More critics prizes: St Louis, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Denver, and Houston
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 2:35PM
NATHANIEL R in Best Picture, film critics, precursor awards

Here's five more groups of prizes from critics groups that have announced in the past handful of days. Chloe Zhao continues her total sweep of Best Director prizes for Nomadland , an achievement we haven't seen in quite some time. Generally there's one award where someone steamrolls but it's usually in one of the acting categories. Promising Young Woman, Trial of the Chicago 7, Soul, First Cow, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom also do well in this week's regional critics haul...

ST LOUIS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION 
Established in 2004. Even though they have a nomination round, they also announce runners up. 

Best Picture NOMADLAND
runner up [TIE]: Promising Young Woman and First Cow
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Emerald Fennel, Promising Young Woman
Best Actor Chadwick Boseman MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
runner up: Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Best Actress Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
runner up: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Best Supporting Actor  Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Runner up: Sacha Baron Cohen, Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI
runner up: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Original Screenplay Emerald Fennel, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
runner up: Aaron Sorkin, Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Adapted Screenplay Charlie Kaufman, I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
runner up: Kemp Powers, One Night in Miami
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
runner up Erik Messerschmidt, Mank

Best Visual Effects  TENET
runner up: Invisible Man
Best Editing
Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Robert Frazen, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Best Production Design Donald Graham Burt, MANK
runner up: Kave Quinn, Emma.
Best Score  Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross & Jon Baptiste, SOUL
runner up: Ludovico Einaudi, Nomadland
Best Soundtrack: PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
runner up: Hamilton

Best Scene: Sisters Dine, INVISIBLE MAN
runner up: Rudy Guiliani, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Foreign Language Film ANOTHER ROUND
runner up: Beanpole
Best Documentary  COLLECTIVE
no runner up announced
Best Action Film TENET
runner up: Birds of Prey
Best Comedy BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
runner up: Palm Springs
Best Animated Film SOUL
runner up: Wolfwalkers
Best Horror Film: INVISIBLE MAN
no runner up announced

 

PHILADELPHIA  FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
Founded in 2017. 

Best Picture MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Runner up: Da 5 Bloods

Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
Best Actor Delroy Lindo, DA 5 BLOODS
runner up: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Actress Viola Davis, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM 
runners up: Aubrey Plaza, Black Bear and Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Supporting Actor Chadwick Bosteman, Da 5 Bloods
runner up: Leslie Odom Jr, One Night in Miami
Best Supporting Actress Amanda Seyfried, MANK
runner up: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Breakthrough Performance Sidney Flanagan NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
runner up: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Screenplay Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond, FIRST COW
runner up: Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
runner up: Christopher Blauvelt, First Cow
Directorial Debut: Regina King, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI 
runner up: Andrew Patterson, The Vast of Night
Best Soundtrack/Score  SOUL
runner up: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Best Foreign Language Film JUMBO
runner up: La Llorona
Best Documentary  TIME
runner up: Dick Johnson is Dead
Best Animated Film SOUL
runner up: Wolfwalkers

 

 

HOUSTON FILM CRITICS SOCIETY 
Established in 2007. No runners up were announced

Best Picture NOMADLAND
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Actor Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL
Best Actress Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Supporting Actor Leslie Odom Jr, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best Supporting Actress Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM

Best Screenplay Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
Best Score Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Baptiste, SOUL
Best Song "Speak Now" ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best Visual Effects TENET
Best Movie Poster Art DA 5 BLOODS
Outstanding Cinematic Achievement: Sound Design SOUND OF METAL 


Best Foreign Language Film A SUN
Best Documentary MY OCTOPUS TEACHER
Best Animated Film SOUL

 

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
Established in 1976. No runners up were announced

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 YOUN YUH-JUNG, MINARI

Best Original Screenplay Lee Isaac Chung, MINARI
Best Adapted Screenplay Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond, FIRST COW
Best Cinematography Christopher Blauvelt, FIRST COW
Best Production Design Anthony Gasparro and Vanessa Knoll, FIRST COW
Best Score Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste, SOUL


Best Foreign Language Film ANOTHER ROUND
Best Documentary COLLECTIVE
Best Animated Film SOUL
Special Citation for Indie Cinema [TIE] LA LLORONA and SH*THOUSE
Marlon Riggs Award: DAWN PORTER

DENVER FILM CRITICS SOCIETY
Founded in ??? Their website isn't functioning and their facebook page hasn't been updated since 2016. But they're apparently still giving out awards?  They do not announce runners up as they have a nomination round before voting.

Best Picture  TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Actor Chadwick Boseman MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Actress Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Supporting Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Best Supporting Actress Ellen Burstyn, PIECES OF A WOMAN

Best Original Screenplay Aaron Sorkin, TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Best Adapted Screenplay Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt, FIRST COW

Best Score  Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste SOUL
Best Original Song 
 "Speak Now" ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI 
Best Visual Effects 
TENET

Best Sci-Fi Forror Film INVISIBLE MAN
Best Comedy PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD
Best Foreign Language Film  MINARI
Best Documentary  BOYS STATE
Best Animated Film SOUL

Score one for Ellen Burstyn. It's strange to see a Critics Society without a cinematography prize. That's usually the only constant in visual categories that regional critics groups honor. 

 

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