It came close with both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, but the National Society of Film Critics came through for “Nomadland.” The acclaimed Searchlight Pictures release won Best Picture, Best Director (Chloé Zhao), Best Actress (Frances McDormand) and Cinematography (Joshua James Richards). In an incredibly close Best Picture race, NYFCC winner “First Cow” was just two points behind.
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Delroy Lindo won Best Actor for “Da 5 Bloods” over “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’s” Chadwick Boseman. This is the second major win for Lindo following the NYFCC. Maria Bakalova of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” also took her second major win for Best Supporting Actress after also being honored by the New York critics. Paul Raci‘s chances at earning an Oscar nod are also gaining steam after he took Best Supporting Actor for “Sound of Metal.”
“Time” took best Non-Fiction film while “Collective” won the Foreign Language Film award. Eliza Hittman won Screenplay for “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.”
The full list of winners, as well as runners ups, are as follows:
Best Picture:
WINNER: NOMADLAND (52 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
FIRST COW (50 points)
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (41 points)
Director:
WINNER: Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND (58 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
Steve McQueen, SMALL AXE (41 points)
Kelly Reichardt, FIRST COW (30 points)
Actress:
WINNER: Best Actress: Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND (46 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
Viola Davis, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (33 points)
Sidney Flanigan, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (29 points)
Actor:
WINNER: Delroy Lindo, DA 5 BLOODS (52 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
Chadwick Boseman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (47 points)
Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL (32 points)
Supporting Actress:
WINNER: Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM (47 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
Amanda Seyfried, MANK (40 points)
Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI (33 points)
Supporting Actor:
WINNER: Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL (53 points)
RUNNER-UPS:
Glynn Turman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (36 points)
Chadwick Boseman, DA 5 BLOODS (35 points)
Screenplay:
WINNER: Eliza Hittman, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (38 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt, FIRST COW (35 points)
Charlie Kaufman, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (29 points)
Cinematography:
WINNER: Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND (47 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
Shabier Kirchner, LOVERS ROCK (41 points)
Leonardo Simões, VITALINA VARELA (34 points)
Foreign-Language Film:
WINNER: COLLECTIVE (38 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
BACURAU and BEANPOLE (36 points)
VITALINA VARELA (32 points)
Non-fiction Film:
WINNER: TIME (46 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
CITY HALL (28 points)
COLLECTIVE (22 points)
Film Heritage Award:
WINNERS:
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