Four films topped this year’s nominations with all of their top selections, except one, coming form underrepresented minority directors. Not a bad list.

Nominations Tallies

(6) Minari, Nomadland, One Night in Miami, Promising Young Woman
(4) First Cow
(3) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

The Nominations

Best Film

First Cow
Minari
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
Promising Young Woman

Best Animated Feature

Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul
Wolfwalkers

Best Director

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Regina King – One Night in Miami
Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Male Lead

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round
Steven Yeun – Minari

Best Female Lead

Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Best Supporting Male

Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Bill Murray – On the Rocks
Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Female

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman
Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Youn Yuh-jung – Minari

Best Original Screenplay

Kajillionaire
Minari
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Palm Springs
Promising Young Woman

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Cinematography

Ammonite
Birds of Prey
First Cow
Mank
Nomadland

Best Documentary

Collective
Dick Johnson Is Dead
The Mole Agent
The Painter and the Thief
Time

Best Acting Ensemble

Da 5 Bloods
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Minari
One Night in Miami
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Breakthrough Filmmaker

Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Channing Godfrey Peoples – Miss Juneteenth
Kitty Green – The Assistant
Natalie Erika James – Relic

Best Breakthrough Performance

Kingsley Ben-Adir – One Night in Miami
Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Orion Lee – First Cow
Cristin Milioti – Palm Springs
Tahar Rahim – The Mauritanian

The Rosie

The OAFFC’s signature award celebrates the film that “best promotes women, their voices, and the female experience through cinema.”

The Assistant
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman

Online Association of Female Film Critics Data

Year Founded: 2017
First Awards: 2017 (4)