the Shadow
Kate Beckinsale for Love & Friendship
Emma Suárez for Julieta (Dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Adriana Uguarte for Julieta
Isabelle Huppert for Things to Come (Dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
Bérénice Bejo for The Childhood of a Leader and After Love (Dir. Joachim Lafosse)
Best supporting actor
Michael Shannon for Nocturnal Animals
Toby Jones for Tale of Tales
Samuel L Jackson for The Hateful Eight
David Morrissey for The Ones Below (Dir. David Farr)
Tom Bennett for Love & Friendship
Jeremy Irons for High Rise (Dir. Ben Wheatley)
Jack Reynor for Sing Street (Dir. John Carney)
Kurt Russell for Bone Tomahawk (Dir. S Craig Zahler) and The Hateful Eight
Alfredo Castro for The Club (Dir. Pablo Larraín)
Jeff Bridges for Hell Or High Water (Dir. David Mackenzie)
Best supporting actress
Laura Linney for Nocturnal Animals
Riley Keough for American Honey
Muna Otaru for The Keeping Room (Dir. Daniel Barber)
Déborah Lukumuena for Divines
Katherine Waterston for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Jennifer Jason Leigh for The Hateful Eight
Rossy de Palma for Julieta
Leslie Jones for Ghostbusters (Dir. Paul Feig)
Kate McKinnon for Ghostbusters (Dir. Paul Feig)
Jena Malone for The Neon Demon and Time Out of Mind (Dir. Oren Moverman)
Best documentary
Fire at Sea
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Dir. Kent Jones)
No Home Movie (Dir. Chantal Akerman)
13th (Dir. Ava DuVernay)
The Hard Stop (Dir. George Amponsah)
Before the Flood (Dir. Fisher Stevens)
You’ve Been Trumped Too (Dir. Anthony Baxter)
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (Dir. Ron Howard)
The Fall (Dir. Daniel Gordon)
Weiner (Dirs. Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg)
Best screenwriter
Andrea Arnold for American Honey
Melissa Mathison for The BFG
David Farr for The Ones Below
Amy Jump for High-Rise
Todd Solondz for Wiener-Dog (Dir. Todd Solondz)
Nicolas Winding Refn, Polly Stenham and Mary Laws for The Neon Demon
Tiani Ghosh and Will Sharpe for The Darkest Universe (Dirs. Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe)
Whit Stillman for Love & Friendship
Shane Black for The Nice Guys (Dir. Shane Black)
Rebecca Miller and Karen Rinaldi for Maggie’s Plan (Dir. Rebecca Miller)
Best cinematographer
Natasha Braier for The Neon Demon (Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
Robbie Ryan for American Honey
Ping Bin Lee for The Assassin (Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Luca Bigazzi for Youth (Dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
Yves Cape for Chronic (Dir. Michel Franco)
Yorick Le Saux for A Bigger Splash (Dir. Luca Guadagnino)
Benji Bakshi for Bone Tomahawk (Dir. S. Craig Zahler)
Laurie Rose for High-Rise (Dir. Ben Wheatley)
Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for Victoria (Dir. Sebastian Schipper)
Diego Garcia for Cemetery of Splendour (Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
