Chicago Film Critics Association

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I love Nomadland, but it winning writing awards is deeply strange. It's not the type of screenplay that gets recognized, even from critics. Sign of an odd year.

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CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
Established in 1990. They do not announce runners up as they have a nomination round before final voting

Best Picture NOMADLAND
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Actor Chadwick Boseman MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Actress Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND
Best Supporting Actor Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Best Supporting Actress Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Most Promising Filmmaker Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Most Promising Performer Sidney Flanagan, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Best Original Screenplay Eliza Hittman, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Best Adapted Screenplay Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND

Best Score Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste, SOUL
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
Best Editing Robert Frazen, I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
Best Costume Design EMMA.
Best Use of Visual Effects INVISIBLE MAN
Best Documentary DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
Best Foreign Language Film ANOTHER ROIND
Best Animated Film WOLFWALKERS

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From Variety:

The Chicago Film Critics Association has named Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” as this year’s big winner, netting five prizes, including best picture, director, actress (Frances McDormand), adapted screenplay and cinematography. Leading the CFCA nominations with seven, the Searchlight Pictures drama has performed astoundingly with the half dozen critics awards that have been announced thus far. Zhao is currently 6/6 for critics wins.

With two awards, Focus Features’ “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” walked away with best original screenplay for writer Eliza Hittman and most promising performer for Sidney Flanigan.

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These are their nominations - awards are Monday.

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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
Chloé 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 Willmott & 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 Chloé 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 and 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, Chloé Zhao
Tenet, Jennifer Lame
The Trial of the Chicago 7, Alan Baumgarten

MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR 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

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