Miles Foster
The Chicago Film Critics Association announced today that Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland is this year’s big winner, earning the awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.
Chadwick Boseman earned a Best Actor win for his performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, while Best Supporting Actor went to Sound of Metal’s Paul Raci. For her first mainstream film role in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Maria Bakalova won the award for Best Supporting Actress, a common trend in these precursor critics awards.
Other films that received awards include Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Wolfwalkers, Another Round, Soul, and more.
Receiving the Milos Stehlik Award for Promising Filmmaker was Promising Young Woman’s Emerald Fennell. Also honored at the ceremony was Sidney Flanigan for Most Promising Performer for her work in Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always.
Listed below are the winners of the Chicago Film Critics Awards:
BEST PICTURE
Da 5 Bloods
First Cow
Lovers Rock
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
BEST DIRECTOR
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods
Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock
Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
BEST ACTOR
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Steven Yeun, Minari
BEST ACTRESS
Jessie Buckley, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Carrie Coon, The Nest
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
Bill Murray, On the Rocks
Leslie Odom, Jr., One Night in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
David Strathairn, Nomadland
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Toni Collette, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Letitia Wright, Mangrove
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Da 5 Bloods by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Kevin Wilmott & Spike Lee
Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman
Promising Young Woman by Emerald Fennell
Soul by Pete Docter, Mike Jones & Kemp Powers
The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Aaron Sorkin
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Father by Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller
First Cow by Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Charlie Kaufman
Nomadland by Chloe Zhao
One Night in Miami by Kemp Powers
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Onward
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul
The Wolf House
Wolfwalkers
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Collective
David Byrne’s American Utopia
Dick Johnson is Dead
The Social Dilemma
Time
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Another Round
Bacurau
Beanpole
Collective
La Llorona
Vitalina Varela
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
First Cow, Christopher Blauvelt
Lovers Rock, Shabier Kirchner
Mank, Erik Messerschmidt
Nomadland, Joshua James Richards
The Vast of Night, Miguel Ioann Littin Menz
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Da 5 Bloods, Terence Blanchard
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Branford Marsalis
Mank, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Soul, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste
Tenet, Ludwig Goransson
BEST ART DIRECTION
Birds of Prey
Emma.
First Cow
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Mank
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Birds of Prey
Emma.
First Cow
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
The Invisible Man
The Midnight Sky
Possessor
Tenet
BEST EDITING
I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Robert Frazen
Lovers Rock, Chris Dickens & Steve McQueen
Nomadland, Chloe Zhao
Tenet, Jennifer Lame
The Trial of the Chicago 7, Alan Baumgarten
MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR PROMISING FILMMAKER
Radha Blank, The 40-Year-Old Version
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Darius Marder, Sound of Metal
Andrew Patterson, The Vast of Night
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Kingsley Ben-Adir, One Night in Miami
Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Kelly O’Sullivan, Saint Frances
Helena Zengel, News of the World
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