Dark fantasy Holy Motors, which divided critics at Cannes last year, also received nine nominations, including best film and best actor (Denis Lavant).

BBC: Emmanuelle Riva

With Eva Mendes, as an impassive high-fashion model whom Lavant kidnaps.

NEWYORKER: Holy Motors

The sullen French actor and longtime Carax collaborator Denis Lavant, trained as an acrobat, enters a stretch limo, only to emerge as an elderly and infirm woman begging along the Seine.

NEWYORKER: Holy Motors