Saoirse Ronan is among the nominees for this year's Gotham Awards in New York - one of the first major events of awards season.
Ronan is nominated in the Outstanding Lead Performance category for her role in the addiction recovery drama The Outrun.
She is tipped to be among next year's Oscar nominees for her performance.
"There's other movies that I've done that have psychologically been more difficult to get through than this," she laughed.
"I think, actually, because so much of it was built around me and I was able to shape it... not that I ever wanted anything to be easy, but in terms of the process of making it, we could build it in the way that would serve myself and the other actors best.
"I think it's very stressful developing an independent film because you don't know if it's going to get made, you don't know where the money's going to come from and then you don't know if it's going to go to festivals and then you don't know if anybody's going to buy it, and then when they buy it, you don't know if anybody's going to see it!
"You don't know what kind of a life it's going to have, and I think you're more invested in it in that way. So that took more of my brainpower, but I was kind of relieved for that to be the case because I've only acted for so long that I was ready to take on more responsibility."
The comedy Anora leads this year's Gotham nominations with four.
The Gotham Awards will take place on Monday 2 December at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
The Gotham Awards nominees:
Best Feature
Anora
Babygirl
Challengers
A Different Man
Nickel Boys
Outstanding Lead Performance
Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Saoirse Ronan, Outrun
Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow
Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Katy O'Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Adam Pearson, A Different Man
Brian Tyree Henry, The Fire Inside
Best Director
Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light
Sean Baker, Anora
Guan Hu, Black Dog
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys
Best International Feature
All We Imagine as Light
Green Border
Hard Truths
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Vermiglio
Best Documentary Feature
Dahomey
Intercepted
No Other Land
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Sugarcane
Union
Best Screenplay
Between the Temples, Nathan Silver, C Mason Wells
Evil Does Not Exist, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Femme, Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping
His Three Daughters, Azazel Jacobs
Janet Planet, Annie Baker
Breakthrough Director
Shuchi Talati, Girls Will Be Girls
India Donaldson, Good One
Alessandra Lacorazza, In the Summers
Vera Drew, The People's Joker
Mahdi Fleifel, To a Land Unknown
Breakthrough Performer
Lily Collias, Good One
Ryan Destiny, The Fire Inside
Maisy Stella, My Old Ass
Izaac Wang, Dìdi Y
Brandon Wilson, Nickel Boys
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