SAN DIEGO FILM CRITICS SOCIETY NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

How's about this for some variation? Last year's San Diego Film Critics Society nominees disclosed a particularly unsurprising factor about cultural tastes behind the Orange Curtain with their dismissal of Carol; not so this year, as Moonlight is present and correct, though alongside a host of fellow contenders whose inclusion likely hadn't been forecast. The SDFCS will announce its award winners on the 12th of December - two days from now.

Best Picture

Hell or High Water

La La Land

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

Nocturnal Animals

Best Director

Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Tom Ford (Nocturnal Animals)

Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)

David MacKenzie (Hell or High Water)

Best Actor, Female

Annette Bening (20th Century Women)

Sonia Braga (Aquarius)

Ruth Negga (Loving)

Emma Stone (La La Land)

Natalie Portman (Jackie)

Best Actor, Male

Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)

Adam Driver (Paterson)

Joel Edgerton (Loving)

Ryan Gosling (La La Land)

Jake Gyllenhaal (Nocturnal Animals)

Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)

Chris Pine (Hell or High Water)

Best Supporting Actor, Female

Judy Davis (The Dressmaker)

Greta Gerwig (20th Century Women)

Lily Gladstone (Certain Women)

Nicole Kidman (Lion)

Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)

Best Supporting Actor, Male

Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)

Ben Foster (Hell or High Water)

Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals)

Best Original Screenplay

Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster)

Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight)

Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)

Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Luke Davies (Lion)

Tom Ford (Nocturnal Animals)

Eric Heisserer (Arrival)

Whit Stillman (Love & Friendship)

Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople)

Best Cinematography

James Laxton (Moonlight)

Seamus McGarvey (Nocturnal Animals)

Giles Nuttgens (Hell or High Water)

Linus Sandgren (La La Land)

Bradford Young (Arrival)

Best Editing

Tom Cross (La La Land)

Blu Murray (Sully)

Jake Roberts (Hell of High Water)

Joan Sobel (Nocturnal Animals)

Joe Walker (Arrival)

Best Production Design

Jess Gonchor (Hail, Caesar!)

Anna Rackard (Love & Friendship)

Jean Rabasse (Jackie)

Shane Valentino (Nocturnal Animals)

Patrice Vermette (Arrival)

David Wasco (La La Land)

Best Costume Design

Suzy Benzinger (Cafe Society)

Marion Boyce and Margot Wilson (The Dressmaker)

Madeline Fontaine (Jackie)

Eimer ni Mhaoldomhnaigh (Love & Friendship)

Mary Zophres (La La Land)

Best Visual Effects

Arrival

Doctor Strange

The Jungle Book

La La Land

A Monster Calls

Best Use of Music in a Film

Everybody Wants Some!!

Hell or High Water

Jackie

La La Land

Sing Street

Best Ensemble

20th Century Women

Hell or High Water

Hidden Figures

Moonlight

Nocturnal Animals

Best Animated Film

April and the Extraordinary World

Kubo and the Two Strings

Long Way North

Moana

Zootopia

Best Documentary

de Palma

Gleason

O.J.: Made in America

Tower

Weiner

Best Foreign Language Film

Aquarius

The Handmaiden

A Man Called Ove

Mother

Mountains May Depart

Neruda

Best Breakthrough Artist

Julian Dennison (Hunt for the Wilderpeople)

Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar! / Rules Don't Apply)

Lily Gladstone (Certain Women)

Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)

Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch)

Best Comedic Performance

Julian Dennison (Hunt for the Wilderpeople)

Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!)

Ryan Gosling (The Nice Guys)

Kate McKinnon (Ghostbusters)

Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool)