Jane Campion’s western The Power of the Dog emerged at the head of the pack in the nominations for the London Critics’ Circle film awards, followed by The Lost Daughter, the Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed adaptation of an Elena Ferrante novel, and Joanna Hogg’s autobiographical The Souvenir Part II.

In total, The Power of the Dog received nine nominations, including film of the year, director and screenwriter of the year for Campion, and five acting nods (including two for its lead, Benedict Cumberbatch). That was three ahead of The Lost Daughter, which received six, including film of the year and two each for actors Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley.

The Souvenir Part II, the second of Joanna Hogg’s two-part account of an aspiring film-maker, was next in line with five (including film of the year and director of the year for Hogg) – just ahead of two other films that have prospered better elsewhere, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and Aleem Khan’s After Love, which both received four nominations. Belfast, a chronicle of Branagh’s childhood in 70s Northern Ireland, is currently vying for supremacy with The Power of the Dog for the Golden Globes and looks a sure bet for multiple Oscar nominations, while After Love, about a woman who discovers her husband’s secret life after his death, dominated the British film independent awards, where it won six.

The winners, voted on by the 180 members of the film section of the Critics’ Circle, will be announced on 6 February.

Full list of nominations

Film of the year
Belfast
Drive My Car
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Lost Daughter
Memoria
The Power of the Dog
The Souvenir Part II
Titane
West Side Story

Foreign language film of the year
Drive My Car
The Hand of God
Petite Maman
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

Documentary of the year
Flee
Gunda
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Summer of Soul
The Velvet Underground

British/Irish film of the year
After Love
Belfast
The Green Knight
Limbo
The Souvenir Part II

Director of the year
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir Part II
Céline Sciamma, Petite Maman
Denis Villeneuve, Dune

Screenwriter of the year
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, Drive My Car

Actress of the year
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
Joanna Scanlan, After Love
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

Actor of the year
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Adam Driver, Annette
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick... Boom!
Oscar Isaac, The Card Counter
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Supporting actress of the year
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Rita Moreno, West Side Story
Ruth Negga, Passing

Supporting actor of the year
Richard Ayoade, The Souvenir Part II
Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Jeffrey Wright, The French Dispatch

British/Irish actress of the year (for body of work)
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter/Mothering Sunday/Ron’s Gone Wrong/The Mitchells vs The Machines/The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Ruth Negga, Passing/Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Joanna Scanlan, After Love
Tilda Swinton, Memoria/The Souvenir Part II/The French Dispatch

British/Irish actor of the year (for body of work)
Riz Ahmed, Encounter
Adeel Akhtar, Ali & Ava/The Nest/The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog/The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/The Courier
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick... Boom!/The Eyes of Tammy Faye/Mainstream
Stephen Graham, Boiling Point/Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Breakthrough British/Irish film-maker
Prano Bailey-Bond, Censor
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Aleem Khan, After Love
Marley Morrison, Sweetheart
Ben Sharrock, Limbo

Young British/Irish performer
Max Harwood, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Jude Hill, Belfast
Emilia Jones, Coda
Daniel Lamont, Nowhere Special
Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon

British/Irish short film
Diseased and Disorderly
Expensive Shit
Know the Grass
Play It Safe
Precious Hair & Beauty

Technical achievement award
Jenny Beavan, costumes (Cruella)
Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer, visual effects (Dune)
Kenneth Ladekjær, animation (Flee)
Adam Stockhausen, production design (The French Dispatch)
Andrew Droz Palermo, cinematography (The Green Knight)
Hélène Louvart, cinematography (The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmão)
Fabrizio Federico and Aline Hervé, film editing (Martin Eden)
Olivier Schneider, stunts (No Time to Die)
Jonny Greenwood, music (The Power of the Dog)
Justin Peck, choreography (West Side Story)