"Minari" picks up a little steam with critics prizes...
Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 8:27PM 
Minari wins two best picture prizes
Here's four more groups of prizes from critics groups. Chloe Zhao continues her total sweep of Best Director prizes for Nomadland (she hasn't lost one yet) but Minari and Promising Young Woman find some love in this week's batch of honors...
NORTH CAROLINA FILM CRITICS
Founded in 2012. They do not announce runners up as they have a nomination round before voting.
Best Picture MINARI
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Actor Delroy Lindo DA 5 BLOODS
Best Actress Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND
Best Supporting Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI
Best Original Screenplay Lee Issac Jung, MINARI
Best Adapted Screenplay Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
Best Music SOUL
Best Visual Effects TENET
Best Foreign Language Film ANOTHER ROUND
Best Documentary DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
Best Animated Film SOUL
Best Restoration THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY
Ken Hanke Memorial Tarheel Award Will Patton, MINARI
Nice to see a slight change of pace with Minari getting some wins finally. The Memorial prize they give each year is for someone with a North Carolina connection. We wish more critics groups would focus on regional prizes. It's a great way to distinguish yourself and honor your community! Will Patton is an alum of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.
Columbus gives four prizes to Promising Young Woman
COLUMBUS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
Established in 2002.
Best Picture PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
runner up: Nomadland
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Emerald Fennel, Promising Young Woman
Best Actor Riz Ahmed SOUND OF METAL
runner up: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Actress Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
runner up: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Best Supporting Actor Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Runner up: TIE Mark Rylance, Trial of Chicago 7 and Chadwick Boseman Da 5 Bloods
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI
runner up: Olivia Colman, The Father
Best Ensemble MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
runner up: Promising Young Woman
Actor of the Year (Body of Work) Chadwick Boseman DA 5 BLOODS & MA RAINEY
runner up: Elisabeth Moss, Invisible Man and Shirley
Breakthrough Film Artist Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
runner up: Radha Blank, The 40 Year Old Version
Best Original Screenplay Emerald Fennel, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
runner up: Aaron Sorkin, Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Adapted Screenplay Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ma Rainey
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
runner up Erik Messerschmidt, Mank
Best Editing Alan Baumgarten, TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
runner up: Mikkel E.G. Nelson, Sound of Metal
Best Score Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, SOUL
runner up: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Mank
Best Foreign Language Film MINARI
runner up: Martin Eden
Best Documentary DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
runner up: Boys State
Best Animated Film WOLFWALKERS
runner up: Soul
Best Overlooked Film VAST OF NIGHT
runner up: Palm Springs
They really loved Promising Young Woman, didn't they?
OKLAHOMA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
Founded in 2006. They do not announce runners up.
Best Picture MINARI
Their Top Ten
- Da 5 Bloods
- Mank
- Minari
- Nomadland
- Palm Springs
- Promising Young Woman
- Soul
- Sound of Metal
- Trial of Chicago 7
- Vast of Night
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
Best Ensemble Cast TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Body of Work Reznor & Ross, SOUL & MANK
Best Original Screenplay Emerald Fennel, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Adapted Screenplay Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Cinematography Erik Messerschmidt, MANK
Best Score SOUL
Best Foreign Language Film MARTIN EDEN
Best Documentary BOYS STATE
Best Animated Film SOUL
Best First Feature VAST OF NIGHT
Most Disappointing Film TENET
More love for Minari but a redundant two prizes for Reznor & Ross as composers.
and back to Nomadland
AWFJ ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS
Established in 2007 they give out the "EDA Awards". 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 Leslie Odom Jr, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI
Best Ensemble Cast [TIE] ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI -Casting director Kimberly Hardin, and TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 - Casting director Francine Maisler
Best Original Screenplay Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Adapted Screenplay Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
Best Editing Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Non-English Language Film ANOTHER ROUND
Best Documentary [TIE] ALL IN FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY and THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF
Best Animated Film SOUL
FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS
Best Woman Director Emerald Fennel, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Woman Screenwriter Radha Blank THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
Best Animated Female 22 in SOUL, Tina Fey
Best Woman's Breakthrough Performance Sidney Flanagan, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
If they won one of the main categories they are ineligible here which is why Fennel and not Zhao, for instance, is named here as Best Woman Director because Zhao had already won the "main" prize.
It seems odd to give "22" a Best Female citation when "22" and the souls in general are coded as genderless in the Pixar movie; all the souls go by either numbers or the unisex name "Jerry" and 22 even makes a point that they could sound like anything but chose this particular voice (aka Tina Fey's voice) because it would annoy people the most.
The AWFJ has other special mention and group citations as well which you can read at their site.
Reader Comments (16)
Fuck yeah Franny and Fuck me Steven Yeun.
What a bore.
Riz Ahmed starting to pick up some steam while Chloe Zhao just continues to dominate her category.
"We wish more critics groups would focus on regional prizes." What a great idea!
Just love how many true wonderful options there are this season for rewarding female directors. It really is unprecedented and proof of how quickly things can start to change when there's pressure.
I am going to complain about two of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists awards that you (wisely, maybe) didn't mention, both to do with TENET (see the link for details):
- the egregious age difference between Branagh and Debicki was intentional and a part of their narrative (or maybe that's just me? But I thought the "young wife" trope was there to tell you more about him)
- I applaud Nolan for insisting that the movie screen exclusively in theatres. The strategy didn't pay off, sure, but going the opposite way would've been a big nail in the coffin of big screen entertainment. (I understand about the cities like NY that didn't have open cinemas, sure, but people can be trained to just wait for a movie (just ask us Australians, who often go through weeks and even months avoiding discussion forums and the like because a movie isn't available here yet. I ALMOST made it all the way to our release date (three months later than the USA) for GET OUT without spoilers (but then someone in the lunchroom said "My husband saw a movie on the weekend where they ......."))
it feels that Bakalova is losing some traction...
@Travis
the age difference between Brannagh and Debicki was not only intentional, for sure, but also completely accurate. I am used to deal with russian rich men, and they tend to have younger - sometimes way younger - wives that could be models. I mean, you don't need to go to Russia for that, just check out the President and First Lady of the USA... It may be and feel like an stereotype, but it is almost a rule, rather than an exception.
I have thought for weeks that Minari is going to win Best Picture. I think it is going to emerge as the consensus choice. I know there is a lot of season left but I feel that Minari will get the most #2 and #3 votes.
I hope Youn Yuh-jung can get a Supporting Actress nomination. This is the third year in a row when I've rooted for an Asian actress playing a mother or grandmother in that category. Let's finally make it happen.
Go Riz the best Leading Actor performance i've seen so far this year,not seen Hopkins or Lindo though,had hoped Olivia Cooke would earn some traction.
I saw Ma Rainey,Viola was okay but felt she was more supporting,I had hoped Boseman would be great but I found his character irritating and offputting,his role was all big unnatural speeches and capital A acting similar to Denzel in Fences,was I meant to sympathise with his plight because once the end scenes happened I liked his character even less,he had 1 good scene on the stairs with the Recording manager.
jules -- so much high profile great actressing from Asian women lately in films Oscar voters watfched but still nothing... (sigh)
Interesting to see Promising Young Woman pick up steam with critics. Perhaps Carey Mulligan could start to become a realistic threat to Frances McDormand and Viola Davis?
Steve G : with the caveat that I haven't seen Day or Zendaya I think Mulligan will win the Oscar. McDormand does not need a third Oscar and Davis is good in MRBB but is not Oscar worthy. And she feels supporting to me.
@ Steve G: Having seen it, I can confidently say that Zendaya will not win for this performance, and I doubt she will even be nominated, with Adams, Davis, Day, Kirby, McDormand, Mulligan, Pfeiffer, Streep and Winslet ahead of her (not only alphabetically speaking) in the mix.
Oops, that was supposed to be @ Michael R.