More film critic prizes: Chicago, Indiana, GWNYC
Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 1:37PM by Nathaniel R
With over 30 critics groups now in the US (and *still* literally more each year) and many of them now doing two rounds of announcements we don't give everyone two posts or even one here at TFE (we need time to actually write about movies!) but we do like to check in once in a while. Chloe Zhao continues to be a literal sweeper in Best Director (with no one else ever winning) while Maria Bakalova continues to dominate in Supporting Actress though some, including the upcoming Golden Globe Awards argue it's a leading role.
Here's a few more prizes, the most famous being the Chicago Film Critics Association...
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 ROUND
Best Animated Film WOLFWALKERS
How close did Ma Rainey come to the top prize with IFJAA?
INDIANA FILM JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION AWARD
Established in 2009
Best Film NOMADLAND
runner up: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and the rest of the top ten list alphabetically...
- Another Round
- The Assistant
- Da 5 Bloods
- First Cow
- i'm thinking of ending things
- Minari
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- The Twentieth Century
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Regina King, One Night in Miami
Best Actor Delroy Lindo, DA 5 BLOODS
runner up: Chadwick Boseman Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Actress Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND
runner up: Jessie Buckley, I'm thinking of ending things
Best Supporting Actor Leslie Odom Jr, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
runner up: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Best Supporting Actress Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
runner up: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Best Vocal/MoCap Performance Jamie Foxx, SOUL
runner up: Sean Bean, Wolfwalkers
Best Ensemble Acting: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
runner up: One Night in Miami
Breakout of the Year Maria Bakalova BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
runner up: Andrew Patterson, The Vast of Night
Best Original Screenplay Eliza Hittman, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
runner up: Matthew Rankin, Twentieth Century
Best Adapted Screenplay Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Charlie Kaufman, I'm thinking of ending things
Best Score Ludwig Göransson, TENET
runner up: Emile Mosseri, Minari
Original Vision Award THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
runner up: Dick Johnson is Dead
Best Documentary DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
runner up: Athlete A
Best Foreign Language Film ANOTHER ROUND
runner up: Song Without a Name
Best Animated Film SOUL
runner up: Wolfwalkers
Hoosier Award: ATHLETE A
Sound of Metal is a big favourite for the GWNYC
GREATER WESTERN NEW YORK CRITICS
Established in 2018. They do not announce runners up as they have a nomination round before final voting. Which is surely whey they also have so many repeat winners, as that doesn't happen quite as often in a more conversational "round" approach to voting.
Best Picture NOMADLAND
No runners up but the other nominees were:
- Da 5 Bloods
- Driveways
- The Father
- First Cow
- i'm thinking of ending things
- Mank
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- Small Axe: Lovers Rock
- Sound of Metal
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Actor Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL
Best Actress Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND
Best Supporting Actor Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI
Breakthrough Director Darius Marder, SOUND OF METAL
Breakthrough Performer Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
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 Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Film in a Foreign Language MINARI
As we see also happening with the Globes controversy, some people are looking at this as a "foreign" film even though it's about America and the immigrant experience (note that it wasn't nominated for their best picture list). They changed the name of the category to "best film in a foreign language" from last year's "best foreign film". Still, last year and the year before some of their foreign film nominees were also up for their Best Picture prize so maybe they just didn't love Minari all that much?
Best Animated Film WOLFWALKERS
Best Documentary TIME
Reader Comments (29)
I am so thrilled for Paul Raci. There are countless go-to character actors who would've taken that part and he just knocks it out of the park. He deserves every accolade.
And the "great settling," as David Poland calls it, begins.
The Sacha Baron Cohen thing was silly in 2006, the Maria Bakalova thing is silly in 2020. No offense to either of them but those performances are oranges in an apple competition.
Also, we should stop referring to it as "improv" because that's really not what it is. Mike Leigh's company does improv, the nonprofessionals in Nomadland do improv. But they're witting participants in a director's cinematic process. The Borat thing is performance art on camera.
I'm glad to see a few of the second- and third-tier critics' groups awarding McDormand. No shade to any of the other contenders, but McDormand would be running away with every award this year if she weren't a two-time Oscar contender.
If a film not in English won Best Picture and Director and Screenplay...
... I think the AMPAS is ready for giving a performance award to a performance like Bakalova's.
As Bob Dylan sang... "the times they are a changing"
If McDormand wins, she'll have three Oscars for a leading role, just slightly outranking Meryl Streep. Will the Academy want to elevate her that way? Do many of them even think in those terms? Hard to say....
Did anyone else find McDormand's naturalism a little too mannered?
Rewatched Three Billboards to prepare for Nomadland. Just as idiotic the first time that I saw it. Feels more cringe-worthy with all the anti-police sentiment. Looking forward to Nomadland on the Big Screen, please.
McDormand is always mannered.
Dan -- except for this year it will not be settled because AMPAS doesn't vote until March. so there will be plenty of time for them to forget about the "settled" state of things.
Is NRSA becoming more of a lock in Screenplay?
@Nance. I do, and not just a little. Meryl Streep gives me a similar vibe too.
If only these groups had a sound design award that would easily go to Sound of Metal!
More love for NIN & Baptiste!!!! YAY!!!!!!!
Having seen NOMADLAND's trailers, I know I'm gonna love it... and get more evidence for why Saoirse Ronan should've won for LADY BIRD. But the Academy couldn't resist THREE BILLBOARDS, even if it meant awarding a lesser McDormand performance when we all knew she had more in the tank... 🙄
Has Chloé Zhao lost a Director prize yet?
I'm so glad Song without a name is getting love from some critics associations. I really wish it gets nominated.
Zhao's win list is extremely impressive... but something tells me it's not going to be as easy with Oscar for a 38yo Asian female director to get a win for the first film of hers that AMPAS has paid attention to...
I should say as follow-up: I hope to be proven wrong! Nomadland is wonderful! And I have no idea who would win instead, but it just seems to be going too smoothly for such an atypical pick for Oscar!
@Nathaniel. Ugh. I forgot the whole, stupid fourteen month year or whatever it's going to be. What's set to come out in February that will make all these 2020 films seem like old hat and walk away with the trophies? Worst idea the Academy ever had, I think. (There's probably something else.)
Zendaya’s gonna get in anc win the whole thing
Is Paul Raci becoming a lock or is he going to be like Ethan Hawke in First Reformed and grab the majority of critics awards only to be ignored by the Academy?
Ready: God I hope not. He deserves to win the whole damn thing.
Ready: God I hope not. He deserves to win the whole damn thing.
Bahahaha!
Gotta love that even in a pandemic apocalypse beta year consensus forms around the same 4 performances.
Aaah... The king is dead, long live the king!
My favorite Frances McDormand film performance was in Burn After Reading. She and Brad Pitt made a fabulous slapstick comedy duo. Her finest hour, however, was on tv in the Olive Kitteridge miniseries. There weren't enough awards to give her for that.
Have yet to see it (been a tough year) but want to take this opportunity to say good that Joshua James Richards and his director are looking good, given they should have been nominated two years ago for a special film.
Oh, and how great will it be if Delroy Lindo is nominated?
Kevin -- she has not which is why i called her a "literal sweeper" in the article.