Birdman, the dark existential comedy about the would-be comeback of a has-been actor, scored 13 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards nominations, continuing its early run as a Hollywood awards season favourite.

The film starring Michael Keaton has already led nomin-ations for January’s Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards. It earned nods for best picture, best actor (Keaton) and Alejandro G. Inarritu was cited for best director, among other nominations.

Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, a comedy about a bygone Europe, picked up 11 nominations, while Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age tale Boyhood earned eight nods.

The 20th edition of the awards, which are voted on by nearly 300 members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, will be given in a televised ceremony in Los Angeles on January 15.

The 10 nominees for best picture include Birdman, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, thriller Gone Girl, World War II code-cracking drama The Imitation Game, crime thriller Nightcrawler, civil rights historical drama Selma, Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything, prisoner-of-war drama Unbroken and jazz drama Whiplash.

Other films earning multiple nominations include Christopher Nolan’s space epic Interstellar with seven, while Gone Girl and The Imitation Game each scored six nominations.

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