Precursor: 33rd Chicago Critics Nominations (2020)

Promising Young Woman comes out strong for the first time while First Cow and Nomadland continue to perform well. Da 5 Bloods gets some love and the TV/film dichotomy gets another shot in the arm with several nominations for Lovers Rock.

Nominations Tallies

(7) Nomadland
(6) Da 5 Bloods, First Cow, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
(5) Mank, Promising Young Woman
(4) Lovers Rock, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
(3) Minari, One Night in Miami, Soul, Sound of Metal, Tenet

The Nominations

Best Picture

Da 5 Bloods
First Cow
Lovers Rock
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman

Best Animated Film

Onawrd
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul
The Wolf House
Wolfwalkers

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
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Promising Young Woman
Soul
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Father
First Cow
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Nomadland
One Night in Miami

Best Original Score

Da 5 Bloods
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Soul
Tenet

Best Editing

I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Lovers Rock
Nomadland
Tenet
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Cinematography

First Cow
Lovers Rock
Mank
Nomadland
The Vast of Night

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 Foreign Film

Another Round
Bacurau
Beanpole
Collective
La Llorona
Vitalina Varela

Best Documentary

Collective
David Byrne’s American Utopia
Dick Johnson Is Dead
The Social Dilemma
Time

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

Promising Filmmaker

Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Darius Marder – Sound of Metal
Andrew Patterson – The Vast of Night