The film, which premiered at the Venice film festival in August but is yet to go on general release, won 13 nominations including for best British independent film and best screenplay.
The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos’s absurdist Restoration-era comedy starring Olivia Colman as a volatile Queen Anne, leads the nominations for this year’s British independent film awards (BIFAs).
The second most nominated film is American Animals, the true-crime heist film about an incompetent attempted robbery of a valuable book.
Colman’s co-stars in The Favourite, Weisz and Emma Stone, are also nominated in the best supporting actress category.