Chicago really loved West Side Story, giving it 3 more citations than The Power of the Dog. The Green Knight did well in spite of missing the Critics Choice nomination that would have been far more important to its chances.

Nominations Tallies

(11) West Side Story
(8) The Power of the Dog
(7) The Green Knight
(6) Drive My Car, Dune, Licorice Pizza
(5) The French Dispatch
(4) The Lost Daughter
(3) Pig, Spencer, Titane

The Nominations

Best Picture

Drive My Car
The Green Knight
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Animated Film

Belle
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
David Lowery – The Green Knight
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story

Best Actor

Nicolas Cage – Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick…BOOM!
Hidetoshi Nishijima – Drive My Car
Simon Rex – Red Rocket

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
Agathe Rousselle – Titane
Kristen Stewart – Spencer

Best Supporting Actor

Bradley Cooper – Licorice Pizza
Colman Domingo – Zola
Mike Faist – West Side Story
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch

Best Supporting Actress

Caitriona Balfe – Belfast
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Riley Keough – Zola
Ruth Negga – Passing

Best Original Screenplay

The Card Counter
The French Dispatch
Licorice Pizza
Pig
Red Rocket

Best Adapted Screenplay

Drive My Car
The Green Knight
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Original Score

Annette
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Power of the Dog
Spencer

Best Editing

Drive My Car
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Cinematography

Dune
The Green Knight
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Best Art Direction

Dune
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

Best Costume Design

Cruella
Dune
The Green Knight
Spencer
West Side Story

Best Use of Visual Effects

Annette
Dune
The Green Knight
Nightmare Alley
Titane

Best Foreign Film

Drive My Car
A Hero
Petite Maman
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

Best Documentary

Flee
Procession
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
The Velvet Underground

Most Promising Filmmaker

Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall – Passing
Sian Heder – CODA
Michael Sarnoski – Pig
Emma Seligman – Shiva Baby

Most Promising Performer

Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones – CODA
Rachel Sennott – Shiva Baby
Rachel Zegler – West Side Story

Chicago Film Critics Data

Year Founded: 1990
First Awards: 1988 (33)