Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling's musical La La Land leads Critics' Choice Awards nominations with 12 nods
La La Land leads the nominations for the Critics Choice Awards with 12.
Damien Chazelles spectacular new musical is up for prizes include the coveted Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Emma Stone, Best Actor for Ryan Gosling - who also scored a nod for Best Actor in a Comedy for his turn in The Nice Guys - as well as two separate nominations in the Best Song category.
Favourite: La La Land received Critics' Choice Awards nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Emma Stone and Best Actor for Ryan Gosling among others
Following close behind are Moonlight and Arrival, which are both up for 10 awards, including Best Picture.
Amy Adams also has a nod in the Best Actress category, against Stone, Annette Bening, Isabelle Huppert, Ruth Negga and Natalie Portman.
Joining the three films in the Best Picture category are Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Lion, Loving, Manchester by the Sea and Sully.
Sci-Fi: Arrival starring Amy Adams (pictured) has 10 nominations
Plane sailing: Sully, starring Tom Hanks and Aaron Eckhart, also scored a Best Picture nomination as well as a personal nod for Hanks
Over the last 10 years, eight of the Best Picture winners have gone on to take the same accolade at the Academy Awards.
Manchester by the Sea scored heavily in the acting categories, with nods for Best Acting Ensemble, as well as individual recognition for Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams, while their 20-year-old co-star Lucas Hedges, is up for both Best Supporting Actor and Best Young Actor/Actress.
Mel Gibson scores a nomination in the director category, for his movie Hacksaw Ridge.
Plaudits: Manchester by the Sea scored heavily in the acting categories, with nods for Best Acting Ensemble, as well as individual recognition for Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams (pictured)
He goes head to head with Denzel Washington for Fences, Damien Chazelle (La La Land), Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea), David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water) and Denis Villeneuve (Arrival).
However, Clint Eastwood failed to score a director nod for Sully, despite a Best Picture nomination and Tom Hanks' inclusion in Best Actor category.
Dark comedy Deadpool rewarded lead Ryan Reynolds with a nomination for Best Actor in an Action Movie.
Action: Andrew Garfield (pictured) scores a nod for his role in Hacksaw Ridge, the Mel Gibson-directed movie has a total of seven nominations
He will go up against Benedict Cumberbatch in the titular role in fellow Marvel movie Dr Strange and well as their Captain America: Civil War lead, Chris Evans.
Matt Damon as Jason Bourne also scores a nod, as does former Spider-Man Andrew Garfield for Hacksaw Ridge.
Dev Patel, who plays a man searching for the family he lost when he was five, is nominated for his role in Lion.
His co-star Nicole Kidman also received a nod for Best Supporting Actress, for her role as his adopted mother.
True story: Dev Patel, who plays a man searching for the family he lost when he was five, is nominated for his role in Lion
Natalie Portman, who takes the titular role in Jackie - which portrays the former First Lady in the days after the assassination of her husband John F Kennedy, is nominated as Best Actress. However, the movie failed to make the cut for Best Picture.
Award queen Meryl Streep surprisingly didn't get a Best Actress nod for Florence Foster Jenkins, but did make it into the Best Actress in a Comedy category.
Two-time Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence also failed to score for Passengers, with the movie snubbed across the board.
Nod: Natalie Portman, who takes the titular role in Jackie - which portrays the former First Lady in the days after the assassination of her husband John F Kennedy, is nominated as Best Actress
Strong performances: Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton both scored nominations for their roles in Loving, which is also nominated for Best Picture
As was announced earlier this month, over in the TV categories, FX miniseries The People v O.J. Simpson led the nominations with six nods, including Best TV Movie or Limited Series and recognition for its stars Sarah Paulson, Courtney B. Vance and Cuba Gooding Jr., while Game of Thrones and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt both received five nods.
Overall, HBO was the most nominated network with 22, followed by both ABC and Netflix on 14 and FX with 12.
This years awards will be hosted by T.J Miller and take place on December 11.
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