Precursor: 19th Columbus Critics Awards (2020)

Leave it to the already diverting Columbus critics to honor Promising Young Woman with its top award, recognizing the film’s greatness. Too bad they will likely be the only ones. Everything else was a fairly predictable slate of selections.

Awards Tallies

(3) Nomadland, Promising Young Woman
(2) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Minari, Sound of Metal

The Awards

Best Film

Promising Young Woman
Nomadland
Sound of Metal
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Minari
Soul
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Trial of the Chicago 7
First Cow
Mank

Best Animated Film

Wolfwalkers (Runner-Up: Soul)

Best Director

Chloe Zhao – Nomadland (Runner-Up: Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman)

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (Runner-Up: Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)

Best Actress

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman (Runner-Up: Frances McDormand – Nomadland)

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (Runner-Up: TIE: Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods; Mark Rylance – The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Best Supporting Actress

Young Yuh-jung – Minari (Runner-Up: Olivia Colman – The Father)

Best Original Screenplay

Promising Young Woman (Runner-Up: The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Nomadland (Runner-Up: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)

Best Score

Soul (Runner-Up: Mank)

Best Film Editing

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Runner-Up: Sound of Metal)

Best Cinematography

Nomadland (Runner-Up: Mank)

Best Foreign Language Film

Minari (Runner-Up: Martin Eden)

Best Documentary

Dick Johnson Is Dead (Runner-Up: Boys State)

Best Ensemble

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Runner-Up: Promising Young Woman)

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)

Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Runner-Up: Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man, Shirley)

Breakthrough Film Artist

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (producing, directing, screenwriting) (Runner-Up: Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version (production, directing, screenwriting, acting)