After the jump, as we're trying to catch up* - London Critics Circle, Toronto Film Critics Association, The Black Film Critics Circle, Kansas City Film Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online, North Texas Film Critics Association, Atlanta Film Critics Circle, and Hawaii Film Critics Society. But for a bit of a change of pace in that it's talking about scores and original songs, let's start things off with a non-critics award "Hollywood Music and Media"...
Hollywood Music and Media
This is not a film critics award but it's in its 11th year honoring composers. We're actually thrilled to see these awards since film critic orgs have just never looked beyond Soul this year. So it's nice to have additional scores honored.
Score - Feature Film NEWS OF THE WORLD – James Newton Howard
Score - Indie Film MINARI – Emile Mosseri
Score - Animated Film SOUL – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste
Score - Sci-Fi/Fantasy TENET – Ludwig Göransson
Score - Horror THE INVISIBLE MAN – Benjamin Wallfisch
Score - Documentary DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET – Steven Price
Score - Foreign Language Film BLIZZARD OF SOULS– Lolita Ritmanis
Score - TV Movie Streamed EVIL EYE – Ronit Kirchman
Score - TV Show THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT (Netflix) – Carlos Rafael Rivera
Score - Documentary Series BELUSHI (Showtime) – Tree Adams
Score - Main Title Theme TV Show HOLLLYWOD Nathan Barr
Score - Main Title Theme (Foreign) TV Show - DOFAAT BEIRUT – Amir Hedayah (Lebanon)
Score – Animated Short MIME YOUR MANNERS – Corey Wallace
Score - Live Action Short IMAGINE SYMPHONY LIVE – Chris Thomas
Score - Video Game MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES – John Paesano
Song - Feature Film “Io Si (Seen)” from THE LIFE AHEAD – Written by Diane Warren, Laura Pausini, Niccolò Agliardi. Performed by Laura Pausini
Song - Indie Film “Everybody Cries” from THE OUTPOST – Written by Rod Lurie, Larry Groupé, Rita Wilson. Performed by Rita Wilson
Song - Animated Film “Just Sing” from TROLLS WORLD TOUR – Written by Max Martin, Justin Timberlake, Ludwig Göransson, Sarah Aarons
Song - Documentary “Never Break” from GIVING VOICE – Written by John Legend, Nasri Atweh, Benjamin Hudson McIldowie, Greg Wells, John Stephens. Performed by John Legend.
Song - TV Show “All For Us” from EUPHORIA – Written by Timothy Lee McKenzie aka Labrinth. Performed by Zendaya & Labrinth
Song - Video Game “The Baddest” from LEAGUE OF LEGENDS – Written by Riot Music Team and Bekuh BOOM; Vocals by SOYEON of (G)I-DLE, MIYEON of (G)I-DLE, Bea Miller, and Wolfty
Song - Short Film “Brave” from THE GREAT ARTIST – Written by Jon Altham, Pia Toscano, Matthew Postlethwaite. Vocal by Pia Toscano
Oustanding Music Documentary/Special Program THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART – Produced by Jeanne Elfant Festa, Mark Monroe, Nigel Sinclair. Directed by Frank Marshall (HBO Documentary Films / HBO Max)
Music Supervision Film - Bonnie Greenberg – THE LIFE AHEAD
Music Supervision - TV Angela Vicari – THE EDDY (Netflix)
Music Supervision - Video Game Square-Enix Sound Division – FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE
Soundtrack Album PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Capitol Records)
Music Video (Independent) The National Parks – Wildflower
Live Concert for Visual Media Shawn Mendes: Live in Concert (Netflix)
Song/Score - Trailer DUNE trailer – Music Supervisor/Music Director: Stephanie Koury. Music Score by Hans Zimmer. Eclipse written by Roger Waters.
Song/Score- Commercial “Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)” Kinder Bueno – TV commercial: Song written by Rainer Pietsch & Amanda Lear. Produced & composed by Jake Warren. Performed by Alice Ella.
Song/Score - Mobile Video Game CALL OF DUTY: MOBILE – Wilbert Roget, II; Guillaume Roussel and additional artists
Special Citation THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES – Streaming special benefitting MusiCares
LONDON CRITICS CIRCLE
Established in 1980.
Best Picture NOMADLAND
Best Director Steve McQueen, SMALL AXE
Best Actor Chadwick Boseman, MA RAINEEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Actress Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND
Best Supporting Actor Shaunee Parkes, MANGROVE
Best Supporting Actress Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Best Screenplay Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
Technical Achievement Lucy Pardee for Casting ROCKS
Best British Film SAINT MAUD
Best British Actress Morfydd Clark, ETERNAL BEAUTY/SAINT MAUD
Best British Actor Riz Ahmed, MOGUL MOWGLI/SOUND OF METAL
Best British Filmmaker Rose Glass, SAINT MAUD
Best Young British Peerformer Bukky Bakray, ROCKS
Best British Short Film THE LONG GOODBYE
Best Foreign Language Film ANOTHER ROUND
Best Documentary COLLECTIVE
A lot of love for Nomadland as well as two homegrown efforts Saint Maud and Small Axe.
BLACK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
Established in 2010? Their website appears to have stopped updating in 2019 with no awards listed even for that year (broken links?) But IMDb lists all the way back to 2010 for them. No runners up were announced
Best Picture MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Top Ten List
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Minari
- Nomadland
- One Night in Miami
- Soul
- Judas and the Black Messiah
- Da 5 Bloods
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
- Sound of Metal
- [tie] The 40 Year-Old Version AND Sylvie's Love
Best Director [tie] Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND and Regina King, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best Actor Chadwick Boseman, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Actress Viola Davis, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Supporting Actor Leslie Odom Jr, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-Jung, MINARI
Best Original Screenplay Lee Isaac Chung, MINARI
Best Adapted Screenplay Ruben Santiago-Hudson, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema, TENET
Best Foreign Film NIGHT OF THE KINGS
Best Documentary TIME
Best Animated Film SOUL
Pioneer Award: Sam Pollard
Rising Star Award: Radha Blank
Special Mention: Steve McQueen, SMALL AXE
It's amusing that even when we get someone other than Chloe Zhao as best director (for the first time!) we also get Chloe Zhao as best director!
TORONTO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
Established in 1997.
Best Picture NOMADLAND
Runner up: First Cow and Minari
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Runner up: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow and Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Best Actor Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL
Runner up: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round
Best Actress Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND
Runner up: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely...
Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
Runners up: Leslie Odom Jr, One Night in Miami and Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Best Supporting Actress Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Runner up: Olivia Colman The Father and Youn Yuh-Jung, MINARI
Best Screenplay Lee Isaac Chung, MINARI
Runner up: Chloe Zhao Nomadland, and Darius Marder Sound of Metal
Best Canadian Film AND THE BIRDS RAINED DOWN, ANNE AT 13,000 FEET, and WHITE LIE
Best Foreign Film BACURAU
Runner up: Another Round, Beanpole
Best Documentary COLLECTIVE
Runner up: Time, Crip Camp, American Utopia
Best Animated Film WOLFWALKERS
Runner up: Soul and The Willoughbys
Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Film INVISIBLE MAN
Runner up: The Vast of Night
Clyde Gilmore Award Jason Ryle
Jay Scott Award Kelly Fyfee Marshall
Emerging Critic Award Mark Hanson and Rose Ho
I illustrated with Wolfwalkers above because Nomadland has won so many Best Pictures and because I was so overjoyed it finally won an animated film contest - enough with Soul already - AND because I was trying not to think about the fact that the Toronto Critics gave BOTH of their supporting awards to lead performers. Supporting players get no respect I swear. I'm so tired of Category Fraud and it never seems to get any better and critics are just as careless about it as industry voters are. If leading men and women weren't always getting in their way, great character actors could be recognized more regularly IN THE CATEGORIES THAT WERE DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO HONOR THEM.
KANSAS CITY FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
Established in 1966. They're actually the second oldest American film critics organization!
Best Picture [tie] NOMADLAND and PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Runner up: Aaron Sorkin, Trial of the Chicago 7
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 Leslie Odom Jr, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Runner up: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-Jung, MINARI
Runner up: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Original Screenplay Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Runner up: Aaron Sorkin, Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Adapted Screenplay Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
Runner up: Charlie Kaufman, I'm thinking of ending things
Best Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema, THE VAST OF NIGHT
Runner up: Mank
Best Foreign Film ANOTHER ROUND
Runner up: 76 Days, Bacurau, The Life Ahead
Best Documentary THE DISSIDENT
Runner up: Crip Camp
Best Animated Film WOLFWALKERS
Runner up: Soul
Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Film INVISIBLE MAN
Runner up: The Vast of Night
Best LGBT Film KAJILLIONAIRE
Runner up: The Prom
An LGBT category is greatly appreciated but such a strange twofer as that goes. Some better LGBT films this very year: I Carry You With Me, No Hard Feelings, Ammonite, And Then We Danced ... and surely a handful of docs
NEW YORK FILM CRITICS ONLINE
Established in 2000. This is a group of about 34 critics including a handful of people we know here in NYC. No runners up were announced
Best Picture MINARI
Top Ten List (alphabetical)
- The Assistant
- First Cow
- I'm thinking of ending things
- Minari
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- Nomadland
- One Night in Miami
- Promising Young Woman
- Tomasso
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
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 [tie] Ellen Burstyn, PIECES OF A WOMAN and Youn Yuh-Jung, MINARI
Best Screenplay Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
Best Use of Music MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Foreign Language Film MINARI
Best Documentary THE WAY I SEE IT
Best Animated Film SOUL
Breakthrough Performer [tie]: Kingsley Ben-Adir, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI and Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Ensemble Cast: TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
This is the third year in a row that the NYFCO have awarded their Best Picture prize to a foreign-language film after Roma (2018) and Parasite (2019). Curiously in both of those years NYFCO made sure their foreign-language filmwinner was a different title (Cold War and Portrait of a Lady on Fire) but this year they just gave Minari the double.
NORTH TEXAS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
Established in 2009. This is a group of about 14 critics. No runners up were announced as they have a nomination round. They also haven't updated their website to include their 2020 awards. Why do so many critics associations not update their headquarters?
Best Picture NOMADLAND
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Actor Steven Yeun, MINARI
Best Actress Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Supporting Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-Jung, MINARI
Best Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema, TENET
Best Foreign-Language Film MINARI
Best Documentary ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY
Best Animated Film SOUL
Best Newcomer: Linday May, NOMADLAND
Best Ensemble: TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
I'm just going to say it. And this isn't about North Texas in particular as they aren't the only ones at all. But I really don't get critics falling for Trial of the Chicago 7 in ensemble which a lot of groups have. Yes, it's a giant cast but are all of them really doing excellent work? To these eyes everyone assembled ranges rates about a "solid" once you average them out (because there are some clunker performances in there and some good ones) ... but it's hardly a case where the whole team is on fire and elevating the picture.
HAWAII FILM CRITICS SOCIETY
Established in ???. This is a group of about 8 critics in Hawaii but strangely their website contains no information about their awards and only four reviews. Thankfully they have a Hawaiian film category -- all regional critics groups should encourage filmmaking in their own region. But No runners up were announced.
Best Picture TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Best Director Spike Lee, DA 5 BLOODS
Best Actor Delroy Lindo, DA 5 BLOODS
Best Actress Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND
Best Supporting Actor Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Best Supporting Actress Olivia Cooke, SOUND OF METAL
Best Vocal/Mo-Cap Performance: Jamie Foxx, SOUL
Best Original Screenplay Aaron Sorkin, TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Best Adapted Screenplay Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Art Direction MANK
Best Costume Design MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Cinematography TENET
Best Editing TENET
Best Makeup: MANK
Best Sound: SOUND OF METAL
Best Visual Effects: TENET
Best Stuntwork: TENET
Best Score: MANK
Best Song: "Speak Now" from ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best New Filmmaker Regina King, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best First Film: Florian Zeller, THE FATHER
Best Overlooked Film: POSSESSOR
Best Horror Film: RELIC
Best Comic Book Film: BLOODSHOT
Best Sci-Fi Film: TENET
Best Foreign-Language Film THE LIFE AHEAD
Best Hawaiian Film: WAIKIKI (Christopher Kahunahana)
Best Documentary BEASTIE BOYS STORY
Best Animated Film LUPIN III: THE FIRST
Worst Film: WONDER WOMAN 1984
Wow they have a lot of prizes... and we don't really understand the distinction between "new filmmaker" and "first film" -- why not one category with a tie?
ATLANTIC FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
Established in ??? Their facebook page doesn't say. But it's a collection of 25 critics from Atlanta-based publications.
Best Picture NOMADLAND
Top Ten List
- Nomadland
- Promising Young Woman
- Sound of Metal
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
- Minari
- One Night in Miami
- First Cow
- The Father
- Mank
- Da 5 Bloods
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Runner up: Emerald Fennell, 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: Sacha Baron Cohen, Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Supporting Actress Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Runner up: Youn Yuh-Jung, MINARI
Best Screenplay Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Runner up: Aaron Sorkin, Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Cinematography NOMADLAND
Runner up: News of the World
Best Foreign Film ANOTHER ROUND
Runner up: Bacurau
Best Documentary TIME
Runner up: Collective
Best Animated Film SOUL
Runner up: Wolfwalkers
Best Score: SOUL
Runner up: Mank
Breakthrough Performer: Kingsley Ben-Adir, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Runner up: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best First Film: Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Runner up: Regina King, One Night in Miami
* [KVETCHING. FEEL FREE TO SKIP] You've heard us lament about this before so feel free to skip. There are too many critics awards and too many multiple press releases for each award. We always lose track somewhere. Part of that is our snobbery, we admit. We only like to report groups that have a publicly available list of members or, barring that, a long history. Lately things have gotten pretty crazy and sites will just publish any press release -- including even IMDB (!) -- giving each organization equal weight even if the new or fairly new organization has no official members or no web presence beyond an anonymous twitter account. We figure it could be one person so why report their awards? Not that there's anything wrong with personal awards. I've been doing that for years here and I highly recommend to everyone because it's fun. But admit that that's what you're doing! The other reason we don't track critics awards as much as other sites is that many critics groups don't take care of their own homepages which we find bizarre. If you're an organization aiming to promote film or your members, shouldn't you have an HQ where people can learn about you and see your work? Or do you only exist to try to influence the Oscars by adding your voice to this contest once annually? [/KVETCHING]